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Kirstie Alley attends the premiere of HBO's "Girls" on Jan. 5, 2015, in New York. Alley, a two-time Emmy winner who starred in the 1980s sitcom "Cheers" and the hit film "Look Who's Talking," has died. She was 71. Evan Agostini/Invision hide caption
A thylacine or 'Tasmanian tiger' in captivity, circa 1930. These animals are thought to be extinct, since the last known wild thylacine was shot in 1930 and the last captive one died in 1936. Topical Press Agency/Getty Images hide caption
Chelsea Banning watched in disbelief as authors like Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood told her of their experiences with low turnout at book signing events. Chelsea Banning/Chelsea Banning hide caption
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This 2021 photo combination released by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James Howard Jackson. The man who shot Lady Gaga's dogwalker and stole two of her French bulldogs in 2021 pleaded no contest to attempted murder Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, and was sentenced to 21 years in prison. U.S. Marshals Service/AP hide caption
Cyclists and pedestrians enjoy Rock Creek Park's Beach Drive in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 26. The road has been closed to motorized vehicles since April 2020, and officials have decided to keep it closed to vehicles indefinitely. Jacob Fenston/WAMU hide caption
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Facebook parent Meta appears to be more concerned with avoiding "provoking" VIPs than balancing tricky questions of free speech and safety, its oversight board said. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Georgia, left, and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Sen. Raphael Warnock. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption
Walker and Warnock make final pitches to Georgia voters in their U.S. Senate runoff
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Oleh Mahlay, the artistic director of the Bandurist Choir, conducts members of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America and Ukrainian Children's Choir at New York City's Carnegie Hall on Sunday. Fadi Kheir hide caption
As a prospective college student, McKenna Hensley had to wade through confusing and hard-to-compare financial aid letters, trying to understand which college she could afford. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
Kyrie Irving is pictured during a game against the Chicago Bulls on Nov. 1 in New York City. Nike has terminated its contract with Irving. Dustin Satloff/Getty Images hide caption
Mary O'Connor, pictured here addressing reporters during a news conference at Tampa Police headquarters in February, resigned after using her position to escape a ticket during a traffic stop. Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP hide caption
A Dec. 07, 2019, aerial view of the coastline of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Stromae's Multitude is one of Ann Powers' favorite albums of 2022. Photo Illustration: Jackie Lay/NPR hide caption
Technicians from DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, work to replace a cable at a substation in the Teremky neighborhood of Kyiv on Wednesday. Pete Kiehart for NPR hide caption
The central business district skyline is seen during the dusk in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, April 29, 2019. Indonesia's Parliament has passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, that criminalizes extramarital sex and applies to citizens and visiting foreigners alike. Dita Alangkara/AP hide caption
Boxer Legnis Cala, center, talks with fellow female boxers during a training session in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Cuban officials announced on Monday that women boxers would be able to compete for the first time ever. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin gestures as he thanks reporters for coming to a photo opportunity in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sept. 19, 1997. Jiang died on Nov. 30 at age 96. Will Burgess/Reuters hide caption
Mourners gather outside Club Q to visit a memorial, which has been moved from a sidewalk outside of police tape that was surrounding the club, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, in Colorado Spring, Colo. Parker Seibold/AP hide caption
Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, a website design company in Colorado, speaks Monday to reporters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Supreme Court hears case of web designer who doesn't want to work on same-sex weddings
U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger will speak on behalf of his department at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for his officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Capitol Police chief: Jan. 6 failures 'largely' fixed but extremism threat persists
This image released by Peanuts Worldwide shows promotional art for the 1965 animated TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The soundtrack has sold more than five million copies. AP hide caption
People wait at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office at Atlantic Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York on December 18, 2019. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A display at the Computer Game Museum in Berlin, Germany features a standing console of Pong, one of the earliest commercially successful video games. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
A gunfire attack on two electrical substations in Moore County, N.C., knocked out power to the region, including to stoplights in the town of Southern Pines. Karl B DeBlaker/AP hide caption
A cosplayer dressed as the Green Goblin poses for a photograph on arrival to attend the MCM Comic Con at ExCeL exhibition centre in London on October 28, 2022. Isabel Infantes /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Karl Goldstein nearly gave up playing the piano, but then a word of encouragement from a tough teacher put him on a lifelong career path. Karl Goldstein hide caption
A few words of encouragement from his music teacher changed Karl Goldstein's life
Christine McVie in 1969, just a year before officially joining Fleetwood Mac and forever making hearts melt. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
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