The Greenway Institute is taking over a former college campus in Vermont's capital city of Montpelier. Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report hide caption
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A view of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood on June 29. San Francisco home prices and apartment rents are soaring as the AI boom brings a new wave of wealth to the city. Heather Diehl/Getty Images hide caption
AI wealth is creating a 'mansion shortage' and upending San Francisco's housing market
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FILE - Flames rise from flare stacks at the Amuay refinery in Los Taques, Venezuela, Jan. 14, 2026. Matias Delacroix/AP hide caption
Duane Davis, right, and his attorney Michael Sanft sit in a courtroom after a jury found Davis guilty of first-degree murder in his trial related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Pool Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP hide caption
FILE - U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll speaks at the America 250 celebration at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker, File) Karl B. DeBlaker/AP hide caption
Meagan Bradley walks to a memorial for Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Lindsey Wasson/AP hide caption
Nearly 200 witnesses to Charlie Kirk shooting apply for victims' benefits in Utah
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The Trump administration removed language banning political interference from the scientific integrity policy for the Commerce Department, the parent agency of the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which are headquartered in Suitland, Md. Michael Zamora/NPR hide caption
Hospitality workers wait in line to apply for unemployment benefits at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption
A pedestrian walks past a mural featuring oil wells in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday, a day after President Trump announced a deal giving the United States a stake in Venezuela's oil reserves. Pedro Mattey/AP hide caption
The Trump administration claims America will soon get a majority of its oil from Venezuela with new deal
U.S. Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., speaks to the media outside the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. House Office Building on Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Jemal Countess/Getty Images hide caption
Rep. Glenn Ivey. D-Md., discusses what’s on the agenda as the House reconvenes
The Central Arizona Project canal winds through Phoenix on March 26, 2026. The 336-mile canal system pumps water from the Colorado River to the Phoenix and Tucson areas. Water supplies for the canal's users will be cut under a new plan for managing the Colorado River. Alex Hager/KJZZ hide caption
Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, avoid leaving home as ICE activity intensifies
British far-right political pundit Milo Yiannopoulos hosts the "Bishops Enough Is Enough" rally at the MECU Pavilion in November 2021 in Baltimore. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Natasha Cloud of the Chicago Sky looks on prior to the game against the Indiana Fever at Wintrust Arena on Aug. 23 in Chicago. Michael Reaves/Getty Images hide caption
Amid rising threats, a WNBA team calls in experts on violent extremism
Dolly Parton performs onstage during MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Dolly Parton at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
In June 2025, immigration authorities gave Sae Joon Park an ultimatum: leave voluntarily or face detention and deportation, according to his legal team. Sae Joon Park hide caption
From left, Ashna Ahuja, Deepak Ahuja, Akash Mahtani, Shreya Ahuja and Madhu Ahuja attended Mahtani and Shreya Ahuja's wedding in Asheville, N.C., in 2025. Shreya Ahuja hide caption
Woman talks about the search for her parents who are among the missing in Nepal
From left: Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, the Duchess of Sussex. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Painted Turtle; Jason Kempin/Getty Images; Cameron Spencer/Getty Images hide caption
Richard Segovia stands in front of his house on 25th and York streets, known as the "Latin Rock House," in San Francisco in April. The home is covered in a large mural honoring dozens of musicians tied to the Mission District's Latin rock scene, which Segovia has helped preserve for decades. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks alongside President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting, Friday, July 31, 2026, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Md., Friday, July 31, 2026. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
People walk past an anti-U.S. billboard in Tehran. This week, Iran responded with defiance to a U.S. threat of the "single greatest financial offensive ever", saying it was an admission of military defeat and warning countries against aiding Washington. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Six months of Iran war / Gains and losses / CIA Chief in Moscow
School buses idle in front of a school in Manhattan's East Village on Jan. 15, 2013. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate are pictured inside the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania, on Dec. 10, 2024. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Andrew Tate is seeking bail in his extradition fight. Here's why that's unlikely
Former sheriff's deputy Shannon McManus looks out over the data center project construction site in Boyce, La., last month. He's one of the local residents who has objected to nondisclosure agreements that kept negotiations for the project from the public. Jay Marcano for NPR hide caption