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Mohsen Fakrizadeh, the father of Iran’s nuclear program, kept a low profile and photographs of him were rare. This photo appeared on martyrdom posters after his death.
Antibody infusions at Houston Methodist Hospital this week.

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William Walker, the House sergeant-at-arms, has been outspoken about the dysfunction that plagued the response to the Capitol attack.
Lani Malmberg lets the 200 goats eat whatever they find most appetizing. The animals can stand up to nine feet high on their hind legs to reach food.
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Kevin Kaminski and his wife, Maureen Clarke, love the old house they’re restoring on Boston’s North Shore, so they set out to find out how old it was and they hired William Flynt, a dendochronologist, to take wood samples and date the house.
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Jeff Probst Is the Ultimate ‘Survivor’

Mr. Probst has been a constant for the reality TV show, despite its many changes over the last 21 years.

A scene from “My Name Is Pauli Murray.” The documentarian Betsy West, who made the film with Julie Cohen, said, “We just thought, why didn’t anybody teach us about this person?”  
The artist Jerome Meadows stands behind his bronze statue of Ed Johnson, a Black man who was lynched from Chattanooga’s Walnut Street Bridge in 1906.
A team at work on Jessica Chastain during production of “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
Mickalene Thomas, “March 1976,” 2021; rhinestones, glitter, acrylic and oil on canvas. The artist uses collage to establish privacy for her subject.
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