French videogame giant Ubisoft's Montreal office is seen on July 18, 2020 in Quebec, Canada. ERIC THOMAS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin in 2020. Activists are appealing to Tesla to close a new showroom in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. Hannibal Hanschke/AP file photo hide caption
Members of Women of the Wall gather around a Torah scroll the group smuggled in for their Rosh Hodesh prayers marking the new month, at the Western Wall where women are forbidden from reading from the Tora. Maya Alleruzzo/AP hide caption
Travelers line up for flights at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Thursday. Nam Y. Huh/AP hide caption
Mayor Sokhary Chau addresses the assembly during the Lowell City Council swearing-in ceremony on Monday in Lowell, Mass. Julia Malakie/AP hide caption
"Congressional offices, Committees, and Agencies should immediately review their operations to adopt a maximal telework posture to reduce in-person meetings and in-office activities to the maximum extent possible," attending physician Brain Monahan said on Monday. Pablo Porciuncula /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Elizabeth Holmes walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif. Nic Coury/AP hide caption
Elizabeth Holmes verdict: Former Theranos CEO is found guilty on 4 counts
Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign in Feb. 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Thorsten Heins, then the CEO of BlackBerry, introduces the BlackBerry Z10 on Jan. 30, 2013, in New York. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, seen here on Dec. 14, announced the Senate will vote on or before Jan. 17 on changing the Senate rules if Republicans block voting rights again. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Virginia Giuffre speaks during a news conference outside a Manhattan court in New York on Aug. 27, 2019. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, pictured in Seoul, South Korea, in early December, has tested positive for COVID-19. Jeon Heon-kyun/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
A nurse practitioner fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Beaumont Health offices in Southfield, Mich., on Nov. 5. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Christopher McNair, center left, and Maxine McNair, right, parents of Denise McNair, one of four African American girls who died in a church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 1963, are shown here at a news conference in New York later that month. Maxine McNair, the last living parent of any of the children killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, died on Sunday at 93. AP hide caption
Yanna McGraw is one of about a dozen full-time social workers working at libraries across the Midwest. A representative of the Public Library Association says over the past decade, more libraries have been finding ways to partner with social workers. Darian Benson/WFYI hide caption
Insurrectionists loyal to then-President Donald Trump are seen swarming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Americans remain bitterly divided over the events that led to the siege on the Capitol that day, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. John Minchillo/AP hide caption
6 in 10 Americans say U.S. democracy is in crisis as 'The Big Lie' takes root
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger was sworn in on July 23 after a nationwide search. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
A year after the darkest day for Capitol Police, its new chief focuses on rebuilding
Here, a burned truck is pictured in a destroyed neighborhood in Louisville, Colo. Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire. Thomas Peipert/AP hide caption
Authorities closed a road after power lines came down and homes suffered damage early Sunday, in Hazel Green, Ala. The storms followed a system earlier Saturday which brought a possible tornado and flooding to parts of Kentucky. Madison County Sheriff's Office via AP hide caption
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that the CDC was considering adding testing negative to its recommendations for when people could stop isolating after testing positive. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Taylor Korn, and her roommate, Jorge Zaragoza, with their dogs Gerti (left) and Gidget. The third dog is Scarlett, a rescue dog and the mother of the other two pups, belongs to Korn's friends and was elsewhere during the fire. Taylor Korn hide caption
After losing everything in the Colorado wildfires, she's struggling to start over
A protester holds a Trump flag inside the U.S. Capitol near the Senate Chamber. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption