Jared Kushner and Stephen Bannon in September 2016 in Canton, Ohio. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Urban Camouflage for Reptiles: "I basically thought about how turtles have camouflage that doesn't really work very well for them in the urban environments they often live in these days," Keats said. "So my thought was, can we go to our military and look at urban warfare as inspiration." Jonathon Keats hide caption
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that he's developing a plan to shut down the Rikers Island jail complex, seen in 2014. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Sometimes you've gotta crack a few eggs... Twitter's new default avatar is aggressively generic. Twitter hide caption
Syrian refugee Monzer Omar, 34, was recently reunited with his family in Germany. Wife Walaa Ahmed, 26, holds 14-month-old Lossin. Omar holds Lamar (left), age 4, and Lojain, 2. Esme Nicholson/NPR hide caption
A young manatee swims at a zoo in France in 2017. Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A receipt from Centre Street Cafe in Jamaica Plain, Mass., includes a 3 percent "hospitality administration fee," which comes out to 39 cents on $13 of food sales. The entire fee goes to nontipped employees in the kitchen. Simón Rios/WBUR hide caption
Restaurants Cook Up A New Way To Pay Kitchen Staff More: A Cut Of Sales
A mourner walks through a cemetery in Jinjiang during the Tomb-Sweeping Festival in 2015. VCG/VCG via Getty Images hide caption
Malebogo Malefhe was honored with a 2017 International Women of Courage award at the U.S. State Department. Ryan Eskalis/NPR hide caption
Donald Harvey is led back to jail in 1987 after pleading guilty to eight murder charges and one voluntary manslaughter charge in London, Ky. He was serving consecutive life sentences when he died Thursday at age 64. Ed Reinke/AP hide caption
The Nisshin Maru, mother ship in the Japanese whaling fleet, returns to port in southwestern Japan on Friday. Kyodo/Reuters hide caption
Copies of How To Build Wealth, a series of nine audio business courses created by Trump University, were on display at a Barnes & Noble store in New York City in 2005. Scott Gries/Getty Images hide caption
The deceptively adorable fangblenny is only 2 inches long and lives in places like Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Anthony Romilio/University of Queensland hide caption
This combination of undated photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death row inmates slated to die in April. Top row (from left): Jack Harold Jones Jr., Marcel Williams, Stacey E. Johnson, Ledell Lee. Bottom row (from left): Jason F. McGehee, Kenneth Williams, Don Davis and Bruce Earl Ward. Arkansas Department of Correction via AP hide caption