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Workers react to the media after updating signage outside the Kennedy Center on Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Satirist Bill Maher is this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Maher will receive the award at the Kennedy Center on June 28th. The show will stream on Netflix at a later date. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
After reciting his "Ode to the Equinox," Annapolis poet laureate Jefferson Holland, right, holds his burning sock high as the crowd cheers to kick off the sock-burning tradition at the Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park on Saturday. Tyrone Turner/NPR hide caption
Sailing season kicks off with a sock-burning party in Annapolis, Md.
Stephen Colbert in Dec. 2025. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Bryan Stevenson stands beside jars that hold soil collected from sites where Black people were lynched. He is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Equal Justice Initiative hide caption
The 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer dramatizes the concept of gaslighting. Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Olivier Widmaier Picasso, left, stands in front of his grandfather Pablo Picasso's 1941 painting Tête de Femme, which is up for grabs as part of a raffle benefiting an Alzheimer's research charity organized by Péri Cochin, right. Péri Cochin hide caption
Pablo Picasso painting to be raffled off to benefit Alzheimer's research
BTS in BTS The Comeback Live. BIGHIT Music and Netflix hide caption
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta were co-founders of the United Farm Workers. On March 18, Huerta issued a statement alleging that Chavez raped her. Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz says creating this image was a sort of therapy. Lalo Alcaraz/©2026 Lalo Alcaraz & CALÓ News hide caption
'We're all in grief': Chicano artists reckon with Cesar Chavez abuse allegations
Dayton Webber, then 18, pictured at a baseball game in 2016. In the years before his arrest, he shared his experience playing sports — and turning pro in one of them — as a quadruple amputee. Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images hide caption
Nicole Byer in Season 5 of Nailed It. Netflix hide caption
A view of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in February. On Monday, a group of eight architecture and culture groups filed a federal lawsuit against President Trump and the arts complex's board to halt a planned renovation. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Riz Ahmed, shown here in December 2025, won an Academy Award in 2022 for his life action short film, The Long Goodbye. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images hide caption
Why is the government obsessed with whole milk? NPR/Canva hide caption
Samara Weaving in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Pief Weyman/Searchlight Pictures hide caption
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The illuminated bell tower of the Basilica Minore dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo stands at the heart of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, as evening settles over the valley. Once a small village of farmers and shepherds, this storied town has evolved into the "Pearl of the Dolomites," a renowned luxury destination. Surrounded by the limestone peaks of the UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites, the town's historic center remains a "living room" for celebrities and high society. Valerio Muscella for NPR hide caption
Cortina's glamorous history - WBUR
For 20 years, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand has acted as an intermediary between the police and people who know where stolen artwork might be hiding. Rebecca Rosman for NPR hide caption
Cesar Chavez attends a Labour Party press conference in the United Kingdon on September 17, 1974. Les Lee/Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption
Taylor Frankie Paul attends the Oscars on Sunday, a week ahead of her scheduled Bachelorette premiere. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption