Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on May 16, 2024, when the Dow hit 40,000 points for the first time ever. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
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Applicants to Georgia State University received a welcome email for the 2024-25 school year. However, the email was sent in error to 1,500 applicants by the school's admissions office. Here, the campus celebrates its fall commencement exercises on Dec. 17, 2014, in Atlanta. Meg Buscema/Georgia State University hide caption
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A group of people wait to be processed after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States as they seek asylum in April 2024, near Jacumba, Calif. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption
Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker, pictured at a press conference in February, is in hot water for his recent commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas. Chris Unger/Getty Images hide caption
Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, and attorney Danya Perry leave his apartment building on his way to Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Thursday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Trump's New York criminal trial could head to jury deliberation as soon as next week
Maggie Billiman holds a picture of her late parents, Mary Louis and Howard Billiman. She believes her father died of cancer related to his exposure to nuclear fallout. Claudia Grisales/NPR hide caption
A coalition of advocates call for full Medicaid expansion in Mississippi at a rally at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The gathering drew supporters from throughout the state representing religious, social and human service organizations, medical professionals and legislators. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the way the CFPB is funded. Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption
Supreme Court upholds funding structure for consumer watchdog agency
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a Feb. 8 luncheon in Tampa, Fla. Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by DeSantis. Chris O'Meara/AP hide caption
Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs embraces Taylor Swift after defeating the San Francisco 49ers during this year's Super Bowl in Las Vegas. Swift, who flew in from Tokyo to attend the game, jokingly told him, "jet lag is a choice." Ezra Shaw/Getty Images hide caption
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In this file photo from 2020, President Biden and then-President Donald Trump participate in the second and final presidential debate of that election. Morry Gash/AP hide caption
Biden and Trump agree to two debates; how outdoor time can protect kids' eyesight
On the set of United Airlines' new onboard safety video in Montreal, Canada. Courtesy of United Airlines hide caption
With flyers more distracted than ever, United rolls out a rebooted safety video
Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stands at the opening to a tunnel near the border with Israel on Dec. 15, 2023, northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said this was the largest tunnel they'd found yet in Gaza. Amir Levy/Getty Images hide caption
Poder Latinx canvasser Humberto Orjuela helps Andres Navarro register to vote in a Presidente Supermarket parking lot in Orlando on April 20. New restrictions in Florida have made voter registration work more difficult for Poder Latinx and other third-party groups. Keren Carrión/NPR hide caption
Groups that register voters are feeling besieged by new state laws
The Hubble Space Telescope in 2009, locked in a space shuttle's cargo bay, before the final repair work ever done. NASA/JSC hide caption
Private mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope raises concerns, NASA emails show
Rescue workers take Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured, to a hospital in the town of Banska Bystrica, in central Slovakia, on Wednesday. Jan Kroslák/AP hide caption