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Health care workers have been throwing out the excess vaccine, fearing it would be against FDA rules to use it. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
President Trump speaks as Jovita Carranza, administrator of the Small Business Administration; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; and Ivanka Trump, advisor to the president, listen during a Paycheck Protection Program event in the East Room of the White House on April 28, 2020. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
NCAA college basketball is a money spinner for the league, but are the players students or employees? That question is at the heart of a case the Supreme Court agreed to hear next year. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption
A 'Stay Home' sign is taped to a driver's vehicle as she passes Christmas lights during a car caravan of nurses calling for people to remain home amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in El Paso on November 16, 2020. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Attorneys general led by Texas have been investigating Google's powerful role in the digital advertising market. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Negro Leagues baseball veteran Jim Robinson, left, and ESPN/ABC correspondent Ryan Smith, seen in New York in February. Donald Traill/AP hide caption
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Robi Hamilton and Andrew Mentzel's careers were just starting in Austin, Texas, when the pandemic started. Both have spent most of their adult lives living paycheck-to-paycheck. Mary Inhea Kang for NPR hide caption
Paycheck-To-Paycheck Nation: Why Even Americans With Higher Income Struggle With Bills
A former Houston police captain was charged Tuesday for running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove his claims of a voter fraud conspiracy. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Tyson Foods has fired seven managers at its plant in Waterloo, Iowa, who were allegedly involved in a betting pool guessing how many workers there would get COVID-19. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
A paramedic uses a pulse oximeter to check a patient's vital signs during an August home visit in the Bronx borough of New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Joseph Varon, 58, prepares to enter the COVID unit at United Memorial Medical Center in May. With him are nurses Tanna Ingraham (left) and Jerusha Harshman (right). Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption
Charley Pride left behind a complex legacy and rich body of work that deserves closer listening. C Brandon/Redferns via Getty Images hide caption
MacKenzie Scott, seen here in 2018, has given more than $4 billion to charitable organizations in the last four months. Her gifts target organizations that fulfill basic needs for those struggling economically during the pandemic, as well as those that work to fix systemic inequities. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
Twitter says it will work with global health experts to enforce new rules prohibiting conspiracy-based misinformation about the coronavirus. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Vice President Pence attends a rally in support of Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) on Dec. 04, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly news conference last week on Capitol Hill. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
NAAGA Chicago chapter members Dickson "Q" Amoah, Jon McDonald, Kourtney Redmond (center), Costia Harris, and David Hayes pose in Matteson, Ill. Olivia Obineme for NPR hide caption
These sunflowers in San Diego National Wildlife Refuge are wild relatives of sunflowers that farmers around the world grow to produce oil. Lisa Cox/USFWS hide caption
Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., delivers remarks Wednesday in Wilmington, Del., after he was introduced as President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be secretary of transportation. Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Biden Plans To Nominate Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm As Energy Secretary
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Students wear masks at a school in Baghdad. Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
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