Vice President Joe Biden introduces President Obama to announce his gun control proposals in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington DC The president announced his support for an assault weapons ban restrictions on highcapacity ammunition clips and tougher background checks.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks as former President Bill Clinton applauds at her New Hampshire concession speech Tuesday night.


A train rolled at the Metro Center station on March 30.


Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.


Former Brazilian athlete Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima lights the Olympic cauldron with the Olympic torch during the Opening Ceremonies.


Health alerts regarding people who may have traveled to particular West African countries are posted in the lobby of Bellevue Hospital.


House Speaker Paul D Ryan of Wisconsin speaks in Washington.


A truck with a Trump poster is parked outside LaddPeebles Stadium.


Richard Martinez center who says his son Christopher Martinez was killed in Friday night s mass shooting that took place in Isla Vista Calif is comforted by his brother Alan as he talks to media outside the Santa Barbara County Sheriff s Headquarters.


Click on the image for the full chart from Economistcom.


A worker takes a photo of a scale model of the next generation highspeed Amtrak train after an unveiling event at Amtrak s Joseph R Biden Jr Railroad Station on Aug 26 2016 in Wilmington.


Afghan spectators watch a quail fight in Mazari Sharif A popular sport in Afghanistan two birds are placed inside a circle and made to fight each other until any one of the bird runs out of the circle and the bird that stays is declared the winner Bird fighting was not allowed during the years of rule by the Taliban regime.


Max Schrems left and his lawyer Herwig Hofmann right at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Oct 6 2015.


A picture made available on 25 July 2014 shows the Washington Post IranianAmerican journalist Jason Rezaian right and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi who works for the UAE newspaper National.


Dr Mary Rogers performs a routine Childhood Wellness check on patient Lily Fargher at Mosaic Medical in Bend Ore.


From left Prince Charles Queen Elizabeth II Prince George and Prince William pose during a Royal Mail photo shoot for a stamp sheet to mark the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace.


A rendering of CEB Tower which the company plans to move into in 2018.


A member of the Lou Nuer tribe returns to his village in South Sudan s Jonglei state in July after fighting against the rebel group Yau Yau Civilians were cut off from aid in the eastern state amid fierce fighting between rival ethnic groups.


Workers are stranded behind a shutter during an opposition protest in Caracas.


Sea surface temperature departure from average.


William Bello 16 listens to speakers at a vigil in support of undocumented immigrant families in Murrieta Calif on July 9 Murrieta has been at the heart of an immigration debate about where to hold and process the surge of illegal migrants crossing the border from Mexico in recent months Lucy NicholsonReuters.


Visitors take pictures in front of a barbedwire fence decorated with messages wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas at Imjingak in Paju near the border village of the Panmunjom South Korea.


Millie plays peekaboo with the child she cares for.


Noah Wyle gets hauled off by cops in this photo provided by the advocacy group he protested with on Capitol Hill Monday.


The House Longworth Cafeteria featured Russian cuisine Wednesday.


Spiny We need to lead the G7 meeting in Japanin 150 millions of years we ve never had an economic crisis Giggy And you must not forget to include climate change Glup Glup Glup.


The crowd watches Trump s golf cart drive away.


Maria Esteves in her Fairfax County home Esteves s purse containing money for her daughter s tuition was stolen in January at a local doughnut shop.


Veteran soldiers react as their truck drives by the reviewing stand with leader Kim Jong Un.


Churchgoers hug at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston SC on Sunday.


An Army police officer carries an automatic rifle out of the courthouse at Fort Meade where Manning is being courtmartialed.


Jinlong has a bigger office than Gray does.


In 2011 Craig resurfaced in Washington as a lobbyist for New West Strategies working on issues such as getting Congress to lift Endangered Species Act protections for wolves Under Senate rules former senators have to wait two years before they can lobby Senate or House members or their aides CNN described Craig as cheerful and said he spends most of his time in Idaho with his family.


The cheetah facility at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.


Maura Leary one of the contenders in our Date Lab Pick Me vote.


Nationals starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez looks away after giving up a tworun home run to Justin Upton in the first inning.


The first lady hugs Tebogo Tenyan 16 during the youth event that highlighted the importance of education.


The besieged city of Homs covered with snow.


Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks at a town hall meeting in Bedford NH on Wednesday.


President George W Bush left talks with Summitt before speaking to reporters at McGhee Tyson Airport in Alcoa Tenn.


A Ky Derby horse named after Mitch McConnell.


Donald Trump said football has become soft like our country has become soft while speaking at a campaign rally in Iowa on Jan 10 While he said that he still loves New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady the game now is just unwatchable for him I do nt watch it The referees they want to all throw flags so their wives see them at home.


President Obama announces the resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in the State Dining Room of the White House on Monday Hagel will remain at his post until a successor is named and confirmed by the Senate.


First lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discuss lunches with students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton Miss on Feb 27 2013.


Mark Zuckerberg chief executive of Facebook in Menlo Park Calif in June 2013.


A line of visitors winds around a train car on exhibit.


A state task force is considering increasing the state s flush fee which pays for sewage treatment plant and septic system upgrades and cover crops to keep pollutants from running off into waterways.


Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney campaigns with his wife Ann Romney at Exeter High School in Exeter NH Sunday Jan 8 2012.


No joke Italian comedian Beppe Grillo is the leader of the secondmost popular political party.


Even the conservative staffers at a Bible camp thought it respectful to welcome the president to Watertown.


Police officers stand guard at the site of the New Year s Eve stampede in Shanghai.


Protesters stand their ground on a barricaded road in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.


Source United Respecting Mankind by Rescuing the Unborn.


Karla Ortiz 11 and her mother Francisca Ortiz take the stage.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan s palace complex in Ankara.


The campaign is grateful to Corey for his hard work and dedication and we wish him the best in the future campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement on June 20.


This image posted on a militant Web site in 2014 shows fighters from the Islamic State marching in Raqqa Syria.


Nicki Minaj performs at the Video Music Awards.


Om Dyana standing at left tries to comfort her daughter Dyana Adnan as doctor Minnette Son center and Shannon Kyle provide care for the young girl in a new wing of Fallujah General Hospital In postwar Iraq hospitals such as this one are rising from the rubble But longerterm casualties of the war still plague the country Fallujah has seen unusually high rates of birth defects since major battles involving the US military in 2004 Studies suggest inconclusively that the high rate of birth defects are due to chemicals such as depleted uranium and white phosphorous found in some US weapons that may have been used in the battles to overtake Fallujah.


A Department of Land and Natural Resources official talks with Thirty Meter Telescope protesters at one of many blockades that stopped construction vehicles from ascending the mountain on June 24.


Teddy Roosevelt used gestures to explain his state of mind before his smackdown with George Washington.


See a midsummer update on the region s big projects.


This combination of file photos show LR US actor Sean Penn during the premiere of A Million Ways To Die In The West in Los Angeles California on May 15 2014 Drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman on January 8 2016 following his recapture and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo during AFI FEST 2015 in Hollywood California on November 9 2015 The.


Men look at the wreckage of two vehicles sitting on the roadside.


A man prays at a memorial for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Boylston Street near the race finish line.


A rendering of what a redeveloped Barry Farm might look like.


Prodemocracy demonstrators scuffle with a man center holding a Chinese flag who came to the protesters barricade to oppose them blocking roads in Hong Kong.


Trump and Pence center shake hands as balloons fall.


A crowd gathers near Vietnam s presidential palace as Obama begins his threeday visit to Hanoi.


Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York.


A digger delivers coal ash for the village s heating plant.


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The Rev Fred Daley greets Grace Moran 13 before the start of mass at All Saints Church in Syracuse NY on Dec 5 Daley came out in 2004.


Marshall Sklar says that after the bubble burst housing wealth was redistributed in Florida You took it out of the sheep and gave it to the wolves.


Destiny Butler 16 hangs on the front stoop of the Brookland Manor Apartments where she is a resident.


DC police confer at the scene of the crash of a hijacked Metrobus.


Officer Wiggins claps along to a song played in a classroom while she patrols at Rognel Heights ElementaryMiddle School.


View of the jungle region of Ikongo eastern Madagascar.


Here s what you need to know about Mohammad Omar.


Workers at Reagan National Airport rallied Wednesday for better salaries.


Danielle and her son get ready to have dinner.


Clinton walks toward Sanders at the start of a commercial break.


Macklemore right and Ryan Lewis were fairly tame in houndstooth and green velvet suits.


A South Sudanese girl puts her family s laundry out to dry on a barbedwire fence at a makeshift camp at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in Juba the nation s capital World leaders have stepped up calls for the country s feuding politicians to end the fighting that has pushed the country to the brink of civil war.


Kamala Khan aka Ms Marvel was introduced in 2014 to headlines and a positive reception.


Brian Manning holds a newborn Bradley in 1987.


Smooch runs in the back yard with a rag doll in his mouth.


The new Washington Boulevard span over Columbia Pike will be named the Freedmans Village Bridge.


Rachel Frederickson at the start of The Biggest Loser.


An impulsive first marriage followed by a pending second marriage creates the perfect love triangle in The Philadelphia Story From left John Howard Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart.


President Obama Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history.


Chelsea Clinton and boyfriend Jeremy Kane attend the opening ceremony of the America s Millennium in Washington.


Guests arrive at the host stand at Rose s Luxury in Southeast Washington after waiting in line to get in The popular restaurant does nt allow reservations.


Robert Delissio the general manager for Best Buy in Alexandria Va talks to customers about what they can expect inside at the store.


Baskets of exams organized by the names of professors wait to be picked up by students.


Prince Rainier III of Monaco and US actress and princess of Monaco Grace Kelly salute the crowd as they leave Saint Nicholas Cathedral after their wedding ceremony in Monaco on April 19 1956.


People watch military aircraft from World War II fly over the National Mall.


Red Sox rookie Xander Bogaerts reacts after hitting a triple in the fifth inning.


Dancing with the Stars appears to be the default reality TV venue for Olympic medalists like shorttrack speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno who won Season 4 with his partner Karina Smirnoff.


Abdullah 20 waits for customers at the Minnie Minors outlet on April 25 at a market in Swat Valley.


Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden had an awful lot of opinions to share at a local church Sunday.


Pataki greets Smokey the Bear in front of the Capitol in Albany after signing environmental legislation.


Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz slams a book of UN resolutions at a news conference in Moscow.


Copeland helps a student in his yoga class perfect a pose.


Bryce Katolinsky dances onstage in a denim ensemble for his performance.


What happens inside extrasolar system Kepler444.


Repairs continue on the earthquakedamaged Washington National Cathedral View photo gallery.


Netanyahu addresses both houses of Congress.


Del Robert G Marshall RPrince William wants gun owners to be able to take their weapons with them to polling places as long as it s permitted by state law.


An Orthodox Jewish man chants slogans against members of the religious activist group Women of the Wall who are demanding equal access to the holy site.


Joshua Urias kneels and prays at a memorial in Prescott Ariz dedicated to firefighters killed in the nearby wildfire Nineteen Arizona firemen were killed in the worst US wildland firefighting tragedy in 80 years apparently outflanked and engulfed by windwhipped flames in seconds.


Virginai head coach Tony Bennett right claps against Syracuse.


Oscar Isaac broke into the spotlight last year playing a 1960s New York folk singer in the Coen brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis.


Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder at FedEx Field in 2011.


German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen attends a news conference in Berlin in July She says that Britain s decision to leave the European Union offers an opportunity for greater military cooperation in the bloc.


Students console one another at the University of California at Santa Barbara s Harder Stadium during a memorial service.


Denver Jenkins works on a Tanom Invader.


In the hours before and after midnight public employees and volunteers set off to check alleys parking garages streets and parks to count and interview homeless people in the District.


Where s my new train That s what Metro General Manager Paul J Wiedefeld says he wants to know There s been a problem at the Kawasaki assembly line in Lincoln Neb.


From left founders of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement Chan Kinman Benny Tai and Chu Yiuming speak to supporters during a rally after China s legislature has ruled out open nominations in elections for Hong Kong s leader.


Nina Pham I believe in the power of prayer.


Women drink and eat at the House of Culture in Sankin.


A bombed area in Sayyidah Zaynab which is on the outskirts of Damascus.


A North Korean woman crosses a busy street as a car and streetcar pass by in Pyongyang.


An MQ9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Hurlburt Field Fla May 3 2014.


Soliyana Shimeles graduation picture taken in 2007 She studied law at Addis Ababa University with a focus on human rights She has been working with the UN and international organizations on human rights issues in Ethiopia.


The first Norwegian patient infected with the Ebola virus arrives at the hospital at Oslo University.


AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes walks past the relatives of Flight QZ8015 passengers at Juanda International Airport.


The Keystone XL pipeline at one point was going to run through the sensitive Sand Hills areas near Valentine Neb The pipeline was rerouted to the east so it will not pass through this area at the Minnechaduza Creek TransCanada has announced that it will change the Nebraska route again.


Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sander speaks at a campaign rally Saturday in Phoenix.


An unidentified US aircraft carrier is pictured in this still image taken from video provided by IRINN on Jan 29 2016 REUTERSIRINN via Reuters.


Obama not considering boots on the ground in Syria.


Obama greets visitors at the back of the House gallery after he delivered his State of the Union address.


The top of the Washington Monument is seen beneath a threatening storm cloud on Thursday.


Donald Trump arrives to speak to the Conservative Party of New York Presidential Convention in New York on Sept 7.


Alexander Obodo right waits in a checkout line at Safeway in Washington as people flocked to grocery stores to prepare for the snowstorm.


Ohio State junior guard Aaron Craft shoots the gamewinning threepointer with 05 seconds to play in the Buckeyes 7875 win over Iowa State in a secondround game Sunday in Dayton Ohio.


Missing metal grate in lane of 3rd Street tunnel.


University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan will step down after only two years leading the public university.


Iran Success of nuclear talks depends on political will.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to questions during a roundtable discussion at a historic VFW post in Reno Nev on June 18.


Geno Smith will start Sunday for the Jets against the Ravens.


US Secretary of State John Kerry walks to his plane after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv Israel on Friday.


Ralph Bolen enters his apartment for the first time with the help of neighbor Trish White after returning home to his apartment for the first time in nearly four years.


Liao Yiwu an outspoken writer and government critic was repeatedly threatened with imprisonment to prevent him from publishing more of his controversial works overseas In 2011 he was placed on a travel ban for national security reasons by the Chinese government Yiwu is in Germany after he managed to leave China by crossing the border into Vietnam.


Pope Francis prays inside the sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre in the village of El Cobre Cuba.


Mark Mangini left and David White accept best sound editing for Mad Max Fury Road.


Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin speaks at a Tea Party Express rally on earlier this month in Manchester NH.


Tourists huddle under umbrellas at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Jan 25 2000.


Clouds cover the sky near the Daytona Beach Boardwalk and Pier ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Florida.


Courtesy of the Harris County Sheriff s Office.


British nurse William Pooley a patient treated for the Ebola virus at the Royal Free Hospital in London speaks at a press conference upon his discharge from the hospital Pooley contracted the virus while working in Sierra Leone.


Beer from the 3 Star brewery in Takoma Park should hit local shelves sometime in 2012.


James Holmes s trial is taking place at the Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial Colo.


Former Army soldier Evan M Knappenberger left and former Marine Adam Kokesh begin a sevenday towerguard vigil on the Mall to protest military policies.


This view shows the property line between the Linehans home and the property of Gaver Nichols.


Families flee from an Islamic Statecontrolled village to a Kurdishcontrolled area on Nov 16 near Sinjar Iraq.


This photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff s Department shows Christopher Duntsch.


Rosa Pelaez 32 and her oldest son Juan Flores Jr 11 look at an old family photo in their apartment in the District Pelaez and her husband hope to soon be able to live and work legally for the first time without fear of being deported.


The world s first tweed suit designed for a race horse.


Storm clouds over Springfield Va July 8 2015.


This reported film is part food fight for cablenews channels desperate for postelection fodder and part valuable.


Local residents watch the rescue operations on the river.


A proRussian rebel looks up while riding a tank flying Russia s flag on a road east of Donetsk Ukraine.


The memorabilia from the Cozy Restaurant in Thurmont Md near Camp David will be auctioned off on Monday.


Traffic crawls past a hotel construction site in downtown Rangoon.


Ron Paul knows he ca nt win but he s not dropping out.


Actress Jessica Chastain and her cleavage In Versace.


The derailed train is seen Friday near the platform of the East Falls Church station.


Ava receives Tcell therapy for leukemia from nurse Julie Thompson at the NIH Clinical Center her mother nearby for support.


Jessica Paker 31 watches as her fiance Peck works on toothbrushing techniques with occupational therapist Meredith Grinnell at Boston s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.


An Italian coast guard boat takes part in a rescue operation of migrants off the coast of Sicily on Sunday.


Members of Crimean selfdefense units and Interior Ministry members block a topless activist from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen during an antiwar protest near the Crimean parliament building in Simferopol.


Via the National Weather Service At 9PM this evening radar showed 3 storms well west of DC Lightning from these storms was visible from the DC metro area even though the storms were located 7080 miles away in the eastern West Virginia counties of Hampshire and Hardy Skies over DC at the time were clear Lightning visible at such large distances will not be accompanied by thunder Insert.


Belgian flags seen at a street memorial near the old stock exchange in Brussels.


Capriles gestures during a campaign rally in San Carlos.


Graphic How to read a financial award letter.


Your guide to riding the Orange Line during SafeTrack s fifth surge.


Courtesy of Bonus Programs and Practices survey from WorldAtWork.


Kevin Spacey as US Rep Frank Underwood in a scene from the Netflix original series House of Cards.


David Malpica sets up the dispensary room at the Takoma Wellness Center a familyrun medicalmarijuana dispensary in Washington in March 2015.


Bags are displayed at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Los Angeles.


Based on news reports and the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.


Police aim their weapons during the bomb threat.


Migrants from Afghanistan arrive at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey.


Women march together on the campus of Goucher College in Towson Md.


Chances of snow accumulation greater than or equal to 4 inches The colors on the map being at a 1020 percent chance and grow in increments on 10 from there.


A tear rolls down the cheek of Sgt Benjamin Tranter as he attends a memorial service for former classmate Lance Cpl Squire D Skip Wells at Sprayberry High School in Marietta Ga in July Wells was one of five US troops killed in an attack on military facilities in Chattanooga Tenn.


DC Mayor Vincent C Gray left and DC Council Chairman Philip H Mendelson right prepare to testify before a Senate committee this month Mendelson played a leading role in developing the city s new guncarry proposal.


Police say this picture taken during the execution of the search warrant at The Yard in Prince George s County shows the activity there when officers arrived authorities said.


Who s in control you or your phone Do nt let it wreck your relationships Here s how to wrest your life back.


Will Smith as Dr Bennet Omalu in a scene from Concussion which opens Christmas Day.


Pakistani tribesmen offer funeral prayers for the victims of a missile strike in the town of Miran Shah A suspected US missile attack destroyed a major Taliban training camp in Pakistan on Feb 14 2009 killing at least 27 mainly alQaeda foreign operatives security officials said Two missiles fired by a drone struck the camp of top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in the tribal area of Ladha near the Afghan border they said adding that Mehsud was not in the camp at the time of the strike.


Ronnie Ford of Ash County NC blows snow from an inflatable holiday decoration at his tree stand on North Franklin Street in Christiansburg Va.


Six area children who were born on September 11 2001 from left Aidan Shaw Marina Pariser Juliana Bonilla William Faber Arkilah Henry and Michael Briscoe at the Arlington fire station that responded to the Pentagon attack.


The cover of Taylor Swift s fifth album 1989.


The 1983 marchers dressed casually in contrast to the Sunday best dress of 1963 attendees.


Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte center at a visit to a military camp in the southern Philippines on Sept 20 2016.


Nationals infielder and pinchhitting specialist Chad Tracy left and regular third baseman Ryan Zimmerman stand near third as the Miami Marlins warm up at Space Coast Stadium in Viera Fla.


Neil Kopit is a marketing director with the Ourisman car dealership Its Tenleytown business is leaving the District for Bethesda.


Joe Morrissey after an evening of doorknocking in Richmond.


Supporters listen to Obama during a campaign event at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland.


Venison Tenderloin With Blackberry Beurre Blanc from BBQ Bistro Simple Sophisticated French Recipes for Your Grill.


Protesters clash with police in Cleveland.


The former Bons Secours home for unmarried mothers in Tuam County Galway Ireland.


The house still sits with belongings intact No one wants the residence or its contents.


The end of the tunnel through which Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman is thought to have escaped from the Altiplano prison is in a onestory cinderblock structure It was his second prison escape.


Signs at a Bradley Manning event May 2 2013.


Moscow region governor Sergei Shoigu looks on during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in St Petersburg June 21 2012.


NASA astronaut confident about upcoming mission.


A man tries to convince police not to arrest a woman as hundreds of protesters gather.


Attorney General Eric Holder holds a news conference in Washington Dec 21 2011.


Copies of Bronwen Dickey s book are stacked at her home in Durham NC where she has added security cameras because of harassment from pit bull opponents.


A woman steps over an icy puddle after casting her ballot in the special election for the District 6 seat of the Virginia Senate at the Onley Va polling site on Tuesday Jan 7.


Kasich pledges to be normal guy if he wins presidency.


We followed Taeb s day from delegate breakfast to floor events at the DNC.


Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Minister of Education Limor Livnat watch a performance by Israeli children during a ceremony at the Mamlachti Gimmel school to mark the opening day of the new school year in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim.


Donald Trump greets supporters during a campaign rally at the Canton Memorial Civic Center on Wednesday in Canton Ohio.


Six reactions to the FBI report on Clinton s email investigation.


An investigation of the shooting death of 67yearold Eugene Ellison at the hands of a Little Rock police officer left his sons including Little Rock police Lt Troy Ellison embittered and with little resolved in the minds of the public Troy Ellison was photographed at his father s grave March 7.


Brig Gen Rawan Barzani commander of a special forces regiment and son of Iraqi Kurdistan s president speaks on a radio from a hilltop as a major offensive to take control of Sinjar is underway.


Signs lie on the ground during a protest in front of the US Supreme Court on Monday.


A view of Washington s National Mall from the US Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington on Dec 29.


Washington s Spingarn High School prepares to close its doors.


Joe Allbritton publisher of the Washington Star is shown as he leaves the building after meetings.


Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Senator Carl Levin.


The pope shakes hands with dignitaries as President Obama center and Michelle Obama stand nearby.


Officials say this gun was used by one of the fugitives.


Lush fall colors at 17th and independence October 23 2015.


A man breaks down during a funeral for earthquake victims in Kathmandu Nepal.


Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks during a news conference in Afghanistan earlier this month.


Clooney and Alamuddin arrive at the Cipriani hotel in Venice.


Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong speaking to reporters on Tuesday.


Students walk through an outdoor corridor on the University of Virginia campus on Dec 6 in Charlottesville.


King s handwritten inscription to Maude Ballou in a copy of his 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom.


Apple senior vice president of Internet software and services Eddy Cue speaks during the Apple WWDC on June 8 in San Francisco.


A member of the New York Air National Guard s 107th Airlift Wing assists in removing snow from the roof of the Eden Heights Assisted Living Facility in West Seneca NY New York Gov Andrew Cuomo directed the mobilization of more than 240 National Guard soldiers and airmen from area units to assist local authorities with snow removal or traffic control as regions of Western New York dig out from more than six feet snowfall in 72 hours.


Timothy Lewis is a homeless man who often spends the night near Franklin Square While he hopes there will be more money to help the homeless under the new mayor he s not that optimistic that anything will change.


Gary Williams during the closing seconds of a win over Virginia in 2004.


Mourners visit a hillside cemetery for Hazara victims of a July 23 suicide bombing at a protest in Kabul last month.


Nick Clegg Liberal Democrat Party leader and deputy prime minister waves during a visit to Westerton Nursery in Bearsden Scotland.


Davis attends the scene of a moped crash not far from Freddie Gray s neighborhood Neighbors gathered to look at the wreckage that sent three kids to the hospital.


A worker replaces fan boards in the dewatering and the filtercake area at the Arcelor Mittal Minorca Mine Unemployment in Itasca County in the heart of the range has risen to 8 percent.


From left Pasha Whitmire material developer and Paul Hendricks brand responsibility analyst get ready to head back to work at the Patagonia corporate headquarters after a lunchtime surf break in Ventura Calif.


Short rib and baby bok choy are the stars of a noodle soup but black pepper makes its presence clear.


Jason Brian Dalton 45 is shown in this booking photo.


Followers of Moqtada alSadr take selfies at Iraq s parliament building The political unrest has brought new instability to a country facing multiple crises including the fight against the Islamic State group and a struggling economy.


Mara Abbott is in the lead with Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands trailing Van Vleuten s race ended with a horrible crash.


People participate in a protest outside North Charleston City Hall.


On the desk of tribal Judge Melvin R Stoof sits a photograph of his grandfather Joseph Running Bear wearing his ceremonial feather headdress alongside a photo of his grandfather at a younger age Stoof remembers reading in law school about the famous 1978 case in which the Supreme Court held that Indian tribes had no legal authority to prosecute nonIndians who committed crimes on reservations I never understood the logic of it Stoof said The Supreme Court found that tribal courts could nt have jurisdiction over nonIndians because they were aliens and strangers They did nt participate in the political process did nt vote in elections and were nt residents And I said Wait a minute that s the same that would apply to a New Yorker who commits a crime in Los Angeles.


Syrian men joke in a makeshift barber shop in a refugee camp near Azaz Syria.


Tyler Clippard stretches with the other pitchers.


A Burmese man uses his smartphone while sitting next to a movie poster in Rangoon.


Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence.


Jennifer Molleda looks at the bloodspecked face of her husband Alan Wakim who had two bullets whiz by his face after they went through his windshield during the shooting.


Palestinians hurl stones as smoke rises from the burning tires.


West Coast members of the Nation of Islam gather on the Mall before the Million Man March.


Bangladeshi special forces leave the premises of a fivestory building that was raided by police in Dhaka on July 26 Police said an apartment there was used as a den by suspected Islamist militants nine of whom were killed.


Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is tended to by a trainer after he went down on a play against the Seattle Seahawks during the first half of a preseason NFL game on Thursday.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Republican vicepresidential nominee Gov Mike Pence celebrate Thursday during the final day of the party s Cleveland convention.


Peter Van Buren the reported inspiration behind proposed new rules at the State Department.


James Knight and Ondraya Frick from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases train soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division on Oct 9 on how to wear protective equipment that stops the spread of germs REUTERSHarrison McClary.


Baton Rouge officer Montrell Jackson described as a loving devoted husband.


The graves of Alexander Hamilton his wife Eliza and her sister Angelica are among those in Trinity graveyard in Lower Manhattan.


Yemen Houthi leaders to attend UN talks.


Police officers face off with protesters.


Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and his wife Ruth Schwartz.


From left Brie Larson Courtney Eaton and Annabelle Wallis in Dolce Gabbana.


This is not what pumpkin bread is supposed to look like.


Max Scherzer was one of many Nationals wearing rally caps as the game moved on.


Friends and family react after being notified if their loved ones were admitted as wounded to the Orlando Regional Medical Center A list was posted at the nearby Hampton Inn Suites.


A female Ranger student shares a laugh with fellow soldiers while waiting for a C130 ride Thursday Aug 6 ahead of an airborne parachute jump.


US Central Command social accounts hacked.


Supporters wave and cheer during a rally for Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan right in Dayton Ohio.


TIffany Beroid had to take two months off before giving birth to Ameyah.


Ronnie White was first nominated to be a federal judge by Bill Clinton.


Quinoa With Dried Fruit and HoneyLime Dressing.


Volunteers from an Iraqi Shiite militia take up position near Tikrit.


As many as 200 vultures have picked the Mayfair neighborhood of Leesburg to roost this winter Leesburg is going to launch a program of lights and sound to drive them away.


People wearing protective masks walk on an overpass during the evening rush hour amid the heavy smog after Beijing issued its first red alert for air pollution Dec 7 2015 REUTERSJason Lee.


Ebola victims bodies collected in Liberian capital.


DCTweeps You voted Lisa Byrne the Washington nightlife hostess with the most.


A bird s eye view of LIGO Hanford s laser and vacuum equipment area which houses the prestabilized laser beam splitter input test masses and other equipment.


Residents return after Kurds retake Iraqi town near Irbil.


Larry King adjusts his tie before taking the stage at the Newseum for A Life in Broadcasting A Conversation With Larry King on March 18.


Erick Munoz talks about his wife Marlise and their son Mateo in Haltom City Tex.


Rubio stands on a window ledge while speaking during the campaign house party in Manchester.


A 1984 photo from the church scrapbook shows the groundbreaking of the Scenic Drive Baptist Church.


Protesters chant antigovernment slogans at Tahrir Square in Cairo An Islamistled assembly raced through approval of a new constitution for Egypt on Friday to end a crisis over President Mohamed Morsi s newly expanded powers but opponents responded with another rally in Cairo against the Islamist leader.


Helen Gonzales 21 left and Wagas Noor 21 both of Washington take a paddle boat to see hanging cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin.


Megan Smith adapted the Pysanky technique commonly used on Ukrainian Easter eggs to create these holiday ornaments She blew out the inside of the eggs then put beeswax in a funnel and colored with hot wax before dying the egg progressively darker colors She then removed the wax and added lacquer for strength.


Broken Arctic sea ice as seen from a window in from a US Coast Guard flight over the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean in 2009.


A demonstrator protests against the legislation to give President Obama fasttrack authority to advance trade deals including the TransPacific Partnership.


A woman swims in the fountains at Trafalgar Square which are lit to signify the birth of a baby boy.


The Nexus 6P smartphone rear and Nexus 5X smartphone.


This photo was taken with long exposure along the Yenisei River outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Dec 31 2015.


Andreas Fransson holding the Bearded Villains flag on Saturday.


Gavin Grimm at his home in Gloucester Va.


Jim Yong Kim on developing a thick skin On Leadership.


Griffin speaks to the crowd at Six Flags.


Students pass through the Lawn at the University of Virginia.


The SewallBelmont House and Museum was burned by the British as they invaded Washington.


Richard Keenan a former Ohio mayor is indicted on rape charges for reportedly confessing that he had sex with a child a young girl who he claimed was a willing participant Read the story.


Young people make snow angels in front of the Lincoln Memorial.


A body of a government soldier lies by the side of the road and is covered by a Ukrainian national flag in Debaltseve.


Josue Gutierrez climbs the first of two ladders that lead to his pigeon coops He is a fisherman who goes out on the water early in the morning and tends his birds at sunset.


How Sanders staffers accessed Clinton data and what it means for his campaign.


People wait for humanitarian aid outside the processing center in Qayyara south of Mosul Iraq on Tuesday.


Obama seated with students and staff at Lamb Public Charter School celebrates Cinco de Mayo along with Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School.


People line up outside the polling station in the black township of Soweto in the southwest suburbs of Johannesburg to vote in the nation s first allrace elections.


Janet Bero waits to have her German Luger appraised during the antique gun showcase.


Coast Guard rescues shipwrecked sailor who survived 66 days.


Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks Tuesday during a campaign stop in Hudson NH.


Customers queue outside a Bank of Cyprus branch as its doors open for the first time in two weeks in Nicosia Cyprus The Central Bank of Cyprus s capital controls will include a 300 euro.


Tamika Catchings of United States shoots over Laia Palau of Spain The Americans won their game to advance.


Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.


Obama claps at the end of a reception for the 2014 Kennedy Center honorees.


Research from Cornell University suggests that in a case involving a white victim defendants with more stereotypically AfricanAmerican features like the man on the right were more likely to be sentenced to death Image from Eberhardt et al 2006 These images are of people with no criminal history and are shown for illustrative purposes only.


The Dome of the Rock mosque is situated in the alAqsa mosque compound sacred for both Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem s Old City on Feb 11.


Lady Gaga left accepts the award for Video of the Year presented by Cher right at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.


A voter dips his finger in blue ink to avoid double voting in Wardak province.


Connecticut Gov Dan Malloy center stands with other officials to observe a moment of silence in Newtown.


The top of the line Neorest toilet retails for 6500 in the United States Plus you need a power outlet next to the potty.


Manning at about age 3 with his mother Susan Manning in Arizona.


High winds from Hermine make their way north sending these waves crashing into the shore in Atlantic City New Jersey.


President Obama flanked by Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen Martin Dempsey speaks to the media at the conclusion of a meeting with senior military leadership at the Pentagon.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night rally at the Sheraton Hotel in West Des Moines on Monday.


Clinton takes a selfie with an audience member after speaking at the Old State House in Springfield Ill.


Metro track walkers enter the tunnel between the Waterfront Station and LEnfant Plaza Metro Station on Jan 13 the day after an incident where a yellowline train filled with smoke leading to the death of one woman and forcing 80 passengers to seek medical attention.


William Cooper 13 of Redding Calif waits for chance to spell a word.


Gov Hogan orders Maryland schools to expand summer break.


US Attorney General Janet Reno blows a kiss to Justice Department staff members during a farewell ceremony at agency headquarters in Washington Eric Holder then deputy attorney general Eric Holder stands in the background center.


Booking photo of Charles A Ryan III 45 of Chesapeake Beach Md a DC firefighter charged with assaulting a police officer assault and disorderly conduct in Anne Arundel County.


Men stand on Jan 30 2013 in front of a billboard left by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa an offshoot of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.


At left Espresso Barbecue Sauce from Franklin Barbecue A MeatSmoking Manifesto by Aaron Franklin.


An earthquake survivor walks through the rubble of collapsed houses in Longtoushan in China s southwest Yunnan province.


Fredrick J Ryan Jr unveils a statue of President Ronald Reagan at Reagan National Airport on November 1 2011 Ryan a former Reagan Administration official and media executive was named publisher of The Washington Post on Tuesday.


Comet 67PChuryumovGerasimenko is seen in a detail photo taken by the Rosetta spacecraft with the OSIRIS narrowangle camera Aug 3 2014 ESA s Rosetta spacecraft became the first to rendezvous with a comet and will follow it on its journey around the sun.


Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro addressing the Texas Democratic convention on June 17 in San Antonio.


A man walks on debris in Tacloban Thousands of people are feared buried in the rubble.


Kathleen Kutschenreuter left and her partner Lou Ann Sandstrom holding their adopted threemonthold daughter Eva Kae Sandstrom listen to speakers during rally in Washington The couple plans to get married in September.


A police line is seen at the West Front of the US Capitol as police responded to reports of a shooting and a suspicious package.


Finally if you need more not less holiday spirit you ll want to visit the US Botanic Garden Its annual holidaythemed exhibition Season s Greenings features a Christmas tree a working model train and plantbased replicas of Washington landmarks.


Joel Pannell cleans the snow off his car in Reston Flurries tapered off late in the morning and temperatures are expected to remain bonechillingly cold through Saturday.


Relatives wait on a pier in Jindo as the frantic search for nearly 300 people continues.


Suspected hijacker who wanted to see exwife appears in Cyprus court.


Before opening for business a security guard watches the door at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver.


Writerdirector David Michod has a talent for portraying desolate and suspenseful scenarios as in 2010 s Animal Kingdom This time he sets his drama in a postapocalyptic time when a man.


Felicity Hartnell a clinical research fellow at Oxford University injects Ruth Atkins with an experimental Ebola vaccine in Oxford England.


A child cries near a Santa Claus at the Chaotianmen Wholesale Market in Chongqing.


Protesters march on Chicago s Magnificent Mile shopping strip on Friday demanding justice for a black teen killed by a white police officer.


Obama hints at gun control action in New Year s Day message.


Mario Perez left was fatally shot during a holiday gathering in Damascus Md by his friend Frank Trujillo right.


President Barack Obama speaks during his news conference at the G20 Summit in St Petersburg.


Palestinian riot police take position as they try to stop protesters from clashing with Israeli troops in Hebron.


Journalist Austin Tice who contributed articles to The Washington Post is currently unaccounted for while reporting in Syria.


The five tricky ways thieves can steal your credit card information.


Smoke from an airstrike on Islamic State positions by the USled coalition is visible behind Iraqi army vehicles at a command center north of Ramadi.


First family arrives in Hawaii for Christmas vacation.


Relatives of a casualty from the Taliban attack mourn as they depart from the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.


The ponies scramble up onto Chincoteague at the end of their swim on July 24 2013.


The State of Florida shows a photo of the undershirt Trayvon Martin wore the night of the shooting.


DC animal control officer Ray Noll watches as goats are released on the exterior perimeter of Congressional Cemetery In the next week the goats are supposed to eat more than an acre s worth of poison ivy and English ivy which are imperiling the historic cemetery s trees and endangering the gravestones.


A Syrian woman sits in the camp with her two children Veteran international aid workers say the Lesbos camps are among the worst they have seen.


Kerry Donley Allison Silberberg and William Euille speak to a crowd April 23 in their first joint appearance as they run for the the Democratic nomination for the Alexandria mayoral race.


Hungary s women s water polo team practices at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center.


The sale of Everclear and all 190proof liquor is now banned in Maryland.


Reclaimed wood floors and headboard are used in the master bedroom which has a reading nook tucked to one side A washer and dryer are located on one side of the space between the master bedroom and the circular stairway and a closet is on the other side.


President Richard Nixon faces television cameras in his oval office April 30 1973 to announce the departure of his two closest assistants HR Haldeman and John Ehrlichman This was before Twitter you see.


Ted Cruz and his family eat a traditional fish fry dinner at Rite Place restaurant in Green Bay Heidi postponed a fundraising event in New Jersey so she could be by her husband s side as he campaigns in Wisconsin.


Pistorius keeps his head down before the continuation of his murder trial in Pretoria South Africa.


Parents and students move under police tape at the church where students were taken following the shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School.


Timea Bacsinszky hugs her opponent Alison Van Uytvanck after their quarterfinal match.


Isabella Eatery is planned to open in Tysons Galleria in summer 2017 This is the biggest move of my career says the chefrestaurateur who rose to prominence after appearing on Bravo TV s Top Chef.


View Photo Gallery The nation gathers Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept 11 2001 terror attacks.


Rep Terri A Sewell had an estimated wealth of 173497 in 2010 Invests in FinanceInsuranceReal Estate Mixed Miscellaneous Business More about Sewell s wealth.


Essam Abualkhair 19 a student at Ohio University who is from Saudi Arabia waits for a flight.


Jalene and her mom chat with Taylor Swift on FaceTime.


Super Bowl XLI MVP Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts center is grabbed by Chicago Bears tackle Tank Johnson while throwing a touchdown pass The Colts won the game 2917.


Lauren hosted a lavish runway show for his 40thanniversary spring collection in September of 2007 renting out the Conservatory Garden in Central Park.


Secret Service agents keep watch as President Obama arrives via Marine One helicopter at Everglades National Park on Wednesday.


Nepalese rescue personnel observe damaged buildings.


Chinese microbloggers and overseas websites have come up with all kinds of creative speculation as to why Presidentinwaiting Xi has gone unseen for more than a week.


Dev Jaiswal 13 of Jackson Miss gives two thumbsup as his word bravura is used in a sentence before he correctly spells it.


Ilona Bunning shows Javad left how to assist her husband Ralf Bunning at their home in Hamburg All three were laughing loudly because it took Javad a little while before he managed to dress Ralf.


Marc Edwards Charles Lunsford Professor Civil Environmental Engineering College of Engineering Virginia Tech.


Women queue for water being distributed at the UNMISS compound in Juba.


The Capitol building in Havana is pictured during sunset on Jan 23 2015 The Capitol is currently undergoing a major renovation More than 300 workers are laboring to have parts of the building open very soon.


Farm machinery outside McCall Idaho a decidedly bikefriendly town.


Police officers from around the country salute outside the church during the funeral.


Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira gone Eventually.


A police officer passes a SWAT truck in the parking lot of a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant.


Volunteers prepare Amatriciana a pasta dish at a tent camp in SantAngelo.


Tyler watches his son on the playground at Gilmor Elementary School.


Peter Brown stands in the bedroom of his late son Mattie Brown and wife Vicki run their foundation Mattie Miracle in Washington DC.


Cyrus performs at the Verizon Center in Washington as part of her Bangerz Tour.


A worker arranges a banner with the picture of late Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the Bellas Artes palace in Mexico City April 20 2014 REUTERSTomas Bravo.


Andre Russell of West Indies during the ICC Cricket World Cup warmup match between England and the West Indies at Sydney Cricket Ground The West Indies face Ireland in their opening round match on Feb 16.


Romney and his wife Ann wave to supporters at a campaign stop in Royal Oak Mich on Feb 27.


A combination photo shows a morning commuter walking in front of the China Central Television building on a smoggy Tuesday and on a sunny Wednesday.


Supporters of Nelson Mandela gather as they wait to hear news of his condition outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria.


A young woman kneels before candles and flowers placed on the stage at the Grove Church in Marysville Wash after a memorial vigil.


Hassanal Bolkiah the sultan of Brunei with his son new daughterinlaw and wife during the young couple s wedding ceremony in Brunei in April.


Pope Francis delivers a speech during a meeting with young people on Sept 22 in Cagliari Italy.


The giant sloth looms over visitors in the Ice Age Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.


Searchers dig in a marsh area just east of Oak Beach NY.


The attic that was originally going to be a teen bedroom was rehabbed as a place to hang out with friends Most of the pillows are from HomeGoods.


Students at Forest Hills Mich high School.


Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Morsi supporters shout slogans as they stand on a bridge in Cairo.


Joe and Myrna Morrissey with their two children.


Marina McGourty a dog handler for John Baker the 2011 Iditarod winner cooks salmon to feed sled dogs Read the story.


Police close off Powder Mill Road near the school.


Lebanese army soldiers stand next to their armored personnel carriers as they prepare to reopen a highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon blocked by angry protesters.


US soldiers watch as smoke billowed in the air from a damaged oil pipeline in Baiji Aug 17 2003.


Sen R Creigh Deeds gets to work as Virginia s General Assembly reconvenes at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond It was his first public appearance since he was attacked in November by his mentally ill son who then took his own life.


David Cross 66 is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the City of Sarasota.


President Obama and Vice President Biden attend a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington.


Fontanesi checks on the immersed biospheres The underwater greenhouses take advantage of the high carbon dioxide levels allowing the plants inside to grow at accelerated rates.


The Rev Al Sharpton left and news anchor Chris Matthews arrive.


In the spring Brookside Gardens is the setting for butterfly watching and picturesque weddings In the winter it s transformed into a twinkling Garden of Lights a halfmile walkthrough holiday display with more than a million LED lights molded into enchanting scenes.


Reserve Bank of India head Raghuram Rajan at a news conference in Mumbai on June 7 He announced Saturday that he is resigning.


Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland gives emotional speech.


A rebel vehicle is hit by a shell fired by soldiers loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during a battle in Ras Lanuf March 10 2011.


Sahil Rajan and Devi Mehta chat at a park Rajan s parents were in love when they married but Mehta s parents had an arranged marriage.


Adrian Gonzalez chases pigeons in the park.


Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher leaves the memorial service for former British prime minister Edward Heath at Westminster Abbey in London on Nov 8 2005.


Children play at the bottom of a snowy hill in Reston.


People use boats to access a neighborhood after flooding Tuesday in Gonzales La.


The Cuban Five which includes Ramon Labanino.


Police officers guard a gate to alFateh mosque.


Deborah Gilbert with her children left to right Steven Martens Lindsay Martens and Chris Martens.


An eighthgrade exam for Bullitt County Schools in 1912.


Young men tie their bandanas together in celebration of the announcement of criminal charges in the Gray case.


When Paula Deen visited The Washington Post in 2007 she made grits With lots of butter.


Early voters cast their ballots at the Minneapolis City Hall under the watchful eye of the statue Mississippi About 30 million people have already voted in 34 states and the District of Columbia either by mail or in person.


Obama waves to the crowd at the Carillon at Byrd Park.


Special Operations forces participate in a capabilities demonstration at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa on May 25.


York sets up his tent Though he attended camp as a kid he had nt visited a US wilderness before taking the job with the Forest Service.


Men from a neighborhood in Sumter SC gather at the Atlantic Avenue Checkers Club Most of them said they were Democrats and some said the backed Hillary Clinton who won the state s Democratic primary.


A helicopter flies over thick woods on Thursday.


Floodwater rises around a title loan store on Garners Ferry Road in Columbia South Carolina experienced a record rainfall with at least 115 inches falling Oct 3.


Chantal Tseng of Mockingbird Hill will whip up special sherry cocktails on New Year s Eve.


Chef Nigella Lawson makes a hangover cure breakfast for Bourdain at her home in London during filming for Parts Unknown.


Map by The Washington Post Sept 10 2014.


This satellite image shows significant construction underway at Fiery Cross Reef where China is building airstrips and expanding a manmade island.


Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson arrives to speak to the media at the National Press Club in Washington DC Carson talked about unfair campaign tactics leading up to the Iowa caucuses.


Bryant Hipp and Alan Taylor walk their dogs Boo foreground and Hank on Taylor s land in North Garden Va On Jan 25 while Taylor was talking with a vineyard consultant the dogs got away and were shot by a neighbor after they attacked his chickens Taylor contends that the law is outdated.


Police officers search an area at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa.


Capitals right wing Eric Fehr looks for a fan to pass a puck to after warmups.


Biden drew the line at the Tire Center Hey man I do nt need tires he said I do nt drive anymore.


The crowd at the counter after the 55th anniversary of the opening of Ben s Chili Bowl on U Street in 2013.


Actor Rico Rodriguez and his sister actress Raini Rodriguez.


Former GSA Inspector General Brian Miller former Administrator Martha Johnson conference organizer Jeff Neely former chief of staff Michael Robertson and former deputy commissioner David Foley are sworn in before testifying before Congress on the spending spree.


Model Amy Stewart in a yellow Walish Gooshe dress designed by Greg Gaten Taylor.


Maeve Binchy the bestselling Irish author saw several of her works such Circle of Friends adapted for film She died July 30 at age 72 READ Maeve Binchy obituary.


Philadelphia pitcher Mone Davis delivers in the first inning of a United States semifinal baseball game against Las Vegas at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport Pa Wednesday Aug 20 2014.


Students across the Last Frontier are off the hook when it comes to testing at least this year Pictured is the Dalton Highway heading up to Atigun Pass in Alaska s Brooks Range.


A white horse rests under an olive tree at Antica Masseria Brancati.


Rain soaks parts of a memorial to the shooting victims in Newtown.


After Obama was elected president he chose Clinton as his secretary of state Here she meets with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem.


Vyacheslav Ponomarev in the blue shirt on the stage the selfproclaimed mayor of Slovyansk speaks to about 200 residents in Slovyansk eastern Ukraine as his armed bodyguard stands behind him Ponomarev said he would compensate residents whose homes were ruined in the shelling.


The faithful take shelter from the heavy rain and strong winds as they wait for Pope Francis to perform Mass in Tacloban.


Matt Wadiak Matt Salzberg and Ilia Papas cofounders of Blue Apron in their headquarters in Manhattan s SoHo neighborhood.


Researchers studying this baboon troop in Kenya found that the animals use majority rule to make decisions about where to move.


A courtroom rendering shows Michael Carvin speaking before the justices.


Campaign 2014 Lenar Whitney Global warming is a hoax.


Polls close in Britain Conservatives just short of majority.


This undated engraving shows the scene on July 4 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.


Modigliani s La femme a leventail is one of five that a lone thief stole from the Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris in May 2010.


Griest center during training at Eglin Air Force Base.


Rescuers and police officers work around the car.


President George HW Bush talks on the phone from the Oval Office with Gates left and Brent Scowcroft.


A protester yells at police outside the police department.


Workers prepare the stage for Kaine s electionnight party at the Marriott in downtown Richmond.


Highintensity interval training and endurance training yield some of the same health and fitness benefits.


Iraqi government forces and allied militias fire weaponry from a position in the northern part of Diyala province as they take part in an assault to retake the city of Tikrit.


After interviewing several contractors who told them they d need to move out for six months and quoted them extremely high prices they opted to expand their home with a customized yet modular addition.


When it comes to dancing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said I can not keep a beat to save my life But I can follow.


Interior Ministry members stand near men who were injured in clashes during rallies in Kharkiv.


The US Department of Education led by Secretary Arne Duncan received an overall leadership score of 528 out of 100.


Private security men stand guard at the entrance of a road leading to the US consulate in Lahore on Friday It will remain closed.


Ruby Tariq spokeswoman for the AlHuda International Welfare Foundation is pictured at her office in Karachi Pakistan Terrorist Tashfeen Malik studied at the foundation s Multan branch.


John McCain speaks to reporters off the Senate floor.


The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier May 25 2014.


The Washington Redskins logo is seen on the field at FedEx Field in Landover Md.


Donald Trump second from left gestures during the Republican debate in Detroit on Thursday.


Vice President Joe Biden gets on a hybrid New Flyer metro transit bus from St Cloud in front of Union Depot in St Paul Minn Biden said projects like the restoration of an abandoned train hub in Minnesota helped bring the country back from the recession.


Former US senator Robert Bennett seen here in 2012 epitomized Utah s GOP establishment and became in 2010 the first highprofile political casualty of an antiWashington fervor surging through his party He died May 4 He was 82 Read the Robert Bennett obituary.


An Olympic sized swimming pool and diving facility are part of a huge swim and gym center in Tunica Miss Imagine that the pool is 50 percent longer and the whole thing is filled with Skittles.


Republican presidential candidate former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks at his party on primary night January 10 2012 in Manchester New Hampshire.


Senior military officials at the Pentagon and officers in command positions in the services have opposed a Senate proposal to strip commanders of the power to decide which sexualassault complaints are taken forward to trial.


Holder to launch federal probe into Garner chokehold death.


President Obama meets with senior advisers in the Oval Office Attending are from left Kathryn Ruemmler counsel to the president Mike Froman deputy national security adviser for international economics Jack Lew chief of staff Valerie Jarrett senior adviser Pete Rouse counselor to the president NancyAnn DeParle deputy chief of staff for policy David Plouffe senior adviser and Dan Pfeiffer director of communications.


University students shouts slogans during an antiterrorism rally against the recent suicide attacks in Sanaa.


Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney take the stage after Ryan addressed the Republican National Convention in Tampa.


Actress Candice Bergen sits in her first apartment on Central Park South now the home of her daughter Chloe A childhood friend says the actress was always funny and very chic and defined by being mischievous by having adventures.


Fans sneak a peek at Alex Ovechkin before the game.


George W Bush speaks from Barksdale Air Force Base on Sept 11 2001.


An Abercrombie model with a shirt on Photo credit Abercrombie Fitch.


RepTerri Sewell says campaign finance reform is needed.


Russ Feingold Democratic candidate for the Senate makes an appearance at a rally where Sen Bernie Sanders campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Madison Wis on Oct 5.


Keleaf Tate has used basketball as an outlet amid the chaos surrounding his family in the gritty KenilworthParkside neighborhood of Northeast Washington.


Security officers walk with King Salman to receive Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa alKhalifa in Riyadh.


Germany has to change completely says Hartmut Zeiss the head of mining for Vattenfall Europe The question now is how long it will take and what we can afford.


San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young right evades the grip of San Diego Chargers Leslie ONeal during the third quarter of Super Bowl XXIX in Miami Young threw for a Super Bowl record six touchdowns during the game as the 49ers won 4926.


An archive picture shows French Gen Joseph Joffre second from right congratulating and awarding medals to soldiers who fought in the Battle of Verdun in Verdun in March 1916.


A model walks the runway during a DC Fashion Week event in 2010.


Even the dining room table is a work of art Deger Cengiz s Frozen Cloth Table is made of a synthetic fiber cloth treated with an epoxy matrix.


President Obama laughs after daughter Malia right declined to pet Cobbler President Lincoln is said to have pardoned at turkey at the request of his son.


A medic inspects the damage inside Anadan Hospital sponsored by Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations.


The 1915 home in the Forest Hills neighborhood was extensively renovated and has elegant rooms for parties a gourmet kitchen and a gated private driveway that can accommodate up to 20 vehicles.


Comey No reasonable prosecutor would charge Clinton over emails.


A fashion show featuring Italian models on Aug 15.


Models present creations from the Victoria Beckham FallWinter 2015 collection during New York Fashion Week.


Lauren Budin inspects her cart full of finds at a Goodwill store in North Olmsted Ohio Budin runs Catitude Vintage and scours thrift stores to find things for the shop.


Republican House Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana.


Small dogs seized from a puppy mill in Parker County Tex wait for dinner at the Humane Society of North Texas About 30 malnourished dehydrated and diseaseridden dogs were picked up at a puppy mill operation in northwest Parker County.


The Eagles are a part of the the 39th annual Kennedy Center Honors after delaying their acceptance last year due to cofounder Glenn Frey s illness.


Miley Cyrus speaks at the 2015 amfAR Inspiration Gala New York where she did NOT burn a Bible.


Obama looks at a bone fragment from Lucy estimated to have lived 32 million years ago shown by Zeresenay Alemseged Lemseged left head of the California Academy of Sciences prior to a state dinner at the National Palace in Addis Ababa.


A Rubio supporter cheers as initial exit poll numbers are shown on projection screens during a watch party in Columbia SC.


President Obama signs the Student Aid Bill of Rights in March 2015.


Barbabietola made with beets grapes walnuts anise hyssop and anchovy at Masseria.


Antiabortion demonstrators cheer as the ruling for Hobby Lobby was announced outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 30.


Carey Mulligan wears Tiffany Co s hand ornaments for the big party scene in the film The ornaments with a daisy motif in diamonds cultured pearls and platinum are available for 75000.


The Netflix political drama House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright pictured is nominated for 11 Emmys.


Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft addresses the media in Lafayette La as he provides an update on the deadly shooting at the Grand Theatre from the night before.


Mitt Romney holds a campaign rally in Virginia Beach.


Former Mexican president to Trump You re not welcome to Mexico.


An overnight snow hit the metro area prompted area schools the federal and local governments to close on Monday but most were open Tuesday including Montgomery County schools.


Philippine Presidentelect Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his election victory celebration in Davao Philippines on June 4.


US soldiers had fired on a car when it failed to stop despite warning shots on Jan 18 2005.


Audience members react as US Rep Michele Bachmann RMinn speaks during the Conservative Principles Conference hosted by US Rep Steve King RIowa Saturday in Des Moines.


Calif King fire threatens thousands of structures.


Burt Shavitz at his property in Parkman Maine last year.


Egyptian antiMubarak protesters gather near Tahrir Square in Cairo after hearing the verdict of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak Saturday.


Ben Ashworth demonstrated some skate tricks while testing out the newly completed bowl he helped design and construct outside the Kennedy Center.


The view from Leonard Caveny s backyard deck in Fort Washington Caveny s home is one of six in danger of tumbling down the hill if the ground continues to move.


European flags are waved as thousands of protesters gather in London s Parliament Square on Saturday to take part in a March for Europe to protest against Britain s vote to leave the EU.


Matthew Robinson said his burns initially resembled rug burns but turned black by the following morning sending him to the hospital for three days.


U2 has rescheduled two shows in Paris that were postponed after the Nov 13 attacks in the city.


NASA to resume human space flight focus on Mars.


Smoke filled the air during the fireworks show on the Mall Many of the shell bursts were obscured by smoke particularly for viewers south and west of the Mall.


Police Robber shot and killed by police in Northwest Washington.


Zortan Cardenas 36 sorts goods on a delivery to a restaurant Twice a week soughtafter culinary goods from Finca Marta are stuffed into the back seat and trunk of an old Russian Lada sedan and delivered to more than two dozen toprated restaurants in the capital.


The Vince Lombardi Trophy sits alongside the helmets of the Seattle Seahawks left and New England Patriots before a press conference of the coaches of Super Bowl XLIX at the Phoenix Convention Center on Friday.


A group of seals bobs in the oilfouled waters of Prince William Sound as crude oil from the spill of the Exxon Valdez continues to move through their southern Alaska habitat.


Norodom Sihanouk and his wife Monique toast during a reception with Japanese businessmen at a Tokyo hotel in June 1992.


Angel Rodriguez was one of many senior stars on the first day of the NCAA tournament.


A member of the Free Syrian Army looks at a monitor showing surveillance footage of a street in the old city of Aleppo.


A protester symbolically condemns Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chunying.


Laverne Cox left and Gabrielle Union present the award for best actor at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday June 28 2015 in Los Angeles.


During a training exercise roleplaying attackers storm a makebelieve US consulate.


An image from a video shows 6monthold Zyla St Onge waterskiing across Lake Silver in Winter Haven Fla on May 19.


Tim Tebow listens to quarterback talk during the second half of the Jets preseason opener.


Republican Mark Amodei Democrat Kate Marshall and American Independent Tim Fasano face off at a debate in Reno.


A record of Greenland mass loss based on satellite data from 2002 to the present day Data are in gigatons or GT equivalent to 1 billion metric tons.


Matthew McConaughey accepts the Oscar for best actor for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.


The hunt had quite a few challenges Hunters were not allowed in the fiercely protected Everglades National Park 40 percent of the swamp Of the wildlife management areas left only 10 percent of terrain was accessible except by airboat from which it s extremely hard to spot a python.


The Moreno family s lawsuit says their son was accused of rape on a forum and mass bombing threats were posted under his name his parents house was vandalized he received death threats his car was broken into and his mother s job was put in jeopardy.


Chelsea Clinton onstage during the Clinton Global Citizens awards ceremony for the Clinton Global Initiative.


A general view of the Lopez Palace is seen from a restaurant in Asuncion Paraguay October 19 2015 The headquarters of the Paraguay s president was illuminated in pink to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


Anwar Mohammed Gargash the United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs takes a photo of himself with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Lima Peru as they wait to be photographed for the official group picture during a summit of heads of state and government representatives from South American and Arab countries.


Marlins shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria leaps over Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond after throwing to first to complete a double play in the seventh.


Eddie Redmayne The Theory Of Everything.


The coffin bearing the body of a pilot killed when Turkey shot down a Russian jet is carried to Ankara on Sunday.


An Islamic State militant distributes gifts to students at a school in Mosul Iraq in January 2015.


View Photo Gallery Design House 2010 Twenty local design firms a mix of established names and firsttimers have redecorated Wirelawn a more than 100yearold country Georgian house which has been the location of an inaugural ball an embassy and the site of a 1974 show house.


Teie first composed music for monkeys and he s interested in composing music for other species Cats however offered the possibility of more commercial success.


People walk along a street next to the city s boardwalk.


A Hindu devotee takes a dip at Sangam in Allahabad The Maha Kumbh Mela alternates between the cities of Nasik Allahabad Ujjain and Haridwar every three years the Maha Kumbh Mela is held every 12 years in Allahabad.


A helicopter lands near a mountain in the village of Manang where trekkers are still missing in the wake of a blizzard.


What No conditioner No soy milk Hesse assesses the amenities of a 805anight hotel room.


Students study in a library on the campus of Howard University.


Western State Hospital moved into a new building in Staunton Va that is a monument to deinstitutionalization.


Parks and recreation director John Williams inspects a fence at Greenwood Cemetery in Waco Tex that segregated black and white graves for generations.


US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shakes hands with Chilean Foreign Minister Ismale Huerta Diaz during break in the Latin Foreign Ministers Conference in Mexico City Feb 22 1974.


Rob Serpa 37 of the District and Erich Sommerfeldt 34 of Silver Spring Md place their hands over their hearts during the national anthem.


Randy Hillard s life was saved by a drug that has cost 1 million over the last couple years to keep him alive He s now on an FDA panel that approved the first in a new class of lifesaving drugs that are much cheaper.


Washington and actor David Moscow then her fiance at a Creative Coalition benefit in Beverly Hills in 2006.


Gray s death commemorated here and the unrest that followed was part of the impetus for starting a new Safe Streets post in Sandtown.


DC police are asking for the public s help in finding six persons and a vehicle of interest in connection with a homicide that occurred Nov 17 in the 1600 block of New York Avenue NE.


Children peek out from their makeshift shelter in Tacloban.


Karl Alzner goes down as Buffalo s Nathan Gerbe tries to gain control of the puck.


Hillary Clinton speaks to North Carolina voters at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds Exposition Center in Raleigh on June 22.


Floyd Mayweather Jr in the ring before the fight.


Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers deploy from a staging area very close to the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel.


Metro riders use the escalators in the Gallery PlaceChinatown Metro station.


Xu Dandan a cofounder of 3W Coffee attends a meeting in Beijing Xu started the coffeehouse as a place for startups and entrepreneurs to huddle and incubate ideas.


Belgium s captain Vincent Kompany center takes part in a training session in Salvador Brazil the day before the World Cup round of 16 soccer match against the US.


Shooting at 14th Street near Columbia Road in Columbia Heights.


Shelly Sterling with her husband former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2011.


A worker takes a nap beside a fast food restaurant in Madrid in 2012.


The fourbedroom sixbathroom estate at 820 Herbert Springs Rd in Alexandria is listing for 695 million.


A recent sunrise view of the Washington Monument.


On the agenda job creation road improvements and raising academic standards.


In this May 12 2014 file photo former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks in New York Democrats on Thursday assailed Giuliani for questioning President Obama s love of country and urged the potential field of Republican presidential candidates to rebuke his comments Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said at the start of the DNC s winter meeting that now is the time for Republican leaders to stop this nonsense.


From left characters in Sausage Party voiced by Kristen Wiig Seth Rogen Ed Norton and David Krumholtz.


On Friday Cruz addressed religious conservatives in Iowa This weekend his message went out to pastors nationwide.


The unmanned SpaceX Dragon cargo ship after it arrived at the International Space Station.


People work in a brick factory at the outskirts of Rangoon.


ThenCapt Louis Zamperini former Olympic track star who survived 47 days on a life raft in the Pacific when his bomber crashed greets his wife to be Cynthia Applewhite in 1946.


Gray takes a phone call during an event at Wilson High School in the District The mayor s staff lacks the star power schools chancellor Michelle A Rhee transportation director Gabe Klein of the administration of his predecessor Adrian Fenty But he seems to be all right with that saying there is little elbowing in his administration for the spotlight.


At the Flood Christian Church service the Rev Al Sharpton said What happened here Monday was just a comma not the end of the sentence.


Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker greets constituents.


Snowden s girlfriend Lindsay Mills said she was in shock over Snowden s sudden departure from Hawaii where they lived to Hong Kong.


Lots of water draining very fast at 1st and V NW.


A map of the area where an Apr 16 water main break occurred.


Design Within Reach s Collator an accordion metal file can be folded away when not in use.


Pope Francis is given a pope doll as he greets wellwishers at the airport.


Josefa Vida Bermudez strains to watch her 19yearold son Alejandro Gea Vida graduate from high school in Cordoba The youngest in a family where no single member has a fulltime job Alejandro is reapplying for financial aid at the University of Granada the closest college with a psychology program after his earlier application was rejected.


Rookie center fielder Trea Turner misjudges a hit by the Dodgers Justin Turner in the seventh.


Daughter Shavondra Harkless 8 covers her eyes with embarrassment and delight as her dad hugs her.


Mark Maraj left and Destiny Barnes right attend a candlelight vigil for their daughter Dynesti Maraj 2 who was fatally struck by a car in Bowie.


Shot of the Earth looking forward on the aircraft The rear view mirror is used to detect contrails deadly when flying over hostile territory.


Earthquake survivor Pemba Tamang is carried away.


Marathon runner Nathan Finney of Boston and his daughter Mckenna 5 gather with others ahead of an interfaith service at Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston.


Prince Harry greets crowd at Sydney Opera House.


Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.


People and media line up at the Union Buildings in Pretoria Mandela s remains will be transported from the mortuary to the government buildings each morning for three days.


Rehabilitators clean a northern gannet seabird at a rescue center facility set up by the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fort Jackson La.


Salim Ajarrag center teases Surafel Adere left an Ethiopian immigrant and a senior at TC Williams High School at a healthcare profession club after school in Alexandria.


Rep Bruce Braley the Democratic candidate for Senate arrives at the home of Rick and Robin Chambers to thank volunteers in Iowa City.


GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney blasted the Obama administration for a statement issued by the US Embassy in Cairo that the Republican nominee argued amounted to America apologizing to the rest of the world The statement which condemned the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims was issued before protesters stormed the embassy not afterward Read more from Mitt Romney s worst week in Washington.


Bill Simmons arrives at the world premiere of Million Dollar Arm at El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on May 6 2014.


In one of his final roles Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Gunther Bachmann a German spy trying to crack a terror case Michael OSullivan writes Although the cast is uniformly fine Hoffman shines in a role that demands not showmanship but a kind of complexity and contradiction that can be rendered only through the kind of dull character details that he excelled in accumulating them from the inside out Read the full review.


Bradlee in the composing room of The Post looks at an early version of the layout for the next day s first edition The headline declares Nixon Resigns.


Clothing donated for an expected influx of Syrian refugees is sorted by volunteers in Toronto on Tuesday.


Volunteers drenched from fire sprinklers assist in clearing broken glass outside a burned and looted shop.


Can he get a slice of humble pie with that burrito bowl.


The Kigali Marriott Hotel is hoping to benefit from Rwanda s fastgrowing tourism industry.


Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Salomon says Means died Oct 22 at his ranch in Porcupine SD Means who was 72 helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee reveled in stirring up attention and appeared in Hollywood films including The Last of the Mohicans READ Russell Means obituary.


Ben Carson visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.


Attendants prepare to serve tea during before the party congress at the Great Hall of the People.


Kamilah a Malayan Flying Fox is helping educate kids about bats role as pollinators.


Satellite image from NASA showing light pollution in MidAtlantic from 2012.


View Photo Gallery The former Pennsylvania senator is seeking the Republican presidential nomination.


The World Health Organization this year changed its maximum daily recommended intake of sugar for the average adult to 25 grams There are approximately 25 grams of added sugar in 154 Sour Patch Kids The average American consumes about 110 grams of sugar a day.


Princeton students protest inside Nassau Hall Thursday during a sitin.


Police stop a car and direct the driver to show his hands after coming from the direction of a police shooting on Airline Highway The driver s car was searched his identification was checked and he was allowed to go.


A minke whale on the deck of a whaling ship.


Apocalypse is a new roller coaster opening at Six Flags America.


Malaysian PM Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.


These people protesting illegal immigration now represent the majority of Republicans.


Donald Trump and his family prepare to cut the ribbon.


US first lady Laura Bush checks out a headscarf presented to her by Samia alAmoudi left during participation in a Breaking the Silence coffee with a Cancer Survivors Group on Oct 24 2007 in Jeddah Saudi Arabia.


Ben Toby of Newtown visits a memorial to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims during heavy rain in the town.


This frame grab from Four Corners shows a teenage boy sitting in a cell at a youth detention center in the Northern Territory city of Darwin.


A Tatar at a makeshift shelter on the outskirts of Simferopol Crimea s capital watches out for any Russia supporters or proRussian vigilantes Ukraine s Crimea region has historical ties to Russia and Tatars living in Crimea fear what will happen after Sunday s referendum on annexation.


Soldiers from the Caracal battalion prepare for a graduation march near near Azoz Israel on the IsraeliEgyptian border on Sept 3 2014 The coed combat battalion was formed in 2004.


Blossoms and the Jefferson Memorial on Monday April 13 2015.


Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah center with his bodyguards makes a rare public appearance as he greets his supporters at an antiUS rally in Beirut s southern suburbs Nasrallah addressed the tens of thousands of marchers protesting against a video that mocks the prophet Muhammad.


Police salute during the playing of the national anthem at the start of the funeral.


Sanders We are going to fight for every last vote.


Lydia Zaloga of Slovokian descent mistakenly receives someone else s US citizenship papers during the naturalization ceremony.


Chris Mosier is a duathlete and the first trans member of a United States national team.


Miami sophomore guard Shane Larkin shoots over Pacific junior forward Tony Gill during their firstround game Friday in Austin Texas Miami won 7849.


Darth Vader accepts the Ultimate Villain award from Star Wars creator George Lucas during the 2011 Scream Awards on Oct 15 2011 in Los Angeles.


In the spring of 2010 a sheik in the government of Qatar began talks with the US consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton aboev about developing a plan to build a cyberoperations center.


Family and friends of those killed in the riot at the soccer stadium wait outside Zeinhom morgue in Cairo.


One of the girls fixes her hair before warming up for the game.


Bitcoins Coming soon to a campaign near you.


Ike De La Cruz of Baltimore sports flowers in his hair at the Capital Pride Festival.


A woman and a child walk past election flags displayed along a Hong Kong street Hong Kong residents went to the polls in September for legislative elections seen as a crucial test for the Beijingbacked government as calls for full democracy grow and disenchantment with Chinese rule surges.


Smoke rises in the sky after a suicide car bomb attack in Kunduz province Feb 10 Taliban insurgents launched an attack on a police headquarters in northern Afghanistan.


Defense Secretary Ashton B Carter is under pressure to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba seen here in 2014 by the time President Obama leaves office.


Military personnel and workers walk along the perimeter of the Washington Navy Yard The Washington Navy Yard began returning to nearly normal operations three days after it was the scene of a mass shooting in which a gunman killed 12 people.


From left to right Democratic presidential hopefuls former Sen John Edwards Sen Barack Obama New Mexico Gov Bill Richardson Sen Hillary Clinton Sen Joseph Biden and Sen Christopher Dodd are seen before the Des Moines Register Democratic Presidential Debate in Johnston Iowa Thursday Dec13 2007.


Han Suyin a prolific Eurasian author who generated controversy with her hagiographic view of China s Cultural Revolution and who may be most remembered for her bestselling semiautobiographical novel that inspired the Hollywood melodrama Love Is a ManySplendored Thing died Nov 2 at 95 READ Han Suyin obituary.


An artist s rendition of the proposed new Tysons Corner skyline with three buildings on the east side of Route 123 near Tysons I The Tysons Central Metro station is across the street.


Greg Merson left and Jesse Sylvia watch play during the World Series of Poker Final Table.


Sister Constance Veit presents a handcrafted rose she made with a palm leaf to Martha de Filippi 93 who lives at the Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence in the District The Little Sisters of the Poor are part of a Supreme Court case on contraception that is being heard Wednesday.


Motorists during heavy snow fall along I295 south on Saturday Feb 21 2015.


Baird s wrecked Mercury Grand Marquis sedan in an impound lot in Sterling Va.


Rick Santorum before the South Carolina primary.


Police officers view the remains of a building in Amatrice.


Knocking on doors in Woodbridge Tefere Gebre AFLCIO executive vice president chats with voter Michael Brown about Virginia s proposed righttowork amendment.


Audience members listen as Malala Yousafzai talks about the Taliban attack on her Most are active in a volunteer program called Girl Up which works through the United Nations to promote opportunities and leadership development for girls around the world.


Metro has hired Patrick Lavin a top New York City subway inspector as its chief safety officer filling a critical vacancy in the beleaguered transit agency.


White House press secretary Jay CarneyREUTERSKevin Lamarque.


Lauren and Kevin Russell owners of Severna Parkbased Russell Mackenna in their kitchen with their three daughters The bright space features chalkboards for notes and the girls scribbles Read more here.


Sahil Rajan and Devi Mehta stroll through the Potomac neighborhood where Rajan grew up with their daughter Diya.


Las Vegas Sands Corp CEO Sheldon Adelson testifies in Clark County district court in Las Vegas on April 5.


Christine Lagarde managing director of the International Monetary Fund speaks with Klaus Regling chair of the European Financial Stability Facility during a meeting of euro zone finance ministers in Brussels.


Aidan Parisi left gives a highfive to Tao Marwell after the counterprotest Nearly 1000 students had signed up for the counterprotest on Facebook.


Researchers spotted an awesome polar bear dive and that s not good.


Chipotle closes store after workers fall sick.


A woman stands outside her yurt in the village of Bozai Gumbaz part of Afghanistan s Wakhan Corridor In recent years it has become common for the minority ethnic Kyrgyz to buy satellite dishes such as the one here from traveling salesman to gain access to the outside world The Kyrgyz in the area have been spared the violence that has plagued the rest of Afghanistan but they ve also done without the burst of foreign aid that helped reconstruct the poor nation.


A mosiac of the image of the comet taken on Nov 7.


Brooklyn writer D Foy just wanted a nice suit.


Actoresses Olivia Wilde Naomi Watts and photographer Mario Testino attend the Michael Kors Collection spring 2016 fashion show.


People om San Salvador march carrying portraits of Romero marking the 31st anniversary of his death on March 24 2011.


A family member of one of the two girls killed in the plane crash Saturday prepares to get on a bus to Shanghai from which she will leave for the United States in Quzhou Zhejiang province.


Greek leftist protesters hold a banner during a demonstration against the European Union as eurozone leaders struck a deal on a bailout for debtstricken Greece.


Colombian soldiers patrolling the town of Planadas.


President Barack Obama made the first public appearance of his 2011 vacation Monday stopping by one of his favorite local shops for a Hawaiian snow cone known as shave ice.


Delegates hold Hillary signs while cheering.


Newport Mayor Henry Winthrop is joined by Chafee during a ribboncutting ceremony officially reopening the Cliff Walk in Newport Parts of the tourist attraction had been damaged by Superstorm Sandy two years earlier.


Activists stage a commemorative demonstration at the Peace Wall in Paris to mark the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima The signs read Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.


A campus event at Florida International University in 2011.


Ted Cruz Donald J Trump wo nt take on the PC police Campaign 2016.


The Holland Tunnel between New York City and New Jersey was desolate and later shut down for weather conditions.


A Canadian military unit marches in an August parade marking Polish Armed Forces Day in Warsaw.


A photograph of Anne Frank with her father Otto and sister Margot displayed alongside yellow stars worn by Dutch Jews.


Are you ready for some football NFL owners and players expect to finish a labor agreement next week in time to preserve a full preseason Hank Williams Jr above recorded his traditional promo for Monday Night Football this week.


Two wrestlers compete during the 2016 World Sumo Championship in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia All photos were taken July 30 or 31.


Wizards guard Bradley Beal shoots a three over Hawks center Al Horford in the second half.


A shop assistant displays a DVD copy of Arnold Schwarzenegger s Terminator in a Beijing store on Nov 15 2005 Fans of the series will find the name of China s campaign to catch corrupt officials who have fled abroad quite familiar.


An undated photo provided by Ronald Boisvert shows his dog Fox who went missing on Friday.


Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli speaks in Richmond in this May 18 file photo Cuccinelli is urging Gov Robert F McDonnell to call a special session regarding the state s ethics laws.


Alexei carries a stray dog from a safe house to his car in Sochi.


The Rev Peter Schell places the sign of the cross on Roberta Francis Freeman inside Union Station Lent serves as a period of preparation ahead of Holy Week marking the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.


US Army Maj Steve SnyderHill right a gay rights activist addresses opponents of Indiana Senate Bill 101 the Religious Freedom Restoration Act during a demonstration in Indianapolis on Saturday April 4 2015 Protesters are pushing for a state law that specifically bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.


Burnt vehicles are pictured in front of the damaged the Doctors Without Bordersbacked alQuds hospital after it was hit by airstrikes in a rebelheld area of Syria s Aleppo April 28 2016.


Ted Cruz s big announcement in 3 minutes.


A woman walks past a wall promoting Venezuela s opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in Caracas.


The new Amazon series Good Girls Revolt explores sexual discrimination at a newsmagazine in the late 1960s.


Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne Ind on May 1.


French soldiers talk under a French flag in a hangar at the Malian army air base in Bamako.


A different look at BBVA Compass Stadium.


Men carry the coffin of Yassine Laabidi who fatally shot foreign tourists at the Bardo museum in Tunis.


Man stands next to fish cuts at a restaurant in El Yagual in Venezuela.


A bee bearing pollen baskets dives into an East Indian Lotus at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington DC on July 25 Lotus blossoms here can range between 9 and 12 inches.


Bryan Fletcher had acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnosed before he was 3 so his youth was filled with training and treatment In 2012 he won a prestigious World Cup event in Oslo the heart of Nordic combined country.


Zenebech Restaurant the popular Ethiopian eatery in Shaw is expected to close Monday.


O First lady Michelle Obama speaks to students at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington.


A copy of the Houston Chronicle sits on the curb next to floodsoaked carpet padding in Houston.


Officer flips and drags student at Spring Valley High School.


Palestinians inspect the rubble of a house after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City.


Julia Lipnitskaia performs in the figure skating ladies short program.


Protesters shout against security forces during the clearing of a sitin near Cairo at alNahda Square.


Defense Secretary Leon E Panetta visits Asadullah Khalid the head of Afghanistan s intelligence agency who was wounded in Afghanistan Dec 5 and arrived at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment.


The Obama administration may have sent back more than a group of intelligence agents.


Mamani has a dozen or so buildings currently under construction Most of his buildings have cost between 300000 and 600000 he said.


Two things stand between Conley and what could well be her last chance to win an Olympic medal One is the clock and she knows she can beat it The other is a bloodsucking critter named Aedes a globetrotting mosquito with a worldclass bite.


Republican Donald Trump speaks in the Woodlands Tex.


The rowhouses in Bloomingdale DC are so stately that they were incorporated into the opening credits of Netflix s House of Cards.


Vice President Biden left greets mourners near the casket of his son Beau.


A relative of Jabari cries as he talks on his phone Jabari had long been at the top of Israel s mostwanted list Israel blamed him for the 2006 kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit whose release in 2011 Jabari helped negotiate.


University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas.


President Barack Obama swings to hit the ball out of a sand trap while playing golf at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown Mass on the island of Martha s Vineyard Friday Aug 19 2011.


The author at age 63 with her mother who was then 93.


President Obama addresses the 67th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters.


A lifesize Santa Claus doll plays saxophone in Beijing.


Jason Miskiri watches basketball on television in 1999.


A visitor looks at a portrait of Russia s President Vladimir Putin by artist Konstantin Altunin during the Leaders exhibition in central St Petersburg.


Young people ponder their moves at the Som Chess Academy in Katwe Uganda on a recent afternoon Phiona Mutesi the prodigy whose story is told in Disney s Queen of Katwe started playing at the center 11 years ago when she was about 9.


Prince William Commonwealth s Attorney Paul Ebert.


Water riots shut down India s tech capital.


Trump addresses the crowd at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.


This photo released by Knox County Schools shows Zaevion Dobson 15 who was shot to death Dec 17 in Knoxville Tenn.


A bear and her cubs at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.


Rescuers gather bodies after the fishing boat capsized off the Libyan coast.


An artist s impression of the newlydiscovered planet Kepler 16b which like the planet Tatooine in the movie Star Wars orbits twin suns.


Paul Ryan is the right person to lead our team at this time Boehner said Wednesday.


Former California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger poses next to his gubernatorial portrait.


NanoPE as seen under a scanning electron microscope.


Decision day is near for Sen Marco Rubio.


Yellow police tape strung Monday to alert passersby lingers in front of the entrance to the LEnfant Plaza station.


An antigovernment protester throws a stone during clashes with riot police outside Ukraine s parliament in Kiev.


Menendez in March I m not going anywhere.


A man rides his bike past a Nigerian military tank in Gwoza When Nigerian troops retook Gwoza after a lengthy firefight they began sifting through what was left of the city looking for clues that might help them understand Boko Haram.


A trader gambling on the outcome of the 2016 elections consults the PredictIt website part of the legal predictions market that academic researchers use to gauge the electoral cycle.


Protesters lie in the middle of Constitution Avenue during a protest at rush hour in Washington.


Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz left and Vice President Joe Biden tour the headquarters of energy company PECO in Philadelphia on April 21.


Chu Tsering 47 poses for a portrait among the mountains surrounding China s Xiaosumang township in late May while looking for prized caterpillar fungus with his family.


A thunderstorm is seen northwest of the Las Vegas Strip The monsoon storm dropped heavy rain and hail in parts of the valley causing street flooding and power outages.


Bradley Cooper wore a Tom Ford tuxedo and Chopard watch.