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Law enforcement officers search for Francisco Oropesa, who is suspected of shooting and killing five people in a Cleveland, Texas, home early Saturday. Go Nakamura/Getty Images hide caption

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Pope Francis is greeted by Hungary President Katalin Novak during the farewell ceremony at the Budapest International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday. Denes Erdos/AP hide caption

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Sixth graders from Habu Primary School in Botswana on a safari. The trip is the high point of a multi-pronged effort by the nonprofit Wild Entrust to resolve a chronic conflict between rural villagers and the wild animals that destroy their crops. Nurith Aizenman/NPR hide caption

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Elephants are a menace for these 6th graders. Then they went on a safari ...

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FILE - Willie Nelson performs at the Producers & Engineers Wing 12th Annual Grammy Week Celebration at the Village Studio in Los Angeles, on Feb. 6, 2019. Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption

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Saint Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., commemorates every murder in the city with wooden crosses in its front garden. The city's homicide rate remains stubbornly high while its murder clearance rate remains well under the already low national average. Eric Westervelt/NPR hide caption

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More people are getting away with murder. Unsolved killings reach a record high

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This was the world's first web page. Thirty years ago, the World Wide Web entered the public domain. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

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The Stone of Destiny is seen during a welcome ceremony ahead of the coronation of Britain's King Charles III, in Westminster Abbey, London, Saturday, April 29, 2023. SUSANNAH IRELAND/AP hide caption

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Metallica perform at Allegiant Stadium in February 2022 in Las Vegas. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption

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Metallica's new album, '72 Seasons,' has met critical acclaim. What's their secret?

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Artist's concept of NASA's Voyager spacecraft. After the Voyager 1 and its replica Voyager 2 launched in 1977, their power sources are slowly dying. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption

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Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature. An exhibition at Princeton University, where Morrison was a professor, commemorates the 30th anniversary of her win. Morrison is pictured above in Paris in November 2010. Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Toni Morrison's diary entries, early drafts and letters are on display at Princeton

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President Joe Biden claps as Comedian Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent for "The Daily Show," speaks during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption

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