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American Indian activist Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., in 1999. Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has a parole hearing Monday, June 10, 2024.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has first parole hearing in a decade

The Indigenous activist has been in prison nearly 50 years for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents. In ailing health, supporters say this might be his last bid for freedom.

Winner Spain's Carlos Alcaraz celebrates with the trophy as he won the men's final match of the French Open tennis tournament against Germany's Alexander Zverev at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Sunday.

Carlos Alcaraz wins the French Open, earning a third Grand Slam title

Carlos Alcaraz beat Alexander Zverev, taking his first championship at the French Open and third Grand Slam title in all.

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark has confirmed she didn't make Team USA's Olympic roster for the Summer Games in Paris. She's shown here during a game Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Indianapolis.

WNBA star Caitlin Clark doesn't make the USA Olympics basketball team

The Indiana Fever rookie confirmed she wasn't selected to join the national team at the Summer Games in Paris. The tentative roster includes stars Brittney Griner and Breanna Stewart.

India's prime minister, humbled by voters, is sworn in again

For the first time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a coalition after his party was humbled in its traditional stronghold of the Hindi-speaking belt of northern India.

Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, is seen talking to the media after a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on March 4 in Washington, D.C. He resigned from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency government on Sunday.

Benny Gantz resigns as Israeli war cabinet member

Gantz followed through on his plan to resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency government on Sunday citing its failure to advance a plan to defeat Hamas in Gaza.

U.S. World War II veteran Harold Terens, 100, left, and Jeanne Swerlin, 96, arrive to celebrate their wedding at the town hall of Carentan-les-Marais, in Normandy, northwestern France, on Saturday.

He helped bring back American POWs in Normandy. 80 years later, he got married there

Harold Terens volunteered to go to Normandy a few days after D-Day in 1944 to help bring back American and British POWs to England. This weekend, he returned to tie the knot with his sweetheart.

Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on an unhoused man living in a vineyard in Arvin on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments.

How shots instead of pills could change California’s homeless crisis

Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat psychosis in their most vulnerable patients.

On Monday, March 20, 2023, this wolverine was seen along the Columbia River near Portland. The sighting was rare, as wolverines typically reside in Eastern Oregon.

An 'unprecedented year' for wolverine sightings in Oregon continues

There was yet another wolverine encounter on the Oregon Coast late last week.

This picture, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, is one of the most famous images ever photographed in space. It shows the earth rising against the barren lunar landscape on the first human mission to the moon in 1968.

NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who took famous photo of Earth during Apollo, dies at 90

Awestruck, Anders snapped the timeless shot of the glorious blue and white planet rising over the horizon of the gray and lifeless moon, and "how tiny and fragile and precious and finite it is."

Anthony Lee stands in front of his barn on his family farm in the German state of Lower Saxony. Lee has been an outspoken critic of the European Union’s climate change policies and has been a leader in the farmer protest movement in Europe. He’s running for EU Parliament for the right-wing Free Voter party and his YouTube channel has over 24 million views.

European farmers angry at climate policies could help sway EU parliamentary elections

Farmers in the European Union could hold the key to the bloc's parliamentary vote.

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