Jill Tahmooressi stands outside the Mexican Consulate in Miami, in May to protest the arrest of her son in Mexico. He was released by a federal judge in Mexico today. J Pat Carter/AP hide caption
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Philip Banks III, chief of department, NYPD. Banks abruptly resigned just as he was set to become deputy to Commissioner William Bratton. Uncredited/AP hide caption
Three large crosses lean against the burned out facade of Iguala's City Hall. Masked protesters angry about the disappearance of 43 students — attacked on orders of Iguala's mayor, according to Mexican federal authorities — burned the building last week. Carrie Kahn/NPR hide caption
Debra Blackmon (left) was sterilized by court order in 1972, at age 14. With help from her niece, Latoya Adams (right), she's fighting to be included in the state's compensation program. Eric Mennel/WUNC hide caption
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power had her temperature taken as she arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Reuters /Landov hide caption
Children play in the West Point neighborhood of Monrovia last week. West Point has been hit hard by Ebola. So local leaders formed their own Ebola task force, which goes door to door looking for cases. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Dante Martin waits for jury selection on Monday, as he stood trial in Orange County, Fla. George Skene/AP hide caption
Whether you live in the city or the countryside can affect your health and susceptibility for disease. Jason Hawkes/Corbis hide caption
North Korean medical workers wore protective suits at Pyongyang's Sunan International Airport this week. Wong Maye-E/AP hide caption
Thousands of participants march across the Elisabeth bridge during a rally against the government's plan to tax Internet usage. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The commercial space ship, pictured here in an earlier test flight, crashed in the California desert. Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic hide caption
Rita Jeptoo of Kenya crosses the finish line to win the Women's Elite division of the 118th Boston Marathon on April 21. Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Women participate in a breast cancer fund-raising in Denver in 2011. Despite decades of awareness campaigns, the survival rate for women with metastatic breast cancer hasn't improved. Helen H. Richardson/Denver Post/AP hide caption
A nurse uses a diagram of the female reproductive system to explain the do-it-yourself careHPV test at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. Will Boase/PATH hide caption