Mexican worshippers wait on St. Peter's Square on the second day of the conclave, in the Vatican on May 8, 2025. Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Anti-abortion activists pray and protest in front of the Greenville Women's Clinic in Greenville, S.C., in March. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption
My family recently unearthed dozens of letters from clearly smitten servicemen who'd met my mom at Red Cross dances in Rome in the final months of World War II. Beth Novey/NPR hide caption
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Professional photographer Emily Scher told NPR she came across tens of thousands of glittering Velella velella on a stretch of sand between Zuma and Broad beaches in Malibu, Calif. Emily Scher/emilyscherphotography.com hide caption
Boxes containing signatures supporting a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban are delivered to the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on July 5, 2024. Arkansas lawmakers this year passed new restrictions on citizen-led ballot measures. Andrew DeMillo/AP hide caption
The International Space Station serves as an orbiting scientific laboratory where astronauts conduct experiments. The Trump administration has proposed cutting its budget by roughly $500 million and reducing research at the outpost. AP/Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service hide caption
Harry Miller, a veteran of the Army and Air Force, is pictured in the library of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C. Marine Robbins/Armed Forces Retirement Home hide caption
A study recruited Black and Latina women and asked them to log all the beauty products they use in a week. More than half of the women used products with known carcinogens. puhhha/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption
Kellen and his classmates, including his best friend, Nolan Robbins (left), learn about the structure of the U.S. government with teacher Robyn Fox. Katrina Ward for NPR hide caption
President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on May 7, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP hide caption
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Casey Means (left) stands with journalist Megan Kelly at a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the secretary of Health and Human Services post at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption
An Energy Star logo is displayed on a box for a freezer Jan. 21, 2025, in Evendale, Ohio. Joshua A. Bickel/AP hide caption
A view of shipping cranes at the Port of Los Angeles on May 06, 2025 in San Pedro, California. Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are seeing significant drops in expected cargo ships coming into port this week due to tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America hide caption
Port of LA executive director says cargo down by over a third this week
Hallow app founder Alex Jones. Hallow hide caption
Actor Jon Voight, his advisor and CEO of SP Media Group Steven Paul, President Trump, and SP Media Group/Atlas Comics president Scott Karol met at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend. Steven Paul hide caption
A screenshot of the AI generated video of Christopher Pelkey. YouTube hide caption
A composite image of former Memphis Police Department officers Tadarrius Bean (from left), Justin Smith and Demetrius Haley in court in Memphis, Tenn., on May 3. The former officers were charged with fatally beating Tyre Nichols in 2023. They each took the stand to decline to testify on their own behalf. Chris Day/The Commercial Appeal via AP hide caption
The Walt Disney Company announced on Wednesday that the seventh Disney theme park will be in Abu Dhabi. This rendering shows the plans. Disney hide caption
"You do not have to spend hundreds of dollars to be prepared," says Alyssa Provencio, an emergency management expert. Dig around your junk drawer for batteries and candles. Buy used gear like a headlamp. And save on nonperishable food by buying in bulk. Olivia Fields for NPR hide caption
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of the late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
Local residents and members of the media examine a building damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, on Wednesday. M.D. Mughal/AP hide caption
The latest on the escalating conflict between India and Pakistan
The Colorado River runs through federal BLM land outside Moab, Utah. Photo by Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
An unidentified cnidarian that resembles a Venus flytrap from the family Hormathiidae, sits at 1874 meters water depth. A new study finds that the vast majority of the deep sea floor remains undocumented. NOAA/Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute hide caption