Emergency teams search in the rubble for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, on Monday. Khalil Hamra/AP hide caption
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The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, S.C., on Saturday. Randall Hill/Reuters hide caption
This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk and Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio, are still on fire at mid-day Saturday. Gene J. Puskar/AP hide caption
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A screenshot of one of the 'He Gets Us' campaign advertisements, this one on Reddit. Patrick Wood/NPR hide caption
The 'He Gets Us' commercials promote Jesus. Who's behind them and what is the goal?
An illegal gold mine in Brazil. Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Gaziantep Castle, a historic site and tourist attraction in southeastern Turkey, sustained significant damage in Monday's earthquake. Mehmet Akif Parlak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4. Dustin Franz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Emergency team members search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey on Monday. Khalil Hamra/AP hide caption
Black smoke rises after shelling in Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 3, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, middle, is flanked behind by Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, left, and Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, right, at Hobbs' state of the state address on Jan. 9, 2023, in Phoenix. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption
Busing migrants was a partisan lightning rod. Here's why Democrats have embraced it
Pro-democracy activist Emily Lau Wai-hing gestures as she arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Anthony Kwan/AP hide caption
A young man walks past a voting information sign on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Gen Z's political power: new data gives insight into America's youngest voters
Eileen and Louise both got COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic in New York. Eileen ended up on a ventilator for two months and then spent five months in a rehab hospital. Louise fought the illness at home as hospitals started filling up. Gabriela Bhaskar for NPR hide caption
A repurposed school bus from Control Group Productions' climate change-focused immersive theater experience, The End. Katie Weisberger/Control Group Productions hide caption
Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice
Guet N'dar, Senegal (October 7, 2022) - The neighborhood Khar Yalla, which means 'Waiting for God," in Wolof, was meant as a place for those who had been displaced by rising seas to live. But this neighborhood soon, too, was inundated with water. Ricci Shryock for NPR hide caption