Afghan security officials take position at the scene of an attack by Taliban militants targeting an election commission office in Kabul on March 29 2014 The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb and attack by suicide gunmen at the building.


A plane skywriting FactCheckArmeniacom is seen over the Statue of Liberty in New York.


Residents light fireworks Monday evening in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington.


US Capitol tourist It was very very scary.


New England Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett dives into the end zone.


Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who had been held in pretrial detention in a complex fraud case for 11 months died at the age of 37 in police custody because of his work as a tax adviser to Browder s Hermitage Capital Management when it operated in Russia.


Muhammad Alam who has been suffering from diarrhea for more than a week lies on a mat in front of his room at the Dar Paing camp for internally displaced people in Sittwe The United Nations says at least 40 Rohingya were killed in January in southern Maungdaw township by Buddhist Rakhine villagers The government denies any killings occurred.


Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an event introducing the new iPad Air 2 at Apple s headquarters Thursday.


In this July file photo the Sun Link Tucson streetcar makes a test run along North Fourth Avenue in advance of the grand opening of the line later in the month.


At VDOT s Northern Virginia headquarters people study detailed maps showing the impact of the I66 HOT lanes plan.


People carry the coffin of Abduallah Erol proKurdish People s Democratic Party candidate for the Giresun district and one of the victims of the twin bombings in Ankara during his funeral in Diyarbakir.


A Pakistani woman leaves a shop decorated with Valentine s signs in Peshawar.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rallies with supporters at the Million Air Orlando airplane hangar on Tuesday in Sanford Fla.


Punta Gorda Police Chief Tom Lewis gestures as he speaks to the media during a news conference Wednesday.


Stewart named host of The Daily Show in 1999 poses on the parody newscast s set.


Men watch as the election commission announces electoral results for certain states on a television at an outdoor butchery in Kano northern Nigeria.


The spire of Hallgrimskirkja church stands above residential and commercial property on the city skyline in Reykjavik.


Lionel Messi reacts after missing a penalty kick in the Copa America final.


Here s how Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove would grade the US healthcare system.


A woman and a child view the sea of flowers at the entrance to Amsterdam s Schiphol Airport Most of the people killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down were Dutch citizens.


Learn all about SPAM from a Hawaii congresswoman.


If you do nt have tickets to the NHL Winter Classic there s a free watch party near the stadium.


Dry Tortugas National Park about 70 miles beyond Key West.


Turkish soldiers use a water cannon to move Syrian refugees away from border fences near the Syrian town of Tal Abyad Turkey said it was trying to limit the flow of Syrian refugees into its territory after an influx of thousands recently.


A passenger looks out the window at the Canitas de Felipe Pescador railroad station in Mexico in 2001.


Alexander Lebedev chairman of Russia s National Reserve Corporation speaks during an interview with Reuters journalists in Moscow on Sept 25 2012.


Abd ElHakim Zughbor and his fiancee Falastin AlTanani are campaigning to raise funds online to cover the cost of their wedding in Gaza City Gaza on Feb 10.


President George W Bush and first lady Laura Bush pose with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi The first lady wears a ruffled gown in her familiar shirtdress style.


Duterte left and former president Benigno Aquino III salute during Duterte s inauguration ceremony at the Malacanang presidential palace grounds in Manila.


A view of 7013 Natelli Woods Lane in Bethesda.


Students walk to class as Peyton practices using a robot system at Poolesville Elementary School.


Look at Mitt Romney He s just one of the guys.


Members of a bomb squad respond to reports of a shooting and a suspicious package on the West Front of the Capitol Police said the shooting was an apparent suicide.


Aamir Liaquat Hussain host of the Geo TV channel programme Amaan Ramazan hosts a live show in Karachi July 26 2013 Hussain gave away two abandoned infant girls to childless families last month and plans to give away a baby boy this week.


Camila Valle Granados of Peru competes in the women s rowing single sculls semifinals.


Donald Trump and his father Fred in 1973 at Trump Village Fred s last project in Queens Donald was an apprentice to his father at the time.


Fireworks celebrate Jesus victory in the War on Christmas REUTERSDado Ruvic.


A Nest thermostat installed in a home in Provo Utah.


BB King is joined by Sam and Mary Haskell who hosted an 80th birthday party for him at their home in Encino Calif Funds raised from the event went to the forthcoming BB King Museum in Indianola Miss.


The square has become a tent city crisscrossed by barricades of scrap metal and tires.


Drake headlines the 2015 Landmark Festival on Sept 26.


A biker and jogger dart past the Capitol Christmas tree on Dec 13.


After surgical menopause Erica Palim of Bethesda lost all desire to have sex Hormone replacement treatments have helped She never took part in a flibanserin clinical trial but still felt compelled to tell the FDA panel reviewing the drug that women with low libido needed more treatment options Here she is pictured at home with her husband Mark Palim.


Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to reporters at United Nations headquarters on March 10 Clinton conceded that she should have used a government email account to conduct business as secretary of state saying her decision was simply a matter of convenience.


Students sing and pray prior to a speech by Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson at Liberty University in Lynchburg Va on Wednesday Nov 11 2015.


AntiSyrian regime protesters carry revolutionary flags while performing a traditional dance during a protest outside the Arab League headquarters in Cairo Egypt on Jan 22.


ACC Commissioner John Swofford originally said the ACC would revisit its neutral site championship venues at a meeting of athletic directors in October but the NCAA s announcement this week forced the conference s hand.


This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption flare.


Tianjin residents want China to buy their homes.


Student protesters have had fun posting caricatures of Chief Executive Leung Chunying.


Serena Williams of the United States returns the ball against Spain s Garbine Muguruza during the women s singles final at Wimbledon.


Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul speaks at a forum sponsored by Heritage Action at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena on Sept 18 2015 in Greenville SC.


Joelle Ziemian plays with Alina at the Russian orphanage She says she brought Alina things she had never seen before dolls paints coloring books With each brief visit Ziemian said the silent somber child grew more talkative and excited to see her.


Ryan Reynolds appears as Damian after an expensive oldtoyoung body switch Ann Hornaday writes Selfless ultimately earns its title but it could just as easily have been called Brainless Pulseless and Pointless Read the full review.


Rapper Peso 20 from Landover MD raises his arms after a video shoot on the roof of the house of his friend and supporter Ramsey Aburdene.


People visit a makeshift memorial to the Orlando victims outside the Stonewall Inn the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement in New York.


Yogi Berra leaps into the arms of Don Larsen after catching Larsen s perfect game in the 1956 World Series.


The artist wears his signature purple at the Academy Awards in 2005.


Andy Raymond owner of Engage Armament in Rockville Md and his dog Brutus were threatened after they began selling the Armatix iP1 a 22 caliber smart gun Raymond quickly yanked the gun from his store.


Iraq Islamic State battle for alBaghdadi.


Graham refers to a photograph made during the Osama bin Laden raid while speaking during a news conference on unanswered questions that remain about Benghazi at the US Capitol.


Reworked plans by developers including the DC Housing Authorty include offices and shown here apartments.


A marijuana cultivation facility in Denver.


The state s governor told ABC News that shelter for flood victims was put in limbo by the shutdown while other reports suggest work by Colorado National guard who are repairing roads and bridges could be delayed because of a lack of funding.


Centrolina owned by chef Amy Brandwein offers a 21 percent discount on breakfast items on Equal Pay Day.


Local members of Congress from the left Rep Gerald E Connolly.


A man is comforted after finding out that a relative drowned in her truck in Houston.


The Surfside truck is outfitted with an overhead air conditioner but it was nt doing Ilder Rivera much good today.


Taylor Swift will allow her album 1989 to be part of Apple s service the first streaming service to include her music.


Emancipation of the slaves proclaimed Sept 22 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln.


A model presents a creation by Stella McCartney.


Uber s unprecedented autonomouscar experiment will launch this week in Pittsburgh even though Pennsylvania has yet to pass basic laws that permit the testing of selfdriving cars.


The Taiwanese Fried Chicken served at Maketto.


Ryan Reynolds poses for a portrait in New York.


A couple walks by the Clarendon Metro station in Arlington on May 3.


Disney has sought patent protection regarding its plans to use drones in its light shows.


Vietnam air force Deputy Commander Do Minh Tuan speaks at a news conference at Phu Quoc Airport on Phu Quoc Island after the mission to the find missing Malaysia Airlines jet.


Secretary of State John F Kerry third from right joins former secretaries of state Hillary Clinton Madeleine Albright Henry Kissinger James Baker and Colin Powell in a ceremonial groundbreaking Wednesday for the future US Diplomacy Center at the State Department.


Uighur men pray in a mosque in Hotan in China s western Xinjiang region on April 16 2015.


Residents chant during the demonstration.


Taylor Schilling Orange Is the New Black.


AntiTrump protesters hang a banner inside the Hyatt hotel in Burlingame.


President Obama speaks at the Paramount Theatre in Austin Texas Thursday July 10 2014 about the economy Austin is the final leg in his three city trip before returning to Washington.


Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the market.


2016 candidates react to Obama s address on social media.


A tour guide from Alexandria Colonial Tours stands near King Street as snow falls in Old Town Alexandria Va.


Customers sit in a Juan Valdez cafe north of Bogota on Aug 28 The Juan Valdez cafe chain owned by farmers and beloved by Colombians expects the imminent arrival of Starbucks Corp to help it boost surprisingly low consumption of the beverage in a nation that grows much of the world s tastiest arabica Hernan Mendez head of the chain said the novelty of Starbucks could help turn more Colombians into coffee drinkers.


Hillary and Bill Clinton embrace after the Democratic presidential candidate s speech to supporters in Hooksett NH.


Yacine Brahimi of Algeria in action against Denis Glushakov of Russia during a Group H match in Curitiba.


Grace Rardin 6 feeds the hens at the camp held on the grounds of Woodlawn Plantation a gift from George Washington to his stepdaughter.


Andrea Byl 22 takes an order from President Obama and Rep Gary Peters.


New York Yankees manager Billy Martin right meets Trump at Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach Fla Seated with Trump are his son Donald 10 with a ball given to him by Martin and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner during the game with the Montreal Expos.


MYTH The idea of planting Washington s cherry trees came from Japan The Japanese government embraced the idea of a gift of cherry trees as an act of bilateral friendship Post gardening columnist Adrian Higgins writes in Five myths about cherry blossoms but it was a handful of Americans who first promoted their mass planting in the District notably author and adventurer Eliza Scidmore and a Department of Agriculture plant explorer named David Fairchild.


Miley Cyrus Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift light up VMA red carpet.


Fort LauderdaleHollywood International Airport says on its site that it handles an average of 621 commercial flights each day on 30 airlines.


Commuters waiting for shuttle buses line an entire block of Highland Street in Arlington near the Clarendon Metro station.


A man holding a poster of Gen Abdel Fatah alSissi Egypt s popular army chief and de facto leader stands by riot police in front of a courthouse in the Cairo suburb of Giza A small bomb detonated outside the courthouse damaging the building and surrounding shops but causing no casualties on the first day of voting in the country s constitutional referendum Egyptians are going to the polls Tuesday and Wednesday and the vote is widely seen as a referendum on the strongarmed policies of the interim government and the rumored presidential ambitions of Sissi.


A vehicle drives on the highway outside Oss.


Virginia Coleman Hoag of Dillwyn Va holds the letter written by John Winn Moseley before he died at Gettysburg.


How worried should you be about this Not very it turns out.


Jon Stewart s beard speaks during a rally on Capitol Hill in September 2015.


An Afghan woman puts her finger into an ink bottle to mark herself as a voter who attended an election at a polling station in MazariSharif capital of Balkh province Afghanistan Saturday April 5 2014.


Officials believe a student sprayed the substance on the bus as it sat in the driveway of Watkins Mill Elementary School.


Bernie Sanders greets supporters at City College of San Francisco on Monday June 06 2016.


France s Anggun performs during the dress rehearsal of the Grand Final of the Eurovision 2012 song contest in Baku Azerbaijan.


A man walks past a painting of late Cuban revolutionary hero Ernesto Che Guevara in Havana.


Scalise greets visitors to his office alongside Rep Patrick T McHenry.


Piles of debris are left outside flooddamaged homes at the South Point subdivision in Denham Springs La.


Romney speaks to a crowd of more than 3000 people at Shawnee State University.


An early cherry blossom blooms in Arlington on March 6 2016.


Children pole a raft in the Indian village of Burhabrhi in the northeastern state of Assam The state government said flood waters have killed at least seven people and forced nearly a million to leave their homes Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in India s remote northeast over the past three days.


Record heat worsens wildfires in the West.


Joel Johnson who was convicted as an accessory after the fact to murder in the April 15 2010 killing of DC school teacher Brian Betts was shot and killed during a home invasion in the District on Sept 19 Read our coverage.


Rida BukhariRizvi left jokes with Nadia Syahmalina during a gathering of the Muslim Democratic Club of Montgomery County.


What airline passengers tweeted about TSA by state.


Preparations for Monday s inauguration are underway at the Capitol but travelers wo nt experience much disruption Saturday or Sunday.


The Vince Carter of old made a brief but memorable appearance against Utah Monday night.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump answers questions during a news conference in New York on May 31 2016.


Revelers celebrate the opening ceremony at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich.


President Obama sworn in for second term.


Lawyer and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.


Courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg has been much maligned and spoofed for her Tom Brady portrait Here is Comic Riffs handy threestep guide for her to draw a better Brady.


Moore is currently pregnant with a boy and considering future options for birth control.


Residents look at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad s alBaladiyat district.


The body of a sperm whale lies on a Paraparaumu beach on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand Hundreds of people gathered to see the whale which washed up on the beach overnight.


DC firefighters respond to a twoalarm fire Wednesday morning in the 1600 block of Riggs Place NW in Washington.


Checks are the worst Photo by Flickr user Michael.


Gwen Carr left Eric Garner s mother attends a rally in front of New York police headquarters in Manhattan last year.


The 37yearold Jason Leffler a twotime winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series who had the nickname LefTurn above the driver s side window on his race cars died after an accident in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway READ Leffler killed at Bridgeport Speedway.


A family on a truck flees violence in the city of Aleppo.


Jack Johnson and Jack Gilinsky of Jack and Jack attend the official preparty for Teen Choice 2014 presented by Candie s on Saturday August 9 2014 in Beverly Hills.


Forecast for rain snow and freezing rain through Saturday night from the GFS model This will be a mostlyrain event for locations south of Baltimore Freezing rain is the biggest impact for southwest Pennsylvania and New Jersey and snow accumulation will be highest from Connecticut and Massachusetts into coastal Maine.


Helmet camera catches car swerve and crash into motorcycle.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is facing questions about the relationships between her family s foundation and its donors.


People hold up pens as a symbol of the shooting victims during a moment of silence in front of the French Embassy in Copenhagen.


I ve participated in or run businesses before but not one like this Cuccinelli said It s particularly motivating because of the watermen we re working with and what I already know of Tangier Island s need for greater opportunity.


Norman Braman speaks at a press conference during Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 on Dec 3 2014 in Miami Beach.


Sinai Province threatens to behead Croatian hostage.


A man comforts the wife of Jordanian pilot Muath alKaseasbeh during a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amman.


Look at how happy and healthy this little fuzzball is.


A tale of two rush hours Researchers track Silver Line traffic impact.


A mural in Baltimore in April 2016 depicts Freddie Gray a year after the protests that were sparked by his death from an injury he suffered in police custody.


US Navy medical personnel displays an enteral feeding tube used for forcefeeding detainees Guantanamo prisoner 43yearold Abu Wael Dhiab hopes to persuade a federal judge to modify the way he is treated by prison officials.


Enana Asr 21 at her oneroom apartment in Berlin.


Trump speaks to supporters in Des Moines.


Michigan State Coach Tom Izzo yells during the secondseeded Spartans loss to Middle Tennessee.


Pedestrians meander across Wisconsin Avenue in the District braving a wintry mix of snow and sleet as a storm sweeps through the Washington area.


Eddie Murphy no longer hosting the Oscars.


Villagers eat in a temporary shelter in Chatrapur India.


A comedian who is a local television personality held a mock rally near two other actual political rallies to lighten the mood in town She and her group chanted Support emotional dignity.


Slave shackles on display at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.


Steven Arroche of Georgetown and Sarah Parker of Annandale in Lafayette Park across from the White House Parker an Obama supporter said she came to the park when Obama won four years ago and said it was the best experience of my life indescribable.


A worker adjusts the sign for the New York delegation.


Charles Keating IV is shown here in 2008 as he graduated from Navy SEAL training in San Diego With him are his grandfather Charles Jr and his father Charles III Keating IV died in Iraq on Tuesday.


Members of the honor guard get into position as they prepare for the arrival of the casket.


Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified before the House Select Committee on Benghazi in Washington on Oct 22 2015.


David Keniston sits with other DC marijuana activists shackled to a liberty pole as officers inspect their structure and shackles during a protest along 3rd Street SW on the Mall.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves after speaking at his caucusnight rally in West Des Moines Iowa on Monday Feb 1 2016.


An Afghan child plays on the barrel of a Soviet tank in the Behsood district of Jalalabad.


Women march together past Towson College in Towson Md.


Watch a Va teenager break three world records for pullups.


An attendant places a nameplate on the grave of Razan Mohammad AbuSalha 19 who was buried next to her sister Yusor Mohammad AbuSalha 21 and brotherinlaw Deah Barakat 23 at the Muslim Cemetery of the Islamic Association of Raleigh in Wendell NC.


Jeb Bush gets a touchup from a makeup artist.


The program for the ceremony honoring Kyle J White White is no longer in the military.


Katie Ledecky celebrates her gold medal and world record in the 400m freestyle.


President Obama delivers a speech at the Anthropology Museum during his visit to Mexico City I have come to Mexico because it is time to put old mindsets aside Obama said It s time to recognize new realities including the impressive progress in today s Mexico.


Customers pose for photos with the performers at the end of the first show Sax plans to make Sir Sunday a weekly event.


Pansaari s owner Rano Singh offers a cooking class once weekly at the Dupont Circle restaurant and spice shop.


Tonight s Finale Our Earth is mostly liquid rock We live on a thin crust with occasional hot spots like Mt Etna.


People interact with the Samsung Galaxy S IV at a New York event in 2013.


Tribal fighters shout slogans as they carry weapons during a parade in the streets of Najaf Iraq.


In this 2013 photo provided by the Center for Individual Rights Rebecca Friedrichs a veteran Orange County Calif public school teacher poses for a portrait.


Detroit Red Wings center Henrik Zetterberg is introduced before a Red Wings hockey game against the Dallas Stars in Detroit.


Writer Dan Moreau 62 planned his own memorial service after being diagnosed with fatal dementia which he never had His symptoms included angry outbursts terrifying hallucinations and faltering balance Read the case.


Detail of a Roman mosaic showing one of the four winds from the Triumph of Neptune Originally from MaxulaRades Tunisia the piece is now in the Bardo s collection.


The Black Lives Matter movement march in Philadelphia alongside demonstrators showing their lack of support for Clinton.


In this photo taken Dec 1 2014 keeper Mohamed Doyo leans over to pat female northern white rhino Najin in her observation pen at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.


Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall takes down Eagles tight end Zach Ertz on a firstdown completion in the second quarter.


Hundreds of demonstrators rally before marching and blocking traffic in an intersection outside a WalMart store during rush hour in Hyattsville Md Six women were arrested during the demonstration where about 225 people gathered to protest the retail giant s labor practices A showdown continued at the time between WalMart and the District over a proposed livingwage bill that Gray ultimately vetoed.


Searchers take a dog over a bridge at Roosevelt Island.


The Franklin D Roosevelt Memorial on the Mall Perhaps the greatest measure of my awesome powers is that people still write to me for help fixing what they do nt like about memorials FDR specifically asked for a monument no bigger than his desk so why did we allot him acres Surely I can get something done.


Regis Chakabva of Zimbabwe dives for a wide during the ICC Cricket World Cup warmup match between New Zealand and Zimbabwe at Lincoln Oval in Christchurch in New Zealand Zimbabwe faces South Africa in their first match on Feb 15.


A snowboarder races through a tunnel near the Alpine skiing training slopes.


In this comedy three brothers from left Randy.


Members of Congress and visitors cheer flight attendants Hermis Moutardier.


Patricia Arquette and Eric White on the red carpet.


A man holds Russian and Crimean flags during a rally at Lenin Square in Simferopol President Obama s top national security advisers gathered at the White House on Saturday afternoon to discuss the Ukraine crisis and officials said Obama was being regularly updated on the situation.


Establishment race gets heated as Bush and Christie tout experience target Rubio.


US President Theodore Roosevelt poses for a photograph with his wife Edith and his children Ethel Theodore Jr Kermit Archibald and Quentin at his Oyster Bay Long Island home in 1907.


Voter Joni McDuffie stops to chat with Hogan as he joins supporters waving signs at the intersection in Bowie Md.


St Louis Cardinals Randal Grichuk center is congratulated by teammates after scoring during a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins on Monday in St Louis.


Hugh Jackman left and DeborraLee Furness.


Antigovernment protesters play cat and mouse with riot police marching and yelling antigovernment slogans through the downtown market area in Manama Bahrain.


The attendance at the Fosterville Southern Baptist Church founded in 1905 has not changed much in recent years.


BALTIMORE MD FEBRUARY 29 Hundreds of empty and abandoned lots and houses are situated in Baltimore Maryland Often they become homes for pests and vermin and a place where people illegally dump their trash Research is showing that in poor neighborhoods featuring a lot of trash and abandoned buildings where there are more receptacles for rainwater to fall in from Styrofoam cups to old tires there is more breeding of mosquitoes that could potentially spread Zika and other diseases making this an environmental and health justice issue.


ProRussian separatists cut down a Ukrainian flag that was flying in front of an office building during a protest march in Donetsk With the protests the takeover of a state TV center and the detention of Western observers and others events showed eastern Ukraine slipping further into chaos with armed separatists openly defying state authority and local police either folding in sympathy or admitting that they felt too intimidated to stop the proRussian groups.


Jesse Tuo and Vincent McLeese stroll near the Lincoln Memorial on Dec 25.


Mozilla produces the Firefox Web browser.


Sen Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania was Ronald Reagan s vice presidential running mate in his unsuccessful 1976 campaign He later served in Reagan s cabinet READ THE STORY Former Pennsylvania Sen Richard Schweiker dies at 89.


The secretary of state and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo meet for breakfast in Beijing In the background are US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman third from right and US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell.


Mia Love s 2012 Republican National Convention Speech.


Bed frames are laid out to be used at a newly built Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center in the city of Monrovia.


Tom Fox portrays President Abraham Lincoln in Act 1 of Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton s opera Appomattox We have Abraham Lincoln in the first act and LBJ in the second act Glass says I do nt know that there were any greater presidents between those two Fox also portrays LBJ in Act 2.


A young girl peers over a barrier as Obama makes a speech in Green Bay Wis I need you Wisconsin he told his supporters We ve come too far to turn back now.


South Korean soldiers provide water at a refugee camp in Bor Hundreds of South Korean soldiers are stationed in Bor as part of UN peacekeeping forces there.


Om Yun Chol of North Korea competes during the men s 56 kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games weightlifting events in Rio de Janeiro on Aug 7.


Nineteenyearold Zach Anderson center was sentenced to 25 years on Indiana s sex offender registry after he slept with a girl who lied about her age on the hookup app Hot or Not Hot or Not is one of several hookup apps that welcomes both children and adults.


Train riders rush during the early morning commute at Metro Center.


Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the Environmental Protection Agency and the University of Washington research changes in ocean chemistry using a computer that targets locations for measuring carbon dioxide the cause of ocean acidification.


Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani at a Trump campaign event in Pennsylvania.


Kindergartners do nt sit for long stretches while visiting the library at Peabody Elementary School Soon they ll participate in groups around a collection of handson learning centers.


The cleanup crew poses for a group picture on the resculpted grounds.


A peshmerga soldier searches for his bulletproof vest and combat helmet as troops gather in a village outside of Mosul in Iraq.


President Obama smiles during his State of the Union address on Jan 12 2016.


In Washington with its huge fireworks display and across the country citizens new and old came together to mark Independence Day.


Most District residents and businesses will be paying more for water starting Oct 1.


George Rubin of Willistown Pa fishes for striped bass along the coast of Beach Haven.


Bryce Harper looks at third base umpire Alfonso Marquez after he was tagged out by Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma when Harper tried to tag up at third base in the seventh inning.


United Nations Secretary General Ban KiMoon.


Seven of the final 15 contestants pose on stage.


President Obama accompanied by Nancy Reagan signs the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act.


Libyan coast guards patrol the sea in the vicinity of Zuwarah one the most important starting points in Libya for boats of migrants who are trying to reach southern Europe.


Petraeus tours an Iraqi army facility in Kirkuk to review military training.


Anna WhistonDonaldson writes her blog in her home office decorated with some of her son Jack s possessions and photographs with her dog Shadow nearby.


Warren Rains of the Luna Pier Mich fire department left with Brenda Badger of Erie Mich after filling a water container on Aug 3 2014.


Boehner We will fight the president tooth and nail on immigration.


The husband and son of Dafna Meir 38 mourn as they stand beside her body during her funeral in Jerusalem in January.


Orellana was arrested in May 2014 after a shootout with federal forces in eastern Guatemala.


Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton embraces his wife Hillary Clinton at a campaignsponsored student rally for Clinton in Manchester NH in 1992.


Carr and daughter Erin Carr attend the New Yorker Festival 2013 party at The Standard in New York.


Icicles cover the tags of a parked automobile on New Hampshire Avenue in Washington.


Friends and family cheer on Forrest Stone Allen from the stands during the graduation ceremony Through his struggles in the hospital and afterward Forrest s circle of supporters kept widening.


A protester is removed by security as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop on Nov 21 in Birmingham Ala.


A prodemocracy protester is arrested by riot police in Hong Kong.


Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani at the Video Music Awards.


A burnedout vehicle is seen in the rural community of Baldy Mesa Calif.


Protesters help a man injured in the demonstrations.


N Korea Kim Jong Un has health problems.


Relatives of Alfred Olango mourn his death in Uganda.


Screenshot from the first moments of House of Cards season 3 episode 1.


Erik Fremstad Badlands National Park SD Share the Experience 2015 winner Night Skies.


Road crews work to clear snow from a portion of Germantown Rd in Germantown Md in January.


The live traffic videos show the express lanes and the regular lanes.


Joe Namath quarterback for the New York Jets chats with Big Bird during taping of the children s television show Sesame Street in a New York studio on Sept 25 1972.


First lady Michelle Obama and Pope Francis wave to the audience on the South Lawn of the White House while President Obama smiles.


Designed by Jeong Hyuk Fidan from Canterbury.


The government has paid nearly 1 billion in bank fees on noninterestbearing accounts Repeating The government did nt get a dime in interest on a myriad of bank accounts yet did nt consolidate did nt get a nofee waiver just paid those monthly and peruse fees Smart huh Read the story.


Indian stranded passengers wait on a platform and some of them on rail tracks for the train services to resume following a power outage at Sealdah station in Kolkata India on July 31 2012.


A 15yearold defector from alShabab stands in early April in the Elman Center a facility in Mogadishu that rehabilitates former child combatants The boy and several others said they were forced to work as informants for the Somali intelligence agency.


President Obama speaks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony.


An umbrella and a note is left from the last person who stayed at Amr Arafa s apartment.


Heather MillerKoch reacts after winning the 800 meters giving her second place.


Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony of receiving diplomatic credentials from foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 28.


Police allege Dajuan Goode took his son 5yearold Damian.


Tourists looks at newspaper front pages at the Newseum The Newseum which is not federally funded is one of the DC attractions still open.


On Monday Virginia Gov Terry McAuliffe drove a 1956 pink Chevrolet Bel Air named Lola to various places in Havana to the dismay of his security detail.


Aerial photos of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana taken 45 years apart shows evidence of the effects of rising seas sinking land and human development The wetlands adjacent to the Isle de Jean Charles community.


McCaul was listed as The Hill s wealthiest lawmaker for 2010 and 2011 but he dropped to No 2 after he chose to report his wife s and family s holdings differently The Hill says His wife Linda is the daughter of Lowry Mays the founder of radio behemoth Clear Channel Communications.


Sperryville VA May 2016 The Carney brothers of Pen Druid Brewing From left Lain Van and Jennings.


Anthony Sadler answers questions during a news conference at the embassy.


Michelle Obama accepts a gift from a student at Santa Fe Indian School at its May commencement In a speech the first lady drew a connection between their school s history and that of her ancestors.


Actor Jim Kelly who played a glib American martial artist in Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee died of cancer June 30 at his home in San Diego He was 67 READ Martial artist Jim Kelly dies.


Louis Head Michael Brown s stepfather expresses outrage at grand jury decision.


Area radar as of 630 pm shows no active severe weather warnings in the immediate area at that time.


It s his dream Berry said of the property It s like he s living his dream And it s sad but his dream needs to morph into another dream.


Animation shows intensification of winter storm.


Weather map showing the near stationary position of the remnants of tropical storm Lee through Thursday when hurricane Katia shown off the NC coast is blocking it from moving away.


Trump hits back at PGA s move away from his Miami golf course.


This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2004 BL86 which will come no closer than about three times the distance from Earth to the moon on Jan 26 2015.


The newscast that caused an uproar in Germany.


Refugee agencies brace for Mosul exodus.


Donald Trump addresses his supporters on the final day of the Republican National Convention on July 21 2016 in Cleveland Ohio.


Marijuana plants grow in a greenhouse in Avondale Colo.


Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki addresses the UN General Assembly calling for the creation of an international constitutional court to rule on the legality of elections and deter tyrannical regimes.


Driven by likeminded commercial landowners who have struck agreements with existing homeowners White Flint resembles Tysons and could enjoy the same upside Their recent economic performance in nearly all product categories has been well below other in the metro area which is primary motivation for the property owners to go to extraordinary measures to turn around these places Leinberger says Rents per square foot 2300 office 2804 retail 2098 apartment.


View Photo Gallery Maryland state police announced that a 19yearold student at Bowie State University has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of her roommate on campus.


Venezuela s president Hugo Chavez right is greeted by Raul Castro then Cuba s interim leader and the brother of the ailing Fidel Castro on Chavez s arrival in 2006 at the Havana airport Chavez who died in 2013 regarded Fidel Castro as a political mentor and father figure Fidel Castro officially completed the transfer of power to his younger brother in 2008.


A Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur replica at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.


Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference on health care on May 31 in Emeryville Calif.


Copies of Go Set a Watchman sit above customers reach at Kramerbooks just before the novel s midnight release.


Residents gather outside their homes near where Mary Nyanford 40 was suspected of dying of Ebola the day before.


Police officers leave candles at a memorial for the officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.


Kara Couch a nurse practitioner with the complexwound team at Walter Reed works with Shupert during an appointment.


Police officials investigate a Toyota sedan on Constitution Avenue May 20 in Washington after a Secret Service agent shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint.


Transparent solar cells developed by UCLA researchers.


A Maryland boy now 11 had his suspension upheld for chewing a pastry into the shape of a gun School officials have said that was one of several issues in a pattern of misbehavior.


Lauren Hernandez of the United States competes on the balance beam during the women s qualifications.


Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle leaves the federal courthouse in Indianapolis on Aug 19.


Delegates vote at the closing session of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov 14 2012.


Baltimore Police Officer Caesar Goodson center leaves Courthouse East with his lawyer Matthew Fraling on Monday June 6 2016 in Baltimore.


Sarah Bernhardt ca1876 Apres la Tempete.


A station officer waits for trains to arrive on the platform of a subway station in Pyongyang.


Emergency personnel stand in front of an entrance to the Cascade Mall at the scene of a shooting where several people were killed in Burlington Wash.


Supporters wait for the start of a rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Plymouth State University in Holderness NH before his victory in the state s primary.


Bad news keeps coming for Hillary Clinton.


In this June 25 2013 file photo President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his head during a speech on climate change at Georgetown University in Washington.


In this Nov 18 2014 file photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio wraps up a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington following a House GOP caucus meeting.


Ahmed Mohamed center poses for a picture with his sister and two boys in Khartoum.


Then Come Back The Lost Neruda by Pablo Neruda.


Guests including NBC s Ayman Mohyeldin far left and Kate Snow.


Former Alabama attorney general William Pryor made a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees released by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.


Two young GermanJewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St Louis finally arrive at Antwerp after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of WW II.


7yearold girl struck by a stray bullet in Southeast Washington.


Jindal speaks during a news conference as Sen David Vitter.


J Scott Applewhite The Associated Press.


Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers talks to reporters as police investigate at a Planned Parenthood clinic and the surrounding area in northwest Colorado Springs.


How much will natural gas extraction put the nation s groundwater at risk.


Argentina s Gonzalo Higuain thinks he has a goal in the first half but it would be disallowed by an offside call.


Sargassum algae is seen at Gaviota Azul Different theories have been offered for the seaweed s abundance Some biologists say that ocean currents have brought the algae from the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean.


Joe Beninati gets a hug from Anna DePandi.


Redskins players make their way onto the field Sunday Washington played the Cincinnati Bengals to a 2727 tie before 84488 at Wembley Stadium in London after neither team scored in the 15minute overtime The tie left Washington at 431 on the season.


Passengers wait at the Tysons Corner Metro station to board a Silver Line Metro train westbound to Reston during a morning commute on July 28.


People rest before the beginning of the first Mass led by Francis during his visit to Cuba in Revolution Square.


Denmark passes law that allows seizing of assets and valuables from refugees.


DC police said a car overturned after an accident at the intersection of 11th and S streets NW.


Hillary Clinton tours NelsonMulligan Carpenters Training Center and meets voters at a campaign rally in St Louis Missouri on Saturday morning March 12 2016.


Chris Kattan Will Ferrell and Chris Parnell during the We Need More Cowbell sketch in 2000.


The bones have lived at the Museum of the Rockies since they were unearthed The Smithsonian Natural History Museum is changing the name from Wenkel T rex to the Nation s T rex.


Kathleen Sims and Alex Ozenberger play a game of Bananagrams along the fountain in front of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria VA The two met when Kathleen contacted Alex after he appeared in a Date Lab story in the Washington Post Magazine.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visits with voters and eat breakfast at Chizvachon Restaurant a day before the New Hampshire primary in Manchester NH on Monday.


Hagel listens as President Obama speaks to members of the media before a meeting with Hagel and other members of the Cabinet at the White House.


Vin Scully with his wife Sandra Hunt waves after announcing Let s play baseball at Dodger Stadium before the start of Game 5 of the NLCS.


A Chinese relative of a missing passenger of MH370 weeps outside the main gate of the Lama Temple on March 8 2015 in Beijing.


Vice President Biden speaks at an event to unveil a marble bust of former Vice President Dick Cheney in the Capitol on Dec 3 2015.


Bruce Allen talks to reporters after the news conference.


FILE Rod Blagojevich REUTERSJeff HaynesFiles.


Benghazi protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in support of coalition airstrikes in Libya.


Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin and Rangers defenseman Kevin Klein get into a shoving match during the second period.


Testing of the waterproofing at the Greensboro station on Route 7 in Tysons produced a reflection off the ceiling of the new Silver Line station.


Spring male Yellow Warbler Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.


Social video of St Louis protests and arrests.


Roman Rodriguez left gets into a defensive stance to prepare for a snowball tossed at him by his wife Dana Rodriguez in Wheaton Md.


Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker hold a dollar bill as speaks to supporters as he announces he is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination at the Waukesha County Expo Center.


Several Republican presidential contenders are on their way to New Hampshire.


Lauren seen with his family after ringing the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange helped his company go public in 1997 for 600 million.


A Connecticut State Police tactical team gathers near an elementary school in Ridgefield Conn which was on lockdown after a suspicious person was seen near a train station Ridgefield is about 20 miles from Newtown.


A large tree was blown down at 4th and E Streets SE in Washington DC during Isabel.


An image of one of the newly discovered lions.


UltraOrthodox Jewish women stand behind a curtain during the traditional Jewish wedding in Beit Shemesh Israel of the granddaughter of Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg NY Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum of Brooklyn The gauze curtain is used to separate men and women during the wedding.


The Obamas await the arrival of Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife Margarita Zavala Peter Soronen designed the shimmering blue gown.


A Chinese staff member looks down from a window at journalists waiting for a news conference with Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming on the sidelines of the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing.


Robert F McDonnell left and one of his defense attorneys John Brownlee prepare to enter the US district courthouse in Richmond Va Brownlee the former US attorney for the Western District of Virginia heads the Holland Knight law firm s whitecollar defense team and leads a large legal contingent for McDonnell.


Julianna Margulies in a black LWren Scott dress arrives at the 2012 amfAR s Cinema Against AIDS during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival.


The wind moves the grass in path used by illegal Venezuelan migrants to reach Colombia.


The vehicle carrying Abu Khattala leaves the federal courthouse in the District.


Family members and relatives of Khmer Rouge victims take part in an emotional prayer ceremony at the Toul Sleng Genocide museum in Phnom Penh province.


This provocative cover and the story was THE conversation No longer is the question the taunting jest of skeptics for whom unbelief is the test of wisdom and for whom Nietzsche is the prophet who gave the right answer a century ago the article said.


Dee Ledger talks about using coloring books as therapy.


Jazmin Fox looks at her phone as the vehicle she is in is stopped by demonstrators blocking 17th Street in Washington DC as they take part in a protest in connection with the death of Eric Garner in New York.


8500 lights create singing Virginia Halloween display.


Wayne Simmons is shown in this screengrab from an appearance on Fox News.


Dusty Baker played for Atlanta among other teams.


Grandmaster Caz at a New York club called The Sparkle Club in 1980.


Jazz musician Dave Brubeck plays piano backstage with his two sons Danny and Darius between acts of his Newport Jazz Festival appearance at Carnegie Hall.


President Obama looks back toward national security adviser Susan E Rice as he returns to the Oval Office in March.


Candles are placed over a Charlie Hebdo cover during a gathering in Barcelona.


Hargie Randall at his home in Houston Wednesday May 19 2016 was able to get his state ID with the help of an attorney after a clerical error in the spelling of his name was discovered.


In March 2012 Vonn took the women s World Cup downhill discipline title and trophy in Schladming Austria.


People react outside the White House to news that Osama bin Laden had been killed.


Hillary Clinton supporters celebrate after she officially secured the Democratic nomination for president July 26.


Republican Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney greets attendees after speaking at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.


This composite image provided by NASA shows before and after images taken by the Opportunity rover At left is an image of a patch of ground taken on Dec 26 2013 At right is in image taken on Jan 8 2014 showing a rock shaped like a jelly doughnut that had not been there before The space agency said the rover Opportunity likely kicked up the rock into its field of view Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 and continues to explore.


A man tries to calm a group of protesters as police stand in the distance.


Washington improved to 93 tying the best start in franchise history Here Michael Latta scuffles with Boston s Tyler Randell.


Shawnee Rae 8 was with a group of Native American activists from the SissetonWahpeton tribe who came to Watertown to line the Obama motorcade route to protest the Keystone XL pipeline project.


Punk queen Edwige Belmore with designer Michel Klein sitting on a Rolls Royce in front of a party the designer was throwing on October 29 1977 London UK.


UPPER MARLBORO MD OCTOBER 16 Quartz Taylor has been an employee with Safeway since January he attends at the rally with a friend Shannon Holland who was there to support him Safeway employees elected officials community and faith leaders rally against the announced closure of Safeway s two distribution centers located in Upper Marlboro and Landover The rally took place just outside the Collington Distribution Center in Upper Marlboro Maryland on October 16 2015.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester NH on Thursday.


If all goes according to the nonprofit s plan 100 people will jet off to Mars in 2024 Pictured is a spacecraft launched from a NASA facility but NASA wo nt take part in Mars One s mission.


RICHMOND VA JULY 30 Washington s tackle Trent Williams.


The Google patent describes an adhesive layer beneath an outer shell.


Pataki takes questions from local radio talk show host Peter St James at a Republican leadership summit in Nashua NH.


Mizeur gets a jumpstart on campaigning for governor at the 37th annual J Millard Tawes Crab and Clam Bake in Crisfield on Maryland s Eastern Shore.


President Obama and his wife Michelle listen to a speaker at the memorial service.


A streetcar sits on the rails along H Street NE near the intersection with 4th Street in Washington.


New York Times columnist David Carr in 2008.


David Letterman is one of the most influential personalities in the history of television said Rubenstein who announced the host of the Late Show as a nominee.


Lynch introduces her father Lorenzo Lynch a minister He was among about 30 family members and friends who accompanied Lynch to her hearing.


Miss Angola Leila Lopes steps forward after being chosen as the winner among the final five contestants at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in Sao Paulo.


President Obama speaking about the NSA at the Department of Justice in Washington said that barring a specific threat he has ordered an end to eavesdropping on dozens of foreign leaders and governments who are friends or allies.


People look out from a window near the Bataclan concert hall.


Almost lost in the palm of a hand a silicon chip is the heart and brain of the new computer age.


According to a CDC survery less than 3 percent of the population identified themselves as gay lesbian or bisexual.


The designated area for a hurricane shelter at the Raintree Vacation Club resort in Los Cabos Mexico has been destroyed by Hurricane Odile.


A new apartment building by Petersen and Bozzuto going in National Harbor Md.


Christians minorities seek refuge from militants in Iraq.


Gary Williams and the Terrapins huddle up before a 2002 firstround NCAA game vs Siena.


Christian women light candles during a Mass held for three men killed in the predominately Christian village of Maalola at alZaytoun Church for the Roman Catholic in Damascus.


Parents of West Point children meet with school officials to register students for the start of classes which are set to open on Feb 16 at Nathaniel W Massaquoi in Monrovia.


Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen Rick Santorum speaks in Shawano Wis Monday April 2 2012.


Coldplay to headline Super Bowl halftime show.


Donald Trump on the popularity poll page of the1964 New York Military Academy yearbook The caption below his photo reads Ladies man Trump.


Republicans like to take shots at Washington as living off of government spending but the region boomed under President Bush.


A man wears a seersucker suit and straw boater in downtown DC in August 2005.


Iranian men take a selfie with a poster of Sheik Nimr Baqr alNimr a prominent Shiite cleric executed last week by Saudi Arabia at the conclusion of a rally in Tehran on Monday protesting his execution.


The Microsoft logo is pictured in IssylesMoulineaux outside Paris on April 12.


Students ride to school in Odense Denmark.


The rate of deterioration of the Memorial Bridge has accelerated at an alarming rate the National Park Service says.


President Obama met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Los Cabos Mexico in June during the G20 leaders summit.


A soldier with Dwekh Nawsha on a visit to alQosh.


A Sadhu or Hindu holy man displays the indelible ink mark on his finger after casting his vote at a polling station in Haridwar India.


Free Syrian Army fighters aim their weapons during heavy clashes with government forces at a military academy besieged by the rebels north of Aleppo Syria.


A police forensic photographer works at the scene outside a library in Birstall.


President Obama speaks about his recent executive actions on immigration on Dec 9 at Casa Azafran in Nashville Tenn.


John Davidson clears his driveway in Prince Frederick.


Amy Tozzi is concerned that Fairfax County is allowing too many new highrise buildings to be built around the new Silver Line stations before roads are improved enough to handle all the additional traffic.


Pakistani volunteers from the Edhi Foundation transport the bodies of those killed in an attack on a bus in Quetta Pakistan on May 30 2015.


Shortly after the mass shooting at Virginia Tech the university hired BursonMarsteller a public relations firm that bills itself as helping clients when the stakes are high Above is a screenshot of a video of President Charles W Steger doing a mock interview with an executive from the firm to prepare for real media encounters.


Dr Dre celebrates BeatsApple sale Safe for work edition.


Yolanda PerezReyes 32 dresses her son Brian RamirezPerez 3 in the bedroom of their family home in Falls Church Va.


A DC firefighter cleans out debris while responding to the fire at the townhouse.


The cubs nurse The first cub was born about 615 pm Monday and the second was born about 823 pm.


Pakistani security forces protect the Parliament building after supporters of Tahirul Qadri a Canadianbased Pakistani Muslim cleric gather during a mass government protest for the sixth day in Islamabad Protesters besieged Pakistan s Parliament in a bid to overthrow the government.


Former DC mayor Vincent Gray is on the stump again.


Boston firefighter James Plourde carries an injured girl away from the scene after a bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston.


Marian Urdabayeva of Kazakhstan and Yang Junxia of China compete during the women s 63kilogram judo prelims.


Undocumented woman challenges candidates to reunite the families.


The Panthers Charles Johnson left and the Cowboys Greg Hardy were former teammates in Carolina.


Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain arrives to speak on Capitol Hill in Washington this week.


What will be Stephen Colbert s first joke on The Late Show.


The father of Palestinian baby girl Hanen Tafish who according to hospital officials was killed in the Israeli airstrikes mourns as he carries her body during her funeral in the northern Gaza Strip.


Biden greeted in Serbia by radicals chanting Trump.


View Photo Gallery The faces in the courtroom.


GREENBELT MD MAY 17 Pastor Jonathan Weaver.


Ishmail Kamara carries his 2yearold son Caesar on his shoulders as they leave the ball park.


A fully assembled target for laser ignition experiments at the National Ignition Facility incorporates a tented capsule a hohlraum a thermalmechanical package and silicon cooling arms.


Third year medical students at the University of Miami attend a class where they work with Harvey the cardiopulmonary patient simulator.


US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said sanctions would add to diplomatic pressure.


We had just arrived at the helicopter landing zone in Chicago and instead of walking right to the motorcade the President and First Lady walked past their vehicle to the edge of Lake Michigan to view the skyline of their home town.


Max Burnham leads a small group mathematics lesson in the library at Kelly Miller Middle.


The most wonderful thing as soon as possible is to forgive yourself People do only what they know what to do not what you think they should do Not because they were experienced or were exposed to this and went to this school and have this degree We think they know but not necessarily I forgive anyone who comes in my earshot Read the article.


Gov Martin OMalley takes a selfie with Nadia and Brian Morgan of Baltimore at the casino.


Toby Schultz pauses after laying flowers at the gate of the Granite Mountain Hotshots fire station The disaster Sunday afternoon all but wiped out the 20member fire crew leaving Prescott s fire department reeling.


At its peak Meskerem was considered one of Washington s best restaurants Ethiopian or otherwise.


Rhode Island Gov Lincoln Chafee right after signing the the Marriage Equality Act at the State House in Providence RI on May 2.


Police and security officers stand on Pennsylvania Avenue NW one of the many streets closed during the pope s visit.


Outgoing House speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to hand over the speaker s gavel to John Boehner.


President Obama earlier this month at a campaign event in Roanoke.


Robert Downey Jr in The Gingerbread Man.


Th Aston is one of the first new condo buildings in the 14th Street corridor.


Students open 24hour holiday carol singing service.


Chuck Todd begins his era on Meet the Press by interviewing President Obama.


JBG mural project brings art to Washington area.


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev speaks with reporters Sept 13 on Capitol Hill.


Charlie contemplates life without the minivan which has ended its useful life with the Kelly family.


Israeli air strike on UN school in Gaza kills at least 10.


As San Francisco has become the most expensive city in the country its African American population has shrunk.


To be role models for a community where they understand what field hockey is and they appreciate what we do is a big opportunity for us said team captain Lauren Crandall a native of Doylestown Pa.


Mary Kay Henry president of the Service Employees International Union and members of the Fight for 15 national organizing committee listen to Hillary Clinton on the phone.


Islamic State fighters remove a barrier between Iraq and Syria.


Manny Pacquiao hangs his head as his trainer Freddie Roach looks on during a postfight news conference.


Hawks forward Mike Muscala and Wizards forward Nene get tangled up during a free throw.


View Photo Gallery Once destined for the Hall of Fame one of Major League Baseball s brightest stars and its most decorated pitcher became the central figure in the game s sordid steroids drama A judge has declared a mistrial in his perjury trial Clemens is on trial for a second time charged with lying to Congress about using performanceenhancing drugs.


View Photo Gallery The 27yearold who has made headlines around the world for his partying is returning to Afghanistan for a second tour.


Latonya photographed in 1995 at the Metro Correctional Institution near Atlanta I am tired of living under someone else s rules I just want to go home to my son and family and start over she said.


Ryan praises Trump s unique debate performance.


The actress and comedian was in House Party 2 Friday and Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam but might be best known for her role in the TV series Moesha She died June 14 of cervical cancer at age 48.


The General Services Administration hosted an open house and tour for prospective buyers of a former naval base in Sugar Grove WVa on April 26.


Venezuelan police guard a stretch of highway while a group of protesters stage an antigovernment demonstration in Caracas Venezuela on Oct 26.


I m fearless 9yearold girl trains for Navy SEALinspired race.


A photo of Meins rests amid flowers before his funeral service.


Tex trooper to be fired after indictment in Sandra Bland case.


Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaks to voters at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds Exposition Center in Raleigh on Wednesday.


Whole Foods will open a store in this apartment complex planned for the 600 block of H Street NE.


Iraqi fighters of the Shiite militia Asaib Ahl alHaq.


A woman is comforted as friends and family wait for students at the local fairgrounds.


There were no beds We had to organize airbeds or simple mattresses one National Force officer said.


North Korean soldiers march during the celebration parade in Pyongyang.


Moses Malone right a threetime NBA MVP and one of basketball s most ferocious rebounders died at age 60 Here he is shown with Philadelphia 76ers Julius Erving center holding the NBA Championship trophy after defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles READ Threetime NBA MVP Moses Malone dies at 60.


The visitor center features dramatic concrete walls that follow the path of Flight 93 Over the edge.


The dog park at City Market is busy at the end of the workday.


Democratic mayoral candidate Muriel Bowser gives her victory speech to supporters in Washington The outcome of the race remained in doubt for four hours after the 8 pm closing of polling places as elections officials struggled with an unusually late and messy tabulation process.


An unmanned Blue Origin rocket blasts off in West Texas on Nov 23 The private company announced Nov 24 that it had gotten the rocket to land gently enough to be used again a first in aeronautics It s a reusable rocket Did you hear me HOW COOL IS THAT.


An Aedes Aegypti mosquito which is known to carry Zika photographed on human skin in a lab in Colombia.


Retired Air Force Maj Wesley Carterat his home in McMinnville Ore.


Mareike Western 14 of Crystal Lake Ill realizes she does nt know the word but takes a bad guess.


Mosque Orlando shooter kept to corner not devoutly religious.


President Obama and former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Pablo Martinez MonsivaisAP.


Fashion detail of actress and singer Victoria Justice.


Jasmine Ruiz 9 of San Antonio writes a note on one of two police car memorials in front of the Dallas police headquarters The notes were left by community members and visitors in support of police and in memory of the officers who were killed July 7.


A man pleads with Afghan soldiers who prepare to burn his unlicensed motorcycle in Zabul province Men with unlicensed motorcycles are suspected of aiding the insurgency.


The craft has landing legs that pop out and a propulsion system designed to land almost anywhere with the accuracy of a helicopter Musk said according to the Associated Press.


A child cries after being forced through a crowd waiting to board a bus in Tovarnik while police try to control the crowd Thousands were waiting for transport to the capital Zagreb.


A view of Memorial Stadium during a flyover prior to a game between Troy and Clemson.


Jesse Matthew Jr looks toward the gallery while appearing in court in Fairfax.


The commander of the JROTC unit Jeremy Barnett has a tattoo completed at his mother s house.


Police respond after shots were fired at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Dallas on July 7.


Vice President Joe Biden left and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro share a moment onstage Sen Harkin s Democratic fundraiser is one of the largest in Iowa each year.


Rachel Dolezal s father reacts to her NAACP resignation.


Kevin Parks who works at the Social Security Administration in Philadelphia shows his empty wallet as he chants enough is enough during a rally in Upper Senate Park near the Capitol.


Two fugitives dead in Md police shooting.


New Jersey Governor Chris Christie s former deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly makes her way through a crush of media with her attorney as she arrives at Mercer County Court in Trenton New Jersey March 11 2014 REUTERSMike Segar.


Cole ShaferRay 12 of Norman Okla spells his word.


Kristin Hoyt 18 ties a balloon to an overpass up the road from the Sandy Hook Elementary School.


Phife attends a panel with movie director Hype Williams in Park City Utah.


Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders attracts a huge crowd a rally at the Brothers Convention Center in Waterloo Iowa.


Singer Carrie Underwood attends the 2015 CMT Awards in Nashville.


Skyler Javier a selftaught seamster makes his own patterns and assembles the garments on his industrial sewing machine.


August 1952 Gen Dwight D Eisenhower while seeking the presidency He was 61.


The Beatles perform at the Coliseum in Washington during their first American tour.


Denmark s Ambassador to France Anne Dorte Riggelsen thanks people gathered outside the Danish Embassy in Paris.


A democracy movement leader gives a speech in Tiananmen Square on that fateful day 25 years ago.


Javad Sarempour helps Bayan Ghani to take off his cloth before showering him at the family home of Ralf and Ilona Bunning After showering Bayan first herself Ilona then assigned Javad with this task Javad says he feels good about helping others in need.


Tony Hsieh s rationale for not having bosses at Zappos On Leadership.


Joe McGinniss the adventurous and newsmaking author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in The Selling of the President 1968 and tracked his personal journey from sympathizer to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster Fatal Vision died March 10 at age 71 READ Joe McGinniss dies at 71.


Nardyne Jefferies and Lennox Jones s daughter Brishell Jones 16 was one of the four people fatally shot in a driveby on South Capitol Street SE on March 30 2010.


At Camp David for the G8 Summit European leaders took a break to watch the overtime shootout of the Chelsea vs Bayern Munich Champions League final Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom the President Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany Jose Manuel Barroso President of the European Commission French President Francois Hollande react during the winning goal.


People make their way down the toboggan slide during Super Bowl Boulevard festivities in New York.


This slide shows artillery strikes within Ukraine on July 23 Selfpropelled artillery only found in Russian military units on the Russian side of the border are oriented in the direction of a Ukrainian military unit within Ukraine The pattern of crater impacts near the Ukrainian military unit indicates strikes from artillery fired from selfpropelled or towed artillery vice multiple rocket launchers.


Seven newborn blackfooted ferrets at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal Virginia July 24 2014 The blackfooted ferret is one of the most endangered animals in the world.


Members of the Shiite Houthi movement stand amid the debris outside a damaged mosque near the presidential palace in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.


Paul Walker rides with Vin Diesel one last time in Furious 7 in theaters Friday.


British tourist Charles Newman is shown with miners deep inside a suffocating cavern in the Rich Mountain in Potosi Bolivia I thought the working conditions were pretty shocking coming from Europe said Newman a 19yearold Briton It s quite humbling actually seeing what they do on a daily basis.


Joe Beninati gets fitted for a new suit and overcoat at DePandi.


How GOP leaders and Democratic rivals reacted to Trump video.


Americans for Prosperity is hoping Rep George Holding wins Tuesday s North Carolina GOP primary against Rep Renee Ellmers.


James Murphy World War II veteran and prisoner of war at his home in Santa Maria Calif on Thursday.


The US Capitol building is seen reflected in the Capitol Reflection Pool after sunset in Washington DC USA 28 September 2013 EPAMICHAEL REYNOLDS.


Ashley Madison s Korean Web site is shown on a computer screen in Seoul.


Indian Space and Research Organization Chairman K Radhakrishnan center address the media after the launch.


The shadows of protesters are cast on the ground as they stand in front of a burned convenience store.


Plane crashes in Russia killing all on board.


Charles Severance is brought into a circuit court for his trial in Fairfax Va Severance is accused and was convicted of three murders over the course of a decade in Alexandria Va.


The 420pound Ginger Bread House is part of the White House holiday decorations.


Former New York mayor Rudolph W Giuliani left walks with Donald Trump and his son Eric through the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Sept 16.


Prosperity for All Fund Nailed Shut Campaign 2016.


Republican Cory Gardner waves with his wife Jamie in Denver after winning the midterm elections on Nov 4.


A student cries in front of Howard High School of Technology on Thursday.


Matt Bettencourt left and Tiger Woods walk to the ninth green.


Retired Navy Cmdr Zoe Dunning center celebrates the Senate s vote to end do nt ask do nt tell with other gay soldiers and veterans in San Francisco in December 2010.


A Bangladeshi firefighter inspects the burnt garment factory outside Dhaka The Saturday blaze killed 112 more than 315 people have died in fires in Bangladeshi garment factories since 2006.


An overhead image of the newest member of the Southern Resident killer whale population just days after being born to firsttime mother This image shows the small size of calves and the close bond between mother and calf that will last a lifetime.


Members of a mobile Ukrainian election committee go through the village of Orane outside Kiev.


Brazil police accuse US swimmers of vandalism.


Sweden coach Pia Sundhage talks with United States defender Christie Rampone after their June 12 Group D soccer match in the 2015 FIFA women s World Cup at Winnipeg Stadium.


An image from Disney s forthcoming Moana.


Pentagon Strikes on Syria only the beginning.


Student swordsman Joseph Legacy tries on some armor Academy Grand Master Thomas Booth will tap standout students to perform in his weekend program at John Strongbow s Tavern in Old Town.


Antiabortion activists participate in the annual March for Life rally.


An overflow crowd stands outside during a town hall meeting hosted by the St Louis County NAACP at Murchison Tabernacle Church in St Louis Discussion centered on the killing of Michael Brown and the community unrest that followed.


Trump s claims of a rigged election just do nt hold up Here s why.


Federal police place a barricade on the sidewalk.


Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian police to let them cross the border from Greece into Macedonia.


Brazil s goalkeeper Julio Cesar kisses the ball.


Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta S Jacobson right and Jeffrey DeLaurentis chief of mission at the US Interests Section in Havana left attend the second day negotiations with Cuban officials in Havana Cuba Thursday Jan 22 2015.


President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.


A girl holds a sign for presidential candidate Ted Cruz at a meetandgreet in Manchester.


Patrick J Leahy right presents a Smithsonian book to former culture minister Abel Prieto Jimenez an adviser to Cuban President Raul Castro in January 2015 in Cuba During the visit Leahy invited Cuba to participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.


Irene Pollin with thenminority owner Ted Leonsis of the Washington Wizards pose during the 2010 NBA Draft Lottery at the Studios at NBA Entertainment on May 18 2010 in Secaucus New Jersey.


Tony Bennett attends the celebration of Target s 50th anniversary in New York.


Final Crew Fam in high security high bay at Kennedy Space Center six weeks before the Hubble flight.


View Photo Gallery About half of the country was left in the dark as electrical grids mysteriously collapsed in 14 states in the north and east of India.


Price Bontemps outside a convenience store in Silver Spring plans to buy his mother a house and move his family up here from his native Haiti.


It took 5 years and a feeding tube before this woman s pain was diagnosed.


The faithful brave the rain as Pope Francis leads mass in Tacloban.


Julia Roberts and Garry Marshall after the 1999 premiere of Runaway Bride.


Part of the thrill of picking crabs is its tactile sensation.


On a rainy 13th day of the government shutdown with a possible debt default looming the Senate convened a rare Sunday session on Capitol Hill.


In Oct 2000 Chyna then a huge wrestling star signs copies of a Playboy magazine with her on the cover In April 2016 she died ostracized from her sport and overshadowed by another celebrity s death.


Free safety Brandon Meriweather runs drills during practice.


Boehner speaks with Pope Francis in the Capitol as the pope arrives to deliver his speech.


Six of the 108 screenshots that were submitted to the Post between 5 and 7 pm on May 16 Note that penis transplant appears for almost everybody.


More impressive A LeBron threepeat or a fifth title for Duncan.


Mirren and Rickman act during a photocall rehearsal for Antony and Cleopatra at the Olivier Theatre on London s South Bank.


Several years ago Parks secured his first job as a freelance Santa through a Craigslist posting.


A daisy opens in a meadow as unseasonably warm weather hits wider regions on Dec 25.


From Kahan et al Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing.


Cliven Bundy ignored the Bureau of Land Management s orders to stop grazing in a protected desert tortoise habitat and incurred hefty fines as a result In 2014 the bureau said that Bundy owed 1 million in fees and informed him in March that his cattle would be rounded up and potentially sold.


An evening concert is held at the Union Kitchen parking lot Union Kitchen uses the concert to promote its brand and its individual members via events at the parking lot at Third and L streets Northeast.


President Obama speaks at the ConnectED conference in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday.


A security guard looks on as Ammon Bundy the leader of the occupiers speaks to members of the media in front of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters They are protesting the jailing of two ranchers for arson.


Critic Emily Nussbaum of the New Yorker was honored for her television reviews.


Lautenberg meets with Elena Kagan then the Supreme Court nominee on Capitol Hill in Washington.


Secretary of State John F Kerry left and Alan Gross watch a newscast of President Obama announcing Gross s humanitarian release from a Cuban prison at Joint Base Andrews Md.


Former Maryland governor Martin OMalley speaks at a fundraiser in Council Bluffs Iowa OMalley who is considering a run for president spent much time criticizing Wall Street excess while speaking to enthusiastic crowds across the state.


A man yells at police as a CVS burns near West North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue.


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday held his first news conference since taking office at the presidential compound in Tehran.


Liberian health workers are seen at the NGO Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center in Monrovia.


Jordanian military units parade on June 2 marking 100 years since Arab Revolt The intelligence offices of this staunch US ally were attacked at the Baqaa refugee camp.


Female members of the Popular Protection Units stand guard at a checkpoint near the northeastern city of Qamishli Syria.


A woman whose relative is missing on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 breaks down as she speaks to reporters at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport The search for the missing airliner spans an area almost as big as Australia on both sides of the equator covering the deep seas of the Indian Ocean and the rugged terrain of Central Asia At least 25 countries are helping Malaysia search for the plane which was carrying 239 passengers and crew en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.


KJ Choi of South Korea tees off on the fourth hole during the third round of the US Open.


Healthcare worker exposed to Ebola arrives in Nebraska.


Members of Arizona Border Recon an armed civilian group that patrols the USMexico border in 2014.


Republican supporters for Gov Scott Walker react to early poll results in Milwaukee.


Brazil s president suspended in push toward impeachment.


Simone Biles after winning the women s allaround gymnastics competition Thursday in Rio de Janeiro.


Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C Roessler Jr moments after his hiring as chief in July He refused to take any credit for Fairfax s declining crime rate as his predecessors also did.


Pelosi names Ben Ray Lujan as new DCCC chairman.


Apple s Tim Cook with Steve Jobs in 2010.


Julian Assange founder of the online leaking platform WikiLeaks.


A group of friends builds a snowman on the Mall.


Delta passengers wait in line at a ticket counter at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark NJ Monday Aug 8 2016 Delta Air Lines delayed or canceled hundreds of flights Monday after its computer systems crashed stranding thousands of people on a busy travel day.


Morsi opponents and supporters clash during a protest in Alexandria Egypt Clashes erupted in the coastal city when plainclothes men attacked a proMorsi protest with rocks and rubber bullets witnesses said The staterun Middle East News Agency reported that at least two people died in the clashes.


Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker walks off stage after speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.


Victor Stewart issues parking tickets between Dupont Circle and U Street NW.


A group of protesters hold signs as they gather outside the courthouse.


A woman uses her ID card to enter One World Trade Center on Monday.


Bureau of Labor Statistics employee Edward Pratt.


President Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.


Public transportation vehicles pick up and drop off workers to clean out the closed Walmart.


Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Saint Anselm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics Auditorium in Manchester NH on Monday June 13 2016.


Bradley Cooper is supporting his pal Jennifer Lawrence and the women of America.


Taylor Swift accepts the award for Album of the Year for 1989 at the 58th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.


Sketch of the Charlottesville courtroom during George Huguely s trial.


Young boys child soldiers sit with their rifles at a disarmament ceremony in Pibor overseen by UNICEF and partners on Feb 10.


Boehner House had a right to invite Netanyahu.


Marylanders vote at the Piney Branch Elementary School in Takoma Park Md.


Georgia Democratic US Senate candidate Michelle Nunn right reacts to seeing supporter Jessica Hunt left while Georgia Democratic US House of Representatives candidate Ken Dious looks on during a campaign stop at Little Kings Shuffle Club in Athens Ga.


At 69 235 pounds Kris Humphries would have been an imposing figure on the starting blocks.


Herman Cain speaks at the National Press Club in Washington Monday Oct 31 2011 Denying he sexually harassed anyone Cain said Monday he was falsely accused in the 1990s while he was head of the National Restaurant Association and he branded revelation of the allegations a witch hunt.


Goalkeeper Claudio Bravo of Chile left fails to save the opening goal next to teammate Gonzalo Jara right and David Luiz of Brazil.


People fill canisters and containers with water from a tanker in New Delhi on Monday India s capital faces a water crisis after agitators shut a key water supply amid deadly protests about castebased quotas for jobs and education in Indian s northern state of Haryana.


US taxpayers purchased 20 of these military transport planes for the Afghan Air Force but later scrapped them.


Shy takes in the view of the capital from the top of the hill at Stoddert Terrace housing project up the hill from 37th Street SE where he grew up.


Kenyan medical workers from the infection prevention and control unit wearing full protective equipment show how to handle a patient with Ebola on a portable negative pressure bed at the Kenyatta national hospital in Nairobi.


Belgian national flags are projected onto the National Gallery in London s Trafalgar Square in solidarity with Belgium after the attacks in Brussels.


Timelapse shows aurora australis lighting up southern skies.


Guarded by Secret Service agents Mitt Romney and his wife Ann have a night out for dinner at Il Casale in downtown Belmont Mass.


Postmaster Cathy Zieff looks at a package while helping sort generally addressed condolence mail from other mail at the post office in Newtown The US Postal Service has set up a special PO box for receiving condolence and support mail for those affected by the shooting.


Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad left visits the offices of Watan TV after an Israeli army predawn raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah.


Clinton calls Trump Twitter rant unhinged even for him.


The number of disconnected youth is falling but it s still disturbingly high.


Jordanian soldiers arrive to pay their respects at the diwan in the home village of Jordanian pilot Lt Muath alKaseasbeh Most of Jordan s parliament also attended.


View Photo Gallery Religion and politics at Liberty Mitt Romney is the latest politician to make a pilgrimage to the flagship Christian university.


Shah Rahman stands beneath a portrait of revered Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud at his bakery in Kabul s Qasaba district The proximity of residential housing to large compounds associated with the Afghan Defense and Interior ministries prime targets for insurgents means civilians are increasingly in the crossfire.


Democrats staged a sitin on the House floor Here s why.


Owner Mark Warmuth will open a Swing s shop on 14th Street NW before year s end.


An image of the website for Navy Yard Hampton Inn and Suites.


Jeremy Corbyn leader of the UK opposition Labour Party leaves his house in London Senior Labour lawmaker Hilary Benn called on Corbyn to resign as party leader and suggested other members of Corbyn s senior team will follow suit.


A Silver Spring Md florist s shop presents a warmer scene on a snowy day.


A child inspects the damage at UNrun school in Gaza that was struck on Wednesday.


People march in Harare Zimbabwe to call for the release of the kidnapped schoolgirls.


Forecast tracks from 8 dynamical models None of them forecast noteworthy strengthening.


Victim of convicted Oklahoma cop I was afraid for my life.


Bus commuters look at the crime scene in the 1200 block of North Capitol Street NW.


People gather at the riverside meadow west of London as members of the Royal Air Force Red Arrows display team fly over the Magna Carta memorial in Runnymede.


A bodyguard secures popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef as he enters Egypt s state prosecutors office to face accusations of insulting Islam and the country s Islamist leader in Cairo on March 31 2013.


DC Mayor Muriel Bowser arrives at the event.


Chris McDaniel Republican Senate candidate from Mississippi spent much of this past week trying to explain away things he said while hosting a conservative talkradio show in the mid2000s Here was radiohost McDaniel on paying reparations for slavery If they pass reparations and my taxes are going up I ai nt paying taxes.


Hillary Clinton hugs her daughter Chelsea Clinton after the fdebate.


This photo combo provided by Wicomico County sheriff s office shows from left Paul Hurst and Cary Edwards Wicomico County sheriff Mike Lewis says the men are affiliated with the Juggalos a cult fan base of the rapmetal duo Insane Clown Posse They are charged with attempted murder for attempting to carve off a housemate s tattoo.


Ulyssis Aldrovandi Serpentum et draconum histori Biodiversity Heritage Library contributed by the Smithsonian Libraries.


British theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking speaks to reporters at a news conference in London on Dec 2 2014.


Residents walk past posters of slain Syrian soldiers and a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the city of Tartous the capital of a coastal province in Syria.


Source American Association of University Women Barriers and Bias The Status of Women in Leadership.


Cleanup worker Thomas Courtney pushes oilabsorbing rags in the water along the shore of the Patuxent in Calvert County Md.


A handout photo released on Sept 18 2014 shows an illustration of the supermassive black hole located in the middle of the very dense galaxy M60UCD1 It weighs as much as 21 million times the mass of our sun Lying about 50 million lightyears away M60UCD1 is a tiny galaxy with a diameter of 300 lightyears just 1500th of the diameter of the Milky Way Despite its size it contains some 140 million stars Because no light can escape from the black hole it appears simply in silhouette against the starry background The black hole s intense gravitational field warps the light of the background stars to form ringlike images just outside the dark edges of the black hole s event horizon.


House Budget Committee Chairman Rep Paul Ryan RWis introduces Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney before Romney spoke at the Grain Exchange in Milwaukee Tuesday April 3 2012.


Airlines ban the shipment of gamehunting trophies.


Singer Katy Perry performs for the convention crowd.


Metro General Manager responds to shut down concerns.


Frank Gifford of the New York Giants reaches for a pass thrown by YA Tittle in the third quarter of game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh Gifford caught the pass and went over for a touchdown to give the Giants a 2420 lead they never relinquished.


Texas Gov Greg Abbott lower left listens as Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings right speaks at news conference at city hall in Dallas.


A woman named Diane Reynolds holds a microphone.


Customers wait in line at the Bluebird Liquor Store to buy Powerball lottery tickets in Hawthorne Calif.


Nova Scotia lobster bisque at Fiola in Washington.


Jessica Simpson celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Jessica Simpson Collection.


People hold up their cellphones illuminated to honor the shooting victims inside the Student Union of the University of Central Florida in Orlando.


Tom Wagg teenager discoverer of planets.


Members of a forensic team arrive onscene in Verviers Police arrested 13 people during a dozen raids overnight foiling a plot to kill police officers in public roads and in police stations prosecutors said.


Pedestrians are kept off Lafayette Park just before noon on June 17.


In perhaps the wildest game in series history the Hoyas led by two in the waning seconds of regulation before a foul near midcourt led to two Syracuse free throws that forced overtime The Orangemen won 8987 in overtime.


E Lewis Reynolds 86 watches TV at his home in January 2012 in Lynchburg Va Reynolds was admitted Aug 21 1941 to the Central Virginia Training Center because he suffered from convulsions The convulsions subsided for a time and resumed after a bout of whooping cough forcing Reynolds to leave school when he was about 9.


James Comey director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Prince Harry takes an HIV test live on Facebook.


Drone footage shows Chernobyl s massive confinement dome.


View Photo Gallery President Obama is not surprised by the success Jeremy Lin is having.


Imran Khan left cricket captain turned politician and chairman of the TehrikeInsaf political party waves to supporters during a rally in Shadi Khal Pakistan.


Imagine tracking how much exercise your dog is getting.


A driver rides handsfree in a Tesla Model S equipped with Autopilot hardware and software in New York on Sept 19 California says a true autonomous vehicle is one that is equipped with technology that has the capability of operating or driving the vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring of a natural person.


Fairfax County Supervisor Linda Smyth with some of the books she rescued from a Dumpster behind the Fairfax County library s technical operations center in Chantilly including a barely used 2010 Fodor s guide to Mexico and a copy of It s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.


Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe left and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pose for photographers prior to their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday Aug 26 2014.


Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche strikes out during fourthinning action against the St Louis Cardinals on April 23.


The view from the stadiumstyle seats check out the Black Jack logo on the bar s ceiling.


The Martin Luther King Memorial might represent a new trend in how monuments on the Mall are conceived.


Palestinians watch as Israeli police secure the crime scene in East Jerusalem.


Itria Bonta is a cheese and mozzarella shop in Puglia owned by Giorgio Spalluto Cheeses are made fresh every day.


A sign of protest made by Jenny Hatch once hung on her bedroom wall at the group home where she lives in Hampton Kelly Morris says she keeps a picture of it as proof that Hatch understands what s at stake She knows what she wants and she knows exactly how she feels Morris said and yet everyone disregards her.


WASHINGTON DC AUGUST 9 The first direct morning sun paints the Washington Monument a shade of red as it skims the top of the Smithsonian Institute s National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC on Tuesday August 9 2016 in Washington DC The new museum is scheduled to open to the public September 24 of this year When viewed from particular angles the two structures fit together like puzzle pieces.


Catherine Duchess of Cambridge right and Sophie the Countess of Wessex attend the service of remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall London The annual service is a memorial to the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty.


President Obama talks with Vice President Biden in the Oval Office.


Mourners console each other after the funeral mass for James Mattioli at St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown.


Tourists surround Machali a Royal Bengal tiger at the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve in northern India.


Vice President Biden speaks at the Cancer Moonshot Summit at Howard University in Washington on June 29.


Journalists walk near a crater caused by a shell that damaged a house in Shakhtarsk an area of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.


Muhammad Ali is surrounded by reporters prior to checking out of a New York hospital after four days of tests Ali said I m always tired after being diagnosed with Parkinson s disease.


Well wishers put up a welcome home sign at Gina DeJesus home in Cleveland on May 7 2013 in anticipation of her homecoming Amanda Berry Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found alive after having been held hostage for nearly 10 years.


A man holds a shirt that reads in Spanish Castro Is Dead while driving in the Little Havana area of Miami.


Overview of the Virginia gubernatorial debate.


Kerry to push India to give US companies greater access.


Darrell Simpson holds one of the handprinted CDs to be sleeved.


Griffin stretches along with his teammates.


Catherine Duchess of Cambridge second from right views a painting of her husband Prince William Duke of Cambridge and brotherinlaw Prince Harry at the National Portrait Gallery in London.


President George W Bush listens as he is introduced by Ryan at a 2004 campaign rally in Janesville.


Loudoun County Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio greets parents and children outside Sterling Elementary School on Aug 24 2012.


In this image taken from video From left Britain s Prince Philip Britain s Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall.


Obama vows to reform surveillance programs.


The Fitbit Blaze fitness tracker is displayed at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month The company has added smartwatches to its selection of fitness bands.


Jackie Cleveland drives down the dusty main road of her rural Alaskan community to visit potential voters to register them and give them Begich s policy platform information.


A laborer rests during his break as a ship unloads cargo at the Netaji Subhas Docks at Kolkata Port in Kolkata India on June 6 2011.


Actor Kevin Spacey center attends the Vanity Fair and Bloomberg afterparty.


Tasyha Whitfield center fights back tears during the vigil for her mother Ruby Whitfield was born in Columbus Miss and moved to Washington when she was a child She married Thomas Whitfield now a retired printer and moved to her house which is near the crash site in 1972.


President Barack Obama speaks while nominating Cornelia T L Pillard second from left Patricia Ann Millett right and Robert L Wilkins left to become federal judges on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.


Lenny Skutnik is recognized during President Reagan s State of the Union speech His wife.


Rob Lee is a descendant of Confederate Gen Robert E Lee and the storied Lee family of Virginia.


As part of an effort to include the Chinese American business community in the redevelopment Monument has proposed that the alley that bisects the block would be transformed into an openair Asian food market with street vendors and restaurants selling goods to passersby This rendering shows how the alley would be configured.


Oliver Sacks speaks to an audience at Fairfield University in Fairfield Conn Sacks a neurologist and writer died Aug 30 2015.


A delegation of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation visits statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang North Korea on April 16.


Federal Election Commission member Ann Ravel formerly chairwoman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission wants to raise the federal matching funds for qualifying candidates.


DC Guardian Angels group says it will step up patrols on Metro s Red Line this weekend.


This morning s GFS model forecast of surface pressure 6hourly precipitation and precipitation type valid Monday at 7 am.


Video shows paralyzed shooting victim blinking to identify assailant.


Protesters hold a sign during a rally to take down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse Tuesday June 23 2015 in Columbia SC.


A man hangs an angel atop a Christmas tree in a growing makeshift memorial to the victims of the Dec 14 shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Conn.


Local citizens help Firyuza a fainting family member during a rally in protest against a shelling from Ukrainian government forces in the village of Semenovka outside Slovyansk Ukraine the Associated Press reported.


Investors monitor data at a securities brokerage house in Beijing.


White House CDC says Ebola unlikely to spread in United States.


Mizeur looks through her campaign notebook where she jots down ideas contacts of people she meets things to follow up on and more at her campaign headquarters in Silver Spring.


Rusty left shown alongside Shama has returned to his exhibit.


Corzetti stamps have two designs allowing the pasta coins to have a different embossed design on the front and back.


Customers in the first Amazon Books location in Seattle last fall The company has been shopping for locations in the District.


Members of the Croatia team pose for photographs.


Johnny Grant right honorary mayor of Hollywood reaches over to shake the hand of Muhammad Ali after the boxing legend s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled in Los Angeles.


This Sept 19 2007 file photo shows the National Security Agency building at Fort Meade Md.


Cesar Puello 22 was suspended for 50 games Puello is currently an outfield prospect on the Mets 40man roster.


DC Council member Tommy Wells has called for a hearing about a report released on Thursday that says District police did not document or investigate at least 170 sexual assault cases.


President Bush and White House visitors pose with Pumpkin the turkey during the ceremony in the Rose Garden in 2006.


Ekaterina Sazonova 28 holds a Russian flag while waiting to watch the live broadcast of the Opening Ceremonies.


Sophie Strazzella bottom and Gabby Anifantis tap cups and slam a table at Alice Deal Middle School Diedre Neal the sixthgrade assistant principal said that until Cups she hardly ever saw such hand games at the school.


Former Virginia governor Robert F McDonnell hugs two of his daughters Cailin Young left and Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky after speaking outside federal court in Richmond.


Does the bottom of a wine bottle signal the quality of what s within.


Comedian Will Ferrell and his wife Viveca Paulin.


A photo of the twins at 8 years old from a 2005 trip to Sierra Leone.


Putin talks with Bush as they make their way to a family photo session during the APEC leaders summit in Shanghai.


Carla and Tom Crawford pose in their Alexandria living room with their two Boston terriers Baxter and Winston.


Deer flips over police cruiser hops away.


Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy hugs Michel du Cille on April 7 2008 after he won his third Pulitzer his first for The Washington Post for a series investigating neglect at the Walter Reed.


David Ortiz speaks during a pregame ceremony remembering the bombings of Marathon Monday before a game at Fenway Park in Apri 2013.


Hunter King accepts the award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for The Young and the Restless.


Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton attends the 71st annual Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation dinner along with Republican nominee Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump In between them is Cardinal Timothy Dolan archbishop of New York.


This deer was chomping on apples when it became startled perhaps by the camera flash or maybe by the photobombing flying squirrel behind it.


Two Afghans inside Team Hotel s Khost safe house circa 2002.


Halim Abdelmalek prays inside his house in the Paris suburb of VitrysurSeine on Feb 10.


Guantanamo prisoners reunite with families.


Residents of Kivuye gather for the first market day since rebels were driven from the town by Congolese forces.


Former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney at CPAC in 2011.


The sun sets behind clouds Friday evening.


Children flee as an area is fumigated in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic.


A balloon accidentally falls from the ceiling.


Hassan Khan shows a picture of wife Zeenat Rafiq 17 at his home in Lahore on Wednesday Her mother is accused of burning her alive.


A man passes a front loader on Wilson Blvd in Arlington Va in near whiteout conditions during the blizzard.


Trump speaks at a rally in Dallas on Sept 14 2015.


Privacy activist Max Schrems has just won an extraordinary legal victory against US surveillance of European citizens.