People visit a makeshift memorial for the victims of the building collapse, near the site of the accident in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Rescue workers search the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condominium on Saturday in the Surfside area of Miami. The building partially collapsed on Thursday. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
The draft defines ecocide as "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts." Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
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A memorial near the Champlain Towers disaster site holds photos of missing persons in Surfside, Fla. Rescuers continue their search for survivors, but have confirmed that nine people are dead and more than 150 are still missing. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
Crews work near a open tunnel, center near the bottom, in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo on Sunday in Surfside, Fla. More than 150 people were still unaccounted for two days after Thursday's collapse. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
Lulu Merle Johnson, a professor and historian, was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Iowa. Johnson County, Iowa, is naming itself after her. John I. Jackson hide caption
Albuquerque Fire Rescue crews work on victims of the fatal balloon crash at Unser and Central SW in Albuquerque, N.M., on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Adolphe Pierre-Louis/AP hide caption
Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91. Charles Dharapak/AP hide caption
Community health worker Teresa Johnson greets Pastor Shon Neyland before Sunday church services. Highland Christian Church estimates about half of its congregation is still not vaccinated. Jay Fram hide caption
Terence Crowster, a development worker who has been an avid reader since he was young, solicited donations to start the Hot-Spot Library in Scottsville, Cape Town, so kids would have a safe place to connect with books. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
Students work on a classroom exercise at a school in Kibera, a poor neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Over the last few days, it's been said a lot on Twitter: "Chris Crocker was right." But as Crocker explained during a recent interview with NPR, they don't want to be right, and it's not about them at all. Chris Crocker hide caption
Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on Saturday. Rescuers found an additional body Saturday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Temperatures in the Pacific Northwest will skyrocket in the coming days as a heatwave sets in from Southern California to Northern Washington. The high-pressure system is expected to break record temperatures. National Weather Service hide caption
Search and rescue crews work among the rubble at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla. Rescuers are combating fire, smoke and a complex debris field as they search for survivors. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks during a coronavirus media briefing on in London on May 27. He resigned in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson that was released Saturday. Matt Dunham/AP hide caption
The New York attorney general says Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million to settle claims that the it helped fuel the opioid crisis. Steven Senne/AP hide caption
Patrick Doherty volunteered for a new medical intervention of gene-editor infusions for the treatment of genetically-based diseases. Patrick Doherty hide caption
He Inherited A Devastating Disease. A CRISPR Gene-Editing Breakthrough Stopped It
Leo Soto, who created this memorial with grocery stores donating flowers and candles, pauses on Friday in front of photos of some of the missing people, near the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
In this photo provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, search-and-rescue personnel search for survivors through the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside, Fla., on Friday. AP hide caption
Construction underway on the Chicago Transit Authority's Belmont Flyover project. David Schaper hide caption
Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal May Be A Tough Sell To The Rest Of Congress
Charities and state agencies are rushing to support people who were displaced by the partial collapse of a large condo building in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, with officials calling for donations from the public. Gianrigo Marletta/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Washington Latin's class of 2021 chose Amaya Tatum to be this year's graduation speaker. She said her speech revolves around one message: "We survived a pandemic. We are survivors, and if we're able to survive a pandemic, then we shouldn't let the smaller things get to us." Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption