Keze Mukure, 9, prepares to attend his first World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw wrestling match at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN on June 24, 2024. “One day, I’m going to rule the ring,” said Mukure.

Samantha Francois smokes during a Bhang Yoga class at Diaspora, a private marijuana club in Cambridge, Mass., on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Bhang Yoga allows attendees to consume cannabis while participating in the class. Additional marijuana-infused activities could begin later this year for Massachusetts residents, as the state plans to open applications for social consumption licenses that would allow lounges, cafes, and events to serve pot products.

Performers from the LaNique Expressions Dance Company rest in the hallway before their performance at the Indiana Black Expo at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis on July 19, 2025.

Jackson Coleman puts on his helmet before competing in the bull riding competition at the 70th Annual Clermont Rodeo on Sept. 20, 2025, at Clermont Lions Club Park. Hailing from Union, Ky, Coleman started bull riding from a young age.

University of Indianapolis women's triathlon assistant coach Ricardo Briceño (top left) leads the team in a swim practice Aug. 22, 2025, at Geist Waterfront Park in Fishers, Ind. This year is the second season for the UIndy team, which is the only college triathlon team in the city and one of two college programs in Indiana. The other is at Trine University in Angola.

Over 200 demonstrators converge at Harvard University to protest the Trump administration’s threats to cut billions in federal funding to the school and in opposition to the president’s immigration crackdown on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. Last week, Tufts University international graduate student, Rümeysa Öztürk, was arrested while walking on a residential street in Somerville, Mass. by masked immigration agents of allegedly participating in pro-Palestinian activities and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana. The Harvard student holding the sign wore a mask and declined to give her name in fear of retaliation from the Trump administration.

Virginia Summers reflects on her favorite memory of daughter Tara Capps on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, at her home in Indianapolis. “When Tara was giving birth to her first child, that’s the happiest moment I had with her,” said Summers. Capps went missing on June 28, 2024. After Summers heard that her daughter was missing, she began searching for her alongside Capps's sister and brother-in-law. Summers found a tote near a creek while searching. The police deemed that it was her daughter inside, according to Summers. There is an ongoing investigation.

Eighty-seven-year-old Mina Hedgespeth sports a wig to conceal her hair loss in Campbellsville, Kentucky, Friday, Feb. 20, 2022. Hedgespeth has rested her wigs on this scarred mannequin head each night for more than sixty years. Hedgespeth lost much of her hair as a child after battling Typhoid Fever and has never allowed anyone to photograph her without her hairpiece. Hedgespeth noted that she wears a wig to improve her appearance and self-esteem.

Berley Goodin, 11, holds his dad, Terry Goodin, as the results for the lieutenant governor nominee are read Saturday, July 13, 2024, during the Indiana Democratic State Convention in Indianapolis. Terry was endorsed by the Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, Jennifer McCormick, as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. Before running for office, Terry served as Indiana state director for the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development, as Indiana State Rep. and as a school superintendent.

Nineteen-year-old Gabe Schepker, a member of the 5th Kentucky/10th KY Historical Preservation Society, portrays a Union soldier at the Civil War Museum and Pioneer Village in Bardstown, Kentucky on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Schepker’s dream of serving in the U.S. military was thwarted due to a congenital heart condition, hypoplastic right heart syndrome, which has resulted in three open-heart surgeries. Upon turning 18, Schepker was removed from the children’s heart transplant list in Louisville and is waiting to be added to the adult transplant list in Nashville. He has also suffered from severe anxiety and depression after his father’s death during his freshman year of high school. After learning that he has ancestors who fought in the American Civil War, Schepker was inspired to become involved with reenacting as a way to keep history alive and give back to the community since he is not eligible to join the military. In August 2024, Schepker will attend Bluegrass Community College to pursue an associate’s degree in cardiac sonography. Schepker commented, “As a heart patient, I struggle physically and mentally like the soldiers in the Civil War did, but I always pull through.”

Primitive Escalona from Oak Lawn, IL, prays while attendees of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress walk to the Indiana War Memorial on Saturday, July 20, 2024, during the Eucharistic Procession in Indianapolis. Over 55,000 participants worldwide gathered at this 5-day event themed “Revival Happens Here.” The next U.S. Eucharistic Congress will be held in 2033, the Year of Redemption marking 2,000 years since Jesus’ crucifixion according to Catholic doctrine.

Jonas Fallon-Mokhiber, left, and Case Denooyer look for skipping stones Wednesday evening, June 21, 2023, in Chautauqua Lake behind the Miller Bell Tower in Chautauqua, NY. As week one of the Chautauqua Institution's season begins, life is brought back to the ground that has remained vacant during the winter.

Eleven-year-old Sofia Hernandez-Williams practices playing the cello before rehearsing with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, March 02, 2025, in Boston, Mass. Sofia is a Project STEP student who recently became one of the youngest-ever semifinalists at the prestigious Sphinx Competition.

Karla Villar, a US Army veteran, joins in chants as protesters march after a rally to showcase their disapproval of President Trump's decision to bomb key Iran nuclear sites last night and advocate for the US not to enter into a war with Iran on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in downtown Boston, Mass.

Kamari Carr dunks the ball on July 18, 2025, in Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis.

Youth at the Chautauqua Institution prepare to ride their bicycles on the hills of Palestine Park in Chautauqua, NY, on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. Located on 2,070 acres in southwestern New York, the Chautauqua Institution is a nonprofit education center and summer community that provides nine weeks of fine and performing arts, lectures, concerts, interfaith programs, and recreational activities for over 100,000 visiting youth and adults each year. Visitors often refer to the institution’s safe, utopian-like environment as “stepping back in time,” where children can roam the grounds without fear of violence.

Joseph Calderon, a lawyer representing Google, talks with Brittany York before announcing that the corporation is withdrawing its plans to build a data center in Franklin Township during a council meeting on Sept. 22, 2025, at the City-County Building in Indianapolis.

Former Transportation Secretary and former mayor of South Bend, Pete Buttigieg, gives a speech at a rally Sept. 18, 2025, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Public officials are speaking out against recent efforts for states to redraw their districts between census years.

Students from schools around Indianapolis gather outside the Statehouse to protest gun violence in schools on Sept. 5, 2025, as part of a nationwide Students Demand Action walkout.

Tom Nyce, 18, makes a basket while playing a game with his teammates after the Nokomis Regional High School baseball team's end-of-year banquet at the Newport Fire Department in Newport, Maine, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Newport is the hometown of Cooper Flagg, the first pick of the NBA draft this year. Nyce and Flagg were former classmates. "We played basketball together since elementary school and up until his freshman year when he transferred," Nyce said.

At her new studio space in Providence, Felicia Neuhof holds a bag of shells she gathered at her sister’s wedding. Neuhof’s company, Shellf Life, manufactures architectural surfaces, furniture, bowls and lighting solutions using material made from discarded seafood shells. Neuhof first had the idea for Shellf Life while working on a project in graduate school to develop an alternative and sustainable architectural material. Neuhof won an award from the Terra Carta Design Lab, which gave her £ 100,000 to bring her idea to life. “I want to be walking down the street and see buildings cladded with it. I want to be at restaurants and be eating out of the bowls and see it in people’s homes, kitchens and living rooms. I hope that this material can work its way into the built environment everywhere we go,” said Neuhof.

Adeem the Artist opens for Tyler Childers on Thursday, June 27, 2024, during his Mule Pull ’24 Tour concert at Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Ind.

Max Chen plays among the blue flags displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, March 16, 2023. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Advocates planted 27,000 blue flags near the Washington Monument as a tribute to those lost to colon cancer. Chen and his family are from Dallas, Texas and were vacationing in the Washington, D.C. area during the time of this photo.

Air Force members wait for Vice President Kamala Harris to arrive at the Indianapolis International Airport on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, after speaking to Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.’s biennial convention in Indianapolis. The appearance is one of Harris' first since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed her for the position.

Anagrace Vitters, 9, devours popsicles behind the Hall of Philosophy while vacationing with her family at the Chautauqua Institution on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chautauqua, NY. Located on 2,070 acres in southwestern New York, the Chautauqua Institution is a nonprofit education center and summer community that provides nine weeks of fine and performing arts, lectures, concerts, interfaith programs, and recreational activities for over 100,000 visiting youth and adults each year. The 2024 season marked the 150th anniversary of the Chautauqua Institution. “Ah, they’re so good,” said Vitters.

Sunlight highlights a monk at the Abbey of Gesthsemani during Vespers on March 29, 2023 in New Haven, Kentucky. The monks observe the Liturgy of the Hours with seven hours of prayer, hymns, and psalms reciting each day: 3:15 a.m. Vigils, 5:45 a.m. Lauds, 6:15 a.m. Eucharist, 7:30 a.m. Terce, 12:15 p.m. Sext, 2:15 p.m. None, 5:30 p.m. Vespers, and 7:30 p.m. Compline. Approximately 40 Trappist monks live at the monastery where they have lived, prayed, and worked for over 170 years.

Rebecca Lutz (left) and Lucas Hjelm (right) share an intimate moment while rehearsing in the school halls before performing on stage at Nelson County High School's "Spring Variety Show" produced by the Cardinal Theater Association at the high school in Bardstown, Kentucky, on May 1, 2021. Lutz and Hjelm wore clear face shields as a form of protection from the Covid-19 virus.

A cowboy unfurls the American flag as the audience recites The Pledge of Allegiance at the Loan Star Rodeo Company’s 41st Championship at Western Kentucky University’s L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. The rodeo acts consisted of steer wrestling, cowgirl breakaway roping, bull riding and calf roping.

Annika Borg-Sundstorm, the red room teacher at the Chautauqua Institution’s Children’s School, left, assists 5-year-old Samuel Paille in his attempt to play the trombone after the Community Band concert celebrating Independence Day Tuesday afternoon, July 4, 2023, on Bestor Plaza in Chautauqua, NY. The Community Band concert is one of many traditions held at the Chautauqua Institution during the Fourth of July. Others include a parade and concert led by the Children’s School students, a pop orchestra performed by the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and a gathering to watch flairs light around the Chautauqua Lake.

Making a last-minute phone call and finishing the last touches on her makeup at the back of the bus, Dillon Cook, from Alabama (left), and Victoria Corcino, from Florida (right), prepare for their day participating at the Student Reagan Leadership Summit at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California on Saturday morning, Feb. 4, 2023. Cook and Corcino are two of twenty-five college students from across the United States participating in the 2022-2023 Civic Leaders Fellowship Program hosted by the Ronald Reagan Institute.

Quentin Huynh’s niece, a first grader at Boston Elementary School, wraps her fingers around his hand as he leads her around the school on May 23, 2022. Huynh visited Boston Elementary School to see former teachers before graduating from Thomas Nelson High School as a way to pay homage to his educational foundation played by the school. While visiting, Huynh pulled his niece out of class to walk the halls one last time.

Travis Rife, driver of Black Widow, (left) and Thomas Kimmons, driver of Thrill Billy, (right) rest at the close of the No Limits Monster Trucks event held at Western Kentucky University’s AG Expo Center located in Bowling Green, Kentucky on Saturday, March 4, 2023. After performing two three-hour shows, the drivers loaded the equipment in preparation to return to their homes. Drivers from across the country participated in the event.

Members of the Ronald Reagan Civic Leaders Fellowship Program conclude the day’s events by taking a sunset stroll in Simi Valley, California on February 4, 2023. These four individuals were among twenty-five college students from across the United States who participated in a six-month leadership and professional development program designed to elevate student success in civic and professional life. Students are able to network with each other through a combination of hybrid and place-based learning at both the Reagan Library in California and the Reagan Institute in Washington, DC.