A monument for Taras Shevchenko is symbolically protected by bandages in Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv. Nickolai Hammar/NPR hide caption
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Anthony Fauci predicts that the U.S. will eventually get to the point where COVID-19 vaccines are administered yearly, as the flu vaccine is. Kevin Dietsch/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rep. Madison Cawthorn has said so many inflammatory things that even some fellow Republicans in western North Carolina's 11th Congressional District are tiring of him. Cawthorn appears with former President Donald Trump on Saturday. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption
Mark Riddell arrives at federal court in Boston on April 12, 2019. The former Florida prep school administrator took college entrance exams for students in exchange for cash to help wealthy parents get their kids into elite universities. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption
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Proud Boys members Zachary Rehl, left, and Ethan Nordean, left, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. They are two of six Proud Boys leaders charged with with conspiring to obstruct Congress' certification of Joe Biden's election victory. One of those leaders, Charles Donohoe, has pled guilty. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attends an event with President Biden on March 9 at the White House. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
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James Howard Jackson was in custody on charges of attempted murder in connection with the shooting of Lady Gaga's dog walker and the theft of two of her French Bulldogs in February 2021. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy hide caption
Travelers move through Salt Lake City International Airport on Aug. 17, 2021. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that it's seeking record civil fines against two passengers who assaulted other people on flights last summer. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption
April 8: A Ukrainian police officer reacts to the carnage at the site of an attack that killed at least 50 people at a crowded train station in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, that was the center of civilian evacuations in the region. Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks Friday at an event that U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hosted celebrating Jackson's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
The Idaho Supreme Court building in Boise. A regional Planned Parenthood organization is suing Idaho over a new law that bans nearly all abortions by allowing potential family members of the embryo to sue abortion providers. Rebecca Boone/AP hide caption
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Former Goldman Sachs executive Roger Ng (center) leaves Brooklyn federal court with attorney Marc Agnifilo on May 6, 2019, in New York. On Friday, Ng was convicted of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack the Malaysian state investment fund. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
A view of the scene after a missile strike on a railway station on Friday in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. At least 50 people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials who accused Russia of attacking a key evacuation hub. Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
K'Aun Green is suing the city of San Jose after he was shot by a police officer after disarming a restaurant patron who was brandishing a gun, a lawsuit says. AFP/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger (left), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell visit a mass grave in the town of Bucha on Friday. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The children of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are the latest targets of Western sanctions. Alexey Nikolsky/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Workers plow wheat in Husakiv village in western Ukraine late last month. Russia and Ukraine account for a large percentage of global wheat exports. Nariman El-Mofty/AP hide caption
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Genadiy, a member of Ukraine's territorial defense force who lives near Borodyanka and gave only his first name, says he knows several people who are still missing. "We're hoping they come back alive," he said. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption
Ukrainians return to Borodyanka after Russian withdrawal and find their town in ruins
Aleksandra Makoviy said she isn't the only Ukrainian mother to write emergency contact info on their children since the war began. Aleksandra Makoviy hide caption
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