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Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in a police booking photo. San Francisco jurors have returned a verdict in his trial for the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle, whose death played into the national debate on immigration. AP hide caption
Whitney Duncan was given the choice of sending her daughter, Deklyn, 3, to stay with her grandmother in Jasper, Ga., while she entered rehab or lose her to foster care. David Goldman/AP hide caption
The new Tesla Model 3 is displayed at the 2017 LA Auto Show. The company has struggled to meet its goal of producing thousands of the vehicles per week. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Tesla Going At 'Warp Speed,' But Lags In Race To Produce Mass Market Electric Cars
If the White House approves a proposal to change the way the government collects race and ethnicity data, white people in the U.S. may be asked to check off boxes about their ethnic background. On this 2010 census form, answering "white" was enough to respond to the race question. blackwaterimages/Getty Images hide caption
Irma Rivera Aviles and her husband Ivan MartÃnez live in a tight-knit working-class community called El Pueblito in Cataño. Their community flooded during Hurricane Maria leaving their house damaged with a hole in the roof. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption