An aerial view shows flood damage left by Hurricane Helene along the Nolichucky River in norteastern Tennessee on Sept. 28. ecovery has been slow in the mountainous area of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. George Walker IV/AP hide caption
Smokestacks at the San Juan Generating station in New Mexico fall in an explosive demolition on Aug. 24. Benjamin Hunter/Ecoflight hide caption
The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, pictured here, sued a crypto scam company known as SpireBit and seized its assets. The proceeds have now been handed back to victims of the scheme. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption
These days, to be a successful lawyer it's often not enough just to be good at the lawyering part, you also have to be good at selling yourself. Maybe even swing on a vine with a monkey Jungle Law Group hide caption
U.S. employers added 254,000 jobs in September — more than forecasters had expected. Gains for July and August were also revised upward. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images hide caption
An aerial view of the Dundalk Marine Terminal on Oct. 3, 2024 in Baltimore, Md. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Shipping containers sit piled at the Port of Baltimore on Sept. 21, 2018. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Arif Keles owns Hisar Fresh Food in Schöneberg, Germany, which makes döner kebabs. He is opposed to Turkey's effort to give döners Traditional Specialty Guarantee status in the EU. (Willa Rubin/NPR) Willa Rubin/NPR hide caption
The sun shines behind a refinery in the South Pars Gas-Condensate field in Asalouyeh Seaport in Iran. Iran's oil and natural gas infrastructure is a possible target for Israeli attacks as tensions in the Mideast mount. Oil prices have risen as a result — but remain relatively low, compared to most of 2024. Saeid Arabzadeh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption
Chenedy Wiles, 27, poses for a portrait at her home on Wednesday in Chicago. Wiles took a 23andMe test over the summer and got her results in September. While she finds the data breach concerning, “so much of our data is already out there,” she said. Taylor Glascock for NPR hide caption
Most bananas imported to the U.S. come through ports affected by the dockworkers' strike. And the fruit's limited shelf life made it hard to stockpile in advance. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
People queue to buy basic food and household items outside a supermarket in Caracas, on September 28, 2016. Venezuela is in a highly tense political crisis, with the South American oil-exporting nation slammed by low crude prices, inflation, food shortages and violence. Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
TikTok is suing to block a law that would ban the social media app in the U.S. Jose Luis Magana/FR159526 AP hide caption
John and Georgia McGinty tried to sue Uber for financial compensation after suffering numerous serious injuries when their Uber crashed into another car in early 2022. Stark & Stark hide caption
A Jeep logo is displayed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan. 14, 2019. Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs worldwide because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption
Striking Philadelphia longshoremen are shown picketing outside the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal Port, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Ryan Collerd/AP hide caption
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Hurricane Helene dropped more than 2 feet of rain on Spruce Pine, N.C. The town is home to one of the world's only sources of high-purity quartz, which is used to manufacture silicon chips and solar panels. Spencer Bost hide caption
A worker packs a leather jacket in an Amazon India shipping bag at a workshop in the Dharavi area of Mumbai, India, on Jan. 5, 2022. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
FILE -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB1046, a hotly contested measure that would have been the nation's strictest AI safety law. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
Eggs are cleaned and disinfected in January at the Sunrise Farms processing plant in Petaluma, Calif., which had seen an outbreak of avian flu. Terry Chea/AP hide caption
