Jiang Hui a relative of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that went missing on March 8 watches news about the missing AirAsia flight at his house in Beijing.


An Israeli drops his ballot into the ballot box as he votes in the Israeli election at a school polling station in Tel Aviv.


A Dallas police officer hugs a man following a prayer circle after a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas on Sunday.


Maria aka the Gentle Whisperer produces YouTube videos that induce autonomous sensory meridian response.


Delegates recite the Pledge of Allegiance.


Michael McQueen died in September 2006 of a gunshot wound to the head The man accused of killing him Gary Smith is being tried again for murder The two men served together in the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and were roommates in Gaithersburg where McQueen was found dead.


President Obama applauds as Strong concludes her remarks.


Stephen Colbert says Christie is a real conservative who believes that government is the problem even if he has to create the problems himself.


Shiite fighters from Saraya alSalam clash with Islamic State militants in Jurf alSakhar.


Protesters demonstrate in front of police officers wearing riot gear.


Prince and his wife Mayte arrive at the De BeersVersace Diamonds Are Forever charity fashion event in London.


Dingell right stumps for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero during a rally at Washtenaw County s Democratic headquarters in Ann Arbor Mich.


Mindy Seay with Lincoln after his heart transplant.


Former president Bill Clinton addresses students in Nairobi on Saturday He and daughter Chelsea are on a nineday tour of Clinton Foundation projects in Africa.


A barren field with a failing fence still serves as a soccer pitch in Sadr City.


Much of the work on the Metro Silver Line is now inside the stations Drivers on the eastbound Dulles Toll Road pass under a new pedestrian bridge where workers are installing triangleshaped wind screens.


Satellite image of developing Noreaster.


A glacier stands behind a stream in Kangerlussuaq.


Hillary Clinton says Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin.


This is how the great butt fumble of 2012 ended for Mark Sanchez.


The NYC bar that ignited the LGBT liberation movement pays tribute to Orlando.


New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie waits to be introduced at a campaign event in Pitman NJ.


Nora Clouse left and Michelle Miller of Stevensville Md highfive each other after being married at Black Walnut Point Inn on Tilghman Island Md.


Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets people at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek during a rally in Raleigh NC.


The wedding of Ben Costa and KalenaAlston Griffin in 2011 in Forest Glen Md.


Newly displaced people run after they jumped over a wall to get humanitarian packages at a processing center in Qayyara as smoke rises from a burning oil refinery south of Mosul Iraq Oct 25 2016 REUTERSZohra Bensemra.


Andrea Barron leads the interfaith Seder dinner as Rizwan Jaka and others following along at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society.


A diver swims with a turtle in the Coral Sea An alliance of environmentalists marine scientists and former navy officials asked the Australian government in September 2008 to establish a vast conservation area in the Coral Sea to protect marine animals and reefs as well as World War II history.


Lori Love Shipe 52 of Warrenton is charged with driving under the influence in a fatal crash on Saturday night.


Tourists sit on a bus as they tour the city as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana.


Johnny Depp right and Amber Heard center leave the Southport Magistrates Court in Southport on the Gold Coast Australia.


White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough left greets returning White House employees outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House.


Malian soldiers look at open suitcases in front of the hotel.


DEA Cocaine Intelligence Unit patch Photo courtesy of Nathan Zubke.


The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.


Demonstrators march through the streets of WinstonSalem NC on July 13 2015 after the beginning of a federal voting rights trial challenging a 2013 state law.


Supporters listen to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a campaign rally in Acarigua in the state of Portuguesa.


Despite the lack of threats to Butler Intermediate High School or any other campus in the district officials acted quickly to hire guards.


Obama listens during a joint ratification of the Paris climate change agreement with China.


Senate Minority Leader Richard L Saslaw DFairfax looks at his computer screen during presentation of the Senate budget bill in February His former campaign treasurer pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing 653000 from him.


This photo provided by Netflix shows Idris Elba as Commandant in the Netflix original film Beasts of No Nation directed by Cary Fukunaga.


The yellowbellied water snake at the Cape Girardeau Mo Conservation Nature Center gave birth sans male snake.


Ronald and Nancy Reagan at his second swearingin ceremony.


Early morning in AlJdeideh the Christian quarter.


A family photo shows Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey She was working at a Save the Children specialist Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone in November.


Katy Weaver of Arlington watches fireworks from the POV lounge at the W Washington DC hotel.


Edith Rikuris lived next door to Kitson Jazynka in Washington DC.


Not all of South Beach s hotels were Art Deco palaces here Andy catches two guests of the Dorothy Hotel in South Florida s bright lateafternoon sun.


Ryan Higa launched his YouTube channel nigahiga in 2006 when he was in high school Higa explained in a video that his channel s name is made up of his last name and the Japanese word for rant which is niga Higa s channel which features a lot of humorous videos has more than 52 million subscribers and about 12 billion video views making it the secondmost subscribed to channel on YouTube.


Shaun White of the United States fails to make clean contact at the top of the halfpipe during a run in the men s final of the snowboarding event.


Male Sumatran tiger cub Bandar crawls out of a moat at the Smithsonian s National Zoo.


Some hundreds of demonstrators shout anti government slogans during an opposition rally in Moscow on Sunday May 5 2013.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in white hat boards his plane in Texas in July.


One of the hotel s 1126 guest rooms There are also 49 suites.


Roman Lyagin the head of the separatists election commission in Donetsk back and Denis Pushilin front a separatist leader discuss the referendum in Donetsk Ukraine ProRussian militants claimed a runaway victory in eastern Ukraine s controversial selfrule vote Both the European Union and the Obama administration said they would not recognize the results of the balloting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions which they called illegal.


TV s Science Guy Bill Nye speaks during a debate on evolution with Creation Museum head Ken Ham on Feb 4 2014 in Petersburg Ky.


A fox center played by Parker Fendig 9 prepares to go onstage.


A classic Chickfila s plain chicken sandwich.


Authorities at the Elmwood Park NJ home where the bodies of an elderly couple were found on Monday.


Vincent Gray during his 2010 mayoral campaign Three of the 12 members of the city council called for Gray to resign on July 11 after it was revealed that supporters essentially ran a shadow campaign on his behalf during the 2010 Democratic primary race against thenMayor Adrian M Fenty and did not properly report financial contributions Read more from Vincent Gray s worst week in Washington.


Weirdest moments from the Fox News Detroit debate.


Germany s Thomas Mueller scores against Brazil.


A piping plover stands on the shore of Lake Ontario in Jefferson County NY.


Free Syrian Army fighters run during a fight with forces loyal to Assad at Menagh the military airport north of Aleppo On Thursday Lakhdar Brahimi the joint UNArab League envoy to Syria called for real change to end 21 months of conflict and said a transitional government with full powers must be established to rule the country until new elections.


Arizona State University President Michael M Crow on the university s main campus in Tempe Ariz in 2007 The school is charting new terrority by offering a freshmanyear curriculum online.


Kiefer hits mitts as a participant in Rock Steady Boxing a program founded by an earlyonset Parkinsonian that operates in 89 sites around the United States Participants hit punching bags and other equipment and execute other boxing drills but they do not receive blows.


US Customs seized 20 raw Chinese Silkie chickens from a passenger s luggage at Dulles International Airport The photo has gone viral.


Manhunt The TenYear Search for Bin Laden from 911 to Abbottabad by Peter L Bergen.


A man celebrates the arrival of Jordanian King Abdullah as he arrives to pay his respects Mourners shouted Long live his majesty the king Local youths stood and told Abdullah that they wanted to join his army and die as martyrs too.


Sandra Day OConnor in Washington in 1981.


Hayet Essaadi stands in the bedroom of her son Ayman Essaadi 17 in October at the family home in Zagouan Tunisia Ayman is now in jail after he tried unsuccessfully to detonate a bomb as a suicide bomber.


Do your money priorities line up A class can help couples figure that out before walking down the aisle.


Maximilian Meyer of Germany is tackled by Gabriel Jesus of Brazil during the men s soccer final.


President Obama walks with first lady Michelle Obama as they arrive at the presidential palace in Dakar.


Robert Griffin III may be benched but he still has value to the Redskins and other NFL teams.


View Photo Gallery A look at Howard University s and the University of the District of Columbia s 2012 commencements held on Saturday May 12.


Gandolfini his wife Deborah Lin and his son attend Cirque du Soleil s IRIS A Journey Through the World of Cinema at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.


In 2009 and 2010 the singer became a frequent face in Washington In 2009 he performed to a thrilled crowd at FedEx Field home of the Washington Redskins Read the review Paul McCartney still a performer with no peer.


Katie Ledecky right is all smiles after swimming to her first Olympic gold medal Ledecky swam the secondfastest time in history 053 seconds off the world record held by thirdplace finisher Rebecca Adlington left of Britain.


Simona Halep of Romania reaches for a forehand return against Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan Halep won 63 60.


Marco Rubio 15 Questions Marco Wo nt Be Asked at the Debate.


Miley Cyrus at the MTV Video Music Awards in Brooklyn in 2013.


Democratic Party volunteers set up for the Maryland primary election at Temple Emanuel in Kensington Md.


Pakistani security officials escort Sharbat Gula.


Former Soviet servicemen take part in celebrations to mark Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin.


Pedestrians walk past a Gap store in San Francisco.


From left French President Francois Hollande US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos US Ambassador to France Jane D Hartley US Airman Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler a senior at Sacramento University in California leave the Elysee Palace in Paris Skarlatos Stone and Sadler were awarded the French Legion of Honor by Hollande.


The mountain village of Lukomir is illuminated by moonlight as its residents prepare to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid alAdha on Thursday.


The bacteria eat a compound widely used in plastic bottles and clothing.


Emergency vehicles sit outside the mine.


Afghan men gather around as Farkhunda s body is set on fire in Kabul.


Andrea Bradley is facing murder and other charges in the killing of her 2yearold daughter Glenara Bates.


Filmmakers Ken Burns left and Artemis Joukowsky greet attendees after the screening of Defying the Nazis The Sharps War at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.


One of the teams works on a design plan Fairfax County officials teamed with architects and designers in Vienna Va on Wednesday to brainstorm about ways to make the silver isle track trellises more appealing.


From left Medals of Honor for the Army Air Force and Navy.


People stand with their hands up as officers advance.


This catio also made the annual Portland tour last year.


A family member of a passenger on board the Malaysia Airlines flight leaves after a routine briefing given by the Malaysian government and the military s representatives at a hotel in Beijing.


Just because it s ugly does nt mean it is nt edible.


Yasmin RomeroLatin stands in front of the construction site When the Deauville tenants formed an association in 2002 to better advocate for themselves RomeroLatin now an ANC commissioner was its president.


In Flappers Judith Mackrell profiles six iconoclastic women who made the 1920s sizzle.


JK Simmons arrives at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.


Franklin arrives at the premiere of the CBS show Swingtown in 2008 She made her deepest early impression in the 1970 Broadway musical Applause for which she earned a Tony nomination for best featured actress in a musical.


Nepal earthquake kills dozens triggers panic.


Martin Greenfield manages workflow production with Kai Earthsong.


Soldiers with Dwekh Nawsha observe nearby Islamic State positions in Baqofa Iraq.


Nellie s will show every football game on Thursday but more importan every customer gets a free slice of pie.


Picasso s 1938 painting Maya and the Doll was stolen from the home of the painter s granddaughter Diana WidmaierPicasso in February 2007.


In Fort Washington Lanier watches a team of detectives and archaeologists search for the remains of Shaquita Bell a DC woman who had been missing for 12 years and whose exboyfriend was charged with killing her.


Abe Hagenston 42 is a homeless man living in Detroit who accepts donations via credit card He also has a website where people can hire him for odd jobs.


A view of the Tidal Basin as the storm departs f5 ISO 50 5 seconds.


Malaysia s Lee Chong Wei returns a shot to China s Lin Dan during a badminton singles semifinal Topseeded Lee won the match 21.


School quality influences neighborhood choice and home values.


Beach and Beans with seafood and vegetables.


President Obama and Canada s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following their bilateral meeting at the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila.


Here s what a database of complaints against Chicago police officers shows.


Actress Emily Blunt wearing Michael Kors and actor John Krasinski.


Jim Dinegar president of the Greater Washington Board of Trade was among those presenting their views to the Metro board on the qualities most desirable in a general manager.


The SoyuzFG rocket booster with TMA07M spaceship carrying US astronaut Thomas Marshburn Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to the International Space Station blasts off from the Russianleased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.


A crowd cheers and waves Vatican flags while awaiting the pope s arrival.


A screenshot of the homepage of Expresso.


Frager s fire evokes emotional reaction in DC.


Walkers in AMC s hit zombie show The Walking Dead.


Bush and Trump clash over campaign funding.


Members of the LGBT community in Thailand gather in front of a bar in Bangkok during a vigil for victims.


A plaque with the misspelled name of sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady is seen on one of the bronze monuments of the Grant Memorial.


Fans cheer for Los Cocodrilos during the game as a popcorn vendor makes his way through the crowd A bag of popcorn costs less than a quarter.


Trump has since turned the mansion with its winding staircase into a luxury bed and breakfast.


In this artist s illustration the young Sunlike star Kappa Ceti is blotched with large starspots a sign of its high level of magnetic activity.


In a tweet Trump said Marco Rubio had no idea what he was doing on Chris Wallace show Said Iraq was not a mistake He looked clueless.


President Barack Obama frowns as he speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Wednesday April 17 2013 about a bill to expand background checks on guns that was defeated in the Senate.


The flagship destination may be Nationals Park but the heart of Capital Riverfront is the Yards development by Forest City Washington which is leading the emergence of all other property types Rents per square foot 4388 office 3018 retail apartment not available.


When is Cheryl s birthday An animated solution.


Debates are starting to look a lot like game shows.


People leave Walt Disney World during a heavy rainfall after the Orlando theme park closed in preparation for the landfall of Hurricane Matthew Some 25 million people in the Southeast were ordered to evacuate as the storm bore down on Florida.


Syrian refugee men stop water from entering their tents at a temporary refugee camp in Marj.


DC and Montgomery County police on Thursday released a second composite sketch of the suspect known as the Potomac River Rapist who authorities believed committed 10 sexual assaults and one homicide in the 1990s.


Sierra Leone s top Ebola doctor dies from the virus.


Special police officers secure a street near the house where a Syrian man lived before the explosion in Ansbach southern Germany on July 25.


Protesters run from tear gas released by riot police during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo Police fired tear gas in a street leading to the square the heart of the 2011 antiMubarak uprising where thousands demanded Morsi quit and accused him of launching a coup after his decree that puts his decisions above legal challenge until the election of a new parliament.


Voters fill out their ballots during the primary election at the Fort Gratiot Township Hall in Fort Gratiot Mich.


This is the graffiti of the resistance in ISISheld Mosul.


Donald Trump presumptive Republican presidential nominee gestures as he arrives with his daughter Ivanka Trump left granddaughter Kai Trump bottom and son Eric Trump right at Trump Turnberry Resort in Turnberry on Friday June 24 2016.


A driver operates a mechanized harvester to cut sugarcane stalks for Cargill Sugar Ethanol Brazil near the city of Itumbiara in Brazil s Goias state Multinational companies have invested heavily in Brazil s ethanol sector but it is being challenged on multiple fronts Despite this Brazil remains a tantalizing prospect for the industry By 2020 four out of every five cars in the country will be able to run on ethanol.


After Wisconsin win Cruz looks for GOP s trust.


Boat after boat life after life arrives in Lesbos.


Rolling Thunder members from left Rich Cox of the Florida chapter Nancy Regg media chair Tom Dalessio national vice president Pete Zaleski chapter reports officer founder Artie Muller and son Joe Muller enjoy breakfast in Flemington NJ.


David Lamon left and daughter Riley Lamon 10 have their picture taken in the stocks in Colonial Williamsburg.


NEWARK NJ NOVEMBER 18 Julian Walls 11 studies with his mother Kim Gaddy before going to school in Newark NJ on November 18 2015 Gaddy who is an environmental justice coordinator for the New Jersey chapter of Clean Water Action says air pollution worsens her son s asthma symptoms The rise in truck and port traffic has prompted residents and environmental groups to demand that the EPA does more to protect people from the resulting increase in smog.


A policeman watches residents scatter during a rampage near the wreckage after a passenger minibus was hit by a grenade in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi At least five people were killed a Reuters witness and police said.


Garden at SainteAdresse by Claude Monet 1867.


Mason Ho rides a wave at the Eddie Aikau event at Waimea Bay.


The Cleveland Browns selected Manziel 22nd overall on May 8 2014 in New York.


Guests at La Lancha can relax on hammocks while listening to the sounds of the rain forest.


Blake Lively arrives for the screening of Mr Turner during the 67th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes France.


A bomb squad officer works after the landing Doug Hughes who was arrested after the gyrocopter landed is reportedly a mailman.


Visitors enjoy the view over a glass of wine from the deck at the Hauser Estate Winery Tasting Room.


Republicans must decide what role Rep Ron Paul.


A band of Indian musicians plays music for a group of paying customers who wanted to dance as they celebrated at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi India s triumphant Hindu nationalists declared the start of a new era in the world s biggest democracy after hardline BJP leader Narendra Modi propelled them to a stunning win on a platform of revitalizing the economy.


Squatters clean up broken glass outside the West London home of married parliamentarians Ann and Alan Keen which was taken over by squatters who claimed the house is left unoccupied.


A boy with a Mexican flag stained with paint to resemble blood lies down in a chalk outline representing the body of a crime victim during a protest in Mexico City People gathered at the Estela de Luz monument to protest drug violence.


Fish uses fins and body to walk across land.


The graves of seven ethnic Hazaras who were captured and beheaded by the Taliban in November sparking mass protests.


A Palestinian man carries a bag of flour from the rubble of a house in Gaza City The owners of the house were warned by the Israeli army over the phone to leave their home minutes before a missile destroyed it No one was hurt.


Aly Raisman 21 finished fourth on Dancing with the Stars in spring 2013.


Musician Rahul Ram left and comic Varun Grover ready themselves in a dressing room before performing at the Canvas Laugh Club in Mumbai.


The Paper Skin sensor uses unusual and very cheap materials to replicate skin s many functions.


Artist Matthew Cruickshank trekked up the Northern California coast to sketch old and distinctive buildings.


Strength forecast for Tropical Storm Joaquin from a number of different models Each line represents an individual model forecast over time.


An artist s rendition of Io s collapsing atmosphere.


Worshipers gather to pray at a hotel parking lot across the street from the scene of the shooting.


To address the persistent problem of red light running Metro added stickers in train cabs to remind operators of the rules.


Watch B52H bombers carry out airstrikes against ISIS.


On Leadership Dan Pink on giving your boss feedback.


A general view shows damage at a base of the alQaedalinked Nusra Front that was targeted by what activists said were USled airstrikes in Aleppo Sryia.


House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon.


Hillary Clinton and her vicepresidential pick Sen Tim Kaine.


Workers wash oil off a brown pelican at the Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center in Buras La.


Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.


The gang s all here for this remake of The Magnificent Seven from left Jack the hermit.


Capitlals goalie Braden Holtby makes a secondperiod save on a shot by Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey.


US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.


Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi chant proMorsi slogans during a protest in front of the Sultan Hassan and Refaie mosques in Cairo.


Mother Prioress Dolores Hart in the Oscarnominated documentary God is the Bigger Elvis.


River Blount 11 of Poplar Bluff Mo is consoled by his mother Shannon Blount after misspelling his word.


On the 13th floor some of the original features of the building are evident Over the years people have stripped elements of the hotel to use in building their own houses.


The main entrance to the Ivy Apartments welcomes residential traffic.


Alexis is crowned homecoming princess during the pep rally at Whitman High School.


Iran s heavy water nuclear facilities are located near the central city of Arak 150 miles southwest of Tehran Iran has steadfastly balked at demands to halt its uranium enrichment which Washington and its allies worry could be the foundation for a future nuclear weapons program.


Julien Benneteau and Edouard RogerVasselin celebrate their victory over Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez.


Republican candidate Ben Carson speaks during an appearance on Fox News.


Montgomery County police officer Jim Herman helped saved 9monthold Kenzlee Mae Cushman s life after she stopped breathing along Interstate 270.


Bruce Springsteen will be among those performing at a free Veterans Day concert in DC.


Park Geunhye campaigns in downtown Seoul.


Members of the Normandy High School football team raise their helmets toward a flag that flies at halfstaff in the last seconds of the national anthem before their first game of the season in Wellston Mo Slain teenager Michael Brown attended the high school.


Jason Furman second from left confers with nowTreasury Secretary Jack Lew.


US flags decorate a door frame on board USS Theodore Roosevelt Sept 10 2015.


Maidan selfdefense activists stop protesters trying to enter the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev.


This autistic boy s reaction to Coldplay may make you teary.


Jamilly Vitoria Santos da Silva center stands next to her mother Rebeca Arruda as they wash a dog in a bucket in a favela as members of the Brazilian military along with health care workers to talk to residents about the threat of Zika virus.


Julia King the tender of Lock No 5 on the C O Canal for 41 years inspects the machinery she uses to regulate the flow of water in the canal.


Ukrainians attend a funeral ceremony for Vasyl Slipak in the western Ukraine city of Lviv on July 1.


European and Ukrainian flags fly atop a barricade made mostly of ice and snow on Kiev s Independence Square.


Richard Berube Billerica s public health director speaks toe reporters outside the temporarily closed Chipotle restaurant.


A boy carries a mattress through a tent settlement for Syrian refugees at the Rahme 1 camp near the town of Bar Elias in Lebanon s Bekaa Valley after an Islamic charity s aid distribution in January.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended travel and checkpoint regulations for Palestinianonly bus hours after they were imposed to an outcry by critics accusing Israel of racial segregation.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with members of the National Border Patrol Council at Trump Tower on Oct 7 in New York.


Xabi Alonso left scores on a penalty kick past Jasper Cillessen of the Netherlands to give Spain a 10 lead in the first half.


Voting begins in New Hampshire with residents relieved circus is coming to an end.


John Singer Sargent s En route pour la peche.


A swath of forest cleared for development of Vale s mining project known as S11D Brazil s statecontrolled mining giant Vale says the mine was designed for minimum environmental impact and maximum profitability.


Uzo Asonye 35 an attorney casts his ballot at the community center in Arlington.


Your meal plan is supposed to make the transition from home easier but it can backfire if you choose burgers and pizza more often than a veggie stirfry.


A supporter of Maduro takes part in a rally in Caracas.


A line of snowball fighters charge on the Mall in Washington during a battle hosted by the Washington DC Snowball Fight Association.


Fishing boats rest in the water in Kotzebue Read the story.


Keep charcuterie cheese and olives on hand at parties 28.


Christopher Lee As Fu Manchu in The Face Of Fu Manchu.


A mural on the ceiling of Las Duelistas pulque shop Murals are popular in the bars as are shrines to the Virgin of Guadalupe.


Redskins quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh left coach Jay Gruden center and tight end Alex Smith call for a twopoint conversion after a fourthtouchdown.


Newspapers in Dakar Senegal report the news of Mandela s death.


Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks during a rally at Wings Over the Rockies Aviation and Space Museum in Denver.


The Postal Service s fees are attached to the pallet which sits in the Everts Air Cargo landing area after being unloaded in Bethel The Washington Post followed a pallet of groceries from Anchorage to Hooper Bay The 1366pound pallet which was mostly soda cost the postal service 48456 which they paid to the airlines.


DC residents enter the Wilson Building to pay respects.


Michelle Obama plays table tennis at the Beijing Normal School.


Michael Horowitz Inspector General of the Department of Justice testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Sept 20 2012 Gary G Grindler the current chief of staff to Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr was cited in a report by Horowitz for his failure to tell Holder that two firearms were linked to the Fast and Furious operation.


Jo Appleby a lecturer in bioarchaeology at Leicester University points to an image of the skull of Britain s King Richard III during a news conference at the university in central England on Feb 4.


A voter casts a provisional ballot in Westerville Ohio.


On the night of March 1718 this umbrella of northern lights unfolded over backyards in Vallentuna Sweden about 19 miles north of Stockholm A result of the strongest geomagnetic storm of this solar cycle auroral displays were captured on that night from back and front yards at even lower latitudes including sightings in the midwestern United States.


Comme des Garcons SpringSummer 2017 collection.


Jenner hits a tee shot during the Aria Resort and Casino s 13th annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational in Las Vegas.


Supporters of Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan stop a man from going past a barbed wire cordon during an antigovernment march in Islamabad.


George F Johnson IV former Anne Arundel County Sheriff and Maryland Superintendent of the Department of Natural Resources has changed his mind about the benefits of medical marijuana He is now the director of security for Forward Gro Inc which on Monday received state approval to grow marijuana.


Katie Ledecky reacts to her gold win in the 200m freestyle.


Police have accused Amanda Eggert and Jason Roth of allowing Eggert s 9yearold daughter to drive them home The couple has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges in the incident.


A model of a figure being made in a MakerBot 3D printing machine in the MakerBot Innovation Center in offices in Brooklyn NY on Oct 3.


A view of downed plantains near Cihuatlan Mexico.


Kerry Washington left and Julianne Hough.


Sen Bernie Sanders waves to cheering supporters during the 2015 Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa.


The wood thrush the District s official bird might leave the MidAtlantic region as the area warms by 2050 to follow cooler temperatures across the Northeast Midwest and portions of Canada.


Doggie D spotted in Winter Park Fla had a neat Obama campaign sticker I d never seen before.


A woman holds a birth control pill dispenser in New York in August 1974.


Walters and Koppel at her American News Women s Club tribute Friday.


Justine Siegal throws batting practice to Indians players in 2011.


FBI and other forensics personnel wearing protective suits gather before entering the shooting scene at the Navy Yard.


Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley sees the notifications on our smartphones getting a lot more personal flirty and fun.


HAVANA CUBA JANUARY 29 On a rooftop in historic Old Havana near the home of Josue Gutierrez and Yordan Alonso a woman hangs laundry to dry On the rooftops of old buildings In Havana Cuba a secret world lies in the air High above the tourists and old cars laundry flies in the wind and people live in makeshift shacks and tend to pigeons.


Traffic across a lower ford is busy on a Sunday morning as visitors to the zoo head in and out in this undated archive photo.


Water overflowing from the River Thames floods a house at Wraysbury southeastern England Residents and British troops had piled up sandbags to protect properties from the latest bout of flooding but the river overwhelmed some of their defenses Monday leaving areas including the center of the village of Datchet underwater.


Priorities USA Presidential Campaign 2016.


Photographer KarlEdwin Guerre in SoHo looks for street fashion that piques his interest.


In this photo from January 2012 people attend the Lunar New Year parade in downtown Rockville Md Neighboring Howard County will give students a day off to celebrate the Lunar New Year next school year along with Diwali and a Muslim holy day.


Your video guide to Metro s second SafeTrack phase on the Silver Line.


ThenBP CEO Tony Hayward s getting a second chance.


Caroline Kennedy at DNC Obama has qualities of my father.


Volunteer Lucy Aderibigbe admires her paint job at the veterans center.


Director John Landis left with actors Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd on the set of the movie Trading Places in 1983 Landis and Murphy would also collaborate on Coming to America and Beverly Hills Cop III Today the director praises Murphy as brilliant and full of energy and full of life.


Longtime GOP strategist Ed Gillespie shown here during his 2014 campaign for the US Senate is expected to run for Virginia governor.


Demonstrators at the Angel of Independence monument in Mexico City hold placards during a protest against Trump s visit.


A boy washes in water from a broken pipe in Leyte The storm ripped apart the infrastructure in the Philippine islands making relief efforts difficult.


Everything is satirized in The Interview.


In March 2003 President George W Bush announced a war against Iraq saying its goal was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and remove Saddam Hussein from power US forces launched airstrikes on Baghdad then began a ground invasion of the city that quickly lead to the collapse of Hussein s rule The United States formally pulled out of Iraq in late 2011.


What time is it Georgetown Healy Hall is the Jesuit university s most iconic building and a frequent photo backdrop.


Iguodala second from right with Public School designers DaoYi Chow far left and Maxwell Osborne far right at the Rochambeau show Businessman Marcus Troy is second from left.


Robert Smith right an activist with Athlete Ally speaks to locals at Mayak.


Donald Trump Jeb Bush s Thoughts on Illegal Immigration.


Pierson takes her seat to testify at the hearing She said Tuesday that the recent White House breach by a man carrying a knife was unacceptable and promised it will never happen again.


Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz with his daughter Catherine left wife Heidi center daughter Caroline and supporter Carly Fiorina at his campaign rally in Houston Tex.


President Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have tea in the gardens at Hyderabad House between meetings.


Sanders celebrates W Va win as Clinton looks to Ky.


After Aiken s runnerup turn on American Idol he launched a performing career that took him to the American Music Awards in 2003 pictured to stadiums and to Broadway.


Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean left and Anne Hathaway as Fantine in a scene from Les Miserables.


Two children pose for photos on March 25 The Tidal Basin was relatively uncrowded possibly due to the forecast for morning showers The weather stayed dry however.


Russian President Vladimir Putin heads a meeting with senior military officials at the Defense Ministry s control room in Moscow Russia on Friday Dec 19 2014.


J David Goldin s sharp eye on an eBay listing led to the unraveling of thefts from the National Archives.


Egyptian anti government protesters throw stones during clashes in downtown Cairo.


Christien Sechrist had his son s face tattooed on his face to pay tribute the the toddler.


Members of the Free Syrian Army hold a giant opposition flag during a protest against Assad in Bustan alQasr a district in Aleppo.


Antonio Galis an insurance agent discusses health plan options with a client in Miami the day after 2016 open enrollment began under the Affordable Care Act.


After being delivered by helicopter skiers make fresh tracks on a powder run in the Bugaboos in the Canadian province of British Columbia Check out the photographer.


Joel Fields left and Joe Weisberg are executive producers of The Americans.


CIA chief David Petraeus at the New York Stock Exchange last week to ring the Opening Bell on the CIA s 65th Anniversary.


The story behind the invention of Postit notes is relatively wellknown A scientist at 3M named Arthur Fry used an adhesive developed by his colleague Spencer Silver to create a new kind of bookmark that would stay in place without damaging paper thus creating the first Postit note What s not as wellknown The canary yellow color is also a trademark of the company 3M.


A mostly empty metro car arrives at the Capitol South metro station.


Students Ziqi Zhao and Yunshu Zhang at Cape Cod Academy.


Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention on Sunday.


Demonstrators perform a diein at the intersection of West 65th Street and Detroit Avenue in Cleveland in protest of the deaths.


Nation s Trex Hitching a crosscountry ride.


The mother of one of six teenagers found dead in Mesquita Brazil reacts during their funeral in Nilopolis The youths between 15 and 19 and missing since Saturday were found wrapped in sheets naked with signs of torture in Mesquita on Monday according to police The youths who live in Nilopolis in the Baixada Fluminense region were in Mesquita for a kite festival and went missing after they decided to visit a waterfall near the Chatuba slum which is dominated by a drug gang.


Lila Perry second from left a senior transgender student at Hillsboro High School in St Louis speaks with friends Gianna Warfel left Skyla Thompson and Hayley Reeves following a student walkout at the school held in both support and opposition to Perry s request to use the girls bathrooms and locker rooms rather than a faculty bathroom.


A driver navigates a flooded road in Florence.


Scans of a femur that may be from an unusually primitive species of human.


These satellite images show rows of concrete barricades earthen berms and rubble blocking key routes leading to the core of the city.


5 times Rep Steve King stirred up controversy.


Anthony Harvey 12 plays the drums at Gethsemane Baptist Church on Romney Street in Charleston SC on June 19.


Kaiser Carlile 9 died after he was hit in the head with a bat during a warmup.


Shankar performs during the opening day of the Paleo Festival in Nyon Switzerland in 2005 Speaking of his legacy a few years ago Shankar said he was proudest of having helped expand the public notion of what Indian raga music could be.


A French riot police officer looks at burning barricades along the tramway line in Sarcelles a suburb north of Paris on July 20 2014 after clashes.


Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at her home in Georgetown in 2012.


David Ortiz celebrates Jonny Gomes s threerun home run to left field against in the sixth inning.


Defense Secretary Ashton B Carter testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday on President Obama s request to Congress for authorization to use force against the Islamic State.


Kim Jong Un lookalike visits Hong Kong protests.


Children mark the second anniversary of the disappearance of Relisha Rudd at the Deanwood Recreation Center in Southeast Washington.


View Photo Gallery Ann Romney has become a central part of her husband Mitt Romney s drive to the GOP presidential nomination Her status as a stayathome mom while raising five boys emerged as a campaign issue on Thursday after it was questioned by a Democratic pundit Here are photos of Ann Romney on the campaign trail.


Digital reconstruction of the skull of the Josephoartigasia monesi.


Biden Ridiculous GOP policy ca nt stop US.


Santiago Quintero of Wichita called 911 on the night of Jan 3 2015 and reported that his son John Paul Quintero 23 and another man were involved in an altercation and that each was armed with a knife.


Portion of road outside former Soviet embassy in Washington named after activist Andrei Sakharov.


Frances Hardy exits the wake for Freddie Gray on the day after the largest demonstration in Baltimore yet since Gray died April 19 and two weeks after Gray s foot chase with patrol officers his arrest and a ride in a police transport van.


An armed member of the Al Yarmouk Martyr brigade is seen at what said to be Jamla Syria near Golan Heights in this image taken from video posted on a social media Web site Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of UN peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until government forces pull back from a rebelheld village The capture was announced in rebel videos posted on the Internet and confirmed Wednesday by the United Nations.


Ronda Rousey receives treatment after her secondround loss to Holly Holm in a UFC women s bantamweight championship bout.


Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl presided over the reunification of East and West Germany.


A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds cats in the old city of Aleppo.


The moon rises over the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City.


Carapazza raises his hand to eject Williams.


Thirteen Afghans arrive in a tiny boat on the beach in Kos Greece.


Police officers secure a vehicle allegedly used by gunmen in the attack.


A Hindu boy Portraits from Ellis Island Augustus Sherman.


Supporters are seen at Democratic presidential candidate Sen Bernie Sanders IVt rally Friday Oct 9 2015 in Tucson Ariz.


Unaccredited and often entirely fake colleges have sprung up all over India as demand for higher education accelerates In the booming New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon there are dozens of oneroom shops offering degrees in engineering management pharmacy nursing and computers.


Brother of boy whose dad fatally shot him says the 14yearold bled out in his arms.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition at Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington.


People react after the naming of the officer.


Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mt Pleasant SC Monday Dec 7 2015.


Watch the world population grow in under six minutes.


People wait in line to enter hours before the rally in the stadium.


Law enforcement officers have an area blocked off as they search for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a San Jose police officer on March 24 Authorities say the officer was shot to death after responding to a call about a man threatening to kill himself The San Jose Police Department says responding officers were met with gunfire.


Linda H Kaufman is the connoisseur of one of the largest and most refined collections of early American furniture in private hands The National Gallery of Art is presenting a collection of these pieces.


Options Public Charter School is seen in the District.


Workers man the Snow Command Center at the Department of Public Works in Forestville Md.


A fully clothed Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh stands on the field during the teams Spring Game.


ICE agents detain workers at Danny s Family Car Wash in Phoenix on Aug 17 2013 as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration.


Rescue workers wait on a platform at the Arras train station.


State Sen Leticia Van de Putte left introduces State Sen Wendy Davis right Democratic candidate for governor during a visit to Leal Middle School on Thursday Feb 13 2014 to discuss Davis s proposal to improve early childhood education San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro center was also on hand to speak.


A migrant tries to pass through the border near Idomeni on the GreeceMacedonia border.


The Guns at Last Light The War in Western Europe 19441945 by Rick Atkinson In the third volume of his Liberation Trilogy Atkinson reconstructs the period from DDay to VE Day by weaving a multitude of tiny details into a tapestry of achingly sublime prose.


Zhou Yongkang formerly the Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of security sits in a courtroom at the the First Intermediate People s Court of Tianjin in Tianjin China on Thursday.


Kathleen Conlon of Ann Arbor Mi cheers for a horse in one of the early races.


The effects of the BP oil spill on ancient shipwrecks.


Texas Gov Rick Perry speaks at the Flextronics plant that will be building the new Motorola smartphone Moto X in Fort Worth.


Residents enter the Santa Monica de La Barca church at the end of their procession.


Egg curry with Ceylon paratha at Curry Leaf in Laurel.


Explosions caused by Israeli airstrikes erupt in the Jabal alRayyes neighborhood of Gaza.


Russia s foreign minister calls Syria ceasefire complicated.


Russian President Vladimir Putin left meets thenUS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her arrival at the APEC summit in Vladivostok Russia in 2012.


US Ambassador Richard Verma at a conference in New Delhi last month.


In one part of Aleppo life shows signs of improvement.


Antigovernment protesters work on barricades at the site of clashes with riot police in Kiev Ukraine s parliament was considering measures to grant amnesty to those arrested protests in the crisistorn country but possibly with conditions attached that would be unacceptable to the opposition.


Soucy chats about the national debt with local pilot Wyatt Freed left at a Starbucks coffee shop in Middletown Del Soucy often talks to people about the national debt as they pass by or sit near him.


Police staff a security checkpoint at one of only two entrances into the walled neighborhood of Baya a which is predominantly Shiite A picture of Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki is posted above the checkpoint.


Dale and Shannon Hickman leave the courtroom after receiving guilty verdicts at their manslaughter trial at Clackamas County Circuit Court in Oregon City Ore on Sept 29 2011.


Hawks guard Kent Bazemore sails over Wizards forward Drew Gooden III after a head fake.


One of the marker stones stands at Carter Bar viewpoint where the A68 crosses from Scotland into England Rather than blaming the London government many Scots have expressed fear that things would only get worse if Scotland were to go it on its own.


Todd Houser manager at Crabby John s in Damascus said a new law to allow restaurants to serve beer and wine while patrons are seated would not affect his small takeout seafood restaurant.


Wilson Aquatic Center is popular among athletes and swim clubs It also holds swimming lessons.


Britain to face makeup or breakup choice.


An activist dressed as a clown with a sign that reads genocide protests against the government of Mexico s President Felipe Calderon at the Estela de Luz monument in Mexico City.


Workers check ballots listing 21 presidential candidates at a plant in Kiev Ukraine A record number of candidates are running for Ukraine s presidential election May 25.


An aerial view shows a tract of Amazon rain forest that has been cleared by loggers and farmers for agriculture near the city of Santarem Para State April 20 2013.


Actor Samuel L Jackson right greets the Rev Jesse L Jackson as they take their seats for the dedication ceremony.


Dozens of freshman and returning students move into the George Washington University Mabel NelsonThurston Hall in Washington DC on August 25 2012.


I like being able to fire people What did Romney really mean Gaffe Check Video.


Gutierrez and Nyquist after winning the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby.


Govelect Larry Hogan right and outgoing Lt Gov Anthony Brown.


Turkish residents hold a demonstration in favor of Syrian President Bashar alAssad in Antakya One of the men involved said Britain the United States and the United Nations are to blame for the fighting in Syria.


Dragas answers questions from the media on June 10 the day that she announced Sullivan would step down.


Maryland Gov Martin OMalley waits for President Obama to speak in remembrance of the 12 victims of the Navy Yard shooting.


Former DC Council member Carol Schwartz kicks off her fifth mayoral in front of supporters on Tuesday on Freedom Plaza.


Pope Francis is welcomed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at the airport.


Andrew Johnson was one of the few presidents to live in Maryland While vice president he spent time at Francis Blair s home in Silver Spring.


Thursday was a very active severe weather day Orange shaded region corresponds to enhanced severe thunderstorm risk Blue polygons outline severe thunderstorm watches red polygons demarcate tornado watch zones.


A candidate for citizenship holds an American flag at the Treasury Department naturalization ceremony.


NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been suspended since February.


Leonardo Leiva 45 a private restaurant owner in the historic center of Havana repairs an Open sign in the doorway of his establishment Don Pucho which is named after his father.


British author blogger and motivational speaker Alastair Humphreys.


A Florida Department of Health employee processes a urine sample to test for the Zika virus in Miami Beach.


Manny Pacquiao celebrates his second victory over Marco Antonio Barrera Pacquiao has fought and defeated virtually every major potential opponent of his generation except Floyd Mayweather whom he will meet on May 2.


Georgetown s historic Halcyon House has been transformed into a luxury meeting and housing space for a new fellowship program.


People celebrate in front of the Supreme Court after the ruling in favor of samesex marriage.


Debbie Kellogg right a school teacher and Russ Leavitt a UAW employee express their opinion of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement while heading to a rally with House Majority Leader Rep Richard Gephardt Nov131993 in St Louis Mo Gephardt spoke to several hundred opponents during the rally at Jefferson Barracks Park.


Veterinarian Nancy Boedeker and veterinary technician Peter Flowers examine the snowy owl at the National Zoo in Washington.


You re talking about a poison said Andre W Kellum the assistant agent in charge of the DEA s Washington Field Division Any time you have people dying it becomes an issue And now having seen it the past few months people dying from this substance it opens your eyes Just like we do nt know the compounds we really do nt know the true effect of what can happen to every individual that takes it.


Brandon Coleman at home in Peoria Ariz in February was put on paid administrative leave after blowing the whistle on how the Phoenix VA Hospital was handling potentially suicidal cases.


Employees of Laiki Bank stand in front of a riot police cordon during a rally outside the Cypriot parliament.


Protesters lobby for higher wages for fast food workers.


Water pours down the stairs outside Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday.


Robert Ensler and his Nevada license plate.


Bolivian President Evo Morales delivers a speech during a celebration for the Aymara New Year at the presidential residence in La Paz.


Alternative to sugarcoated tedium An interior view at Dismaland the massive fiveweek art exhibit by Banksy at WestonSuperMare.


Bill Clinton chats with former Atlanta mayor and civil rights activist Andrew Young at the Lincoln Memorial.


The safety was charged Jan 4 with assault and domestic violence after an altercation with his wife in Kentucky.


A day in the life at a Japanese day care.


Traficant leaves his Rayburn office and is escorted by Capitol Hill police to an elevator and then to the House floor where his colleagues voted to expel him.


A woman shows her scarecrows in the village of Sankin.


Rickman and his wife Rima Horton attend the second day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival at Goodwood Racecourse in Chichester England.


Capital Bikeshare soon wo nt just be in neighborhoods like Dupont Circle The National Park Service is preparing to allow stations for bikes on the Mall.


Katie Biber Chen a lawyer overseeing Mitt Romney s ballot registration and delegate selection.


A Nepali boy sleeps on the lap of his father after they moved to an open but safe place in the Tundikhel area of Kathmandu Nepal Police urged residents to stay outside.


Gubernatorial candidate Lincoln Chafee waves as he walks off stage with his wife and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Providence Bloomberg endorsed Chafee who was running as an independent.


Javad Sarempour 29 refugee from Shiraz Iran plays his violin in his new home he found at the family home of Ralf and Ilona Bunning in the island district of Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg Germany October 16 2015.


A male tree cricket right singing with his wings up has a female standing next to him.


Law enforcement gather outside the emergency room of University Hospital after a shoot out in Linden NJ where officers and terror suspect Ahmad Khan Rahimi were wounded and Rahami was apprehended Monday Sept 19 2016 Newark.


Nicklas Backstrom keeps the puck away from Sabres defenseman Andrej Sekera.


The FBI is offering a 10000 reward for the return of its weapons.


The Martin Luther King Jr Memorial has come under some criticism.


Davis sits at her desk after the Texas Senate passes the abortion bill Davis gained national attention last month when she stood for more than 11 hours in a filibuster that helped derail the abortion bill during a special legislative session Texas Gov Rick Perry.


The skid row site where a homeless man was controversially shot dead by a police officer in LA.


Cai Hua I wish I had a sister I prefer to have a sister rather than a brother I have a lot of friends who have a brother and they usually fight with each other I think it would be very funny but I would prefer to have a sister.


The Lacot brothers leave the rooftop dog park.


California delegates celebrate on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.


Gallaudet professor Carolyn McCaskill demonstrates differences in sign language between black and white users Pictured left McCaskill signs stuck while Jason Begue signs pregnant.


Transgender activists in India celebrate holy festival.


MILFORD MILL MD FEBRUARY 11 Kathy Klages 50 from Baltimore MD processes orders for shipping for the tech company FreshStart which sells hard drives for PCs at The Chimes a facility in Baltimore employs people with disabilities to do lowskilled tasks Milford Mill MD February 11 2016 Kathy who lives in a group home enjoys her work she says and likes to buy cloths and movies with the money she makes.


Attendee Heather Remillard wearing a sidearm looks after her 10monthold daughter Rhiannon during PorcFest.


Atlantic coast fisheries are still trying to limit overfishing of menhaden with traditional catch limits.


President Obama meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the White House to discuss the future of US military involvement in Afghanistan after most American troops withdraw by the end of 2014.


Edward and Kim Harris look over some literature they received from the Safe Streets staff.


Northwest running back Joshua Gills beats three Richard Montgomery defenders on his way to an eightyard touchdown reception in the second quarter Gills score put the Jaguars ahead 2720 at halftime and they never gave up the lead.


In this letter dated Nov 11 1918 a doughboy in France writes of village church bells ringing out the news of Peace Peace Peace upon the armistice ending World War I.


Metro General Manager Paul J Wiedefeld right speaks to Jack Evans chair of the agency s board before the start of the hearing.


Ashley Wagner waves to spectators after competing in the figure skating ladies short program.


Pitching coach Mike Maddux left watches newcomer Shawn Kelley throw Maddux was added as the team s pitching coach shortly after Dusty Baker was named manager.


People walk past a statue of Nelson Mandela in Nelson Mandela Square at the Sandton City shopping center in Johannesburg.


Rep Aaron Schock and Ask Miss A s Andrea Rodgers in 2012 at a Susan G Komen event.


The Broncos Kayvon Webster tackles Panthers wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr.


This image released Oct 8 2015 shows regions on Pluto with exposed water ice highlighted in blue in this composite taken with the New Horizons spacecraft s Ralph instrument The area shown in the photo is about 280 miles wide.


This image provided by Google shows a very early version of Google s prototype selfdriving car.


Cars sit on the edge of a street that collapsed in in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore.


Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan thanks northern Virginia campaign staff and volunteers for their work during a brief stop at Republican campaign headquarters in Arlington Va Wednesday.


Sotomayor delivers the commencement address at Pace University in May 2003 and receives an honorary degree President Obama met Sotomayor for the first time on May 21 2009 five days ahead of announcing his decision to nominate her to the Supreme Court.


9yearold reporter responds to criticism.


Rakuten Inc Chief Executive Hiroshi Mikitani gives a pep talk in English the standard language at Rakuten at a welcoming ceremony for new hires at its headquarters in Tokyo.


Gas is almost free in Venezuela I bought 31 liters for 3 Bolivares This converts to 8 gallons for threetenths of a cent.


John Ladd stands on the easement land that separates his ranch from the USMexico border in Naco Ariz Ladd says his ranch has often been used by people illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico I have a gun but I ve never shot anybody Ladd said I sometimes give them water You can tell good guys from bad somebody who s in need Ladd gave the US Border Patrol access to his land in order that it might better be able to stem illegal immigration.


Paul Ryan the Republican speaker of the House from Wisconsin prepares to speak at the 43rd Annual Conservative Political Action Conference.


Angel Dye I only am one of 10000 Bison and my story is complicated but probably not incredibly unique.


Afghan people attend funeral prayers for young girls who were killed in a bomb blast in Jalalabad Afghanistan At least 10 teenage girls were killed and a teenage boy was injured when a bomb detonated as they were gathering firewood in eastern Afghanistan police said.


Spencer Bergman Scott Kinney Spencer Tarbet and Carter Tarbet outside Kinney s Shamrock Music Shoppe in Purcellville Va Kinney and another employee helped comfort the boys after the robbery including setting up a conference call with his brother who wrote the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.


James Radcliffe a volunteer for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump places a sign outside a home in Londonderry.


David Tyeryar Virginia deputy secretary of transportation at a 2010 transportation conference.


Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left talks with BoutrosGhali during a meeting in New York.


Players stand near a poster outlining symptoms related to the Ebola virus as they wait to wash their hands before a soccer match in Abidjan Ivory Coast.


Trump heckled says you see how diplomatic I ve become.


From left Yannick V Dopwell 32 of Elmont NY Antoine Anthony Clark 29 of Roosevelt NY Roberto Alejandro Dopwell Carmona 23 of Jamaica NY and James Alex King 27 of Elmont NY were arrested.


Emergency crews respond to a threealarm apartment complex explosion and fire in Silver Spring Md More than 30 people were injured including three firefighters and some occupants were unaccounted for.


Adrian Peterson rejoined the Vikings on Friday.


Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine walks with other officials from the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House.


The sister of Prince Nyumah was dropped off at a clinic after her roommate contracted Ebola and died Nyumah s family struggled to get any updates about her.


Vice President Biden left greets a mourner.


Virginia s Isaiah Wilkins left and teammate Marial Shayok right look down in dejection as they sit in the locker room after their defeat to Syracuse.


Egyptian athletes take photos as they march into the Maracana stadium.


Navy which had been averaging 335 rushing yards per game behind quarterback Keenan Reynolds was held to 133 by Tulane.


St Mary s College sophomore Elaine Buckman second from left hosts a tour of her dorm room as Bianca Calin left leads high school seniors Mike Dorsch second from right and Alex Lucas far right through St Mary s College along with Dosch s mother Diana Dorsch center.


Employees can be seen inside Facebook s main building the largest openoffice workspace in the world Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg s desk is exactly like all the others Photo by Nick Otto For The Washington Post.


Alissa Chavez invented a system to alert parents when they ve left a young child in a car seat.


Bob and Faiz begin their excellent adventure at the north entrance to the WiehleReston East Metro station for SafeTrack s first surge.


FILE PHOTO Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe REUTERSJonathan ErnstFile Photo.


Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin loves to talk about moms.


The search continues for a seventh missing person at the scene of the explosion of an apartment building in Silver Spring Md.


Rousseff s supporters follow the Senate s impeachment session as the lawmakers vote to strip her of the presidency.


I m a parttime police officer and a parttime advocate Youlen said of his work And I would hope a parttime role model and steady security presence for these communities.


President and Michalle Obama sit next to family friend Bobby Titcomb as they watch the Diamond Head basketball game between Oregon State and Akron.


I m really rich 10 essential lines from Trump s announcement.


Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik gives the final touches to his sand sculpture portraying two missing aircraft Air Asia QZ8501 and Malayasia Airlines MH370 on Golden Sea Beach at Puri some 65 kms east of Bhubaneswar on December 29 2014.


In a July 16 photo members of Austria s Olympic sailing team train in the Rio de Janeiro municipality Niteroi Brazil.


Western foreign ministers and Japanese officials place wreaths at the Memorial Cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima Japan.


Protesters celebrate after the Trump rally was postponed in Chicago Although Trump events have become increasingly violent in recent weeks he had never canceled one.


In this photo taken Tuesday Dec 8 2015 a waiter pours a couple sparkling wine before sunset at the View lounge in San Francisco where working in a restaurant can be a stable career.


Pistorius greets his sister Aimee Pistorius as he arrives for his trial at the North Gauteng High Court.


Against a backdrop of floodlights from police tactical vehicles protestors stand their ground in the middle of West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson.


Malala sits up in her hospital bed with her father and two younger brothers Atal Khan right and Khushal Khan center.


The Toyota that runs on hydrogen fuel cells.


Fighters from the Free Syrian Army s Tahrir al Sham brigade use a shotgun to fire an improvised grenade at Syrian Army soldiers in Damascus.


McIntyre a member of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition often bucked his party during his 17 years in the House he notably voted against President Obama s healthcare law His seat is considered ripe for the plucking by Republicans.


President Obama on Sunday said he s changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali.


Children participate in a remembrance celebration for Relisha at the Deanwood Recreation Center in Washington.


During sex sea slugs stab partners in head.


Chaturon Chaisang left who was education minister in the government ousted by the military talks with a military officer as he reports at an army base in Bangkok on January 29 2015.


A Palestinian posing as a journalist stabs an Israeli soldier with a knife before being fatally shot near the West Bank city of Hebron.


A protester demonstrates against a gay marriage bill ahead of a vote in the Maryland House of Delegates.


Footage of Nagasaki after the atomic bomb.


Take a look inside Trump s VIP box at the RNC.


Michelle Obama is greeted by Max Baucus the new US ambassador to China and his wife Melodee Hanes upon her arrival in Beijing.


A Norfolk Naval Base security officer inspects the contents of a truck entering the base.


Elian Gonzalez waves on his arrival to Havana June 28 2000.


The Cuban Friendship Urn shown in its original location in 1946 just before being moved for construction of the new 14th Street Bridge.


A security detail outside RNC headquarters.


Ally Fahrer helps her father finalize his vote at the Greater Goodwill AME Church in Mount Pleasant SC.


He describes his sound as more folkinfluenced than traditional Kpop.


Among the numerous threats to Mexico s golden eagles are large wind farms such as those at Monterrey pictured above There are plans to construct many more in the region.


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the chamber cleared a slate of nominees.


Blue Dragon flushes out suspected drug dealers in Va.


Students shout during a class boycott over national education in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong s government withdrew plans for a compulsory Chinese school curriculum on Saturday after tens of thousands took to the streets in protest at what they said was a move to brainwash students.


Romney hugs granddaughter Chloe Romney after the debate.


Jimmy and Michelle on their wedding day.


Gloria Steinem at the 2016 MAKERS Conference in California.


Authorities have said shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof has confessed to killing nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.


Protesters run from a cloud of tear gas.


A woman holds a sign that reads Je suis Charlie.


Watergate reporters Bob Woodward left and Carl Bernstein with Ben Bradlee in The Washington Post newsroom The Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its reporting on Watergate Decades later Woodward remembered the words he most hated to hear from a skeptical Bradlee during the Watergate investigation You do nt have it yet kid.


US Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine leaves after testifying on Capitol Hill on May 20 2015 before a House Administration Committee hearing to discuss safety concerns after a gyrocopter illegally landed on the US Capitol grounds.


The mailroom at Crosswinds is an example of how the designer aimed to make public spaces stand out.


Rubio is joined by his wife Jeanette and their children from left Dominic Anthony Amanda and Daniella at a campaign event at Gilbert H Hood Middle School in Derry NH.


Teacher Hope Harrod talks to her students during the first day of school.


An abandoned portrait of Vladimir Lenin lies in a former secret Soviet Union radar station named Skrunda1 now a ghost town near Skrunda Latvia.


Washington PostABC News poll conducted Jan 1013 2013 among a random national sample of 1001 adults.


Donald Trump s full speech in South Carolina.


American Pharoah ridden by Victor Espinoza heads down the final stretch.


The BrooklandCUA Metro stop is seen near the Monroe Street Market area in Northeast DC.


Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr accepts the Chairman s Award onstage during the 46th NAACP Image Awards on February 6 2015 in Pasadena California.


Some people including the chairman of Metro s board think it s time to hand over control of the system to the feds.


A new patent describes how a hovering Google drone may lower a package into the bin which will then bring the goods to a safe spot such as a garage.


Phillip Dugaw s airplane to Charlston SC got stuck in a soft spot caused by the heat on the tarmac at Reagan Airport on Friday The photo went viral after he posted it to Reddit.


Reconstruction of the ventral nerve cord.


From left National Gallery of Art officials Darrell Willson Andrew Saul Frederick Beinecke and Earl Rusty Powell turn on the restored Andrew W Mellon Fountain near the National Gallery of Art which has not worked since 2008.


Social video shows Chicago protesters taking to the streets.


Photos of Beefsteak s burger and the Ukoy from Bad Saint by Jason Hornick.


Mario Perez who was fatally shot by his friend Frank Trujillo in Damascus Md loved to grill for friends as he was doing in this recent photo.


Barton touches one of the shotgun pellets that is still in his face He has counted at least 16 pellets that remain inside him.


A trail of roses line the road in St Louis where Michael Brown was killed.


Rose Mary Woods President Richard Nixon s secretary is shown at her White House desk demonstrating how an erasure of part of the Watergate tapes could have happened in this 1973 file photo.


Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaks as he displays a picture of a Glock 30 pistol received as an award during his visit at the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig city south of Manila.


From Post Comic Riffs Watergate at 40 visual report.


Empty coffins lie on a street near houses damaged after Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban.


Protesters take cover as a police fire water cannons.


Melissa Myrick left watches as her niece fourandahalfyearold Ariana Ashbrook and husband Rick Myrick kick around a ball in their backyard at home in Fenton Mo on July 11 2014.


Ebola fears prompt Liberia clinics to close.


People gather in London to celebrate Thatcher s death Thatcher s welfare reforms tried to end many of the cradletograve policies that were established in Britain following World War II making her a target of liberals.


Sosa on the way to an interview for a paid internship at the Sully Historic Site.


Actor Jim Carrey introduces animated feature clips.


National Spelling Bee cochampions Vanya Shivashankar 13 and Gokul Venkatachalam 14 hoist the trophy in 2015.


Supporters of Egypt s ousted President Mohammed Morsi take a rest in a park near Cairo University last week.


Donald Trump who announced a presidential bid on Tuesday has long prided himself on his way with the news media.


Clinton says hello to voters at a house party in New Hampshire.


Police say Cody Smith set his estranged wife s house on fire after killing her boyfriend.


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A Nepali woman holds her child outside her damaged house on the outskirts of Lalitpur Nepal.


Ana holds a collage that Damian made for her while she was being treated in the hospital.


Kasich said Romney s losing effort should prompt an image makeover He called the GOP a party that has creative imaginative ideas that s inclusive that s compassionate has a great great future in terms of appealing to people across the country.


A sign welcoming stranded motorists sits in front of a house in Indian Springs Ala.


Ghana s forward Abdul Majeed Waris and Portugal s defender Pepe vie for the ball.


Joyce Bailey donated the collection of the Black Fashion Museum which was acquired by her mother Lois K Alexander Lane to the National Museum of African American History and Culture In that collection was a little flowered skirt.


Alex Ovechkin gets his 500th goal and his teammates celebrate in Ovi fashion It looked like it was 20 other Ovechkins jumping over the bench right Nicklas Backstrom said Of the 43 NHL players to reach the milestone Ovechkin is the fifth fastest.


Syrian boys dive into a hole filled with water that was caused by a missile attack in the rebelheld neighborhood of Sheikh Saeed in Aleppo province Syria on Aug 31.


Romney launched a series of attacks against Obama s record on the economy health care and the deficit.


Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pictured above is pursuing a 25point peace plan with warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.


Ukrainian businessman politician and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko right visits a proUkrainian checkpoint on the outskirts of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine The separatist leaders were adamant that the Ukrainian presidential and mayoral elections scheduled for May 25 would not take place on what they now consider to be their territory.


Superman is once again battling Doomsday in the pages of Action Comics with art by Tyler Kirkham.


Mohammed Jassim 25 boards a bus at Baghdad airport on Sept 25 hoping to reach Finland I expect to see death on the journey but I depend on God he said.


Donald Trump wishes he had the power to hack DNC emails.


In this Nov 14 2014 file photo Jesse Matthew Jr right looks toward the gallery while appearing in court in Fairfax Va.


From left Adam Clayton Bono The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr of U2 accept an award for best original song for Ordinary Love from Mandela Long Walk to Freedom.


911 survivor Lauren Manning takes to the lectern to speak.


View Photo Gallery George Huguely Yeardley Love and the faces in the courtroom.


Bill Maher during a taping of his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Spokane Wash on May 7.


Actor Jeff Bridges who recently fell for The Big Lebowski stunt himself.


President Dwight Eisenhower gestures as he explains the next step in the formal welcoming program for Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his queen as they take their places in an open car for a motorcade trip from National Airport to the White House in Washington.


Beginning in December the New York City Health Department required chain restaurants to display this symbol on menus next to selected items that contain 2300 milligrams of sodium or more the equivalent of about a teaspoon of salt.


Most Marylanders approve of Gov Larry Hogan s order to start school after Labor Day.


A US Office of Air and Marine helicopter patrols over the Rio Grande at the USMexico border in McAllen Tex.


Tyson Beckford attends the Ralph Lauren Polo presentation.


Former British foreign secretary David Miliband right lost an election to lead the Labor party to his younger brother Ed David rallied the party faithful at this 2010 event declaring that Ed s a great leader.


Doppler estimated rainfall totals since Monday.


FBI officials enter a house in Crystal City Tex on Friday as they arrested nearly all of the town s top officials.


Kasich addresses Ohio voters after winning his home state.


Russian President Vladimir Putin center talks with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach left at a welcoming event for IOC members ahead of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics at the Rus Hotel Tuesday Feb 4 2014 in Sochi Russia.


US military personnel bound for Liberia to help in a global effort to fight the Ebola outbreak board a US Air Force plane at Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar Senegal.


Police are hunting for Eulalio Tordil 62 after Gladys Tordil was shot in the parking lot of High Point High School Gladys Tordil was picking up her children from the school when her estranged husband confronted her in the parking lot police said.


Benavides kisses Grace at home in her bedroom Caring for her daughter is a fulltime job.


Haiyan overtakes Philippines Friday morning local time.


A man cleans rice in Tacloban The typhoon inundated most of the rice fields in the region.


Artist Pyotr Pavlensky lies on the ground wrapped in barbed wire roll during a protest action in St Petersburg Russia on May 3.


Vehicles are gridlocked on the West Side Highway by a crowd of protesters.


Workers at a steel factory in Guangzhou China gather Monday during a strike to press for pension benefits.


Susan feeds organic dried oats to one of her three hens in her backyard in Arlington on June 19.


Six moments from the Billboard Music Awards that had people talking.


Newly printed 100 notes at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.


Matt Pare leaves the stadium in Augusta carrying left over food from the clubhouse.


Rolando Amaya and Nicole Van Vooren with their bridal party.


Wisdom s red band identifies her to the US Fish and Wildlife Service staff They have been monitoring her for more than five decades.


Demonstrators display biblical messages.


People will stop every now and then and say Is this where Johnson lived said Porter sitting on the front steps with her dog It s fine No one s been a problem They are just kind of curious to see.


Citizens Against Marijuana Laws holds a rally in Lafayette Park in 1985.


A man walks in a flooded street of Nemours south of Paris after the Loing River forced residents to be evacuated.


President Calvin Coolidge s inauguration on March 4 1925 was the first to be nationally broadcast on radio Coolidge left is shown en route to taking the oath of office It would also be his third time for receiving the oath because the ceremony was done twice when he first became president in 1923 His father who was a justice of the peace swore him in at the family s farmhouse in Vermont hours after Harding s death Amid concerns about its validity Coolidge took the oath again before a judge in Washington.


Vasquez averaged 128 points a game as a senior.


Adm Brian Losey center oversees the folding of a US flag over the casket.


The Associated Press released a video interview shot on Nov 6 2014 in which Cosby refuses to answer questions about the sexual assault allegations The interview was with Cosby and his wife Camille about loaning art to the Smithsonian.


Immigrant students at High Point High School share personal experiences in a circle practice meant to provide a safe place for students to process their feelings and form a community.


Spain s Gerard Pique goes for a header next to Netherlands Joel Veltman and Jeremain Lens.


A bald eagle that was rescued in Potomac recovers from a fracture in the left shoulder.


An affluent Chinese couple pose for their wedding photos outside the Wangfujing Church in Beijing.


Some say it s possible to become cool in LA simply by osmosis but it s not soaking in for poor Stuart.


Linda Lou Kelley practices tai chi at the cathedral.


Ashton Kutcher creator Chuck Lorre and Jon Cryer.


Justice Scalia s son pays touching tribute to father.


Caroline Kennedy went to the private Concord Academy in Massachusetts where she graduated on June 5 1975 She is pictured with grandmother Rose Kennedy and her uncle Sen Edward Kennedy speaking to her brother.


Lee Sanghwa of South Korea skates to gold during the women s 500meter speedskating.


Image courtesy of Flickr user Kevin Dooley under a Creative Commons license.


Panamanian workers inspect cargo containers that had been hidden inside a North Korean ship and carried heavy military equipment.


Two women hang out together in OvertheRhine.


A catachino is one of the offerings at the popup.


Family friends pay respects to Marion Barry.


Protesters run from tear gas released by riot police during clashes near the US Embassy in Sanaa Yemen.


The pope speaks with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Royal Palace Behind the king stands his wife Queen Rania and their four children.


Thousands mark Greek Orthodox Holy Fire rite in Jerusalem.


AlQaeda and the Paris attacks explained.


Patricia Welch s jail booking photo from 2014.


Cassius Clay points to a sign he wrote on a chalkboard in his dressing room before his fight against Archie Moore in Los Angeles predicting he d knock Moore out in the fourth round which he went on to do Ali changed his name in 1964 when he converted to Islam.


Hu used strong language when he turned to the need to fight corruption which many have said is the main reason for a growing popular discontent If we fail to handle this issue well it could prove fatal to the party and even cause the collapse of the party and the fall of the state Hu said reading from his prepared text We should strengthen education about combating corruption and promoting clean government and improving the culture of clean government.


Polish pilgrims wait for Mass at dawn before the canonization ceremony in St Peter s Square.


Miami Marlin Jeff Baker center is sprayed with water by Marcell Ozuna.


Palestinian firefighters participate in efforts to put out a fire at Gaza s only electricity plant which witnesses said was hit in Israeli shelling in the central Gaza Strip.


Manny Pacquiao leaves the ring smiling after losing by unanimous decision.


German armed forces soldiers walk beside Christmas decoration at camp Marmal near MazareSharif.


Security personnel on horseback ride through downtown Cleveland.


Michael Punke and wife Traci at a US Marine Corps ball.


Chinese navy warships arrive at the seaport of Port Sudan August 25 2015 The Chinese navy warships are at the seaport of Port Sudan as part of military cooperation between the two countries according to the Sudanese Armed Forces.


Police and emergency personnel tend to a victim of the driveby shooting Police said there were nine crime scenes across Isla Vista.


Funeral held for baby killed in Jerusalem attack.


Irrigation water runs along a driedup ditch between rice farms to provide water for the fields in Richvale Calif Despite the state s historic drought California tied with Texas in a 2012 report on water conservation.


Katie Ledecky dives in on her way to gold in the 400 freestyle at the 2015 World Championships.


Malcolm X speaks to reporters in Washington in 1963.


Protesters outside the law office hold Human Rights Campaign signs that translate from Spanish to Love Conquers Hatred.


Medallion Financial s stock price over the last year.


Egyptian Muslims shout Islamic slogans during a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo Thousands of ultraconservative Muslims rallied in the Egyptian capital demanding the country s new constitution be based on the rulings of Islamic law or Shariah.


Obama talks with Peres at his the presidential residence in Jerusalem.


Washington taxi drivers park their cars on Pennsylvania Avenue to protest ridesharing services The onslaught of services such as Uber and Lyft has fostered a new spirit of cooperation in the taxi industry.


A tourist ties a message expressing prayers and wellwishes for passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines airplane outside a mall in Kuala Lumpur.


Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz held a Pennsylvania Kickoff Event in Philadelphia on Tuesday April 19 2016.


Luke McGowanArnold 18 right leads protesters as they sing and chant before Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Janesville Wis on March 29.


These Republicans are calling for Trump to step down.


Article II page 2 of the Constitution on display at the National Archives.


Smoke rises after what witnesses said was an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday.


A decorated pillow rests in Gray s casket.


Robert Downey Jr and Marisa Tomei in Only You.


Dinnertime can be hectic for the Fatzingers although they ve learned shortcuts to speed the process through sharing and passing silverware.


Rookie officer Michael Pearson in the apartment.


Smoke bombs lobbed by protesters land behind a line of Ukrainian National Guardsmen blocking the entrance to the presidential palace in Kiev.


Saturday s Bangor Daily News cartoon by George Danby.


German Chancellor Helmut Kohl shares a song with the Clintons as the Washington Sangerbund German a cappella chorus performs during a state dinner First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chose a red gown with a voluminous taffeta skirt by Oscar de la Renta.


Adrian Peterson gets a hug from Cam Newton on Sunday afternoon.


As trainer Bob Thompson keeps an eye on him Philadelphia offensive lineman Todd Herremans works out at a gym in Cherry Hill NJ instead of at the Eagles facility.


A Palestinian pauses during the funeral of five members of the alHalaq family killed Sunday by an Israeli airstrike at their house in Gaza City.


Graduates put their designating sashes over each other during Howard University s commencement ceremonies on May 10 2014 in Washington DC.


President Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn Mich on April 18 2012.


Cindy Martinez contracted a flesheating infection in May Doctors amputated her feet and her right hand last week.


From left Chuanxiu Ye Tina Zhu Caroline Hennessy and Kevin Rogers discuss the preservation of Chinatown and the ability of the city to enforce the law at a July 25 board meeting at Museum Square in Washington The landlord has offered the residents 250 million to buy the building in order for current residents to keep living there.


EPA head The energy world is in transition.


DC police investigate an officerinvolved shooting Wednesday in Southeast Washington.


ThenDefense Intelligence Agency Director Lt Gen Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill in 2014.


A trade show in Hangzhou China in April displayed new Chinesedeveloped phones and apps.


This photo provided by Romney for President Inc shows 10yearold Mitt Romney in Detroit behind the wheel of a Nash automobile manufactured by American Motors Corp of which his father George Romney was president.


Dina Hafez an internist and pediatrician who was part of the medical team that treated the toddler wrote about the unusual case in the New England Journal of Medicine.


Twotime Masters champion Bernhard Langer 58 is two strokes off the lead entering Sunday.


Miranda Lambert s Platinum is her best yet.


Children play on a slide in Taoranting Park in Beijing on Jan 23 A rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce are expected to strain China s economy in the future.


Russian President Vladimir Putin President Obama in 2013 in Northern Ireland Britain.


A shot of Massachusetts Ave in Central Square Cambridge on Friday morning.


A first aid box hangs off a wall at a deserted wood factory that closed in 2007 in the town of Thessaloniki in central Macedonia region Greece April 23 2015.


Indiana Gov Mitch Daniels right talks about flooding in the state with Pence Rep Mike Sodrel.


Donald Trump and Peter Brant both about 11 years old playing with snorkel gear in the pool of the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach.


French riot police secure the area near the Bataclan concert hall.


Hana Kim 22 shows a photo of her brother Kim Dong Hyup 16 who is still missing after the capsizing.


Workers stand near an entrance to a passenger train left as it rests on tracks Thursday Dec 10 2015 in Boston The sixcar train with passengers on board left a suburban Boston transit station without a driver Thursday and went through four stations without stopping was tampered with Massachusetts Gov Charlie Baker said.


In this undated photo Ye Mengyuan left and Wang Linjia right pose for photos with other classmates in a classroom in Jiangshan city in China s Zhejiang province Chinese state media and Asiana Airlines have identified the girls as the two victims of the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport Zhejiang is an affluent coastal province in eastern China.


Aung San Suu Kyi watches the dressage team competition at the 27th Southeast Asian SEA Games at at the Equestrian Centre of Naypyidaw on Dec 13.


A memorial in the home of 31yearold Thelma Flores who died in a pedestrian crash on Monday She was crossing the street with her 3yearold daughter Isabella in Riverdale Park.


Khalil Bridges has high hopes for his future and plans to transfer to a fouryearold college once he gets an associate s degree from the Community College of Baltimore County.


Bayless can be seen on television screens in the control room during the live filming of First Take The show averaged 350000 viewers each weekday last year.


Participants in a prayer and solidarity march walk around the block where Ariel Castro lived.


Pope Francis waves to the crowd as his car drives along a street in Manila.


Eric and Francine Asche with son George recently welcomed their second child.


Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr left with David Nasser the school s senior vice president of spiritual development at convocation on the Liberty University campus in Lynchburg Va on Dec 9 2015.


Rashad Isreal center speaks on March 11 with two cops who pulled him from his burning car Cody Fields left and Brian Nesbitt.


A deercrossing sign is dusted with snow on Georgia Avenue in Olney.


A photo provided by former Pennsylvania congressman Patrick Murphy who was on the train shows a rescuer searching for injured people.


Police fire tear gas at demonstrators during a protest near central government offices in Hong Kong Thousands of Hong Kong prodemocracy demonstrators defied tear gas and pepper spray to occupy the city center as police undertook the biggest crackdown since the city returned to Chinese rule.


A member of the black student protest group Concerned Student 1950 addresses a crowd at the University of Missouri in Columbia after the announcement Monday that system President Tim Wolfe would resign.


Demonstrators prepare a firebomb during clashes with National Guard as they protest the official results of last Sunday s presidential elections in Caracas National Guard troops fired tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse demonstrators protesting the official results in Venezuela s disputed presidential election.


Containers are stacked up high at the Port of Oakland.


Durst is escorted from Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans.


Oslo Norway founded in the 11th century was a backwater for most of its long history It remade itself into a cosmopolitan capital in the 1950s.


Lautenberg and Republican challenger Dick Zimmer greet each other before the second and final debate between the Senate candidates at the television studios or NJN in Trenton NJ.


The Maria Lenk Aquatics Center where they hold water polo diving and gymnastics has had trouble with water quality.


President Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Warren Buffett in February 2011.


The Bento Rodrigues district is covered with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton burst in Mariana in November 2015.


Transportation Security Administration students look at samples of explosives and fuses after a demonstration at the new TSA Academy in Brunswick Ga.


A large brown egg from Kalyvas Estate eggs in Avlona Greece Since Greek banks were shuttered June 29 secondgeneration egg farmer Angelos Kalyvas has seen business drop by 30 percent.


Matt Davis fills a gas container in Frederick in preparation for the severe storms.


Anthony G Brown who is running for Maryland s 4th Congressional District greets voters outside the Southern Regional Technology and Recreation Complex on the first day of early voting in Fort Washington Md on Oct 27.


Relatives and friends of 43 teachers college students who disappeared last year wait in Mexico City for a group of experts convened by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights to present the conclusions of its investigation.


Republican Monica Wehby whose Democratic opponent tried to make the case that she is too extreme for progressive Oregon came out in support of gay marriage through a television ad.


Aria Amour Hill was born 1217 pm on Oct 23 2011 to proud parents Natasha Gibson and Quinton Hill at Washington Hospital Center which delivers more than 4500 babies a year It s the busiest maternity ward in the District.


Herche Plastic Surgery 3rd Floor Gang Nam Seoul South Korea.


Protesters warm themselves in Independence Square in Kiev Ukraine Thousands of protesters blocked entrances to the government building and called for the ouster of the prime minister and his cabinet as massive antigovernment demonstrations continued to grip Kiev.


The current train frequencies on the six Metrorail lines.


Democratic presidential candidate Sen Bernie Sanders.


The one and only A multitude of baby Jesus figures.


Viking treasure hoard found in Scotland.


Singer Seal center right stands in the audience before President Obama delivered remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York.


The ultrastructural appearance of a single virus particle of the measles virus.


Hillary Clinton former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate speaks during a Democratic Town Hall event in Des Moines Iowa Jan 25 2016.


Thunder god vine a traditional Chinese medicinal plant.


A bulldozer lifts a wrecked vehicle in the mudslide near Oso Wash.


Ali Oliazadeh an Iranian teenager swims in a pool at the Azadegan Water Park.


Karras stands behind a counter with lower receivers for sale at Ares Armor in Oceanside Calif In the current day and age we live in the NSA receives files on almost everyone in our country Karras said This is a way for people to maintain their privacy.


Syrian volunteers take part in paramilitary training conducted by the Syrian army north of the capital of Damascus on Monday.


A woman who was too weak to stand lies on the porch of a makeshift clinic and pharmacy in the Thet Kae Pyin refugee camp The medics did not know the nature of her ailment but like many Rohingya she had a fever and stomachache.


What we know about the Orlando nightclub massacre.


Presenters Samuel L Jackson and Naomi Watts speak on stage.


Canna energy representative CJ Carter sells the hempbased product with zero THC at the expo The city still prohibits weed from being bought or sold.


Lawrence Sperry climbs out of his airplane after landing near the Capitol steps.


People celebrate in Cairo s Tahrir Square after the removal of Morsi.


View Photo Gallery Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has emerged as Mitt Romney s chief rival for th GOP presidential nomination but will his views on social issues distract voters from his economic message.


The Maryland Senate during debate on the last day of the Maryland Assembly in Annapolis on April 7 2014 Decriminalizing marijuana was one of the issues the Senate was voting on.


A member of the election commission mops the floor of a polling station ahead of the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election at the Octyabr village in the Donetsk region on May 22 2014 The Ukrainian presidential election will be held on May 25 2014.


Sook Yeong Park is accused of abusing two Korean teenagers in this Queens home.


Hurricane Patricia weakens after hitting Mexico.


Yvette Woodruff who was 15 when she was abducted raped and murdered by Prieto in 1990 He was sentenced to death in California for Woodruff s murder.


Woodbridge teens found in van died from stab wounds.


Ultrasounds halfway through Kelley s pregnancy revealed serious defects in the baby s development.


A photo taken of the comic book presented during the 2009 exhibition Tarzan at the Quai Branly museum in Paris.


Sarah Nor 55 the mother of 34yearold Norliakmar Hamid a passenger on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane talks on a cellphone at her house in Kuala Lumpur.


Amy Schumer accepts the Critics Choice MVP award at the 21st annual Critics Choice Awards.


Singer Carrie Underwood said in the November 2013 issue of Women s Health that she s a practical vegan I am a vegan but I consider myself to be a practical vegan If I order something on a menu and it has a sprinkling of cheese on top I m not going to send it back she said.


The scene inside Sao Sebastiao Cathedral as Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Rio de Janeiro.


A man carries two children after panic broke out among mourners who paid their respects at the attack sites at restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and the Carillon Hotel in Paris.


Audio St Louis County police dispatch released by Anonymous.


Members of the Missouri National Guard stand outside of the Ferguson Police Department and the Municipal Court in 2014 A Justice Department investigation found patterns of racial bias in the Ferguson police department and at the municipal jail and court.


An Ocean City surfer checks for waves at the inlet brought on by the outer bands of Hurricane Irene.


The top of a temple in Bhaktapur s Durbar Square has turned to rubble.


Turkish security forces and forensic police inspect a blast site in Ankara.


Todd Kohlhepp of Moore SC was arrested in connection to a woman being found chained inside a storage container on a property in Woodruff SC Read the story.


Singer Karen O and musician Ezra Koenig perform onstage.


Members of Peru s LGBT community hold posters with the names of Peruvian victims of hate during a candlelight vigil condemning the mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando.


A thirdgrader waits for other students to finish getting their lunch at Umejima Elementary School.


Women dressed up for the Easter parade in south Chicago.


Marshall looks through his Hall of Fame award with his wife Barbara at an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame ceremony in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles.


5 foot 100 pound doctor filmed attacking Miami Uber driver.


Guests at a welcome dinner for Syrian refugees at Temple Rodef Shalom take a break for Muslim evening prayers at the back of the synagogue s sanctuary.


People take part in an antiEuropean Union protest outside Parliament in Athens on Sunday.


Members of the South African armed forces surround Mandela s coffin before it is lowered into the grave.


The FAA bill includes some provisions that would benefit consumers such as a rule that requires airlines to refund fees for delayed baggage.


The huge bridal section at the Goodwill Reserve Boutique is edited from their donation pool specifically for the shop in Omaha Neb The store hosts an annual bridal fashion show using only donated gowns and accessories from the store.


The Montana legislator will be flyfishing with his wife.


Saundra and Russell Payne of Landover Md head home after casting their votes at the Wayne K Curry Sports and Learning Complex in Landover.


Insidethebox thinking yields shipping container apartment.


Workers prepare the viewing area for the swearingin ceremony at the Capitol.


Democratic vicepresidential nominee Tim Kaine greets supporters at a Labor Day campaign event in Cleveland on Sept 5.


Esther Slaathaug and other dancers practice for their performance for Obama in Kotzebue Read the story.


Police looking for Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev in Watertown.


Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro right observes the coffin as a supporter weeps during the funeral.


Genentech s drug Avastin is displayed in a pharmacy.


Garland s meticulous approach was crucial to the success of the investigation He corralled the vast resources of the Justice Department and worked in concert with local and state players He was adamant that the investigation including procedural matters such as subpoenas and search warrants be executed by the book to prevent any hitches in the upcoming trials.


Steve Wynn maneuvers a course shooting zombie targets.


Haggard second left appears with from left fellow country stars Johnny Cash Buck Owens and Glen Campbell.


Staff Sgt Bryan McKinney of the US Military Academy Band at West Point plays taps on a balcony of the New York Stock Exchange in honor of Veterans Day.


Army Lt Gen Patrick OReilly Missile Defense Agency director.


Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at Cooper Union on Sept 22 2014 in New York.