National Guard troops reinforce the security zone on Capitol Hill in Washington early Tuesday, before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president on Wednesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
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An official has a blood pressure test before receiving the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, developed in China, at a hospital in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on January 15. Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty hide caption
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks last week at the National Press Club in Washington. He said on Tuesday that China has committed genocide against its Muslim Uighur population. Andrew Harnik/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President-elect Joe Biden listens as his secretary of state nominee, Antony Blinken, speaks in Wilmington, Del., in November. Blinken told senators at his confirmation hearing Tuesday, "Humility and confidence should be the flip sides of America's leadership coin." Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
A Honduran migrant woman carries a child on her back as they travel with other migrants by foot along a highway in Chiquimula, Guatemala, on Saturday, in hopes of reaching the U.S. border. Sandra Sebastian/AP hide caption
People walk in Wuhan on Jan. 10, the eve of the first anniversary of China confirming its first COVID-19 death. Chinese officials said on Monday that its economy managed to grow 2.3% in 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny is escorted out of a police station in Khimki, outside Moscow, following the court ruling that ordered him jailed for 30 days. Alexander Nemenov /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained on Sunday upon his arrival in Moscow. He had spent nearly the last five months recovering in Germany after being poisoned in August. Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ugandan election commission officials count ballots after the polls closed at a polling station in Kampala on Thursday. Sumy Sadurni/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Paola Osman, a second year resident at the Hospital San Martin in La Plata, Argentina, just got vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia. Anita Pouchard Serra for NPR hide caption
Televisions show a news broadcast of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 11. The Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwanese officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
As Pompeo Dumps Rulebook For U.S.-Taiwan Relations, Some See 'Trap' For Biden
Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, and former Mexican Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda during an honor cordon at the Pentagon in 2017. Mexico cleared Cienfuegos of all charges related to drug trafficking on Thursday. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Enhanced security measures, among them razor wire atop a security fence surrounding the U.S. Capitol, are being implemented across the nation in preparation for next week's presidential inauguration. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Members of the Palestinian Prisoner Society stage a demonstration outside the International Committee of the Red Cross building, demanding the World Health Organization put pressure on Israeli authorities to vaccinate Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, earlier this month in Gaza City. Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
A bus carrying members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic leaves Wuhan's airport following their arrival at a cordoned-off section in the international arrivals area on Thursday. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, shown here at a 2019 rally in Moscow, says he plans to return to Russia. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP hide caption
Samantha Power, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama administration, has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to run USAID. Power is seen here in 2014. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption
Aftershocks: A Memoir, by Nadia Owusu Simon & Schuster hide caption