US Navy sailor Ryan Sawyer Mays walks past reporters at Naval Base San Diego before entering a Navy courtroom, Aug. 17, 2022, in San Diego. Julie Watson/AP hide caption
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a ceremony formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday. Gavriil Grigorov/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Migrants waiting to be picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol under an international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, earlier this month. Verónica G. Cárdenas for NPR hide caption
Migrant deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border hit a record high, in part due to drownings
Brittney Griner waits for the verdict during a hearing outside Moscow on Aug. 4. The WNBA star is one of more than five dozen Americans being held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad, according to the James. W. Foley Legacy Foundation. Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool photo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A police officer holds one of a group of men, among 31 arrested for conspiracy to riot and affiliated with the white nationalist group Patriot Front, after they were found in the rear of a U-Haul van in the vicinity of a North Idaho Pride Alliance LGBTQ+ event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on June 11, 2022. John Rudoff/Reuters hide caption
Diana Toebbe (left) and Jonathan Toebbe entered new guilty pleas on Tuesday in a case involving an alleged plot to sell secrets about nuclear-powered warships. West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP, File hide caption
In this image made from video and released by WikiLeaks, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks in Moscow in 2013. AP hide caption
The entrance to the newly renovated CIA museum at the agency headquarters in Langley, Va. The ceiling features a variety of spy codes. This one is in Morse Code. The CIA plans to put them all online to see if they can be broken. Courtesy of CIA hide caption
Marking 75 years, the CIA opens a new museum and launches a podcast
Leonard Francis, a Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed "Fat Leonard," who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S. military history, has been arrested in Venezuela after fleeing before his sentencing, authorities said. U.S. Marshals Service via AP, File hide caption
In this image made from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 21, 2022. AP hide caption
Putin is mobilizing hundreds of thousands of Russian reservists to fight in Ukraine
The 77th session of U.N. General Assembly opened at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 13 in New York City. The session's high-level debate begins on Tuesday. Liao Pan/China News Service via Getty Images hide caption
President Biden waves as first lady Jill Biden watches standing at the top of the steps of Air Force One before boarding at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Saturday. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP hide caption
Pages from a court filing by former President Donald Trump's lawyers is photographed Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Jon Elswick/AP hide caption
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks with Marina, 6, from Ukraine's Kherson region, during his visit to a children's hospital in Kyiv on Thursday. Genya Savilov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Harri Hursti told NPR he's been instructed not to open the box containing the Dominion ImageCast X machine that he bought on eBay for $1,200. Harri Hursti hide caption
Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, comments on a cyberattack on the LAUSD information systems at a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
This wanted poster provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Leonard Francis, also known as "Fat Leonard," who was on home confinement, and allegedly cut off his GPS ankle monitor and left his home on the morning of Sept. 4, 2022. AP hide caption
A view of the drumkit during The Monkees performance live on stage on June 1, 2016 in New York City. The last surviving member of the band, Micky Dolenz, sued the FBI in order to get any files on him or his late bandmates. Matthew Eisman/Getty Images hide caption
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks before former President Donald Trump at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., on July 26. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
A motorcade transporting the International Atomic Energy Agency expert mission, escorted by the Russian military, arrives at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amid the conflict in Ukraine, outside the city of Enerhodar, Ukraine, on Thursday. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters hide caption
The FBI photographed documents marked "Top Secret" on the floor of former President Trump's office in Mar-a-Lago, Fla. The redacted image was included in a Justice Department filing. Department of Justice hide caption
Security officers guard the entrance to the Paul G. Rogers Federal Building & Courthouse as the court holds a hearing to determine if the affidavit used by the FBI as justification for last week's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate should be unsealed, at the U.S. District Courthouse for the Southern District of Florida in West Palm Beach on Aug. 18. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrives in a hotel with a delegation in Zaporizhzia, Ukraine, on Aug. 31. The delegation will travel to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid the Russia-Ukraine war. Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
What inspectors will look for at Ukraine's war-damaged Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted by in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. AP hide caption