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A plume of smoke stretches from North America across more than 2,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean in the latest international impact from Canada's large and persistent wildfires.
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Julian Sands is best known for starring opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 film A Room with a View . He's pictured above in Mexico City in May 2012.
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The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 21.
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An airport worker died after being ingested into the engine of this Delta Airbus A319 in San Antonio on Friday.
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In this photo provided by the National Police of Ukraine, a police officer and a rescue worker walk in front of a restaurant RIA Pizza destroyed by a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 27, 2023.
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March 1944: A cloud of ash hangs over Vesuvius during its worst eruption in more than 70 years. In the foreground is the city of Naples. The nearby towns of Massa and San Sebastiano were destroyed by the flow of lava. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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This picture provided on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, by the Pompeii Archaeological Park shows the wall of an ancient Pompeian house with a fresco depicting a table with food.
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A camp counselor plays the guitar and leads children in singing at Camp Butwin in Minnesota in 1962.
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To save Jewish culture, American Jews turned to summer camp
A U.S. Naval officer stands at the entrance of the U.S. prison at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Oct. 22, 2016.
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Ryan Seacrest will become the host of the famous Wheel of Fortune game show in 2024. He's seen here at this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood.
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Jimmie Johnson and his wife Chandra Janway pose on the red carpet before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto racing awards in Las Vegas, Dec. 2, 2016.
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The popular restaurant chain Hamburger Mary's, which features drag waitresses and family-friendly drag performances, has won a legal battle after filing a lawsuit against Florida's drag show ban. The chain's Orlando, Fla., restaurant is seen on June 13.
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A dust storm blows over cotton fields ahead of a late summer thunderstorm in Terry County, Texas, in August 2022. A Texas Tribune analysis shows that extreme heat is becoming more common across the state due to climate change, but the effects aren't being felt the same everywhere.
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Houstonians cool off at the Emancipation Swimming Pool on July 19. Texas is one of many places in the U.S. under excessive heat warnings.
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A woman walks past a personal finance loan office in October 2020 in Franklin, Tenn.
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Jaime Esparza, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, announces the arrest of four more people in connection with the death of 53 migrants in San Antonio on June 27th, 2022.
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A noose is seen on makeshift gallows as supporters of Donald Trump rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Syed Ali Raza and Rukhsana Jafri hold up a photograph of their son, Zain, who is missing after the migrant shipwreck. The family lives in Budho Kalas village, Punjab province, where Zain was a police officer. He had quit his job to start a business that wasn't profitable enough, then set off on an illegal migration to Europe for more lucrative employment.
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They set sail with dreams and met disaster: Stories from the ill-fated migrant ship
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Gambling, literally, on climate change
Bethany Birch paid more than $5,200 toward her medical debt after getting sued by Ballad Health in 2018. Owing to a Tennessee court judgment, she accrued an additional $2,700 in interest over that time.
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This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein.
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Chow takes part in the annual Toronto Pride Parade on June 25.
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