U.S. President George H.W. Bush speaks during a fundraiser in Dallas, on Nov. 1, 1991. Marcy Nighswander/AP hide caption
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Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger has been indicted on a murder charge in the killing of her black unarmed neighbor in his own apartment. AP hide caption
Gavin Clarkson of Las Cruces, N.M., speaks at the Albuquerque bureau of The Associated Press earlier this year. On Nov. 20, a Washington, D.C., court clerk failed to recognize New Mexico as a state and said Clarkson's driver's license was not a valid ID for obtaining a marriage license. Russell Contreras/AP hide caption
Central American migrants line up to apply for jobs at a job fair in Tijuana, Mexico. More than two thousand migrants have applied for a one-year humanitarian visa that would allow them to hold jobs legally in Mexico. David Welna/NPR hide caption
Stuck In Tijuana, Many Central American Migrants Opt For A Job
After an earthquake on Friday, a car is trapped in a crumbled section of an off-ramp from Minnesota Drive, a major road in Anchorage, Alaska. Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media hide caption
A street candy seller walks along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Mexicali, Mexico, while U.S. Army soldiers fortify it with barbed wire. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is likely to reduce the number of active-duty U.S. troops who are currently deployed at the Mexico border, from around 5,900 to around 4,000. Luis Boza/VIEW press/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Marriott said that for 327 million guests of its Starwood network, which includes Westin hotels like this one near San Francisco, the compromised data includes dates of birth and passport numbers. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Larry Dearmon (left) and Stephen Mills pose on their wedding day at Lake Tahoe in 2013. Courtesy of Larry Dearmon hide caption
A Couple Reflects On A Loss From AIDS That Brought Them Together
At age 17, Fred Clay was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Thirty-eight years later, his conviction was thrown out, and now he's trying to rebuild his life, and working to get compensation from the state of Massachusetts. Meredith Nierman/WGBH News hide caption
Fighting For Compensation After A Wrongful Conviction And 38 Years In Prison
Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri characterized her 2018 electoral defeat as a "failure" of the Democratic Party "to gain enough trust with rural Americans." Cameron Pollack/NPR hide caption
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic 'Failure' With Rural America
Shoppers walk past a Saks Fifth Avenue outlet store in Miami on Black Friday. Millennials have lower earnings, fewer assets and less wealth, a new Federal Reserve study says. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
Thursday
Vehicles pass each other on a flooded street in Chico, Calif. Flash flooding hit a wildfire-scarred area of Northern California on Thursday, forcing officials to deploy swift water rescue teams to save people stuck in vehicles and rescue them from homes after a downpour near the Paradise area. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
The Trump administration said Thursday it wants states to innovate in ways that could produce more lower-cost health insurance options — even if those alternatives do not provide the same level of financial or medical coverage as an ACA plan. Getty Images hide caption
Police respond on Sept. 17, 2017, in St. Louis to demonstrators protesting the acquittal of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who had been charged with first-degree murder in a 2011 on-duty shooting. A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted three officers who responded to the protests in the beating of a fourth officer, who was working undercover that night. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption