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A passenger stands on scales at Auckland International Airport as part of a survey to generate average weights for people traveling on Air New Zealand flights. Courtesy Air New Zealand hide caption
A meme that cast Dave Brandt as a stereotypical farmer reached cultural ubiquity on social media sites like Reddit. Brandt's death last week sent ripples through both real and virtual spaces that looked to Brandt as a symbol of honest work in the modern age. Reddit hide caption
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Aderrien Murry, 11, called the police as his mother asked — but when officers arrived, one of them shot him in the chest. A new lawsuit says officials failed to train and supervise its officers. Courtesy of Nakala Murry hide caption
Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Tykee James, president of the DC Audubon Society, and Erin Connelly, holding her 10-month-old son, Louis, search in the treetops in Fort Slocum Park in Washington, D.C. Melissa Block/NPR hide caption
Voting booths are seen at Glass Elementary School's polling station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2022. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
KFOR soldiers, front, and Kosovo police officers guard a municipal building Tuesday after Monday's clashes between ethnic Serbs and troops from the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo. Dejan Simicevic/AP hide caption
Community activist Margaret Gordon sits on a bench in West Oakland with the BART tracks behind her on March 4, 2022, as a semi-truck stops on 7th Street, on a popular trucking route to the nearby Port of Oakland. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption
Advocates: Reparations are the answer for sea level threat in West Oakland, Calif.
A man is assisted by Saudi commandos as he gets off a tugboat near Port Sudan and onto a Saudi warship that will travel across the Red Sea to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. May 2, 2023. Aya Batrawy/NPR hide caption
People fleeing Sudan face uncertain futures in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and beyond
Lakeisha Lee placed flowers at the base of a monument honoring her late sister Brittany Clardy Thursday, May 26, in Saint Paul. Clardy went missing more than a decade ago and was found murdered. Dana Ferguson/MPR News hide caption
Evelyn Flores has been inspired to become a teacher herself. Evelyn Flores hide caption
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the sweeping anti-immigration bill, which is among the strictest in the country, on May 10. It will go into effect on July 1. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is escorted by prison officials into a federal women's prison camp in Bryan, Texas. Michael Wyke/AP hide caption
Crew members assemble the main stage ahead of the 2023 Scripps Nations Spelling Bee on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Nathan Howard/AP hide caption
This photo shows a part of an apartment building which was reportedly damaged by Ukrainian drone in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. In Moscow, residents reported hearing explosions and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin later confirmed there had been a drone attack that he said caused "insignificant" damage. AP hide caption
A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-16 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
Police respond to a shooting near the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk in Hollywood, Fla., on Monday evening. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP hide caption
President Joe Biden speaks at the Memorial Amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day on Monday. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., delivers the commencement address at Colorado College on Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. She urged the 2023 graduates to not compromise on the truth. Jack Dempsey/AP hide caption
Scientists are studying police camera footage to understand why some car stops of Black men escalate and others don't. Hill Street Studios/Getty Images hide caption
For Black drivers, a police officer's first 45 words are a portent of what's to come
There's nothing quite like siblings. Sarah Shatz/HBO hide caption
A view of a collapsed apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, May 28, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. Twitter @JohnBlunk via REUTERS hide caption