In this aerial view, members of law enforcement investigate a tractor trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas. Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images hide caption
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An image of former President Donald Trump talking to his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is displayed as Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Meadows, testifies about events around the Capitol insurrection to the House Jan. 6 select committee. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Law enforcement personnel inspect the scene. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
A passenger recounts the moment the Amtrak train derailed: 'It was hell on Earth'
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Yaël Braun-Pivet, a member of the centrist alliance Ensemble (Together) smiles at the National Assembly, Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Paris. Michel Euler/AP hide caption
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP hide caption
A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister delivers a report on Epic Charter Schools during a news conference June 21, 2022, in Oklahoma City. She will challenge Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt in November. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, winners of the Oscar for Original Song for No Time to Die, have been invited to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. David Livingston/Getty Images hide caption
A photograph taken Tuesday shows charred goods in a grocery store of the destroyed Amstor mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, one day after it was hit by a Russian missile strike. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A voter presents identification at a polling site for the 2020 elections in New Orleans. The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court's order for the creation of a second majority Black congressional district in the state. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
A video of former President Donald Trump from his Jan. 6 Rose Garden statement is played as Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing held by the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Shawn Thew/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell enters the courtroom escorted by U.S. Marshals at the start of her trial, Nov. 29, 2021, in New York. Elizabeth Williams/AP hide caption
A video of then-President Donald Trump's motorcade leaving the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse is displayed as Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies about Trump's actions on that day. Shawn Thew/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Wajahat Malik, right, and a Pakistan Navy seaman navigate the Indus River. Malik organized a 40-day expedition down the 2,000-mile river to document "the peoples, the cultures, the biodiversity and just whatever comes our way," he says — including the impact of climate change and pollution. Diaa Hadid/For NPR hide caption
Floating in a rubber dinghy, a filmmaker documents the Indus River's water woes
Protesters hold up signs during an abortion-rights rally on Saturday in Austin, Texas. Sergio Flores/Getty Images hide caption
Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is seen in a video of her interview with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 23. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Students walk between buildings in September 2014 at the Little Singer Community School in Birdsprings, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. John Locher/AP hide caption
Megan Thee Stallion, performing at Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, U.K. on Sat. June 25, 2022. During her set, Megan spoke out against the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images hide caption
Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol on Tuesday. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Ernst & Young will pay the SEC $100 million after it admitted its employees were cheating on ethics exams. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
The accused Josef S. covers his face as he sits at the court room in Brandenburg, Germany, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Michele Tantussi/AP hide caption