From left: the archbishop of Canterbury, the first lady, Stephen Colbert. Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty Images; Heather Diehl/Getty Images; Amy Sussman/Getty Images hide caption
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Friday
A woman screams during a government-organized event to watch former President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores appear in a New York court on a screen in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 26, 2026. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption
Seth Bodnar, the former president of the University of Montana, is now running for Senate as an independent Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
Thursday
The Energy Department is slated to move into the Education Department's current headquarters later this year. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Passengers stand in the TSA pre-check line at LaGuardia Airport on Thursday in New York. Noah K. Murray/AP hide caption
IOC President Kirsty Coventry is shown on a computer screen as she speaks at a live-streamed press briefing Thursday from Lausanne, Switzerland, about the ban on transgender athletes in women's events. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption
The Olympic committee bans trans athletes from women's events, raising many questions
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents work at the baggage check and security control x-ray area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Tuesday. Nam Y. Huh/AP hide caption
A man from Venezuela is detained by masked federal agents after his hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on January 28, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Wind turbines off the coast of Rhode Island. Supporters say offshore wind projects are a valuable resource for meeting rising power demand and ensuring electric reliability. DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
Women working full-time, year round, earn an average of 81 cents for every dollar men working full-time, year round make. simplehappyart/Getty Images hide caption
It's Equal Pay Day. Women have lost ground for the second year in a row
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.
Barbed wire fencing is shown behind a sign in English and Spanish in a recreation yard used by detainees during a media tour of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in 2019 in Tacoma, Wash. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
The human and financial costs rack up as immigration detention expands
Matt Ubel, standing on his farm near Wheaton, Kansas, motions to the fertilizer spreader he'll use to spread urea fertilizer this spring. Frank Morris hide caption
Iran war disrupts fertilizer exports just as U.S. farmers begin to plant crops
Wednesday
People wait in long TSA security lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport in the Queens borough of New York on Monday. Ryan Murphy/AP hide caption
Laura Marquez-Garrett (center), a plaintiffs' attorney for the Social Media Victims Law Center, gathers with family members of victims as they react to news that the jury has found Meta and Google liable in the social media addiction trial, outside the Los Angeles Superior Court on March 25, 2026. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption