Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at Mumford High School on May 3 in Detroit. Steve Bannon speaks during the Semafor World Economy Summit 2025 at Conrad Washington on April 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Sanders credit: Sarah Rice/Getty Images and Bannon credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption
FILE - Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Election workers process mail-in ballots in Industry, Calif., in June. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun on July 27, 2018, in Glenrock, Wyo. The EPA on Monday announced it's repealing limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants. J. David Ake/AP hide caption
Kimberly Holmes-Ross was the first generation in her family to live outside Evanston, Illinois' 5th Ward, once the only part of the city open to Black people. She grew up there but eventually bought a house in the nearby 2nd Ward. Her family is using reparations money to turn the basement into an apartment for her son. Candace Dane Chambers for NPR hide caption
Workers inspect an Amazon cargo plane that overshot a runway four days ago at Miami International Airport, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Miami. Marta Lavandier/AP hide caption
Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany was returning from a campaign event when the plane he was riding in made an emergency water landing on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. Both Tiffany and the pilot escaped without serious injury. Avery Martinez/Wisconsin Public Radio hide caption
S. was born in Pakistan to Somali parents and raised in Canada. She joined ISIS as a young woman and eventually escaped, becoming an informant against the group. Illustration by Hanna Barczyk for NPR hide caption
FILE - The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a news conference, May 4, 2026, in Washington. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption
Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin (left) and President Trump met Saturday at Farmleigh House in Dublin. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption
People walk in front of a memorial for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 29, 2025. Jim Urquhart/Reuters hide caption
Officials investigate a Prime Air cargo plane at Miami International Airport after it overran the runway at Miami International Airport in Miami, Fla., on Sept. 6, 2026. An Amazon cargo plane overshot a runway as it landed in Miami, crashing into vehicles and catching fire, officials said. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. Robert Giroux/Getty Images hide caption
A woman places flowers at the September 11 memorial plaza in Lower Manhattan ahead of a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on Friday. Dave Sanders/New York Times via AP hide caption
David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the Edward R. Roybal campus, the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. CDC is the national public health agency of the United States, under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). hapabapa/Getty Images/iStock Editorial hide caption
The 'Tribute in Light' public art installation commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks shines up from the skyline of lower Manhattan, as seen from Bayonne, New Jersey, on Sept. 10, 2026. Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
From left: Lonnie Griffith Bunch III, the president, Nichelle Nichols aka Uhura. Michael Hickey/Getty Images for Kentucky Center for African American Heritage and York Management; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Lucelly, who asked NPR to withhold her last name, is an undocumented worker from Colombia who went to clean up at ground zero after the Sept. 11 attacks. Since then she has battled breast cancer and respiratory disease. Nate Langston Palmer for NPR hide caption
President Trump watches as balloons fall at the Republican convention Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
An exterior view of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency headquarters is seen July 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images North America hide caption
Police stand in Jersey City, N.J., with One World Trade Center visible in the background as they participate in an event on Friday honoring the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Angelina Katsanis/AP hide caption
In an aerial view, various data centers are shown situated near a neighborhood on July 17, 2024 in Ashburn, Va. Northern Virginia is home to 319 mapped data centers — about 19% percent of the country's facilities. Nathan Howard/Getty Images hide caption
People cool themselves with an ice-cold water bottle from a water station during the Great American State Fair on the National Mall on July 2, 2026 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images North America hide caption