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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Cankaya Palace after he was sworn in as President in Parliament in Ankara on June 3, 2023.
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Climate activists hold placards as they demonstrate outside ExCeL, in London, during the multinational oil and gas company Shell Annual General Meeting (AGM), on May 23, 2023.
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This timed exposer shows the trail as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from pad 39A for the Crew-6 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, early on March 2, 2023.
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YUMA, ARIZONA - MAY 25: An aerial view of the long-depleted Colorado River, currently swollen by winter snowmelt water, along the border between California (L) and Arizona near Yuma, Arizona.
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Lyle Jack stands in front of an electrical substation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where he's hoping to connect a wind farm to the power grid.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 16: Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. The committee held an oversight hearing to examine A.I., focusing on rules for artificial intelligence. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Professor Robert Lucas (left) receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995. Lucas died earlier this week at age 85.
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