From left, Rosemary Cooga, Sophie Adenot, Raphael Liegeois, Pablo Alvarez Fernandez, Marco Sieber and Katherine Bennell-Pegg hold their certificates at the graduation ceremony at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, April 22, 2024. Marco Sieber of Switzerland talks to the Associated Press in a Columbus trainings module after the graduation ceremony at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, April 22, 2024.
FILE - Mary J. Blige onstage during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Sept. 12, 2023. Blige, Cher, Foreigner, and Ozzy Osbourne are among those selected for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024. Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band, performs at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia, July 27, 2021. Cher performs during the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, April 1, 2024. She is one of several artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year.
Alex Luebke, Vivek Kumbhari and the PillBot are pictured at the TED Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, which was held April 15-19, 2024. (Craig McCulloch/VOA) Alex Luebke swallows a PillBot at the 2024 TED Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Jason Redmond/TED) “Medical Mythbuster” Joel Bervell. (Craig McCulloch/VOA)
FILE - A vendor makes change for a marijuana customer at a cannabis marketplace in Los Angeles, April 15, 2019. FILE - The Waldos, from left, Mark Gravitch, Larry Schwartz, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel and Steve Capper sit on a wall they used to frequent at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, April 13, 2018. FILE - Patrons smoke marijuana at Lowell's Original Cannabis Cafe, a legal marijuana establishment, in Los Angeles, Nov. 13, 2019
FILE - A tablet displays the logo of Facebook parent Meta Platforms. Meta and other companies are churning out new AI language models and hoping to convince customers they've got the smartest, handiest or most efficient chatbots. FILE - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicks off the tech giant's Connect developer conference, Sept. 27, 2023, in Menlo Park, Calif. Meta on April 18, 2024, unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems.
Chairs are set for missing members of the Bibas family who are held hostage in Gaza at a Passover Seder table April 11, 2024, at Israel's Kibbutz Nir Oz, where a quarter of all residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Shlomi Berger sits in his daughter's bedroom in Holon, Israel, April 17, 2024. Osnat Peri, right, whose husband, Haim, is in Hamas captivity, takes part in a Passover Seder commemoration with relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, at the communal dining room at Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel, April 11, 2024.
FILE - A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm in Idaho on March 11, 2009. Since March 2024, a strain of avian influenza has been found in dairy cow herds in eight U.S. states. FILE - Researchers collect samples of wildlife, where the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected, at Chilean Antarctic Territory, Antarctica, in this handout photo obtained March 13, 2024. (Instituto Antartico Chileno/Handout via Reuters)
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, center, prepares for a sentencing hearing in state district court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 15, 2024. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool) FILE - A musician plays a violin behind a photograph of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a vigil in her honor in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 23, 2021.
Performers take part in the final dress rehearsal of the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, April 15, 2024. Actress Mary Mina, playing a priestess, hands an olive branch to the first torch bearer, Greek olympic gold medalist Stefanos Douskos, during the final dress rehearsal of the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, April 15, 2024. Actress Mary Mina, playing a priestess, lights the flame during the final dress rehearsal of the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, April 15, 2024. Performers take part in the final dress rehearsal of the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, April 15, 2024.
FILE - Canada's Chloe Dufour-Lapointe competes in a World Cup freestyle moguls competition at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 14, 2022. A scoreboard at the University of Utah promotes Salt Lake City's bid to host another Winter Olympics in 2034 as International Olympic Committee members prepare to tour the stadium and other venues April 10, 2024, in Salt Lake City. The 2002 Winter Olympic rings are shown outside Rice-Eccles Stadium, April 10, 2024, in Salt Lake City.
Kheang Pichphanith, 24, who is among those relocated from Cambodia's archaeological site, sits next to her 1-month-old twin babies at her home in Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, April 2, 2024. A view of Bayon temple at Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Chhem Hay, 37, stands at a main door of her house under construction at Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024.
FILE - This July 26, 2023, image provided by phade® by WinCup, Inc., shows a 'Coral Fort,' made of biodegradable drinking straws off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. This July 26, 2023 image provided by phade® by WinCup, Inc., shows a 'Coral Fort,' made of biodegradable drinking straws off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
FILE - West Virginia University students lead a protest against cuts to programs in world languages, creative writing and more amid a $45 million budget deficit, Aug. 21, 2023, outside Stewart Hall in Morgantown, W.Va. FILE - West Virginia University senior Mailyn Sadler leads a protest in the university's free speech zone outside the Mountainlair student union against cuts to programs, Aug. 21, 2023, in Morgantown, W.Va.
FILE - Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana who became pregnant in 2023, poses for a photo in Accra, Ghana, March 19, 2024. FILE - Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana who became pregnant in 2023, poses for a photo in Accra, Ghana, March 19, 2024.
FILE - Hulk Hogan fires up the crowd between matches during WrestleMania 21 in Los Angeles, April 3, 2005. FILE - Wrestling fans, under a Wrestlemania sign, watch a WWE Monday Night RAW event, March 6, 2023, in Boston. FILE - Wrestler John Cena, top, chokes Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at a Wrestlemania event, April 7, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J.
FILE - A Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter flies over an illegal mining camp during an operation to try to contain it in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. FILE - Aerial view of the Mucajai river, at the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, state of Roraima, Brazil, Jan. 28, 2023.
FILE - The moon is seen as it passes in front of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in Washington, D.C., Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Photo: Diaa Bekheet) FILE - The moon is seen blotting out 80 percent of the sun during a solar eclipse in Washington, D.C., Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Photo: Diaa Bekheet) FILE - The moon is seen as it passes in front of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in Washington, D.C., Aug. 21, 2017. (Photo: Diaa Bekheet)