The U.S. has updated its travel advisory list with more than 115 new warnings, as countries in Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere see new waves of infection. Here, passengers from Taiwan wear protective gear as they arrive at France's Charles de Gaulle Airport north of Paris earlier this year. Francois Mori/AP hide caption
Technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover. NASA announced that the instrument had produced oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
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A picture taken on March 29, 2021, shows the new passenger terminal of Bahrain International Airport. Bahrain established diplomatic ties with Israel last year. In Israel and Bahrain, vaccine passports will be entirely digital: a QR code on one's phone, recognized at both countries' passport control, according to an Israeli official. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Protesters gathered outside the entrance to a rally for former President Donald Trump on June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Okla. A new state law increases penalties for protesters who block public roadways, and grants legal immunity to drivers who unintentionally harm them as they try to flee. Amanda Voisard/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
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People clash with police during a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday. A human rights group that monitors political repression said at least 1,700 people were arrested across the country in connection with the protests. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP hide caption
A car accident in 2019 smashed six of Mark Gottlieb's teeth and severely damaged four vertebrae. The spinal surgery he needed as a result led to medical bills that exhausted the personal injury coverage in his auto insurance. Erica Seryhm Lee for KHN hide caption
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