Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the opening of a monoclonal antibody site last month in Pembroke Pines, Fla. DeSantis has sought to block schools from requiring masks for students. Marta Lavandier/AP hide caption
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Residents walk down a flooded residential street in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on August 30, 2021 in Norco, Louisiana. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
The spike in hate crimes in 2020 follows a recent upward trend in bias incidents, and it was a 6% increase over the 7,287 bias-related offenses reported in 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A nearly 70-year-old newspaper clipping about infamous "Martinsville Seven" rape case shows the seven Black men convicted of raping a white woman. They were executed in 1951 after exhausting their appeals. Dan H./Flickr hide caption
Nia DaCosta attends a screening of Little Woods during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theatre on April 21, 2018 in New York City. Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Fe hide caption
With a federal judge poised to approve the Purdue Pharma's controversial Chapter 11 plan, the company is working behind the scenes to preempt a legal challenge by the Department of Justice. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
OxyContin-Maker Purdue Pharma Launched A Stealth Campaign To Sway U.S. Officials
American jazzman Louis Armstrong plays trumpet in his dressing room before a show in 1947 in a New York jazz cabaret. Hurricane Ida destroyed the Karnofsky Shop in New Orleans, which was a formative influence on Armstrong's musical life. Eric Schwab/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Naomi Osaka celebrates against Marie Bouzkova during their Women's Singles first round match on Day 1 of the 2021 U.S. Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y., on Monday. Sarah Stier/Getty Images hide caption
This photo provided by New York's Bronx Zoo shows an 11-month-old cougar that was removed from an apartment, in the Bronx borough of New York. The Bronx Zoo via AP hide caption
People are evacuated from floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, La., on Monday. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
Members of New York's famous 369th Infantry Regiment wave as they come back home from France. National Archives hide caption
A Kern County firefighter keeps an eye on a burning tree as fire burns closer to homes during the French Fire in the Sequoia National Forest near Wofford Heights, Calif., this month. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Cristhian Bahena Rivera was sentenced to life in prison for the stabbing death of college student Mollie Tibbetts, who was abducted as she was out for a run near her small eastern Iowa hometown in July 2018. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
Thousands of empty empty pairs of shoes for every child killed by guns in the U.S. since Sandy Hook cover the southeast lawn of U.S. Capitol on March 13, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Paul Morigi/AP hide caption