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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn after landing at the White House on January 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. President Trump returned to Washington from his winter break at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, one day after U.S. forces captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a raid on his compound in the capital city of Caracas. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

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People supporting the right to opt-out their children from classes containing LGBTQ-related content demonstrate outside the US Supreme Court, as the court hears oral arguments in the Mahmoud v. Taylor case, in Washington, DC, April 22, 2025. The conservative-dominated US Supreme Court is hearing a case about whether parents have the religious right to pull their children from classes when books containing LGBTQ-related content are read or discussed. The court will review an appeal filed by parents against a Maryland public school district where, in 2022, books aimed at combating prejudice and discussing homosexuality and gender identity were introduced to the curricula of kindergarten and elementary school students. Parents are suing because the opt-outs were canceled. They say the schools' inclusive curriculum choices infringe on their Christian and Muslim faiths and First Amendment rights. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP) (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 1: Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as New York City's 112th mayor by New York Attorney General Letitia James, left, alongside his wife Rama Duwaji, right, in the former City Hall subway station on January 1, 2026 in New York City. Mamdani’s term as mayor begins immediately in the new year, and a public inauguration will also take place in the afternoon at City Hall. (Photo by Amir Hamja-Pool/Getty Images)
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026

CHILCOMPTON, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 04: UK newspaper front pages display stories on the capture and arrest of President Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela in a newsagent shop, on January 4, 2026 in Somerset, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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Monday, January 5, 2026

Passage from the gospel of John in the New Testament of the Holy Bible (NIV)
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Friday, December 19, 2025

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 13: Campaigners both for and against the introduction of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill hold simultaneous demonstrations in Parliament Square on June 13, 2025 in London, England. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill reaches the second part of its Report Stage, where MPs debate amendments ahead of the Third Reading on 20 June. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Abortion rights demonstrators rally to mark the first anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization case in Washington, DC on June 24, 2023. A year after US Supreme Court scrapped the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, President Joe Biden on Saturday vowed to fight against the "extreme and dangerous" effort by Republicans to curb access to the procedure nationwide. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15: Mourners gather to lay flowers at Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. Police say at least 16 people, including one suspected gunman, were killed and more than 40 others injured when two attackers opened fire near a Hanukkah celebration at the world-famous Bondi Beach, in what authorities have declared a terrorist incident. (Photo by Izhar Khan/Getty Images)
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Monday, December 15, 2025

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 25: Protestors demonstrate as the L.A. City Council holds its first in-person meeting since voting in new president Paul Krekorian in the wake of a leaked audio recording on October 25, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez resigned in the aftermath of the release of the profanity-laced recording which revealed racist comments amid a discussion of city redistricting. Embattled L.A. City Council member Kevin de Leon was not in attendance in person for the meeting. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Friday, December 12, 2025

Activists from the DC Marijuana Justice (DCJM) wave flags during a rally to demand Congress to pass cannabis reform legislation on the East Lawn of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on October 8, 2019 (Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thursday, December 11, 2025