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Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a discussion at Georgetown University Law Center on July 2, 2019.
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Anti-government protesters rally on Friday in Bogotá, the second day of their protests against Colombia's president.
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Tom Hanks stars as Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Hanks watched a lot of Mister Rogers to research the role and found as an adult, you don't really "get it": "Why is it taking so long? What's the big deal? What are these fish?"
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Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speak to reporters in Ankara, Turkey after a hastily-arranged meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 17, 2019 over Turkey's offensive in Syria.
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Geriatric oncologist Supriya Gupta Mohile meets with patient Jim Mulcahy at Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.
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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi shakes hands with Solomon Islands' Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele after the signing of a joint communique in Beijing establishing diplomatic relations between China and the Solomon Islands.
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Samples of Silestone, a countertop material made of quartz. Cutting the material releases dangerous silica dust that can damage people's lungs if the exposure to the dust is not properly controlled.
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'It's Going To Get Worse': How U.S. Countertop Workers Started Getting Sick
Ryan Childress (left), Dominion Energy's director of gas business development, and Kraig Westerbeek, an executive at pork producer Smithfield Foods, stand on a plastic-covered manure pond in North Carolina.
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Wat Misaka, far left, appears in a scramble for the ball during the National Invitation Tournament in New York's Madison Square Garden, March 24, 1947.
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Mame Bineta Sane as Ada in Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story.
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'Atlantics' Is A Haunting Refugee Story — Of The Women Left Behind In Senegal
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is weighing a 2020 presidential run. He'd join two other wealthy, self-funding Democrats in the primary: John Delaney and Tom Steyer.
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Attorney General William Barr speaks with Myrna DuMontier (left) and Charmel Gillin (right), councilwomen with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes on Friday on the Flathead Reservation in Pablo, Mont.
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An infant is monitored for opioid withdrawal in a neonatal intensive care unit at the CAMC Women and Children's Hospital in Charleston, W.Va., in June. Infants exposed to opioids in utero often experience symptoms of withdrawal.
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In The Fight For Money For The Opioid Crisis, Will The Youngest Victims Be Left Out?
Tristan Vaught (left) and Nancy Dawson are the co-founders of clothing exchange Transform. Seventeen-year-old client Elliot Reed (far right) was the first customer when the space opened.
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Wardrobe Update: Clothing Exchange Caters To Transgender Youth
Allison Moorer, Phoebe Bridgers and more cover the music of Tom Waits in a new album.
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On A Tom Waits Covers Album, Women Transform A Classic Catalog
A container dock of Yangshan Port in Shanghai.
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Opinion: Why You Should Think About Uighurs The Next Time You Put On Shoes
A worker stirs Ocean Spray cranberries in a free-standing bog set up in front of Rockefeller Center in October 2008.
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Mama Stamberg Takes Her Cranberry Relish Recipe To Ocean Spray's CEO
The Polar Star cutter forges through ice up to 21 feet thick.
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Jordan Barbour, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Kyle Soller, Arturo LuÃs Soria and Kyle Harris in The Inheritance.
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