Sailors are seen aboard the USS George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan, in 2011. The U.S. Navy has seen a spike in desertions, with numbers more than doubling from 2019 to 2021. Seaman Jacob D. Moore/U.S. Navy hide caption
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Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial outside of the Tops market on May 15 in Buffalo, N.Y. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco said Friday that he would no longer allow Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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Jose Ortiz atop Early Voting wins the 147th running of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday in Baltimore. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption
Multiple varieties of Jif peanut butter are being recalled after The J.M. Smucker Co. announced a voluntary recall on Friday. The Food and Drug Administration hide caption
Enrique Owens, a cousin of Roberta Drury, wears a T-shirt with her photograph on it before her funeral service on Saturday in Syracuse, N.Y. Drury was one of 10 killed during a mass shooting at a supermarket last week in Buffalo. Lauren Petracca/AP hide caption
A view of the business tower Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 27. Russia has halted natural gas exports to neighboring Finland. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP hide caption
Resident Stephanie Kerwin, center, holds her baby Octavius in one arm and dog Pixie in the other as she and her family carry what they could salvage from her home in Nottingham Forest Mobile Home Park on Saturday in Gaylord, Mich., following a tornado the day before. Jake May/MLive.com/The Flint Journal via AP hide caption
Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the PGA Championship for the first time in his professional career. Christian Petersen/Getty Images hide caption
A damaged car is seen after a storm in Paderborn, Germany, on Friday. Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP hide caption
The Boeing Starliner prepares to dock at the International Space Station on Friday. NASA via AP hide caption
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded defeat in Saturday's election — though millions of votes have yet to be counted. Mark Baker/AP hide caption
Russian soldiers left graffiti in the school in Borodyanka, a town outside of Ukraine's capital Kyiv. Anya Kamenetz/NPR hide caption
How a Ukrainian teacher helped students escape Russia's invasion, and still graduate
The funeral procession for the late Heyward Patterson prepares to depart Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church on Friday, May 20, 2022 in Buffalo, NY. The Patterson was one of 10 people who were killed in the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo by a young white gunman is being investigated as a hate crime. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption
The Buffalo, N.Y., community holds funerals this week for shooting victims
Raise Grigorievna Dreama's daughters Malina (left) and Ramina (center) and her granddaughter Monica (right) sit in their room at a temporary Chisinau housing center for refugees, mostly hosting people from the Roma community and other minority groups from Ukraine, in April. Betsy Joles hide caption
Eva relaxes in a puddle in 2020. Erin Wilson hide caption
Nina Jankowicz resigned as head of the Disinformation Governance Board at DHS after relentless attacks from conservatives. DHS has put the board on pause. DHS hide caption
She joined DHS to fight disinformation. She says she was halted by... disinformation
Former President Donald Trump tosses a MAGA hat to the crowd before speaking at a rally in Florence, Ariz., in January. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
The Chinese flag is visible behind razor wire at a housing compound in Yangisar, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A row of rifles for sale is on display at a gun shop in Aurora, Colo., on July 20, 2012. The mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., has prompted questions about the effectiveness of "red flag laws" passed in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Should 18-year-olds be allowed to buy semi-automatic rifles? State and courts debate
Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidates David McCormick, left, and Mehmet Oz are seen during campaign appearances in May 2022 in Pennsylvania. AP hide caption
This satellite image shows the active fire lines of the Hermits Peak wildfire, in Las Vegas on May 11, 2022. Maxar Technologies/AP hide caption
Roger Angell, a renown baseball writer, has died at 101. Brigitte Lacombe/Doubleday hide caption