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Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick performs onstage during the Lung Transplant Project Gala in October 2017 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Lung Transplant hide caption
Opinion: Remembering A Soprano With The 'Warmth And Strength Of The Sun'
Thursday
Kanye West performs Sunday Service during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 21, 2019 in Indio, California. Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella hide caption
Wednesday
Weekend Edition Sunday host Lulu Garcia-Navarro conducts a phone interview at the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Allison Shelley/NPR hide caption
Thanks to the presidential election, "socialism" and "capitalism" were Merriam-Webster's most-looked-up words of the year in 2012. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Young women walk past a mural showing the Iranian flag in Tehran on April 23. The White House announced Monday it was ending waivers exempting several countries from U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
Firefighters line up as they wait for French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner outside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Tuesday. Christophe Petit Tesson/AP hide caption
Opinion: Amid Devastation, Paris Firefighters' Bravery Is An Inspiration
Tuesday
Central American migrants stand at the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas. The migrants turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, seeking political asylum in the United States. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
An acrylic piece created by a group of teens featuring the Quetzal, the national bird of Guatemala. Courtesy of Frontera Studio hide caption
Tuesday
NPR's Ari Shapiro (center) interviews former Venezuelan special forces official Williams Cancino (right) in the Colombian town of Villa del Rosario. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
Saturday
Recent isotopic analysis of pig remains from several ceremonial sites in the Stonehenge area show that the swine and celebrants sometimes came from as far as what is now Scotland and Wales. Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Despite Lil Nas X's viral hit "Old Town Road" having a blend of rap and country elements, Billboard removed the song from its Hot Country Songs chart. Eric Lagg/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Lil Nas X, Country Music's Unlikely Son, Sparks Conversation On Genre And Race
Thursday
If a doctor's office is like Blockbuster, Hims feels more like Netflix. It's a way to skip the long waits and crowds and get generic Viagra, hair growth treatment and other medicine and vitamins with minimal interaction with a health care provider — for better and worse. PeopleImages/Getty Images hide caption
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Pilot Michel Bacos was greeted by his wife at Orly Airport on July 5, 1976 in Paris, France after refusing to abandon his Jewish passengers held hostage by Palestinian and German terrorists. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Remembering Pilot Michel Bacos, Hero Of The 1976 Entebbe Hijacking
Thursday
U.S. Attorney General William Barr listens during a Department of Justice African American History Month Observance Program. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption