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PHOTO: The eight co-champions celebrate after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Friday, May 31, 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md. The spelling bee ended in unprecedented 8-way championship tie after organizers ran out of challenging words.

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

News May 31, 2019

8 winners of 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee coin term for themselves: 'octochamps'

PHOTO: Abortion-rights activists react after lawmakers approved a sweeping piece of anti-abortion legislation, a bill that would ban most abortions in the state of Missouri, May 17, 2019, in Jefferson, Mo.

Christian Gooden St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

News May 29, 2019

What to know about new abortion restrictions and what they could mean for Roe v. Wade

PHOTO: WWII veteran "Harmonica Pete" DuPre performs the national anthem before the match between the the United States and Mexico at Red Bull Arena, May 26, 2019, in Harrison, N.J.

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News May 27, 2019

96-year-old WWII vet's harmonica performance of the national anthem at US soccer match goes viral

PHOTO: A new pilot program in Chicago is being hailed as a potentially groundbreaking new tool that uses virtual reality to help police better understand how to handle a subject who is in the midst of psychiatric distress.

News May 24, 2019

New virtual reality training tech takes cops directly into the minds of the mentally distressed

PHOTO: Nik Wallenda and the Wallenda Family perform with the Big Apple Circus 40th Anniversary Tour, April 7, 2018, in Somerville, Mass.

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News May 23, 2019

Legend Nik Wallenda announces walk across a high wire 25 stories above NYC's Times Square

PHOTO: Taylor Haugen pictured in his football jersey.

The Taylor Haugen Foundation

News May 21, 2019

These parents are tackling a common football injury that took their son's life: 'We are trying to continue his legacy'

PHOTO: Photos of Abby Williams, left, and Libby German, right, at police headquarters in Delphi, Indiana.

Lindsey Jacobson/ABC News

News May 15, 2019

Witness in Delphi double murder likely afraid to come forward, investigator says

PHOTO: In this file photo, a child holds his Amazon Echo Dot in Kennesaw, Ga., Aug. 16, 2018.

Mike Stewart/AP, FILE

News May 9, 2019

Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition under fire from advocacy groups over alleged privacy violations

PHOTO: Mollie Tibbetts is seen here in this undated file photo.

Jenny Fiebelkorn/Special to the Register via USA Today Network

News May 8, 2019

Mom honors slain daughter Mollie Tibbetts on what would have been her 21st birthday

PHOTO: Take It From Me feat. Valerie Jarrett

ABC News Photo Illustration

News May 3, 2019

Take it from former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett: 'Have the confidence to swirl'