A Cook County judge set bond at $1.5 million for Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged last week with first-degree murder in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014. AP hide caption
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a No Labels Problem Solver convention in Manchester, N.H., in October 2012. Jim Cole/AP hide caption
Chef Michael Cimarusti, of Los Angeles' Providence restaurant, is pioneering the West Coast incarnation of Dock to Dish, a program that hooks up local fishermen directly with chefs. Courtesy of Providence hide caption
An empty jury box at the Orange County Courthouse during the Casey Anthony murder trial in 2011. Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/MCT/Landov hide caption
Climate models project 21st century global temperatures. NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA Center for Climate Simulation hide caption
Big Data Predicts Centuries Of Harm If Climate Warming Goes Unchecked
#GivingTuesday pulled in $46 million in charitable donations in 2014. Lee Woodgate/Ikon Images/Corbis hide caption
President Obama (from left), French President Francois Hollande and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates applaud a speech during the Mission Innovation event at the UN conference on climate change Monday in Paris. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Imported from Europe, the custom of leaving gratuities began spreading in the U.S. post-Civil War. It was loathed as a master-serf custom that degraded America's democratic, anti-aristocratic ethic. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
The company says its drones will fly no higher than 400 feet from the ground — low enough to avoid other aircraft but high enough to bypass traffic-clogged streets. Amazon.com hide caption
President Obama and French President Francois Hollande place flowers at the Bataclan, site of one of the Paris terrorists attacks. Obama is in Paris for a climate-change conference. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards listens while testifying during a Sept. 29 House panel hearing on "Planned Parenthood's Taxpayer Funding." Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
