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A vehicle belonging to the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drives past the shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market on Jan. 11, 2020 — the day that the Wuhan health commission reported what is believed to be the first death from SARS-CoV-2. A new study points to raccoon dogs sold in the market as the likely source of the spillover of the virus from animals to humans. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents, the Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, dances his way offstage. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Black girls had the highest rates of so-called "exclusionary discipline," such as suspensions and expulsions, according to a new report from the GAO. Above, school busses sit at a service yard last year in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a formal request this summer for more research on the impact of paying renters directly. Elise Amendola/AP hide caption
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Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez waves to supporters during a political event at a square in the Hatillo municipality of Caracas, Venezuela, June 19, 2024. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption
A fire burns on a hillside near Sever do Vouga, a town in northern Portugal that has been surrounded by forest fires, on Tuesday. Bruno Fonseca/AP hide caption
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The Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York is shown Tuesday, July 14, 2020. John Minchillo/AP hide caption
The cover of a U.S. Passport is displayed in Tigard, Ore., Dec. 11, 2021. Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays. The State Department announced Wednesday that its online passport renewal system is now fully operational. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday. At the event, he continued to criticize migrants from Haiti, saying those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or other authorized immigration status are "illegal aliens" who should be deported. Karl B DeBlaker/AP hide caption
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Harvey Weinstein (center) appears in criminal court in New York on Wednesday. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard as people queue up to vote during the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly election, in Kishtwar, India, on Wednesday. Channi Anand/AP hide caption
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A first-grader's drawing in the courtyard of Lyceum No 153 in Kyiv, Ukraine, a school damaged this summer after a Russian missile hit a children's hospital across the street. Joanna Kakissis/NPR hide caption