John Oliver's HBO show, Last Week Tonight, returned for its fifth season in February. HBO hide caption
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has started the process to roll back Obama-era regulations for Internet service providers. The agency is scheduled to vote on Thursday on whether to reverse regulations of whether all web traffic should be treated equally. Emily Bogle/NPR hide caption
The Dalai Lama has a conversation with John Oliver — and fermented horse milk comes up. Screenshot by NPR/HBO hide caption
John Oliver speaks at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs" in New York in 2015. Charles Sykes/AP hide caption
Chechen regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov speaks as he attends celebrations marking Defenders of the Fatherland Day in Chechnya's provincial capital of Grozny, Russia, in February. Musa Sadulayev/AP hide caption
Cookie Monster and John Oliver anchor a special report on words. YouTube hide caption
Comedian John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption
A Greenpeace protest in 2010 juxtaposes the drowning of some of the world's most iconic structures with Cancun, Mexico's, rising skyline. Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images hide caption