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Thursday: The day in photos

Running with the bulls in Pamplona

Remembering Michael Jackson

Military operation in Afghanistan's Helmand province

Fans mourn Michael Jackson

Bernie Mac: Life in pictures

Bernie Mac: Life in pictures

South Side guy

Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCollough in 1957 and raised in the South Side of Chicago; his mother died of cancer when he was a teenager. Mac, a devout fan of the Chicago White Sox, is said to have begun performing comedy shows in high school and to have started performing professionally in Chicago when he was 19.