A vehicle sits on the sidewalk after ramming into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, July 19, 2025 injuring several people. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
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President Trump displays the GENIUS Act — the first major crypto legislation passed by Congress — after signing it in the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Mounted members of the military ride horses as the presidential inaugural parade winds through the nation's capital January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term as President of the United States. Mark Wilson/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption
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The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline has been up and running for three years. The day after its third anniversary, the Trump administration shut down a specialized option for gay and trans young people. Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images hide caption
M23 rebels stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption
The California red-legged frog, the largest native frog west of the Rocky Mountains, is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Bradford Hollingsworth/The San Diego Natural History Museum hide caption
Protein has taken over the packaged-snack aisles at the grocery store. But do you need extra protein in your chips and muffins? winterling/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption
A banner showing an image of President Trump hangs on the side of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC. The department wants states to turn over records about tens of millions of people who have received federally-funded nutrition assistance by July 30. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Texas Legislature passed a bipartisan law aimed at clarifying the emergency exception to the state's abortion ban this spring. The law is called The Life of the Mother Act. Gabriel C. Pérez/KUT News hide caption
Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images hide caption
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An aerial view picture of the port of Santos, the largest port complex in Latin America and one of the largest in the world, taken on Thursday in Santos, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press at the Federal Senate in Brasilia on July 17, 2025. MATEUS BONOMI/AFP hide caption
Brazil’s Supreme Court puts ankle monitor on Bolsonaro ahead of coup trial
A demonstrator holds a sign that says "U.S. MAIL NOT FOR SALE" during an April protest in Columbia, S.C. Sean Rayford/Getty Images hide caption
A Venezuelan migrant who was jailed in El Salvador gestures as he gets off a plane at Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela on Friday. El Salvador freed scores of Venezuelans deported from the United States to a notorious maximum security prison, the outcome of a highly coordinated prisoner swap between Caracas and Washington. Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
10 Americans are freed from Venezuela in a prisoner swap for migrants in El Salvador
Bundit Pantarakon stands along the Sai river in Mai Sai, where the Thai Army is building flood control barriers along the river that forms the border between Thailand and Myanmar. Michael Sullivan for NPR hide caption
Orango National Park on the Bijagós Archipelago off of the coast of Guinea-Bissau is a newly designated World Heritage Site. Hellio & van Ingen/IBAP/UNESCO Nomination File hide caption
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with Crown Prince of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House on July 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption
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Experts say there are key questions parents and guardians should ask camp operators about wildfires, flood and heat risk. Danielle Villasana for The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Ken Burns speaks during the PBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour. Amy Sussman/Getty Images hide caption
Filmmaker Ken Burns on how cuts to funding for public media could affect Americans
Deja Foxx participates in the Global Citizen NOW conference in New York on April 28, 2023. Foxx fell short this week in her bid to win the Democratic primary for a special election race for Arizona's 7th Congressional District. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
From left: President Trump, Tramell Tillman, Iga Świątek. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; Andreas Rentz/Getty Images; Clive Brunskill/Getty Images hide caption
Nearly sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 into law, Congress voted to take back federal funding already promised for the public media system. The Republican majority has accused PBS and NPR of left-leaning bias and being a waste of taxpayer funds. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive hide caption