People put flowers outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., on Dec. 17, 2024. Morry Gash/AP Photo
Venezuela's Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia (left), European Parliament president Roberta Metsola (center), and Maria Corina Machado's daughter Ana Corina Sosa show the awards after Urrutia and Machado were awarded the EU's top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize in Strasbourg, France, on Dec. 17, 2024. Pascal Bastien/AP Photo
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, walks through the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Dec. 17, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israeli forces in a buffer zone inside Syria on Dec. 17, 2024. Israel Government Press Office via AP
General view of a severely damaged building housing the embassies of the United States, United Kingdom, and New Zealand after a powerful earthquake struck Port Vila, the capital city of Vanuatu, on Dec. 17, 2024. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Commuters ride a bus past an elephant along a road in Kataragama, Sri Lanka, on Dec. 17, 2024. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images
A Palestinian man prepares food at a distribution center south of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 17, 2024. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images
A pigeon flies past the rising sun haze obscures the skyline of Kuwait City, Kuwait, on Dec. 17, 2024. Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
A view of the blast scene that killed the commander of Russian armed forces' chemical, biological, and radiation defense troops, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant, according to the Russian Investigative Committee, outside a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 17, 2024. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images
Bob Lee's ex-wife Krista Lee is embraced by Rick Lee, Bob Lee's father, at the Hall of Justice following Nima Momeni's murder trial in San Francisco Calif., on Dec. 17, 2024. Benjamin Fanjoy/AP Photo
A woman cries outside her house after armed gangs set it on fire in the Post Marchand neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Dec. 17, 2024. Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images
House Homeland Security Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) speaks about U.S.–China Relations at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington on Dec. 17, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Filipina inmate on Indonesia death row Mary Jane Veloso (C) waves as she is repatriated to the Philippines after a press conference at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia, on Dec. 17, 2024. Juni Kriswanto/AFP via Getty Images
An exterior view of State Correctional Institution Huntingdon where Luigi Mangione, the suspect in United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's death, is being held in Huntingdon, Pa., on Dec. 17, 2024. Adam Gray/AFP via Getty Images
Masked women on horseback carry the Kurdish flag near the Arbil Citadel during a celebration of the Kurdish Flag Day in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, on Dec. 17, 2024. Safin Hamid/AFP via Getty Images
France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech during the inauguration and opening ceremony of the World Health Organization (WHO) academy in Lyon, France, on Dec. 17, 2024. Laurent Cipriani/AFP via Getty Images
Workers at W&R Logan pick some of the 250 million sprouts they harvest for the Christmas period in Dunbar, Scotland, on Dec. 17, 2024. Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier talks to the leader of the German Christian Democratic Union Friedrich Merz at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany, on Dec. 17, 2024. Sandra Steins/Bundesregierung via Getty Images
A woman takes a photograph of the Martin Place Christmas Tree in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 17, 2024. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
Residents queue for water at a distribution point in the neighborhood of Coronationville in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 17, 2024. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP via Getty Images
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to crew in the control room as he tours HMS Iron Duke in Tallinn, Estonia, on Dec. 17, 2024. Leon Neal/Getty Images
A cremator of the Dom community walks after burning pyres at Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of river Ganges in Varanasi, India, on Dec. 17, 2024. Niharika Kulkarni/AFP via Getty Images
This aerial view shows the Bulengo Internal Displaced Persons Camp (IDP) in Bulengo, outside Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo on Dec. 16, 2024. Jospin Mwisha/AFP via Getty Images
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk shake hands at the end of their press conference in Lviv, Ukraine, on Dec. 17, 2024. Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP via Getty Images
Christmas trees and decorations illuminated in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Dec. 17, 2024. Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images
Oleksandr Usyk acknowledges the fans ahead of his IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC and WBO Undisputed World Heavyweight Title fight against Tyson Fu during the grand arrivals as part of Oleksandr Usyk v Tyson Fury 2 at BLVD Runway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Dec. 17, 2024. Richard Pelham/Getty Images
An Afghan girl walks with her sheep along a hill in Charkint district, Balkh province, Afghanistan, on Dec. 17, 2024. Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images
Tom Cruise poses with the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award received from The United States Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, at the Longcross South Studios, in Runnymede, Surrey, England, on Dec. 17, 2024. Kin Cheung/AP Photo
This photo shows debris in a street in the Indian Ocean French territory of Mayotte on Dec. 17, 2024. Ministere de l'Interieur/DICOM via AP
A municipal agent dressed as Santa Claus gestures in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, on Dec. 17, 2024. Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images
