Social Security's finances have improved slightly in the last year. But benefits are still facing an automatic cut in less than a decade unless Congress takes steps to prop up the program. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
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Bonneville Elementary School parents and students gather during a block party supporting trans and non binary students and staff Monday, April 29, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption
The FAA says it's investigating Boeing after some required inspections of the 787 Dreamliner were not performed as required. Dreamliners are shown under production at Boeing's manufacturing facility in North Charleston, S.C. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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This photo provided by the Israel Defense Forces shows a tank with an Israel flag on it entering the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday. AP hide caption
Police take demonstrators into custody on the campus of the Art Institute of Chicago after students established a protest encampment on the grounds on May 4. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
The history of 'outside agitators' — from Gaza protests to Martin Luther King Jr.
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Signage for The Pulitzer Prizes appear at Columbia University on May 28, 2019, in New York. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption
"The primary way plants communicate with each other is through a language, so to speak, of chemical gasses," journalist Zoë Schlanger says. Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Plants can communicate and respond to touch. Does that mean they're intelligent?
Pop star Madonna, performing Saturday night at a massive free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Makeshift tents for displaced Palestinians at a temporary camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, on May 3. Ahmad/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters seen in tents on Columbia University's campus on April 24. The school later suspended protesters who didn't leave, and called New York City police to arrest those who occupied a building on campus. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Former President Donald Trump attends his trial in Manhattan criminal court on May 2. The judge in the case heard arguments related to the prosecution's request to fine Trump for violating a gag order in the case. Getty Images hide caption
Over the past several years, Alabama workers have found themselves at the center of three high-profile labor disputes in three industries. Antwon McGhee (left) has worked as a coal miner for 17 years. Isaiah Thomas formerly worked at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer. Moesha Chandler works in assembly at Mercedes-Benz in Vance. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 28, 2023. Abir Sultan/AP hide caption
Photographers capture the Boeing Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket as it is rolled out to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Terry Renna/AP hide caption
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip pack their belongings following an evacuation order by the Israeli army on Monday amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. -/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
BYD electric cars wait to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Yantai, China, on April 18. China has rapidly become a major auto exporter, but tariffs have kept cheap Chinese EVs out of the U.S. market — so far. STR/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Miguel Divo shows his patient, Joel Rubinstein, a dry powder inhaler. It's an alternative to some puff inhalers that emit potent greenhouse gases, but is equally effective for many patients with asthma. Jesse Costa/WBUR hide caption
Álvaro Enciso places crosses at sites where migrants are known to have died in the borderland, this cross represents the death of Nolberto Torres-Zayas just east of Arivaca, Arizona on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Torres-Zayas died of hyperthermia in 2009, not far from a Humane Borders water cache that had been vandalized and drained. Ash Ponders for NPR hide caption