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People pray outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sunday. A day earlier, a white 18-year-old killed 10 people and wounded three in what authorities described as "racially motivated violent extremism."

What we know so far about the Buffalo mass shooting

10 people are dead after an 18-year-old white man allegedly carried out an attack at a supermarket in a majority Black community.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent uses night vision goggles near Roma, Texas in August 2016. More than 100 such devices have gone missing from the Fort Hood Army post near Killeen, Texas.

Fort Hood Officials Are Searching For More Than 100 Missing Night Vision Goggles

A spokesperson confirmed to NPR that the night vision devices were reported missing on Monday and have "no immediate impact on unit readiness."

La Mesa-Spring Valley School District handing out COVID-19 home tests to parents and guardians, Jan. 3, 2021

La Mesa-Spring Valley District scores stockpile of COVID home tests

La Mesa-Spring Valley Schools gave away a stockpile of COVID home tests to staff and students before going back to school.

Firefighters on Friday set up lights in front of a fatal house fire in Nescopeck, Pa., that killed 10 people.

A blaze kills a firefighter's 10 relatives, 3 of them children

Fire tore quickly through a house in northeastern Pennsylvania, horrifying a volunteer firefighter who arrived to battle the blaze only to discover the victims were his own family.

San Diego Firefighters battle the Valley Fire which scorched more than 16,000 acres on Sep 6, 2020.

The Politics Of Climate Change Largely Set Aside In Pandemic Year

A warming climate was a key talking point for national political candidates last year, but then the pandemic happened.

David Xol of Guatemala hugs his son Byron as they were reunited at Los Angeles International Airport in January. The father and son were separated 18 months earlier under the Trump administration's "no tolerance" migration policy.

Parents Of 545 Children Separated At U.S.-Mexico Border Still Can't Be Found

A court filing says many of the parents are presumed to no longer be in the United States. Efforts to locate them have been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the filing.

A visit to one of the busiest border crossings between Ukraine and Poland

NPR's Ari Shapiro spends a day at the Medyka border crossing to see how the flow of refugees has changed over the nearly three months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Some of the issues that President Biden and Israeli leaders will meet about

President Biden started on a series of deals in Israel meant to show the ties between the two countries. The subject of a Palestinian-American journalist killed in the West Bank may be on the agenda.

Paul McKay, a molecular immunologist at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London, checks a dish of bacteria containing genetic material from the new coronavirus. He and his team are testing a candidate vaccine.

Timetable For A Vaccine Against The New Coronavirus? Maybe This Fall

Recent advances in biotech make scientists optimistic that they might have a vaccine that has passed basic tests of human safety and efficacy ready to go to clinics as soon as this fall.

The Russian missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, is seen anchored in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in 2008.

A key warship in Russia's fleet was severely damaged. Ukraine claims responsibility

The Moskva has been heavily damaged and its crew evacuated. The ship is the same one whose crew ordered Ukrainian troops on Snake Island to surrender — a demand that was met with profanity.

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