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President Trump waves after taking questions from reporters outside the White House on May 8, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP hide caption
toggle caption Jim Watson/AFPFormer Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, following a hearing at the Robert E. Peckham U.S. Courthouse on March 17, 2023 in San Jose, California. Evans has raised millions of dollars for a new health tech startup that Holmes is advising him on. Philip Pacheco/Getty Images hide caption
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Rümeysa Öztürk (center) after being released from ICE custody, with attorney Mahsa Khanbabai (right) and Nora Ahmed, director of ACLU of Louisiana (left). courtesy of Öztürk's legal team hide caption
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toggle caption U.S. Embassy Zambia Malaka Gharib/NPR Latest Stories WatchNewly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
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"Grounded in the Stars" is on view now in Times Square. Michael Hull hide caption
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toggle caption HuluForeign Fruit is an elegant memoir that pulls apart mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity like the segments of a citrus fruit. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesTed Genoways, author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico, spoke to Morning Edition about his new book tracing the turbulent history of Mexico's oldest alcohol brand. Mary Anne Andrei/W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. hide caption
toggle caption Mary Anne Andrei/W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 so far, including, clockwise from top left, Catherine O'Hara in The Last of Us and The Studio, Noah Wyle in The Pitt, Uzo Aduba in The Residence, Carrie Coon in The White Lotus, Tramell Tillman in Severance and Owen Cooper in Adolescence. Liane Hentscher/HBO; Warrick Page/Max; Jessica Brooks/Netflix; Fabio Lovino/HBO; Apple TV+; Netflix hide caption
toggle caption Liane Hentscher/HBO; Warrick Page/Max; Jessica Brooks/Netflix; Fabio Lovino/HBO; Apple TV+; NetflixLibrarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks in Washington, D.C., in 2022. Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption
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A combination of pictures shows, top, the Sycamore Gap tree along Hadrian's Wall near Hexham, northern England on June 4, 2023, and bottom, the felled Sycamore Gap tree, on Sept. 28, 2023. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty ImagesPope Leo XIV concelebrates Mass with the College of Cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel on Friday, the day after his election. AP/Vatican Media via AP hide caption
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Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. is photographed at the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Jan. 20, 2023, in Bethesda, Md. He has vowed to fight President Trump's firing of him from his post on the commission. Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesA measles advisory is shown tacked to a bulletin board outside Gaines County Courthouse on April 09, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America hide caption
toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images North AmericaPay attention! There are clues to the Met Gala question here. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images; Savion Washington/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images; Savion Washington/Getty ImagesMayor Ras Baraka of Newark speaks to the press near ICE agents at a demonstration outside an immigrant detention centre in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Wednesday. The mayor arrived at the gates of Delaney Hall to inspect the previously vacant prison that is being converted into an immigrant detention center. Delaney Hall has the ability to hold over a 1,000 people, and the detention facility, privately owned by The GEO Group, holds a contract with the federal government to house people arrested by ICE. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Brandon Fernandez, second from left, with AmeriCorps colleagues in North Carolina this year, where they were helping with disaster recovery after Hurricane Helene. He and others struggled to hold back tears when their deployment was cut short. Courtesy of Brandon Fernandez hide caption
toggle caption Courtesy of Brandon FernandezWilliam Rogers worked as a correctional officer at CoreCivic from 2016 to 2020. He's a vocal critic of the plan to reopen the facility as an immigrant detention center. Zane Irwin/Kansas News Service hide caption
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Means has undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University, but her Oregon medical license is currently inactive. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption
toggle caption Ben Curtis/APChinese customers stroll past a clothing shop at Taikoo Li Sanlitun in Beijing. Vincent Thian/AP hide caption
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White South Africans supporting US President Donald Trump and South African and US tech billionaire Elon Musk gather in front of the US Embassy in Pretoria, on February 15, 2025 for a demonstration. MARCO LONGARI/AFP hide caption
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Faithful take photos the black smoke billows from the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect a new Pope, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025 (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Emilio Morenatti/AP/AP hide caption
toggle caption Emilio Morenatti/AP/APClerics wave US flags during the speech of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8. Francisco Seco/AP hide caption
toggle caption Francisco Seco/APJaninna Sesa (left) and Robert Prevost pose for a photo in Rome in 2023. Janinna Sesa hide caption
toggle caption Janinna SesaNewly elected Pope Leo XIV concelebrates Mass with the College of Cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican the day after his election as 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Friday. Vatican media/AP hide caption
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toggle caption Bryan Smith of Pravada PhotographyThe U.S.-Canada border, as seen in this satellite map, mostly runs along the 49th parallel — and wasn't chosen at random. Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesDavid Steiner, a FedEx board member and former CEO of Waste Management seen here in 2013, has been selected to be the next postmaster general by the U.S. Postal Service's governing board. Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant stands in the middle of the Susquehanna River on October 10, 2024. One of the plant's two reactors partly melted down in 1979, but the second one operated for decades before it was closed. It is now set to be restarted as early as 2028, pending approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
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Justice David Souter, who served on the Supreme Court for nearly two decades, died Thursday. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
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