Frank Bisignano, President Trump's nominee to be commissioner of Social Security Administration, testifies at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on March 25. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
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Nawaf Nasr, a 78-year-old member of Syria's Druze community, holds a creased black-and-white photo that he says shows him on horseback in a previous life before he died. The Druze religion holds that reincarnation is a path to spiritual purification. Emily Garthwaite for NPR hide caption
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Salvadoran guards escort alleged members of the 'Tren De Aragua' and Mara Salvatrucha gangs who were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador. Salvadoran government handout/Getty Images hide caption
Canadian Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins (right) and Cardinal Francis Leo walk on Via della Conciliazione street near the Vatican, with St. Peter's Basilica in the background, in Rome on Monday. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ethiopian refugees rest in the shadow of a warehouse erected by the World Food Programme near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
U.N. World Food Program to slash jobs, drastically shrink food aid
Audrey Backeberg was 20 years old when she disappeared from Reedsburg in July 1962, according to this bulletin from the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Wisconsin Department of Justice hide caption
Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, on Tuesday. /AP hide caption
An asylum seeker with a canceled appointment to enter the United States waits to speak to a Mexican immigration official as he reviews the CBP One app at the El Chaparral border crossing port in Tijuana, Mexico, in January 2025. Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holds an election rally in Windsor, Ontario, on April 26, 2025. Dominic Gwinn/AFP hide caption
Canada's Prime Minister Meets Trump, Abortion Lawsuit Surprise, Film Tariffs
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Orion hurricane hunter aircraft sits on the tarmac at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in 2022. Data gathered by the aircraft helps federal scientists issue hurricane warnings to the public. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP hide caption
A Stryker platoon is stationed near the fence at the southern U.S. border with Mexico, in Douglas, Arizona, on April 3. David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chairperson Park Sun Young (right) comforts adoptee Yooree Kim during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, March 26. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption
Stewart Whitson, a senior director at the Foundation for Government Accountability, testified before Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's DOGE subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 12. The hearing was titled "The War on Waste." Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption
Travelers move through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ahead of Memorial Day last year. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption
President Trump arrives with Attorney General Pam Bondi to speak at the Justice Department on March 14. AP/Pool hide caption
Critics warn of weaponization of the DOJ despite administration calls to end it
President Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office on May 6, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP hide caption
Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe speaks during a Declaration of Principles signing ceremony with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner on April 25 at the State Department in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Rwanda says in 'early stages' of talks with U.S. to take in deported migrants
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Friedrich Merz, is congratulated by outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz after being elected new chancellor at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Tuesday. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP hide caption
Friedrich Merz fails in first round of voting to become next chancellor of Germany
The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. George Walker IV/AP hide caption
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele listens during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday. AP/Pool hide caption
Gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory states the SARS-CoV-2 virus spilled out of a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, China. Feature China/Future Publishing/Getty Images hide caption
Wind turbines of South Fork Wind are seen off the coast of Block Island, R.I., on Oct. 9, 2024. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption