23 lasting images from a chaotic year in politics

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Off years in US politics are supposed to be relatively quiet. Heading into 2023, we expected a divided Congress to pass very little sweeping legislation. We knew that Republicans would be jockeying for the GOP presidential nomination. And you can always expect a surprise or two.

Oh, how quaint that seems now.

South Africa accuses Israel of genocide, seeks UN court intervention

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The International Court of Justice in the Hague | A tank with an Israeli flag near the Gaza border
The International Court of Justice in the Hague | A tank with an Israeli flag near the Gaza border

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Chinese spy balloon used a US internet provider to navigate America, report says

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Sailors recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon on February 5, 2023 off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson/US Navy via Getty Images

Michael Cohen used Google's AI to research legal cases to cite in his appeal. The AI hallucinated them.

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Michael Cohen at Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York.
Michael Cohen at Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York.

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No, the First Amendment probably won't protect you from getting fired if you have a pornographic OnlyFans for vegan cooking

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Joe Gow, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Joe Gow was fired as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse after appearing in pornographic videos with his wife.

University of Wisconsin via The Associated Press

The future of sports is the Pop-Tarts Bowl, where a live toaster pastry obsessed with its own consumption was toasted on-air and devoured by the victors

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The Pop-Tarts mascot is lowered into a toaster following the 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl between the Kansas State Wildcats and the NC State Wolfpack at Camping World Stadium on December 28, 2023, in Orlando, Florida.

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It sure does seem like Nikki Haley is toying with being Trump's next possible vice president

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US President Donald Trump announces that he has accepted the resignation of Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the United Nations, in the Oval Office on October 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Trump said that Haley will leave her post by the end of the year.
President Donald Trump announces that he has accepted the resignation of Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the United Nations, in the Oval Office on October 9, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Get real: John Fetterman is nowhere close to being the new Kyrsten Sinema

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Sens. John Fetterman and Kyrsten Sinema.
Sens. John Fetterman and Kyrsten Sinema.

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Nikki Haley says she would pardon Donald Trump if she makes it to the White House

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Nikki Haley (left) and Donald Trump (right).
"What's in the best interest of the country would be to pardon him so that we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him," Nikki Haley said of former President Donald Trump.

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COMIC: How a brutal dictatorship rose in Chechnya, and what my family had to do to survive it

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