Openly transgender Rep. Zooey Zephyr, pictured at the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont., in 2023, was reelected last month. This week, her colleagues debated a rule that would have blocked her from the women's restroom at the Capitol. Tommy Martino/AP hide caption
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense, and his wife Jennifer Rauchet walk through the Russell Senate Office building on Capitol Hill on Dec. 3, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Duke Energy's Marshall Steam Station coal power plant operates earlier this year near Mooresville, N.C. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption
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A man holds the South Korea flag outside the National Assembly in Seoul on December 4, 2024, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Lawmakers and members of South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party (DP) demonstrate against the country's president at the National Assembly on Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images hide caption
A general view of the Chinese mining company COMMUS (Musonoïe Mining Company Global SAS), downtown Kolwezi. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Journalists for the British newspapers The Guardian and The Observer voted to strike for several days this week and next to protest the planned sale of the Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Oli Scarff/Getty Images hide caption
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump on Nov. 1, 2024 in Warren, Mich. Kennedy has been named to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the incoming Trump administration. Kennedy is on leave from leading Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit that has filed more than 30 lawsuits challenging vaccines and public health mandates. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
The Supreme Court hears argument in a case involving gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images hide caption
Rescue workers continue to search on Wednesday for Elizabeth Pollard, who is believed to have disappeared in a sinkhole while looking for her cat, in Marguerite, Pa. Gene J. Puskar/AP hide caption
People line up to vote at a polling station at Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Charlotte on Nov. 5. Grant Baldwin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The J. Edgar Hoover building — Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters — is photographed on Oct. 8, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images hide caption
A Trump National Doral sign is seen at the golf resort owned by U.S. President Donald Trump's company on August 27, 2019 in Doral, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
South Korean soldiers try get into the national assembly on December 4, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Yoon Suk Yeol announced he was taking the step, which enacts temporary rule by the military, during a televised speech on Tuesday, saying it was critical for defending the country's constitutional order. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images hide caption
Elon Musk attends a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13. A federal judge this week ruled that Musk's $50 billion pay package from Tesla cannot be reinstated. Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova in Moscow, May 31. Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik via Reuters hide caption
Sharifa Movahidzadeh is one of the three protesters profiled in Bread & Roses, the documentary film about Taliban policies that restrict the rights of women. The film is now streaming on Apple TV+. Sharifa Movahidzadeh in "Bread & Roses."/Apple TV+ hide caption
A man holds the South Korean flag outside the National Assembly in Seoul early Wednesday, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A teacher leads a class at a school for girls administered by the main U.N. agency for Palestinian aid, UNRWA, in Qalandia refugee camp, near Ramallah, in the West Bank on Nov. 14. Afif H. Amireh for NPR hide caption
Elon Musk, who will have a role in the Trump administration to shrink government, tweeted "Delete CFPB" — that is the watchdog agency that has been working to protect people from medical debt. adventtr/E+/Getty Images hide caption
President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, pictured in Nantucket, Mass., on Friday. Days later Biden announced he had pardoned his son, who was awaiting sentencing in criminal cases related to tax evasion and gun charges. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Kash Patel speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, servicemen of the 24th Mechanized Brigade improve their tactical skills at the training field in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. Oleg Petrasiuk/AP/Ukrainian 24 Mechanized brigade hide caption
A Syrian rebel fighter sits outside the arrivals gate of the airport in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. Syrian rebels from the group HTS captured Aleppo, the second largest city in Syria, as part of a lightning offensive in recent days. The rebels caught the Syrian military off-guard, and at a time when Syria's allies, Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, were pre-occupied with other conflicts. Omar Albam/AP hide caption