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The New Year's Eve ball drops in a mostly empty Times Square on Jan. 1, 2021, in New York City. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images hide caption

MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico: Carol Buckley works to coax Mundi into the transport cage that will carry her from the Puerto Rico zoo to Buckley's elephant refuge in Georgia. Buckley worked for two weeks to earn the elephant's trust. See the story. Erika P. Rodríguez for NPR hide caption

Cade Cunningham #2 of the Detroit Pistons drives to the basket between Gary Trent Jr. #33 and Jakob Poeltl #19 of the Toronto Raptors during the first half at Little Caesars Arena on Saturday in Detroit. Gregory Shamus/Getty Images hide caption

English actor Tom Wilkinson poses for photographers on the red carpet ahead of the Royal and World Premiere of the film The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in London on Feb. 17, 2015. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Shelly Romo spent hours in the rubble to find her wedding ring in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires back in August. After retrieving it and getting it restored, Romo said she never takes her ring off. Shelly Romo hide caption

A Boeing 737 MAX jet lands following a Federal Aviation Administration test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Wash., in June 2020. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

People look up at Christmas lights as crowds stroll around downtown Lisbon's Chiado neighborhood, on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023. Armando Franca/AP hide caption

Bishop William J. Barber II speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative September 2023 meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on Sept. 19. Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global hide caption

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon on Jan. 28, 2022. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

Actor Pierce Brosnan attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's The Out-Laws on June 26. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images hide caption