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FILE - Homeland Security logo is seen during a joint news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. Nina Jankowicz, the former head of a widely criticized disinformation board, faced a torrent of sexist profanities on social media and menacing emails filled with rape or death threats. And she is not alone as women around the globe who have risen to powerful government positions have faced an overwhelming crush of online harassment, stalking and abuse. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Disinformation board's ex-leader faced wave of online abuse

The former head of a widely criticized disinformation board faced a torrent of sexist profanities on social media and menacing emails filled with rape or death threats
FILE - Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., crowds into an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The Democratic incumbent of 30 years, now Georgia's senior congressman, is likely to face his toughest reelection campaign in a decade, with six Republicans running in the May 24 primary in hopes of winning the party's nomination to challenge Bishop. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Georgia's senior congressman facing toughest race since 2010

Georgia's senior congressman is facing his toughest challenge from Republicans in more than a decade
FILE- A smashed car sits on the corner of Broadway and 45th Street in New York's Times Square, May 18, 2017, after the car was driven into a crowd of pedestrians. Prosecutors are largely relying on the testimony of victims to make a case against Rojas that could put him behind bars for decades. His lawyers are saying he had a mental breakdown that day and had no capacity to understand what he was doing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Victims recount horrors in Times Square car-ramming trial

People testifying in the trial of a man who drove a car that killed one and injured over 20 others in New York's Times Square say the day still haunts them
FILE - A malnourished baby is cared for in the pediatric department of Boulmiougou hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday April 15, 2022. The U.N. is warning that 18 million people in Africa's Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months. Two U.N. agencies are citing the impacts of war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs '“ and warning that people may try to migrate out of the affected areas. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia, File)

UN: 18 million facing severe hunger in West Africa's Sahel

The U.N. is warning that 18 million people in Africa's Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months
Reported Illinois tornado knocks down trees, damages homes
A tornado reportedly touched down in southeastern Illinois, knocking down trees and damaging numerous homes and other buildings
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives to a resort hotel where he is expected to meet with Elon Musk in Porto Feliz, Brazil, Friday, May 20, 2022. The Telsa and SpaceX chief executive officer tweeted that he was in Brazil to help bring Internet service to rural schools in the Amazon and to help monitor the Amazon environmentally. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Elon Musk visits Brazil's Bolsonaro to discuss Amazon plans
Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk has met with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss connectivity and other projects in the Amazon rainforest
Parts of Spain on alert amid 'extreme' May temperatures
Large parts of Spain are under alert as a wave of intense heat sweeps across the country, leaving residents sweltering through May temperatures that rank among the hottest in two decades
Police officers work on the scene of a multiple stabbing in Nore, Norway, Friday, May 20, 2022. Norwegian police say a person with a knife has wounded at least three people - one of them critically - in a random attack in a town near Oslo. They say the perpetrator has been arrested.(Lise Ã…serud/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Norway: At least 3 injured in family-related stabbing attack
Norwegian police say a suspect is in custody after three people were wounded with a sharp object, one critically
Horse farmer Stephanie Kirchner steers her coach on the main road through her hometown Schupbach near Limburg, Germany, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Since the beginning of the war in the Ukraine causing rising gas prices Kirchner uses the coach or rides a horse to a small stud farm where she works whenever possible. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
German farm owner saves fuel money with horse-drawn carriage
Stephanie Kirchner's journey to work has got longer but, she says, cheaper: she has left her SUV at home and switched to real horse power
Today in History: May 20, Lindbergh takes off
Today in History Today is Friday, May 20, the 140th day of 2022. There are 225 days left in the year.
DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin wants DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek to appear before the county board to discuss paperwork to collect marijuana sales tax revenue that never made it to the state department of revenue, but she is declining the invitation.
Tension mounts: DuPage clerk declines to meet county board over lost paperwork, lost pot revenue
DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek has declined an invitation to meet with county board members Tuesday to answer their questions about how state revenue officials never received paperwork from her office authorizing a tax on recreational marijuana sales. That tax went uncollected for 18 months, costing the county up to $4 million in estimated revenue loss.
Graduate Tuba Azhar laughs with classmates before the Hoffman Estates High School graduation ceremony at Now Arena on Friday, May 20, 2022.
Images: Hoffman Estates, Glenbard South and Lisle graduation ceremonies
Hoffman Estates, Glenbard South and Lisle high schools held their graduation ceremonies on Friday, May 20.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Graduate Tuba Azhar laughs with classmates before the Hoffman Estates High School graduation ceremony at Now Arena on Friday, May 20, 2022.
Hoffman Estates, Glenbard South and Lisle graduation ceremonies
Glenbrook South’s Abigail Milott competes in long jump during the Class 3A girls state track preliminaries at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston Friday.
IHSA class 2A and 3A girls state track preliminaries
Lake Park High School seniors enter at the start of their graduation ceremony at the Now Arena in Hoffman Estates on Thursday, May 19.
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Kaeden Rose Palmer celebrates with fellow graduates at the Hersey High School 2022 graduation ceremony on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Arlington Heights.
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St. Viator High School graduates toss their caps in the air at the conclusion of the commencement ceremony at Arlington Park racetrack on Sunday, May 15, 2022.
St. Viator, Mundelein, Antioch and Lakes Community graduation ceremonies
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