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In November, Grace Jo and Joseph Kim, both North Korean refugees, spoke at the "Light Through Darkness" conference at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Photo credit: Grant Miller for the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
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Center of the clash: Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh is honored with a mural at an Oakland, California, bakery. (Associated Press)
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Image via the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (SuicidePreventionLifeline.org)
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Hearts Instead of Hate Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Mexico has turned to Federal Police Mariachis told sway public perception in high-crime areas. Corruption scandals linked to the nation's drug war has damaged the law enforcement community's reputation. (Image: El Universal screenshot)
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President Trump on Friday granted the first pardon of his term to Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was tough on immigration enforcement. Critics say the move sends a wrong message. (Associated Press/File)
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While a cholera outbreak rages in Yemen, half the country's health care facilities are out of service — including many that were bombed by the coalition. (Associated Press/File)
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Children with cerebral palsy practice walk with a robotic exoskeleton at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. (National Institutes of Health)
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Charleston, S.C. Police Department blocks the street during an active hostage situation in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
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Charleston, S.C. Police Department blocks the street during an active hostage situation in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
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Charleston, S.C. Police Department blocks the street during an active hostage situation in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
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Police gather near the scene of a reported shooting in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (Grace Beahm Alford /The Post And Courier via AP)
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In this March 30, 2017 file photo, Workers use a crane to lift a segment of a new fence into place on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, where Sunland Park, New Mexico, meets the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. A federal judge Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, again threw out Texas’ voter ID requirements that she previously compared to a “poll tax” on minorities, dealing another court setback to state Republican leaders over voting rights. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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A teacher at Rocklin Academy in Sacramento, California, reportedly used "I Am Jazz" as part of a kindergarten lesson on transgender identity, upsetting parents who were not made aware of the lesson plan in advance. (Amazon.com) **FILE**
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Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., listens as Democratic senators hold a hearing hosted by Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., about how the GOP health care bill could hurt rural Americans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
