A mourner on Wednesday holds a sign reading "Why? Why?" at a makeshift memorial for victims of the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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People visit Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on April 18, 2022. Ted Shaffrey/AP hide caption
A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the U.S. How worried should we be?
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In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Philippine Coast Guard ship trains its hose as it tries to extinguish fire on the MV Lady Mary Joy at Basilan, southern Philippines early Thursday March 30, 2023. AP hide caption
Melissa Joan Hart attends 90s Con on Saturday, March 18, 2023, at the Hartford Convention Center in Hartford, Conn. Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption
The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence about former President Donald Trump's role in a hush money scheme plans to take a break. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Yang Bing-Yi started the Din Tai Fung restaurant with his wife in Taipei in 1972. From there, the restaurant grew into a chain of more than 170 locations around the world, known for steamed soup dumplings. Courtesy of Yang family hide caption
The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT on March 21, in Boston. A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks of powerful artificial intelligence technology. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
Fall Out Boy have released their first album in five years. Pamela Littky hide caption
A map highlights areas where thousands of blocks of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico were offered up in an oil and gas auction Wednesday. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hide caption
Pope Francis blesses a guest on March 29, 2023 during the weekly general audience at St. Peter's square in The Vatican. Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-Vice President Biden talk prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2016. President Biden spoke Sunday, with Netanyahu to "express concern" over his government's planned judicial overhaul that has sparked widespread protests across Israel and to encourage compromise. Michel Euler/AP hide caption
Items are left at a makeshift memorial at the entrance of the Covenant School after the mass shooting. Seth Herald/Getty Images hide caption
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia speaks with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on March 15. Kaine led the bipartisan effort to repeal the Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force with Indiana Republican Todd Young. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Shana Alesi administers a COVID-19 booster vaccine to Marine Corps veteran Bill Fatz at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Ill., in 2021. A new round of boosters could become available for some people this spring. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
The FDA may soon authorize a spring round of COVID-19 boosters for some people
The Madison, Wis., office of Wisconsin Family Action was firebombed and vandalized on in May 2022. Nearly a year later, federal authorities say they tracked down a suspect with the help of DNA from a half-eaten burrito. Alex Shur/AP hide caption
Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) will question Howard Schultz, who recently stepped down as Starbucks CEO, on the company's resistance to its workers unionizing. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images; Joshua Lott/Getty Images hide caption
In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster
The opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan (shown here at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charleston in Charleston, W.Va., on Sept. 6, 2022) has been approved for over-the-counter sales. Leah Willingham/AP hide caption
Three barges are jammed up against the McAlpine Dam on the Ohio River, just off the shore in Louisville, Ky. Officials say a barge carrying 1,400 tons of methanol is partially submerged. Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet hide caption
Tourists take photos in front of Michelangelo's David in the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy, on Tuesday. The Florence museum and the city's mayor are inviting parents and students from the Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo's sculpture in person. Alessandra Tarantino/AP hide caption
Rain falls on a pedestrian on the University of Southern California campus on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Los Angeles. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption
Attorneys for Fox argued on Tuesday that chairman Rupert Murdoch should not have to travel to Delaware to testify in a $1.6 billion defamation case against the network. The judge noted that Murdoch was planning to travel between four cities with his wife-to-be. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption