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The air has improved in the LA region as firefighters get blazes under control, but there are questions about how safe the air actually is.(Image credit: Ryan Kellman)

Seven of the nearly 100 hostages held in Gaza are U.S. citizens, several of whom are confirmed dead. (Image credit: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and also as therapy. The designs come from a homeland most have never seen. (Image credit: Dalia Khamissy for NPR)

The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions. Among them: who will lead its national party apparatus, and how it will handle President-elect Donald Trump's second term.(Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite)

Presidential inaugurations are by definition historic acts, but when we think of past Inauguration Days there is clearly a hierarchy of historical pop.(Image credit: Bill Creighton)

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least four people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.(Image credit: Efrem Lukatsky)

Pakistan said that the boat, carrying 80 passengers including some Pakistanis, had set off from Mauritania on their way to the Canary Islands.(Image credit: K.M. Chaudary)

In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.(Image credit: LINDA GIVETASH)

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