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Updated May 21, 2024 at 10:50 a.m.Charles Lindbergh flew from New York City to Le Bourget Field in Paris, covering a distance of 3,610 miles (5,810 kilometers) in just 34 hours. He touched down in Paris on this day in 1927.

Learn about the challenges faced by indigenous individuals in Chiapas, Mexico, who are deprived of their liberty due to a lack of access to interpreters and translators. Discover the impact on legal proceedings and the efforts being made to improve translation services.

To be a health care worker in the best of times includes days of stress, sorrow, frustration, triumph, joy and reflection — not always in that order. This past year was all of that on warp speed, as the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. To mark the one year anniversary of that declaration, weve photographed and interviewed nine healthcare workers from around the globe, serving very different communities but all with the same goal: conquering COVID-19. We ...