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A burned helmet lying on the ground of the hospital in Martakert, a day after shelling during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Over the past week, users of TikTok began absorbing, in a "challenge," one artist's musical investigation into the realities of living through a degenerative neurological disorder. @kadanharne and @quinfinity/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
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Karin Huster was diagnosed with breast cancer during the pandemic. As she yearned for human contact, memories of her work with Ebola patients in Africa came flooding back. Frank Huster for NPR hide caption
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Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (R) and US President Donald Trump take part in the first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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New York Times writer & panel moderator Jim Dwyer. The Brooklyn Heights Association's meeting at St Francis College concluded with community service awards to Brooklyn Heights activists, and a panel discussion of the pros & cons of the proposed Brooklyn-Queens trolley system. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Remembering Jim Dwyer, New York's Subway Storyteller, Pulitzer Prize Winner
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U.S. President Donald Trump before being taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, has offered to serve part of the 10-year sentence of a teenage boy in Nigeria, who was allegedly punished for blasphemy. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
Opinion: Holocaust Historian Offers To Serve 10-Year Sentence Of Nigerian Boy
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Olasupo Shashore, an author and historian and former attorney general in Lagos State, produced and narrated the new Netflix documentary series Journey of an African Colony: The Making of Nigeria. He's shown above in Lagos, Nigeria. Quramo Productions hide caption
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) during the Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing examining the quarterly CARES Act report to Congress on September 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Toni L. Sandys-Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Congress Should Do Their Job So Millions of Americans Can Do Theirs
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The national flag flies at half staff as people gather to mourn the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the steps in front of the Supreme Court. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption