Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney delivers a speech at the National Gypsum Company in Tampa Fla Romney s speech was billed as a prebuttal to tonight s State of the Union speech by President Obama.


Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro.


In this image released by Netflix Kevin Spacey left and Michael Kelly appear in a scene from House of Cards The third season of the political drama became available on Netflix on Friday Feb 27 2015.


A panoramic photo of George Mason University s campus a school that has made student well being a focus of its new strategy.


People are treated after being struck by a vehicle on Red River Street in downtown Austin during SXSW.


A man smokes a marijuana joint at a party celebrating weed Wednesday April 20 2016 in Seattle.


An emotional supporter listens to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speak at a rally in Cedar Rapids Iowa.


A man protesting Sterling s shooting death is detained by law enforcement in Baton Rouge.


Clothes weapons and tanks are abandoned on Istanbul s Bosporus Bridge.


Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says the American people would feel the pinch if funding for his department runs out at the end of the month.


The District will dedicate a new plaque to the victims of the June 22 2009 Metro crash.


A giant rusty wheel that once squeezed the juice from sugar cane in the Hershey mill is silhouetted against the rising sun.


A pair of albatrosses swoops alongside the Explorer as it crosses the calm Drake Passage.


Florida Sen Marco Rubio speaks in Toa Baja Puerto Rico on March 5.


Garrick Utley a globetrotting journalist who spent 30 years with NBC News as a foreign correspondent weekend anchor morningshow host and moderator of Meet the Press died Feb 20 at age 74 READ Garrick Utley dies at 74.


William and Catherine center visit the Shore events venue in Dundee.


In the area of Regla across the bay from Havana people wait hours for their government ration of chicken.


In Ulysese Jefferson s Upper Marlboro home from left grandson Michael son David daughter Lisa Jefferson daughter Susan and son Paul spend time together Jefferson sold his company Worldwide Information Network Systems to the contracting giant ManTech for 90 million in late 2011.


A Secret Service agent stands guard during a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in South Carolina.


Britain s Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge holds her son Prince George.


Workers remove a campaign sign from a trailer after Saturday s event OMalley will visit New Hampshire an early nominating state on Sunday.


Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani speaks to media in Kabul Afghanistan on Tuesday The nation s two presidential candidates remain at odds over a powersharing deal that aims to end the deadlock over a troubled runoff election in June.


Transportation planners have built a list of which Park Ride facilities have excess capacity.


A fan stays dry under an umbrella as rain falls in the second inning of a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees on Sept 13 2014 in Baltimore.


If you re looking on Taobao for baby formula this is what your search results might look like.


Hoyas guard DVauntes SmithRivera left talks with forward Otto Porter Jr center and forward Nate Lubick during the game.


Treatment for psychological trauma may never arrive for Aleppo s civilians.


Kerry and Modi at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Gandhinagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Jan 11.


They and the Texans each have outscored their opponents by a total of 46 points in three games tied for the league s best scoring margin so far.


Now legally married Dinah McCaryer center and Olanda Smith behind McCaryer wearing a hat are cheered by supporters of gay marriage as they leave the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham Ala.


Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr is shown in New York in 1979.


The upstairs bedroom in Sarah McNair s tiny house.


Two of President Ronald Reagan s picks for the Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy are divided on gay rights Their different approach to gay rights reflects their more fundamental disagreement about how to think about the liberties protected by the Constitution Washington lawyer Paul M Smith said.


Well he was right about Justin and Kelly.


Teresa DowellVest 42 left and Michelle Alexander 40 met on Facebook and will have a marriage ceremony June 14.


Allen with his wife Susan speaks during a rally for 2008 Republican presidential nominee Sen John McCain.


Former US senator Jim Webb speaks during a business forum in Portsmouth NH in May.


Boy Scouts president warns that ban on gay leaders is unsustainable.


A CNN employee holds a microphone toward Rubio center and Trump right as they talk during a commercial break.


Workers began removing the large letters spelling out the Trump name from the shuttered Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City last year.


Steve Carell plays Mark Baum in The Big Short from Paramount Pictures and Regency Enterprises.


Bill Gates holds vaccine during a news conference after his address to the 64th World Health Assembly at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva May 17 2011.


Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones s Baby.


The scene of a homicide on Andean Goose Way in Upper Marlboro.


Sumatran orangutans play in their enclosure at the Moscow Zoo.


Reeva Steenkamp s cousin Kim Martins is comforted by Reeva Steenkamp s mother June and father Barry after the sentencing.


Riders board one of the shuttle buses Metro dispatched as part of Surge 3 last week.


Students study geography in a school in the allwhite Kleinfontein a settlement just south of Pretoria Only whites who share Afrikaner culture language and religion are allowed to settle here.


A Super Soaker at the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester NY.


Indian police look at arms and ammunition seized during searches in Muzaffarnagar.


Shiite Houthi fighters are seen in an armed vehicle in alBayda province south of Sanaa Yemen s capital on Tuesday.


A cache of weapons is shown here assembled on the deck of the guidedmissile destroyer USS Gravely.


Author screenwriter and producer David Simon.


Coverage of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.


Donald Trump wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon attend the press conference held by Battle of the Billionaires to announce the details of Wrestlemania 23 at Trump Tower on March 28 2007 in New York.


Ryan T Anderson speaks during a lecture titled Redefining Marriage Why It Matters at the University of Colorado on March 19.


Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron left listens as reporter Carol Leonnig right has a moment while her editor Peter Wallsten not pictured speaks about her win.


At left the iconic photograph of the 1945 flagraising by Marines on Iwo Jima At right a gay pride adaptation of the original image that has gone viral in recent days years after it was published.


Mourners outside the military academy in Caracas watch a live broadcast of the funeral proceedings inside.


Radar shows two supercells that spawned tornadoes in the Dallas Fort Worth area one west of town near Irving and one east of town at 208 pm CT.


Love and Rockets New Stories 6 by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez.


Tom Brokaw reporting the Shuttle Challenger explosion from NBC Washington.


President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama go to the North Portico to greet President Francois Hollande of France.


Russia s Alexander Ovechkin looks on during a break in play against Slovakia.


Turkish police shoot tear gas to disperse people protesting against the Islamic State near Sanliurfa Turkey.


Behind a famous and fast steam locomotive.


Blake Layman 9 who is running for vice president is giving his speech to his fellow students via BETV Bethesda Elementary TV as part of Bethesda Elementary School s annual election process Assistant principal Stacey Lillis right and competitors listen in.


Former Florida Gov Jeb Bush leaves after speaking at a Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua NH on April 17 2015.


Eyewitness accounts allege white phosphorus attack in Aleppo.


Vice President Biden flanked by Majority Leader Harry Reid walks into caucus with Senate Democrats.


If Clinton does nt run there will be an open spot for a woman in the field Gillibrand who filled Clinton s seat in the Senate seems the most ambitious of three female candidates from the US Senate and could theoretically raise the sort of money she would need Would she run if Cuomo her mentor ran Probably not.


Joe Wolf left of Manassas Va jokes around with Corey Stewart state chairman of the Trump campaign before a Veterans for Trump dinner at a pizzeria in Woodbridge.


On various trips to Italy Pelliccia has collected colorful Deruta pottery which is made in a hill town in the Umbria region.


The Gucci man wears two faces sartorical jetsetter and free rockandroll spirit says creative director Frida Giannini.


Sam Groth who played for Australia at the Rio Olympics has a bigger physical build than most tennis players.


Rob McKenna is trying to become the first Republican elected governor of Washington since 1980.


Chart by Philip Bump The Washington Post.


Mayor Vincent C Gray is flanked by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka left and former DC mayors Anthony A Williams and Sharon Pratt.


Police officers guard the scene of a fatal shooting of a 15yearold boy in Richmond Calif.


People attend the grand opening of the African American History Museum.


Recent genetic data for the damselfly Megaloprepus caerulatus in Central America suggests that forest fragmentation has led it to diverge into more than one species.


Iain Duncan Smith leader of the Conservative Party and May then the party s chairman arrive at the Foreign Press Association in London.


Rodney P Hunt s home on the Potomac River in McLean is the most expensive property in the Washington region to enter some stage of foreclosure since the housing market crashed in 2007.


A fan cries at a makeshift memorial outside the Apollo Theater in New York.


Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and Patriots QB Tom Brady are shown after a 2012 game.


These lightning rods were removed and replaced from the Washington Monument in 2012 and can be seen in the new exhibit on the 490foot level of the monument.


A crash test of a 2002 Honda CRV one of the models subject to a recall to repair faulty air bags made by Takata.


A combat vehicle with proRussian gunman on top runs through downtown Slovyansk on April 16.


Online booking glitch delays Southwest flights.


George W Bush seen here in the Oval Office recounts his actions and thoughts on Sept 11 and the following days in National Geographic s George W Bush The 911 Interview.


Bad Black director Isaac Nabwana and star Alan Hofmanis take a break from filming.


Supporters celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 26 after the court declared that samesex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States.


Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson right walks away from a media availability regarding his office s handling of the release of information following the shooting of Michael Brown on Aug 15.


Justin G Reid associate director at the Moton Museum looks at one of the exhibits in the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville Va.


People transport a cow that died during the passing of Hurricane Sandy on a wheelbarrow to slaughter in PortauPrince Haiti As Hurricane Sandy swirls off toward the East Coast of the United States the Caribbean is mourning the stormrelated deaths of at least 50 people and cleaning up wrecked homes felled power lines and fallen tree branches.


An enactment of Where the Wild Things Are.


Workers unveiled the new Virginia is for Lovers sign at Dulles Airport on Tuesday The 105 signs that will be installed statewide are designed to promote the state to national and international visitors.


In this Dec 3 2014 file photo former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Georgetown University in Washington.


A woman looks at the HealthCaregov insurance exchange Internet site in this Oct 1 2013 file photo in Washington DC.


These burrows were made half a billion years ago on a beach off what s now western Maryland.


Edgewood is bordered roughly by Michigan Avenue to the north the Metro tracks to the east Rhode Island Avenue to the south and North Capitol Street and Glenwood Cemetery to the west.


Jason Bain goes through one of the many collection boxes.


A Syrian rebel hands a weapon to Guevara 36 dubbed the woman sniper of Syria who took up weapons against the Syrian government forces after the death of her two children several months ago.


The offending check at Peter Chang in Arlington courtesy of a diner.


Charlie Booker left and Frederick Booker pose for a picture in this undated family photo.


The easiest tomato soup begins in a blender.


John and Ann Betar on this wedding day in 1932.


Watch a dried up water bear come back to life.


A Sierra Leonean soldier cleans the ground before the country s president lands in Koinadugu a remote district ravaged by Ebola Sierra Leone November 2014.


The ball used to play pickleball resembles a Wiffle ball seen at Emery Recreation Center in Washington.


Stephen and Jenn Yunis talk with friends at their home in Germantown.


They are the only mammals with powered flight and they are pretty unusual.


Kerry Washington wore a flowing Jason Wu gown that lightly draped her baby bump.


Orthopedic surgeon Marc Danziger left jokes with nurses at the center before a procedure on a patient s anterior cruciate ligament.


The Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department are postponing the enforcement of yet another rule tied to the president s health care law.


Secretary of State John F Kerry center poses for a group photo with some of the survivors and family members of victims of the US Embassy bombing in 1998 during a wreath laying event at the bombing site the August 7 Memorial Park in Nairobi Kenya on May 4 2015 EPADANIEL IRUNGU.


CHICAGO MAY 26 1996 In an interview with photographer Mariana Cook Michelle Obama said of her husband There is a strong possibility that Barack will pursue a political career although it s unclear.


A view of Palmyra s renowned ruined colonnade taken in March 2014.


A Cypriot woman wearing a mask of German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes part in a protest outside the parliament in Nicosia German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said late Sunday that the decision to spread the losses across all depositors in Cyprus was a decision made by Cypriot policymakers not those outside the country.


Sam Dallak left gets a autograph from Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook in front of her damaged home in Moore Okla.


Chavez center blows a goodbye kiss before boarding his plane at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia near Caracas.


Kate is magenta pink More varieties are in the works and each has been selected from a pool of hundreds of seedlings bred for evaluation It takes eight years from initial breeding to commercial introduction.


An activist of the Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena removes the party flag from the headquarters after the news of the death of party leader Bal Thackeray in Mumbai India Thackeray the extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers in India died Saturday after an illness of several weeks He was 86.


Journalists look at debris from the downed Malaysia Airlines flight in eastern Ukraine.


People sort through waterdamaged products outside Jasmine s Beauty Supply following the floods in Baton Rouge.


An undated photo of Jennifer Lawson Family friend Megan Szwez said people still approach her and talk of how they ran a little farther played a little longer with their children or read an extra bedtime story because they knew Jenn would.


A Virginia teenager s stomach pains were nt all in her head as some physicians had suggested.


Catherine Katie Curran OMalley on Oct 19 2010 in Baltimore Md.


Katy Perry left and Dolly Parton perform.


Dr Katherine Hope Lauren Augustine Matt Evans and Dr Don Neiffer of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park work to care for the wounded crocodile at the National Zoo on Wednesday.


A 10monthold girl died after being left inside this car in Wichita Police said her foster parents were inside eating pizza smoking pot and watching Game of Thrones.


French special forces handle arms as they take position on a rooftop of the complex at the scene of a hostagetaking in DammartinenGoele.


Miesha Thompson instructs student Damond Brown 14 during archery class at Roosevelt High School.


Riders are seen on a Metro train as it stops at the Farragut North Metro station in January.


Black Lives Matter demonstrators maintained their encampment outside the Minneapolis Police Department s Fourth Precinct.


The Ten Commandments are seen on a door as Liberty University Chief of Police Rich Hinkley teaches a gun safety class on campus.


Sarah March a British artist creating a stick and poke tattoo.


Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia perform in the pairs free skating They won the gold medal.


Enthusiastic crowds line both sides of the Reflecting Pool.


A hearse carries a casket of Beau Biden after the funeral.


Bill who are you wearing We think you can learn how to answer that question.


File President Obama hugs North Point Marina owner Donna Vanzant as he tours damage done by Hurricane Sandy in Brigantine New Jersey October 31 2012.


Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg speaks at a 2013 press event to introduce Facebook s Home a series of applications that integrate the Facebook platform into the Android operating system.


Fatima Abu Khdeir right is an aunt of American teenager Tariq Abu Khdeir who was allegedly beaten by Israeli police in the West Bank She and other relatives urged the US government to help in the return of the 15yearold.


John Saunders interview quarterback Mark Sanchez following the 2009 Rose Bowl.


The Congolese warlord was the first and only person to be sentenced by the ICC that took six years.


Claude Kern and Jennifer Slakis hold their hands over their hearts as the hearse carrying Caroline Previdi one of the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School school passes by.


A closeup of a juvenile toad mountain Harlequin frog.


Epa04651012 A model presents a creation from the FallWinter 201516 Ready to Wear collection by US designer Alexander Wang for Balenciaga fashion house during the Paris Fashion Week in Paris France 06 March 2015 The presentation of the Women s collections runs from 03 to 11 March EPAIAN LANGSDON.


Supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party shout slogans during a protest outside the headquarters of India s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi.


From left preschoolers Alyssa Silberman Liya Krut Yoav Avneri Yural Avneri and Lisa Steinberg touch the horns of a fake ram s head as they learn about making a shofar for the High Holidays.


In case LeBron James really does star in Space Jam 2 here s his acting history.


Chelsea Clinton is interviewed in the VIP lounge at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park to End Extreme Poverty in New York.


BAGHDAD IRAQ Members of an Iraqi police explosives unit look for evidence after a bomb was detoated near a military checkpoint wounding two officers and a child in Baghdad s Jadriya neighborhood.


Obama and Modi with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee left attend a reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on Jan 26.


Melissa and Ash Whitaker a transgender boy who is suing to protect his civil rights at a Wisconsin public school.


Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim LeagueN shout slogans and toss flower petals during a rally in Rawalpindi.


Trump to supporters If you do nt vote I ve wasted time energy and money.


Kay has had a long and painful ordeal coping with the mental illness of her son She put off her retirement indefinitely because she did nt know how long she would have to support her son.


Neil Cohen looks in on Asner seated in his dressing room and makeup artist Skip Smith Cohen a dentist in Chevy Chase had long dreamed of making a sitcom.


Robert E Simon Jr at the 10th anniversary of Reston in 1974.


Outside a Romney fundraiser supporters flash signs while Romney s motorcade passes in San Diego.


Under the law that Nevada Gov Brian Sandoval signed Tuesday lowincome families or students with disabilities can receive the same amount the state spends per public school student or an average of about 5700 while middle and upperincome families will receive slightly less about 5100 a year.


Lindsay Hilton works out at a CrossFit in Halifax And adaptive athelete she uses velcro gloves chains and hooks to perform many of the sport s difficult lifting exercises.


Transportation Security Administration Chief Peter Neffenger testifies on May 25 before the House Homeland Security Committee.


Serving as the leader of the free world requires effective leadership sound judgment a steady hand and most importantly the temperament to deal with crises large and small the former General Motors chief executive said Donald Trump lacks each of these characteristics.


Flor Torres left widow of late Cuban dissident Eloy GutierrezMenoyo puts her hand on the glass of his coffin during his wake in Havana Cuba GutierrezMenoyo who went from rebel commander fighting alongside Fidel Castro to a foe launching commando raids against the island before settling inside Cuba as a moderate prodialogue dissident died early Friday He was 77.


Former senator Chris Dodd and his wife Jackie Marie Clegg Dodd.


House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio right and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky left swap positions at the microphones to answer questions on the sweeping GOP victory in the 2010 midterm elections Wednesday Nov 3 2010 during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.


Iraqi forces gather after the liberation of a village from the Islamic State south of Mosul on Oct 21 2016 during the operation against the militants.


Two Baton Rouge teens experience some angsty scifi themed Romeo and Juliet type issues because the boy.


Antigovernment demonstrators protest at a barricade in Independence Square in central Kiev.


An artist s rendering of an ancient snake with tiny hind limbs.


Evolution opponent discovers prehistoric fossils.


Page A9 of The Washington Post s Sept 2 1987 edition.


Former United States President George W Bush smiles as he watches a baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Texas Rangers Friday Aug 10 2012 in Arlington Texas.


President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address on Tuesday.


Protesters wave Iraqi flags in parliament Under huge political pressure Prime Minister Haider alAbadi has attempted to reshuffle his cabinet and meet demonstrators demands but he has been hampered by a deeply divided legislature.


Pakistani schoolgirls in Peshawar pray for the recovery of 14yearold activist Malala Yousafzai who was shot in a Taliban assassination attempt.


Residents rally in the town of Midoun on the Tunisian island of Djerba a popular destination for foreign tourists Most of the victims of the March 18 terrorist attack on a museum in Tunis were foreign tourists.


Sen Maria Cantwell is a former business executive US representative and state representative Reelected to a third term she is the state s secondever female US senator after Patty Murray.


Crews work to fix water main break on Wilson Lane at River Road in Bethesda.


This recent but undated photo made available Jan 21 shows weapons and equipment arranged to show the media how Islamic militants were armed The militants were wearing Algerian army uniforms and were equipped with explosives to blow up the plant according to Algeria s Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal.


A football fan takes a selfie as French riot police encounter hundreds of rowdy English soccer fans Wednesday in Lille France Police used tear gas and pepper spray.


Astronaut Edwin E Buzz Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the US flag on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in this July 20 1969 file photo.


A DC streetcar is seen at the eastern end of the line near Oklahoma Avenue and Benning Road in this December 2014 file photo.


An Aug 29 2014 image by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst shows an aurora as seen from the International Space Station Gerst wrote on social media Words ca nt describe how it feels flying through an Aurora I would nt even know where to begin.


A man dressed as Elvis Presley takes a photo as people reach out for signatures from photos of and handshakes with Donald Trump at South Point Arena in Las Vegas.


Krzysztof Charamsa left who worked for a Vatican office appears at the news conference with his partner Eduardo on Oct 3 in Rome.


President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama pose with members of the Jackie Robinson West All Stars little league team in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Thursday Nov 6 2014.


Forensic scientist Kamedra McNeil works on a sample in DC s crime lab which is restarting DNA testing 10 months after a controversial shutdown.


A US Capitol police officer talks on the phone near the West Front of the Capitol.


Julie Raley left cuts steak for her daughter Zoe 7 as Tamara Wellons right cuts the steak for Brianna Santangelo 7 at Equinox in Washington DC Several DC chefs including Todd Gray at Equinox are revamping their kids menus so the children are eating the same types of foods adults eat.


Ke Shi walks with his father Lei Yixin as the quote is chiseled away from the memorial.


Bor Sudan Presidential election April 11 2010.


Officials said the two men were shot near the restaurant.


Shoppers walk past a Bed Bath Beyond store in Washington The company is focusing on its online sales as ecommerce becomes more competitive.


Father Warren Hall gives Mass as more than 50 Seton Hall couples renew their vows at a special Mass service at the Chapel on the Seton Hall campus in South Orange NJ on Friday February 14 2014.


Carly Fiorina greets guests at the Republican Party of Iowa s Lincoln Dinner at the Iowa Events Center on May 16 in Des Moines.


A vehicle burns in front of riot police as students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos protest demanding the government find 43 of their missing classmates.


After an long day Junior takes a rest during a live Nativity scene at Kernstown Battlefield in Winchester Va.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left and Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon talk to the media after participating in a threeway peace summit with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and President Bill Clinton at the Erez checkpoint in Israel.


Courtesy of Flickr user Christopher Sessums under a Creative Commons license.


PalestinianIsraeli violence continues with fatal shooting at Beersheva bus station.


Maroulis also wrestled Sofia Mattsson of Sweden in the women s wrestling 53kg weight class.


Troy kisses his daughter Lexi as Barbara looks on.


Demonstrators have dinner as they stage protests in Kiev Ukrainian police forced protesters to move away from government headquarters Opposition ministers of parliament urged demonstrators to move to Independence Square the main protest venue.


Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Michigan Gov Rick Snyder read The Rainbow Fish book to youngsters in a Detroit school last year.


Fathers and children crowd a hospital in Tegucigalpa Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez declared the country to be on a state of alert because of the Zika virus which has killed a person and infected 1000.


View Photo Gallery Wilson Ramos Venezuelan winter league team reports that he has been kidnapped in his hometown of Valencia Venezuela.


Trophies for the festival winners sit backstage while 20yearold Canadian Bryce Katolinsky prepares for his performance at the finals.


The soldiers of the third platoon carved a memorial for their comrade Pfc Adam Ross who was killed during a firefight with the insurgents in the guard post at the main entrance of Combat Outpost Jaghatu.


Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli II answers questions from reporters after a joint forum on energy issues at the George Mason University School of Law.


Sharon Bell waits for a bus along Minnesota Avenue NE on March 11 in Washington.


Kevin is seen lounging on his way back to Anderson SC from Palm Spring Calif on Wednesday.


This image posted online Sunday Dec 27 2015 by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website shows heavy damage in Ramadi Iraq a day before Iraqi forces backed by USled airstrikes retook the government complex in the center of the city.


President Obama and former president Bill Clinton stand together after Clinton s speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Center in Charlotte.


7yearold Lillary reads her letter from Hillary.


US Soldiers with the 5th Special Forces Group 101st Airborne Division and Joint Special Operations Task ForceGulf Cooperation Council work with parachute riggers assigned to the 11th Quartermaster Co Special Troops Battalion 82nd Sustainment Brigade to palletize halal meals for a humanitarian airdrop in Iraq.


The crowd reacts as Biz Markie performs at the MSNBC afterparty.


Jesner Badio submits to a blood test at the Greater Baden Medical Center on June 26 in Capitol Heights Md.


A man inspects destroyed military equipment from a recent battle outside of Lugansk.


Supporters show their enthusiasm for Obama as he works the rope line following a rally in Denver.


Rimac will only be making eight copies of the Concept_One.


University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan.


A horse throws a rider at a rodeo held for Tradition Day in San Antonio de Areco Argentina.


A Thanksgiving spread of recipes from the White House from left White House ThymeRoasted Turkey White House Turkey Gravy Grover Cleveland Parsnip Fritters Laura Bush s Green Beans With Anchovy Butter White House Kale Salad and FDR Chestnut Stuffing.


Nathanial Johnson 68 told investigators that he tied a burglary suspect to a tree after the man tried to break into his house The person later died.


Michigan State guardforward Branden Dawson beats Maryland guardforward Dez Wells to the rebound under the Maryland basket in the second half.


Friends and colleagues of Martin Salia a doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone talk about his illness at Kissy Hospital in Freetown Sierra Leone Salia died Monday at a hospital in Omaha.


A competitor trains eve of the start of the race on April 9 This year s Marathon des Sables was the 31st.


Hillary speaks at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh yesterday.


Neera Tanden president of the Center for American Progress.


Pakistanis pour into Afghanistan fleeing military offensive.


A wall separating pedestrian and vehicle traffic crumbles from wear and tear on the aging Frederick Douglass bridge One of the District s biggest projects aims to reconstruct the bridge.


Tammy is one of a number of drugaddicted prostitutes who live in Detroit With the lack of police intervention and easy access to drug houses dealers and johns women often work as prostitutes for years Goldengate Street east side Detroit 2013.


An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp on July 18 near the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq The camp is home to 115000 Syrians.


Volunteers run for cover after hearing a volley of gunshots at the scene of the siege in the Kenyan capital.


An Iranian man transports a carpet on his motorcycle outside Ghavam Doleh bazaar in central Tehran The sanctions imposed by the United States which is one of the largest importer of Persian rugs has hurt the rug industry in Iran.


Corruption charges dropped for former Va governor McDonnell.


Thankful to these guys for getting us out after 45 min in smoke filled metro car tunnel Cherish every moment Burns said in an Instagram photo caption.


Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz gets off his bus in Boone Iowa Cruz began a sixday bus tour of Iowa ahead of the state s Feb 1 caucuses.


Jordy of Arlington is a top contender in the Owney LookAlike Contest Owney was a trainriding dog who was a mascot for the mail service more than a century ago.


Republican vicepresidential nominee Mike Pence speaks during the debate at Longwood University in Farmville Va on Tuesday.


From left Democratic state Sens Sylvia R Garcia Wendy Davis Royce West Kirk Watson and John Whitmire greet abortion rights advocates to show they voted against the bill which passed 19 to 11 Abortion rights advocates vow to go to court to block the bill once it is signed into law.


Barton shows the scars on his neck and shoulder that were left by the emergency surgery in which doctors removed shotgun pellets from his body and made sure his esophagus trachea and arteries were intact Barton is headed home to Connecticut to recuperate.


A selection of some of the two dozenplus books published in Japan about Donald Trump as president of the United States.


Mohamed Abdeslam brother of two men suspected in the Paris terror attacks addresses reporters at his house in the Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels.


Former New York governor Mario Cuomo reacts to applause at a swearingin ceremony for his son New York Gov Andrew Cuomo at the state Capitol in Albany.


GlaxoSmithKline is developing a new shingles vaccine for people 50 and older.


Crystal City Tex Mayor Ricardo Lopez is taken away from City Hall by police after allegedly disrupting a City Council meeting.


A customer fires a handgun at a shooting range in Utah.


Albert Einstein writes out an equation on the blackboard at the Carnegie Institute Mt Wilson Observatory headquarters in Pasadena Calif in this Jan 14 1931 photo.


A US Capitol Police K9 team works at the entrance of the Capitol South Metro station in Washington during rush hour Police and other law enforcement agencies in the District and across the country continue to operate at a heightened state of security after Monday s Boston Marathon bombings.


Broadcaster Natalie Morales of NBC holds placards made by a games company featuring a picture of guest cohost Vanessa Williams as a royal baby during a live broadcast across St Mary s Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing.


Laura Nicholls of Spain is assisted after falling during a women s basketball preliminary against China.


Mug shut of Anthony Rackley who prefers his alias Jack Watson.


DC Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe will disperse six additional ambulances rather than keeping them in a centrally located station in Northwest.


As the USPS mulls shutting hundreds of post offices the families that use the tiny Star Tannery Va post office hope it is not on the chopping block.


Sebastian Leal joined here by his father faces a long recovery.


While a college student in Ohio Mohamed Soltan prepares to eat a Thurman burger a sandwich so large that it was featured on the Travel Channel show Man V Food.


Stephen Adly Guirgis wrote Between Riverside and Crazy.


Elizabeth Lyttleton rides her ride bike with a group of DC bicyclists to demonstrate opposition to Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy on Wednesday.


Actress Hayden Panettiere arrives at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.


A man makes brooms in Khutsong South Africa.


Potato chips might be popular in the United States but the rest of the world prefers other snacks.


A 3Drendered illustration of cancer cells.


United States head coach Jurgen Klinsmann instructs his players during the match.


Lily a 12yearold western lowland gorilla cradles her new baby Zoo officials say the baby was born September 4 Keepers have not been able to get close enough to the baby to determine whether it is a boy or a girl Western lowland gorillas are native to central Africa and are critically endangered.


A road is illuminated by a streetlight in Islesford.


Members of the news media tour the new NPR headquarters Grumbling about the cost of the facility began after the Drudge Report linked to an account of the tour from the Web site FishBowlDC which described the building s features.


Clara del Carmen Ramirez from El Salvador and Afsana Chowdhury Zaman from Bangladesh are among about 100 people to become naturalized during Independence Day celebrations at George Washington s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.


Carter gives his malaise speech in 1975.


Casey Kasem presents at the sixth annual Prism Awards at CBS Television City in Los Angeles.


Credit Tatyana Deryugina and Solomon Hsiang.


Vicki Brown stands near the wooden box that holds the remains of her late son Mattie.


Redskins wide receiver Aldrick Robinson hauls in a 68yard touchdown pass from quarterback Robert Griffin III to start off Washington s 28point second quarter.


A man wears a jacket covered in GOP buttons as he arrives at Quicken Loans Arena.


Mitch McConnell US Senate for Kentucky 1990.


Daniele Santos 29 with her son Juan Pedro and her estranged partner Waldir da Silva 39 in a group therapy class.


Kanye West left and his wife Kim Kardashian speak with an unidentified friend as they arrive by helicopter at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in southwest England.


Grower Terrence Freeman works in one of the numerous grow rooms at RiverRock in Denver.


Argentina s Federico Pizarro tries to score a penalty during the men s preliminary handball match between Denmark and Argentina.


A bunch of farmers market celery should yield about 2 cups of leaves.


A Palestinian looks up while repairing a smuggling tunnel in Rafah near Gaza s border with Egypt.


Temperatures compared to normal across the Lower 48 states during March 2012.


Fast food workers and activists demonstrate outside the McDonald s corporate campus on May 21 2014 in Oak Brook Illinois Several protestors were arrested after they entered and ignored police orders to leave the McDonald s campus.


Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends a meeting during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 at Le Bourget REUTERSStephane MaheFiles.


A Houston Police Department investigator photographs a vehicle that was damaged in the shooting The gunman was shot and killed by police officers and victims were taken to hospitals.


Transgender teen Gavin Grimm s legal battle to use the boys restroom.


From left Shilpa Coorg Nayan Patel Adam Herder Amy Levelle Neha Gujarati Rahul Ram and Kishan Patel gather in the tasting room of DC Brau for a birthday brewery tour.


Annual delay for each auto commuter 52 hours.


Slovenia s Tina Maze passes a gate in the second run of the women s Alpine skiing giant slalom on her way to winning the gold medal.


A house sits in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling city in China s eastern Zhejiang province The house belongs to an elderly man who refused to sign an agreement to allow it to be demolished for the road.


David Henrique Ferreira 9 months who was born with microcephaly is held by his mother May 29 in Recife the area of Brazil hardest hit by Zika.


Pluto s Badlands This highestresolution image from NASA s New Horizons spacecraft shows how erosion and faulting have sculpted this portion of Pluto s icy crust into rugged badlands topography.


California delegates look on as they listen to the speakers during the convention.


New Jersey Gov Chris Christie makes the rounds during the opening day.


Cast members of The Martian interview astronauts in space.


Allie Sherman right coach of the New York Giants talks with his players before a workout at Yankee Stadium in New York Frank Gifford second from right returned to the field in 1962 as a wide receiver after his concussion.


Fans line up outside the Buyant Uhaa Sports Complex.


Rainelle Mayor Andrea Pendleton talks to resident Nicholas Remick as she assesses the flooded streets of her town.


A shot from the past In a 2009 visit to The Post cookbook editor and author Judith Jones cooks her Lemony Scaloppine of Pork for Post readers Katherine Bedard from left Maggie Keller and Steven Prada Get the recipe below.


Batu 19 left and Azat 26 drive around the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir They identity as transgender and Azat works as a transgender sex worker They are both members of a Kurdish LGBT rights group called Hebun LGBT.


A standingroomonly crowd listens to Romney speak to a supportive crowd at a fundraiser in Salt Lake City.


University of Maryland President Wallace Loh.


World leaders attend gala dinner at ASEAN summit.


Members of the Iraqi Shiite militia Peace Brigades carry the coffin of their comrade who was killed in clashes with Islamic State fighters near Amerli in northern Iraq.


The park formerly Watts Branch Park was renamed Marvin Gaye Park in 2006 after the soul singer who grew up nearby.


In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency Morsi right swears in his new prosecutor general Talaat Abdullah left in Cairo.


Mourners embrace after a memorial service for Carol I Glover Monday at the Capitol Hill Baptist Church.


An enhancedcolor view of Jupiter s moon Europa.


A sheep skull near the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin.


Ruins of thousands of tenants cottages from the Highland Clearances of the late 1700s can be seen along a Challenge walking expedition across Scotland.


Rosa Parks rides on a Montgomery Area Transit System bus Parks refused to give up her seat on Dec 1 1955 and ignited the boycott that led to a federal court ruling against segregation on public transportation.


Eyewitness to the Dallas shootings describes seeing officer go down.


French Prime Minister Manuel Valls center flanked by French President of the Essone Departmental Council Francois Duvovray right visits flooded areas in Crosne.


Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth as ET at the Tonys.


A security officer at a checkpoint on a roadside in Helmand on Aug 26 Afghan officials said Sunday that a friendlyfire incident in the southern province killed 11 Afghan police officers.


An unidentified ANC supporter sings early in the morning as he waits for ANC President Jacob Zuma to appear in court on Feb 4 2009 in Pietermaritzburg South Africa Zuma fought a long legal battle over allegations of racketeering and corruption resulting from his financial adviser Schabir Shaik s conviction for corruption and fraud On April 6 the National Prosecuting Authority decided to drop the charges citing political interference He won the election on May 6 and was sworn in as president of South Africa on May 9.


Ovechkin claps for the fans at Verizon Center as they in turn give him a standing ovation after his 500th goal.


Biden center and other members of the US delegation listen during the meeting in the Great Hall of the People Highlighting the importance of the bilateral talks Biden described the relationship between the United States and China as hugely consequential with the ability to greatly affect the course of the century.


Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein shows satellite images while speaking about the search for the missing flight during a news conference at Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Hishammuddin called these the most credible lead so far in the search for Flight MH370.


A bus was outfitted to look like a DC Circulator in Toronto.


Attorney General Eric Holder claps in surprise as President Obama applauds at the announcement that singer Aretha Franklin would entertain at the unveiling of Holder s official portrait at the Dept of Justice in Washington Feb 27 2015.


A Belarussian detainee arrested during the flash mob Revolution through a social network gestures from a prison cell at a detention centre in Minsk July 7 2011.


Promgoers Khalil Bridges second from left and Courtney Holder front prepare for their ride to the prom Read the story Coming of age in a city coming apart.


Why did nt Colin Kaepernick stand for the national anthem.


Armed proRussian activists take positions in Luhansk eastern Ukraine The shooting started between proRussian activists and presumably Ukrainian police near the building of the regional military commissariat.


Pope Francis waves at the audience while sitting in the headofstate chair before addressing the United Nations General Assembly.


In this file photo the Facebook Inc logo is reflected in the eyeglasses of a user in this arranged photo in San Francisco California US on Wednesday Dec 7 2011.


Carl Bernstein William Cohen Bob Woodward and John Dean talk with each other prior to the 40th anniversary Watergate event at The Watergate office complex.


Howard University s unused property is a stark contrast to nearby construction and pricey real estate deals.


Baltimore police said a teenager was carrying this BB gun replica of a semiautomatic handgun when an officer shot him.


Law enforcement officers walk along a road before going into the woods as the search continues in Mountain View NY.


Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio wipes his eyes in the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct 29.


A critically injured man lies on a stretcher after an explosion at Central Park in New York.


Tate gets up each weekday before dawn to work out he wants to play football at a university Then he spends eight hours working at a demolition site for about 10 an hour.


UltraOrthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem s Old City before the start of Rosh Hashanah.


Sam Deputy walks his two German Spitzs Bella Ruth and Sara Mae through the West View cemetery in Palatka Fla Although he has lived throughout Florida Deputy was raised in Palatka and knows the town better than any other.


JennaCharlize Viloria 7 called 911 and spoke to operator Amanda Poore helping to save her father who was unconscious on the floor in the family s home.


Vice President Joe Biden will hold his third meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats at Blair House on Tuesday in hopes of striking a deal on deficit reduction.


Poland s President Andrzej Duda speaks during his announcement at Presidential Palace in Warsaw Poland December 28 2015 Poland s president signed into law an amendment to how its constitutional court makes rulings a move critics say will erode checks and balances in government powers and paralyse the highest judicial body REUTERSKacper Pempel.


Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton addresses supporters in Hampton NH on Tuesday.


Crowds mingle after a Ferguson City Council meeting The St Louis suburbs are bracing for the outcome of the grand jury decision about whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.


All three Democratic presidential candidates offered enthusiastic proposals to raise taxes in one way or another in the party s second debate.


Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner poses for a photo on a set in New York earlier this year.


This undated video image provided by the Associated Press Television News shows Leonid Razvozzhayev speaking in an undisclosed location Ukraine s main opposition party is accusing the government of allowing Russian agents to kidnap the antiKremlin activist in the Ukrainian capital and forcibly transport him to Moscow.


The car Vanessa Pham drove shown on the monitor is presented as evidence by the prosecution.


Buck Adams clears a sidewalk in Alexandria.


A woman prepares food in the Ukrainian city of Avdeevka near Donetsk.


Image credit Kenneth Gillingham Reproduced with permission Based on Spatial Patterns of Solar Photovoltaic System Adoption The Influence of Neighbors and the Built Environment Journal of Economic Geography 2014.


A wellwisher is comforted by her husband and a relative while she and others gather in support of ailing Nelson Mandela in Pretoria.


The bathroom wallpaper which depicts multicolored flowers and birds is Gibson s own Peregrine pattern by Stroheim.


A Libyan man stands inside a building used by Ansar alSharia militia after it was torched by residents on Nov 25 in Benghazi.


View of Haiyan early Friday morning local time just before landfall.


Ward 8 council member Marion Barry left talks May 24 with David Chung from the Mayor s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs before a meeting at Matthews Memorial Baptist Church in Washington.


Tyler Summers left who said she probably would not have voted is enticed to update her address so she can vote in Virginia s election after prompting from Marjorie Signer a voter registration advocate at Courthouse Metro in Arlington Wednesday October 9 2012.


University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researcher Robert Gaunt touches the finger of a robotic arm causing Nathan Copeland who has paralysis in all four limbs to feel that sensation in his own finger.


Smoke fills East 116th Street near the building fire and collapse in the Harlem section of New York City.


During a Roots of Empathy classroom visit at Maury Elementary School June Goodman enchants fourthgrader Kayla White.


Japan s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left and China s President Xi Jinping right shake hands during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People on the sidelines of the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation.


GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a news conference explaining his remarks about the 47 percent of Americans who do nt pay federal income taxes But they were tough to recover from Gallup polling showed that 36 percent of registered voters said the 47 percent comments made them less likely to support Romney Read Mitt Romney s worst week in Washington again.


The body of a man killed in the attack is seen in Sanaa.


People arrive to watch Pope Francis in a parade near the Ellipse in the District during his first visit to the United States.


IV Deli Mart owner Michael Hassan left and an employee clean up the store one of the sites of a mass shooting in Isla Vista.


Flood debris packs the grille of a car following days of heavy rains and flash flooding in Houston.


Mayo Best right holds his grandson Levi outside of his day care Danielle is on the left.


Stephen Wheeler UC Davis Center for Regional Change.


Rat and Mike with a gun Seattle Washington 1983.


Romney standing next to staff member Kevin Madden left and Sen Rob Portman.


President Obama speaks to the members of the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room at the White House on Feb 24 2014.


People cover their faces from the smoke and cold as they walk near the site of the building explosion.


Students sit near the Pavilion III building on the University of Virginia campus The school was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 and many urban legends about the college have built up in the years since.


FILE Indianapolis Colts inside linebacker DQwell Jackson.


Debbie Tait checks on sandbags at the entrance to her hardware store in downtown Brunswick Ga.


Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the Detroit Economic Club at Ford Field on Friday.


The next time the president wants to convene a meeting over a meal he should consider Seasonal Pantry chef Daniel OBrien s homey onetable storefront in Shaw The lures include the everchanging menu a multicourse dinner of the chef s choosing For once no major decisions to make Seasonal Pantry 131412 Ninth St NW wwwseasonalpantrycom.


Customers wait to buy lottery tickets at Gateway Newstands in Cleveland on Feb 11 The Powerball jackpot had climbed to 500 million making Wednesday night s drawing the fifth largest prize in US history.


Chart shows the maintenance window as it was on Friday and Saturday nights before SafeTrack suspended the latenight service on weekends.


Leon E Panetta led the Defense Department from 2011 until 2013 when Chuck Hagel took over as secretary For these rankings the Defense community is considered the Office of the Secretary of Defense the Joint Staff the Defense Agencies and the Department of Defense Field Activities.


Millie Russell decided that the anniversary concert should be Diz s last before semiretirement.


The National Guard remains bullish about its 30 million backing of NASCAR s most popular driver Dale Earnhardt Jr although it s pulling out of motorcycle racing.


Elevenyearold Neil Maes who is hearingimpaired contestant in the Scripps National Spelling Bee jokes with parents and teachers prior to a news conference at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Georgetown.


Bryce Harper welcomes the applause during the Home Run Derby.


On Easter morning members of Victory Outreach International celebrate on the Malecon seawall in Havana Victory Outreach is a Pentecostal order that is known for evangelizing among addicts inmates and the homeless.


Democraticcaucus participants line up at the University of Nevada in Reno.


Gregory Jaczko chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.


Steam from a heating plant rises in Minsk Belarus Temperatures of minus 68 degrees were recorded in the capital city.


Leola WilliamsLucas holds Tyshon Williams as Tyshon s aunt Tammy Mouzon center looks on and Tyshon s grandfather Alphonso Mouzon kisses him.


Davis paired her dress with a Jimmy Choo clutch and Lorraine Schwartz cuff.


Clinton slams Trump s business interests in wake of Brexit.


Washington Nationals fan Howard Allen 92 before the game against the New York Yankees at Nationals Park on Sunday.


Protester Chanley Iverson of Arizona waves a flag near the Bureau of Land Management s base camp.


Morgan Freeman travels the world learning about God in his new National Geographic Channel series.


A receipt from a Bethesda Safeway showing the charge for 12 disposable shopping bags While fewer bags are being trapped near waterways revenue from the disposable bag tax has crept up.


Graffiti written in Farsi outside the presidential palace in Tikrit Iraq The translation says The Sepah of Khomeini defeated Daesh sepah being a term for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Given that USled forces were bombing until Monday night it would imply that they gave air cover to troops who included Iranians.


James Gandolfini starred as Tony Soprano in the critically acclaimed HBO series The Sopranos.


Trump speaks to guests during a campaign rally at Clinton Middle School in Clinton Iowa.


Afghan men investigate at the site of a shooting in Kandahar province.


How a flash flood occurs and what you should do if caught in one.


Empty bullet casings at the National Armory gun store and gun range in Pompano Beach Fla.


Rajuawn Middleton stands outside the house she was forced to leave in Washington.


Standard Textile which has five plants in the US is investing heavily in technology and innovation This summer the company will begin installing its first custom robots.


The Rev Joey Crutcher father of Terence Crutcher stands next to his wife Leanna during a news conference in New York.


The former governor and his wife were convicted in 2014 with Bob McDonnell receiving a twoyear prison sentence and Maureen McDonnell sentenced to a year and a day In January the Supreme Court announced that it will review the case this year.


Two of the Los Angeles area s newest mountain lions.


In this Feb 28 2013 file photo workers assemble 30round capacity ammunition magazines for highvelocity rifles inside the Magpul Industries plant in Erie Colo Magpul one of the country s largest producers of ammunition magazines for guns is leaving Colorado and moving operations to Wyoming and Texas because of new state laws that include restrictions on how many cartridges a magazine can hold.


Ice forms on a palm tree in Fort Walton Beach Fla.


EMT Bryan Elwell takes a break in a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Moore.


Bode Miller was crowned the 2005 World Cup Overall champion He became the first American to win the title in 22 years.


Maria More 86 moved into her home on The Malecon in 1974 but her husband who passed away six years ago was raised there Here she touches a picture of her father The other two photos are her brother center and her mother She and her grandson occupy the entire bottom floor of a giant historic home With the possibility that Cuba may open up to America investors will seek out these beautiful antique buildings in the prime location on The Malecon.


Jorge L Garcia Perez who is known as Antunez with the Cuban National Civic Resistance Front reads a statement surrounded by representatives of Assembly of the Cuban Resistance in Doral Fla.


The commercial pictures of a cosmetic brand.


Malek Mercer was shot in the neck and critically wounded early Tuesday in Southeast Washington.


Fausto Llerente 70 an Ecuadorean National Park ranger has been overseeing the care of famed tortoise Lonesome George believed to be the last remaining surviver of his species.


The euro is irreversible just like the Titanic was unsinkable.


President Obama right and former US president George W Bush second from right greet family members of victims of the 1998 US Embassy bombing at the Bombing Memorial at the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam Tanzania.


Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division put on protective suits at Fort Campbell during training before their deployment to West Africa.


A soldier one of approximately 20 who were wearing no identifying insignia and declined to say whether they were Russian or Ukrainian patrols outside the Simferopol International Airport after a proRussian crowd had gathered on Feb 28 2014 near Simferopol Ukraine.


A large American flag flies over Georgia Avenue in Olney as the procession for Montgomery County Police Officer Noah Leotta moved to the Judean Memorial Gardens from the Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg Leotta was killed by a suspected drunk driver while on duty in December.


In a June 8 2012 file photo President Barack Obama talks about the economy in the briefing room of the White House in Washington.


Occupy DC protesters march in the District s downtown They then served pie to everyone at Franklin Square They put a sign on the food table that read OccuPIE DC.


An elephant captured by the International Fund for Animal Welfare is seen during an operation to relocate dozens of elephants that are in conflict with farmers in some villages of Daloa city about 250 miles from Abidjan in Ivory Coast The Ivorian government sought assistance from the IFAW for the conservation of these elephants who were found to be at risk in Marahoue National Park because land had been cleared by farmers for agricultural purposes and because the animals faced retaliation from villagers after settling on the outskirts of Daloa and destroying land and crops.


After Southside with You a wishlist for other presidential romcoms.


With his wife Lee celebrates his 77th birthday at a ceremony where his new book was also launched Four years later Lee s son became prime minister.


Bats waggle their heads just like your adorable dog does.


Air Force One arrives at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport.


Experiments with deadly viruses such as Ebola have to be performed in biosafety level or BSL4 laboratories for the highest level on containment.


France s midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin is challenged by Ecuador s midfielder Antonio Valencia.


Fellow Stagg Gooseneck Matte Black Kettle.


National Zoo s panda cub almost 8 weeks old.


Chris Lang and his daughter Megan 14 listen to the president s speech on his cellphone in Selma.


Graph showing accuracy of computer model s personality judgement compared with humans.


Trump and Pena Nieto arrive for a news conference at the presidential residence in Mexico City.


Kashmiri doctors and medical workers wear bandages on their eyes in protest of the use of pellet guns and recent killings in Srinagar in Indiancontrolled Kashmir.


Houthi fighters ride a truck near the presidential palace in Sanaa on Jan 22 While the Houthis are hostile toward alQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula they re also hostile toward the US.


Despite increased diversity in neighborhoods like Bloomingdale much of DC remains racially segregated.


Republican presidential candidates take the stage.


The finger of a multibraceleted arm of a bride is pressed on a cloth as a poll official puts an ink mark on her index finger before she cast her vote at a polling station in Bhopal India.


Lights hang above cannabis plants in a flower room inside a medical cannabis cultivation facility in Denver The entrepreneurs who are hoping to cash in on the green rush starting next year are struggling with the unique challenges of conducting a business that the federal government still considers a crime Even after Coloradans voted in November to legalize marijuana wouldbe pot producers and retailers have trouble securing business financing because banks wo nt give them loans and most of the time not even an account.


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Muslim members of the Mourabitoun protest Israel s decision banning them from guarding the alAqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem s Old City on Thursday.


Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III winds up for a long incomplete pass in the first quarter.


Rightwing candidate narrowly loses Austrian presidential election.


After the comedian gave an awkward interview at a 40th anniversary celebration for Saturday Night Live Gawker asked Is Chevy Chase okay.


Army Gen Mark A Milley speaks to reporters during a news conference about a shooting that occurred earlier in the day at Fort Hood Milley confirmed that four people were dead in the shooting including the gunman.


Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee prepares to shoot guns at the Granite State Indoor Range and Gun Shop in Hudson NH in April.


The two BrightFarms greenhouses total 160000 square feet and will generate a dozen new jobs in the area.


Supraglacial lake on the Store Glacier Greenland.


Mementos placed at the crash site of Flight 17.


Details from the OHanlon mural inside Memorial Hall.


First Lady Michelle Obama left President Obama center and Georgia Democratic Rep John Lewis at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.


June 17 Kandahar Airfield Afghanistan US military contract workers tear apart an armored vehicle that is among the hundreds of such personnel carriers the Pentagon no longer has use for.


Civilians sit under the shade of a blanket they placed over a small tree outside the gate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.


The procession marches down 14th Street NW toward Freedom Plaza.


Whatever we never liked your french fries anyway.


President Obama looks at a portrait of first lady Michelle Obama before a church service at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington on Inauguration Day.


Trump to Clinton That s called business by the way.


A Turkana man hangs fish to dry at a fishing camp on the western shore of Lake Turkana.


Air Force Tech Sgt Patrick Macke right talks with Doris Collins an Air Force veteran and associate director of Washington s Rebuilding Together as they volunteer at the Southeast Veterans Service Center The center operated by the nonprofit group Access Housing is home to as many as 98 veterans through transitional housing and a program called Single Room Occupancy.


Host George Clooney who at the time was starring on NBC s ER pretended to perform surgery on a man in the studio audience in 1995 Actors musicians politicians and former cast members have all had a turn hosting the iconic show.


Rebecca L Erbelding an archivist at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has studied the 16 volumes of journals that were donated last year She is pictured at the museum in Washington.


Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with his wife Jane OMeara Sanders arrives to speak to his supporters during a Super Tuesday rally in Essex Junction Vt.


Supporters wait to meet Obama during a campaign stop at Veterans Memorial Park in Manchester NH.


Physician Belen Ramirez Bourdages and nurse Thomas Ngoune treat 6monthold Fana Ali in Banki Nigeria Fana had arrived minutes earlier suffering from a severe case of malaria and acute malnutrition.


Brown and Maryland Gov Martin OMalley tour the Anacostia River by boat They later pledged to work with DC officials to clean up the river.


Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky left and Yevgeny Tarelkin second from left are greeted with flowers upon arrival at an airport in Kostanai Kazakhstan after returning Saturday morning from 144 days aboard the international space station.


Rendering of the remodeled Ballston Mall.


America s national parks celebrate 100th birthday.


Trump Rubio does nt show up for the people of Florida.


Paramedics return to their ambulances after delivering patients to Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg after a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College.


US first lady Michelle Obama enters the East Room for a session of a Fashion Education Workshop at the White House on Oct 8 in Washington DC.


Bill Thorpe a resident of Arlington TX is the oldest living son of famed football player Jim Thorpe During this visit to the home of Bill s best friend Robert Wheeler Bill brought over some framed pictures and artwork of his father.


Tammy Darvish with her husband Hamid Fallahi daughter Nadia and son Nima.


Supporters and opponents of former President Morsi clash on a bridge in Cairo The groups went after each other with clubs rocks and gasoline bombs over a major bridge and thoroughfares in central Cairo in scenes that recalled the revolution that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.


Christie holds a town hall meeting in Hampton NH on Sunday.


Wreaths are seen after a ceremony at the National World War II Memorial.


Ron Pollakoff stands with a sign of encouragement outside the Inland Regional Center.


Worshipers attend Friday afternoon prayers in the mosque at the Diyanet Center of America in Lanham Md.


Israelis rally against wave of violence.


Adam Steltzner right who led the entry descent and landing team for the Mars Curiosity rover celebrates with other Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees after the successful landing on the surface of Mars in August 2012 His new book The Right Kind of Crazy was released this week.


Aaron Hernandez center speaks with defense attorney James Sultan in the courtroom.


Cropped section of an image taken by Mastcam Right onboard NASA s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 153.


The bacteria that causes the sexually transmitted disease is getting better at beating us.


Ryan Clinton may have gotten preferential treatment from FBI.


Cash in hand Barbara Hawkins left of the District gets assistance from Josephine Furlow the receiving manager at Kmart in Fairfax.


Students at Al Firdaus high school in Indonesia attend a prayer service for teacher John Paulissen who was aboard the flight.


A heat map of a television event from Aug 14 2013.


Small oil droplets are visible trapped inside the shell of an immature blue crab found near Grand Isle La University scientists are seeing signs that the oil spill is altering the marine food chain and leading to the growth of marine creatures more suited to a fouled environment.


Alpha Flight once Canada s premier superhero team now working globally for Captain Marvel seeks the advice of their old boss Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Civil War II Choosing Sides 5.


In Israel Biden quotes Yeats reaffirms US commitment.


Taylor Wall 8 is held by her aunt Rachel Frederickson as they slap hands with riders.


Egyptian protesters gather on a street near the US Consulate as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a flagraising ceremony at the Consulate General in the mediterranean city of Alexandria on Sunday.


US Secretary of State John Kerry gives a thumbsup to the staff at Vatos Urban Tacos during a stop at the restaurant in Seoul Korea May 18 2015.


Brazil s Neymar grimaces as he is carried off the pitch after being injured with what was diagnosed as a broken vertabra The injury does not require surgery.


Fireworks flash over Sydney Harbor during New Year celebrations Friday Jan 1 2010.


Former Culpeper police officer Daniel HarmonWright was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and other charges Jan 29 for killing a 54yearold homemaker during a routine suspiciousvehicle check that spiraled out of control last February Read our coverage.


French President Nicholas Sarkozy right and British Prime Minister David Cameron second from right greet people gathered in a square during their visit to Benghazi Libya Thursday Sept 15 2011.


President Obama speaking at the White House on Oct 1 2015 about the shooting at the community college in Oregon.


Long snapper Nick Sundberg works with the punting unit during the morning walkthrough.


Nigerian presidentelect Buhari right will need to reform the military says Darren Kew a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.


Oksana Chusovitina warms up for her balance beam competition.


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at the US Capitol on Dec 30 2012.


Pittsburgh manager Chuck Tanner and Baltimore manager Earl Weaver get together before the 1980 AllStar Game in Los Angeles Tanner and Weaver were managing the National and American League teams respectively.


A handout picture provided by the government of Monterrey shows police officers conducting a search in the Topo Chico Prison in Monterrey Mexico on Feb 14 where the privileges of some organized crime leaders who had saunas mini fridges and digital televisions were removed.


RICHMOND VA AUGUST 28 Jerrell Miller pauses for a a portrait before looking for jobs on a computer at the Center for Workforce Innovation in Richmond The CWI is a city effort designed to match people with jobs in the Richmond area 2014.


First Lady Michelle Obama and her guests A few attendees are cut out of this photograph.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump fields a question during the first Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News in Cleveland Ohio.


A closeup of code contained in the Flame virus The virus has been spotted in Iran Israel the Palestinian territories Syria and Lebanon The virus is one of the most sophisticated ever developed able to activate computer microphones log keystrokes and steal data among other capabilities Given its size some have posited that the virus could have only been developed by the United States and Israel but neither has claimed responsibility for the virus which was originally reported to the International Telecommunication Union by the Iranian government.


Trinity President Patricia McGuire left and communications student Yasmeen Newman 20 Newman attended the KIPP DC Key middle school and then the private McLean School in Potomac.


Leah Hogan 2 watches the goats through a fence.


Spread of MERS in Saudi Arabia puts camel owners on defense.


The infant s father Simon Boisclair posted an urgent plea on Facebook to find his abducted daughter It worked.


In this 2006 file photo Dwight Schar helps during a Thanksgiving food drive.


People walk along the beach as they await the arrival of Hurricane Patricia in Puerto Vallarta Mexico Friday Oct 23 2015.


Austria s Benjamin Karl kisses his wife Nina after placing third in the parallel slalom snowboard final.


People try to free a man from the rubble of a destroyed building in Kathmandu.


Defense Secretary Ashton Carter seen here testifying on Capitol Hill has directed the Pentagon to lift the ban on transgender individuals serving in the military The military will have six months to determine the impact and work out details.


Views of the private Cinderella luxury suite at the top of Cinderella s Castle at Walt Disney World s Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista Fla are seen on Friday Jan 262006 A night s stay at the castle was one of prizes given randomly to unsuspecting park guests recently as part of the launch of Disney s Year of a Million Dreams campaign.


Lake Baikal in Siberia is seen in this photo taken aboard the international space station.


Baltimore County Police give news conference on the fatal shooting of Korryn Gaines.


Americans for Prosperity Foundation Chairman David Koch speaks in Orlando Fla in 2013.


Jeb Bush and George P Bush photographed on the son s campaign bus during an interview in Abilene Texas.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces his 10point plan to crack down on illegal immigration during a campaign event at the Phoenix Convention Center on Aug 31 AFP.


Obama chats with entrepreneurs at 1776 in Washington DC.


In Washington President Obama makes a stop at Pleasant Pops with daughters Malia left and Sasha during Small Business Saturday.


An Iraqi soldier with the 73rd Brigade 15th Division works to improve his kneeling firing stance with a cavalry scout with the US Army s 5th Squadron 73rd Cavalry Regiment 3rd Brigade Combat Team 82nd Airborne Division at Camp Taji Iraq on March 24.


Julia Holcomb of Houston center with the group Silent No More prays with others for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade during the march for Life rally.


Catherine Duchess of Cambridge plays basketball during her visit to the Donald Dewar Leisure Center in Glasgow Scotland.


A hole in the roof of a home in the Nahal Oz kibbutz The residence was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip.


Ben Carson is greeted by supporters at a rally in Little Rock.


Jupiter is mighty now but it may have been built on the backs of tiny pebbles.


Passengers on this Metro bus had to disembark on Saturday after a large box cutter was found lodged in its side.


The APEX telescope has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at submillimeter wavelengths.


The 224foot waterfall is along the Columbia River Gorge in Guy W Talbot State Park in northern Oregon The water plunges down a massive wall of columnar basalt among the best formations in the Pacific Northwest The lichen along the rock is found only in the area.


This file photo shows gallons of milk arranged at a Milwaukee grocery store.


Cara Mitchell second from right a fifthgrader at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart carries a Katie Ledecky cutout as she and other students show up for the swimmer s arrival at Dulles Ledecky 19 is a 2015 graduate of the Bethesda prep school.


Police guard the entrance of a commercial building.


This looks like a cool New Year s Instagram right It could be taken in a closet for all you know.


Clockwise from left Plants grow inside the house where a man with mental illness lived alone for more than two years A mug with yellow duct tape left inside the house The washer and dryer painted with yellow spray paint A box of circuit boards left inside the house.


Prince George s County police chief One of your defenders has been lost.


Campaign 2014 Greg Abbott Sen Davis Campaign Lost Cause After Disgusting Ad.


In the overcrowded emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip Palestinian doctors check a boy who was injured at the UN school.


A child takes advantage of the warm weather to swim in Lake Oconee in Greensboro on Dec 25.


Take a look at the iPhone SE Apple s new 4inch phone.


Women attend the rally in Donetsk s Lenin Square.


Michelle Carter listens to defense attorney Joseph P Cataldo argue for the involuntary manslaughter charge against her to be dismissed citing five separate arguments at Juvenile Court in New Bedford Mass on Aug 24.


There is no question that Keystone XL would change the export equation Less dependence on Saudi or Venezuelan crude oil more from our stable neighbor Canada which buys 85 cents worth of goods from the United States from every dollar it gets The Alberta oil sands produce 17 million barrels a day and could double output The Keystone XL pipeline alone would carry around 10 percent of the oil the United States imports now At left a crude scarecrow is used to thwart birds from landing in the water of the recycling ponds at an oil processing plant in Alberta.


A displaced girl sits in the former Continental Hotel preparing lunch without electricity or water for her family in Monrovia Liberia in September 2003 Liberia s hydropower plant was destroyed during war in the early 2000s and access to power continues to hold back business development in the country.


Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov left and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in 2006.


Virginia residents wait in line in the hours before dawn to vote in 2012.


The Nationals acquired reliever Trevor Gott from the Angels for infielder Yunel Escobar part of the team s effort to rebuild the bullpen.


The stage is set for the Dec 15 Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas.


President Obama shakes hands upon his arrival in Pittsburgh last week.


Look at this cat sitting where it wants.


Actress Julianna Margulies wearing Ulyana Sergeenko.


On the left Destroy the cultural manifestations of these infidels On the right By Allah The Internet is so slow I ca nt upload our video to Twitter and Facebook.


Clouds filled the sky on March 25 The weekend starting March 26 should have better weather for blossom photography.


Askew chats with guests Raleigh Bynum a member of Omega Psi Phi and Nailah Michaels.


Redskins owner Dan Snyder outraged many residents when he clearcut a stand of federally protected trees to give his Potomac home a better view.


Holder is photographed before he testifies before the Judiciary Committee.


Opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles talks to journalists after official results of the presidential elections were announced in Caracas Venezuela Capriles is refusing to accept the results of Sunday s presidential election and is demanding a recount.


Samesex marriage supporters chant during a protest in front of the federal courthouse in Ashland.


Volunteers serve donated Thanksgiving dinners to people in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens.


A rendering of the lobby of the Landmark movie theater scheduled to open in 2015.


The District now holds a lien on his house after cleaning up the grounds.


Clooney second from left is welcomed with his fiancee Amal Alamuddin center at Venice s Cipriani hotel.


A protester is taken to the ground by police during the third day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.


Fassett Sugg and Fletcher have been roommates for nearly 50 years.


Oscar host Billy Crystal sings at the start of the show.


Musicians Bill Kreutzmann left and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead are joined by Reya Hart far left and Trixie Garcia representing their fathers Mickey Hart and Jerry Garcia at the Madison Square Garden 2015 Walk of Fame Induction ceremony on May 11 2015 in New York.


JD Eicher performs the soundtrack for Two by Two as Sparks signs copies of the book.


Students at the University of Oklahoma protest in Norman Okla.


Muhammad Hussain Inoki 69 a legendary Japanese pro wrestler visits the Peshawar Museum in Peshawar Pakistan Famous for a 1976 bout with Muhammad Ali and for his matches with Pakistani foes Inoki returned to the country to help establish a governmentbacked wrestling academy and promote peace through sportsmanship.


Paramount Theater Brooklyn NY 2008 Yves Marchand Romain Meffre Photos courtesy the Polka Galerie.


An undated photo of the SkyLife Air Ambulance helicopter that was involved in a near collision with a drone.


Jose Vasquez right of Window World installs a door as Blakeslee Crumbliss and her sixmonthold son Owen look on She is preparing to rent out her Adams Morgan rowhouse.


George McDermott speaks at a 4th Congressional District candidates forum at Bowie State University.


This is Shaquille ONeal in a suit He did not wear all of it Thursday night.


New copies of Hitler s Mein Kampf are on sale in bookstores in Germany for the first time since World War II.


Villagers watch as a medical team from Doctors Without Borders examines people from Marpu village who were hurt during the earthquake.


John and Susan Graham parents of missing UVa student Hannah Graham address the media during a press conference in Charlottesville Va.


Patients relax in a tent that acts as a sauna after their sand baths.


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Novelist Stephen King speaks to creative writing students at the University of MassachusettsLowell in Lowell Mass in 2012.


People wait for the start of an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at Newtown High School Many young children attended the vigil some carrying teddy bears.


Antiabortion activist Ryan Orr 17 of Manassas Va holds a silent vigil as he waits for the ruling.


Amber Rose at a press conference for her SlutWalk in Los Angeles.


Body identified as alleged Korean ferry owner.


Britain s Greg Rutherford celebrates winning gold in the men s long jump final at the 2012 London Olympics.


German Foreign Minister FrankWalter Steinmeier left speaks as he and Secretary of State John F Kerry address the media on Saturday before reentering closeddoor nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna.


Led Zeppelin s Stairway to Heaven goes on trial.


Chris Clemons suffered a knee injury in the Seahawks victory over Washington.


Former Portsmouth Va police officer Stephen Rankin in court.


How to become an ambassador in just a few donations.


Iranian protesters set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran during a demonstration against the execution of Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr alNimr Nimr was a driving force of the protests that broke out in 2011 in Saudi Arabia s east an oilrich region where the Shiite minority of an estimated two million people complains of marginalisation.


The Ebola suit at the Jhpiego popup at the Empire Hotel.


The National Park Service announced that the Lincoln Memorial will undergo a major renovation over the next four years thanks largely to an 185 million donation by billionaire philanthropist David RubensteinTourists guests and media attend a news conference on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.


Ada Amon president of the Energy Club in Budapest on Feb 10.


Vandals defaced the Carmel Mission in Carmel Calif where the remains of recently canonized missionary Junipero Serra are buried on either Sept 26 or 27 Vandals splashed green paint on a statue of Serra left and red paint on a gravestone right.


Mark Rudd a former member of the radical Weather Underground appeared at the district attorney s office in New York in 1977 to surrender after seven years as a fugitive.


Bonny Schwitzgable of Akron Ohio acquired her first salt and pepper set at the age of 6 and she said the rest is history.


Members of the Ballou High School marching band perform along the parade route on April 16 2013 in Washington The parade is in question this year.


Morel and king trumpet mushroom salad at Metier.


Martin Luther King Jr buttons are sold near the Mall.


A woman lights candles during a vigil Tuesday for Indian soldiers killed in an attack at an army base in Kashmir.


Willie Jerome Manning at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Miss.


Search continues for missing Virginia teen.


A new Planned Parenthood clinic under construction right that will provide abortion services opening next to a charter school left shown on Dec 8 2015 in Washington DC.


Migrants walk on the outskirts of Brezice Slovenia.


Thai national parks officials officers remove a sedated tiger from the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province Thailand on Wednesday.


Piles of mussels washed onto a beach after a dead zone event in Narragansett Bay RI Besides providing food and habitat for other creatures mussels can also filter water When mussels die the bay loses its ability to clear water of phytoplankton increasing the risk of future dead zones.


As a singer songwriter and storyteller Frank Ocean is every bit as fluid as he is commanding delivering songs crammed with moods memories and detailed characters.


Jupiter and its largest moon Ganymede are seen in an enhancedcontrast image taken from NASA s Cassini spacecraft in November 2000.


Emergency personnel try to extract passengers.


Is this a character from Game of Thrones or Sen Tom Udall If you know the answer you are ready for this quiz Helen Sloancourtesy of HBO.


An image posted Tuesday on a militant website purports to show fighters from the Islamic State firing weapons toward troops and progovernment gunmen in Deir alZour province in Syria.


Sen Bernie Sanders greets voters in New York City.


From left Grant ORourke Sam Heughnan and Caitriona Balfe in Outlander.


Randy Krantz commonwealth attorney for Bedford County Va asks other investigators about nearby landmarks while visiting a property in Thaxton Va Krantz and other investigators were looking at the property trying to determine if there may be a link to the dissapearance in 1975 of Sheila Lyon 12 and Katherine Lyon 10 who were last seen at a shopping mall in Wheaton Md.


Dairy farmer Carl Schindler discusses life on the farm with his son Isaac.


Coretta Scott King center holds hands with her daughter Bernice and son Martin Luther King III as the Hands Across America line passed in front of the Lincoln Memorial.


Presidential candidate Dr Ben Carson is photographed in his home in Upperco Md on December 23 2015.


A woman writes a message on the ground as people leave tributes to the victims in Brussels.


An Ottawa police officer talks with a man on Elgin Street near the National War Memorial where a soldier was shot earlier in the day.


Opposition demonstrators shout slogans against the National Bolivarian Police as it tries to break up their protest in Caracas Venezuela.


While this is not a picture of the sandwich a sandwich was thrown by one man at another in Fairfax City on Sunday.


Hermann L Cook 45 was charged with seconddegree murder in the Aug 8 fatal shooting of a man in Northwest DC.


The freezedried Neapolitan ice cream at NASA s gift shop has a threeyear shelf life some dusty flavors and a buttery aftertaste.


Oct 21 Tai Shan s exam included vaccinations against canine distemper virus.


A Syrian refugee installs a makeshift heating system outside his tent in a camp in Lebanese village of Kfarkahel as storm Alexa which is forecast to bring several days of rain snow and a steep drop in temperature to Lebanon nears.


Republican vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne watch news reports with their daughter Liz Cheney soninlaw Phil Perry granddaughter Grace Perry and campaign aide Brian McCormack at Cheney s home in McLean.


The Capitol dome is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday Dec 11 2012.


Japan s Mima Ito practices table tennis.


Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is hit by Lions defensive end Corey Wootton after Griffin fumbled the ball.


Protesters gather Monday outside the Harney County Courthouse in Burns Ore.


Francisco Santiago Jr 21 in his cell at the Manila Police Detachment The police said Santiago was selling drugs and was shot during a sting operation He played dead while suffering gunshot wounds in his chest and arms until he decided to stand up and pleaded to be allowed to surrender.


Parishioners mourn inside Emanuel AME Church.


Andy Lugo talks on the phone after stocking up on supplies in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy in New York Some New Yorkers are preparing for possibly devastating effects from the approaching storm.


Former CIA director David Petraeus addresses a University of Southern California event honoring the military on March 26 in Los Angeles.


May attends a news conference in London.


Yokohama s daycare initiative is being cited by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who wants to create 400000 additional daycare slots nationwide by 2018.


Val Logsdson Fitch who won the Nobel Prize for physics at Princeton University in 1980.


Marines of the 5th Regiment scale a gate in Fallujah during the first battle for control of the city in 2004 Marines found some weapons and occasionaly came under sniper fire and mortar attacks from insurgents.


Wilson teammates highfive Joe Greenberg as he scores in the fourth inning.


A rescue worker is lifted into a helicopter at the crash site of a Germanwings jet near SeynelesAlpes France Before the crash the copilot of the jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and rammed the plane full speed into the French Alps ignoring the captain s frantic pounding on the cockpit door and the screams of terror from passengers In a split second he killed all 150 people aboard.


Virginia transportation officials say their I66 plan focuses on moving people rather than vehicles That s why they like the estimated results of the HOT lanes plan shown by the high bar over just adding lanes.


Hamid 34 an electrical engineer from the Iranian town of Sanandij sits on rail tracks in front of riot police in the Greek village of Idomeni.


Joseph Legacy center gets help from Albert Thomspon left and Ian Anderson as he tries on a chain mail hood and metallic gloves.


In February prosecutors in the murder case disclosed that palm prints recovered on the sill of this window and elsewhere were matched to a convicted Maryland inmate.


Beverly A Surette places a rose on the coffin of William F Buckley the CIA station chief slain in Beirut during his burial service Dec 31 1991 at Arlington National Cemetery Surette a close friend of Buckley s is holding a folded US flag that was on the coffin.


Supporters of President Robert Mugabe prepare meat during celebrations to mark his 91st birthday in the resort town of Victoria Falls.


Gov Chris Christie makes a point during the CNBC Republican presidential debate at the University of Colorado Wednesday Oct 28 2015 in Boulder Colo.


Dewita Soeharjono left and Rose Chu present a policy position paper to Del Jennifer B Boysko.


The Muse brain sensing headband claims to help users manage stress and different emotional states of mind.


David Brat Victory over Cantor a miracle from God.


President Obama talks with Carol Burnett the 2013 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and her husband Brian Miller in the Oval Office.


A girl listens as Obama speaks during the rally in Bowling Green Ohio.


The Twin Jet Nebula or PN M29 is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula Bipolar planetary nebulae are formed when the central object is not a single star but a binary system Studies have shown that the nebula s size increases with time and measurements of this rate of increase suggest that the stellar outburst that formed the lobes occurred just 1200 years ago.


Favorite moments from 2012 saved in a keepsake goldlink frame will please the grandparents Frames are timeless gifts for a reason 2990.


Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio speaks at a pancake breakfast this week at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Franklin NH.


US Gen Martin Dempsey chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff met with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Friday during a trip to meet government officials and discuss security issues.


A handout photograph released by Red Bull Stratos on Sunday showing pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria seen in a screen at mission control center in the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell New Mexico.


Cliff Rogers of East Orange NJ marches with organizers during a rally in Newark.


Hong Kongers attend a charity Halloween parade.


This image was taken by Mastcam Right onboard NASA s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 153.


A set of Three Ceramic Vases with air plants can be staged together in a grouping or spread about a house or apartment.


People embrace and weep during a candlelight vigil outside the Dr Phillips Center in Orlando.


Women carry water home from the Dikunani dam in Savelugu Ghana on Mar 10 2007 A 20year fight to eradicate Guinea worm disease is in the last and most difficult stages.


Thatcher left chats with Queen Elizabeth at a party in August 1979 Some political observers in the 1980s persistently claimed that the queen and Thatcher did not get along though the claim has often been denied.


A vote yes campaign poster is displayed on the south side of Glasgow.


A student wears a pin button of Mao during a ceremony at the school.


Athletes from the Netherlands right applaud as dancers march in.


MYTH Polls prove that the first presidential debate upended the polls There is little evidence that the debate itself decisively moved the needle in key swing states writes Jon Cohen in Five myths about the polls In six state surveys released Thursday by two wellregarded polling partnerships NBCWall Street JournalMarist and CBSNew York TimesQuinnipiac there were virtually no shifts for either candidate compared with predebate pollsHere Wisconsiin residents watch the vicepresidential debate on Oct 11.


Firefighters in Prince George s County deal with apartment fire in Riverdale area.


This statue was built in front of the Tysons Corner WalMart which will open later this year Does your WalMart have a statue.


An opponent of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi holds an umbrella as he protests outside the presidential palace in Cairo Arabic on the banner in background reads Members of the Muslim Brotherhood are not allowed.


A person writes a message at a makeshift memorial at Place de la Bourse in Brussels.


At Omaha s Henry Doorly Zoo Aquarium the Desert Dome houses the world s largest indoor desert.


These arent the heartthrobs we re looking for.


Revellers celebrate the New Year in the fountains in Trafalgar Square London Jan 1 1968 as Big Ben chimes midnight.


Lawmakers from both parties criticized Pierson and her agency for giving misleading and partial accounts of the security breach.


It s costing US taxpayers 5 billion a year under a temporary program started in the 1990s that was supposed to end but did nt One Central Park millionaire has no idea why the government is paying her thousands of dollars a year under the program Read the story.


Melissa Young is embraced while attending a prayer and walk for Relisha Rudd.


Indian army soldiers lie on the ground as a chopper takes off after unloading relief material for flood victims in the village of Sonari.


The official Real Madrid club crest left and the modified image appearing in the UAE right.


Connie Chan a partner with the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.


New recruits to the Metropolitan Police Service take part in their Passing Out Parade at Hendon Training Centre on March 13 2015 in London.


Crimean Tatar leader Refat Chubarov addresses supporters during a protest in front of a local government building in Simferopol.


Women rummage through a pile of brightly colored jeans at JC Penney in Hyattsville.


Residents start repairs to damage in the Rockaways in Queens.


A tribute to Akiel Denkins 24 killed earlier this week by a police officer.


A volunteer for Obama for America waits for the president to arrive at a campaign event in Virginia Beach.


The walrus haulout near the Native Village of Point Lay from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


Exiled Tibetans shout slogans during a protest rally in New Delhi to express solidarity with Tibetans who have selfimmolated and to appeal for immediate international intervention At least 86 people have set themselves on fire since the immolations began in 2009.


Bikeshare cycles wait for riders in downtown Silver Spring Md as part of an expansion of the service into Montgomery County.


Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives at Beirut s airport on Sept 14 2012.


A man stands in the street during a protest.


A crowd listens to Biden speak before the bridge march One question he is asking himself people close to him say is Would the country be turned backward if a babyboomer white man were to follow a youthful black president in the White House in 2016.


People protest the Confederate flag flying in front of the South Carolina State House in Columbia on June 20 2015.


A man walks past a building destroyed during recent fighting in Yemen s southwestern city of Taiz in March.


Tasmanian devil on the mend after receiving a pacemaker.


View Photo Gallery From Buzkashi to wife carrying here are some absolutely bizarre sporting events that are unlikely to become part of the Summer Olympics any time soon.


Murray has never shied away from taking chances whether portraying Hunter S Thompson in 1980 s Where the Buffalo Roam or Franklin D Roosevelt in 2012 s Hyde Park on Hudson.


President Obama delivers a statement on the counterISIS campaign in the Pentagon briefing room in Arlington Va on Dec 14 EPAOlivier Douliery POOL.


DC police are looking for a man who they say robbed a bank in Washington s Mount Vernon Place.


Religious items salvaged from a fire sit next to a burning Russian separatist roadblock outside the village of Khrestyshche near Slovyansk The fire was reportedly set by separatists when a Ukrainian army unit approached Ukrainian forces established new roadblocks around the cities of Slovyansk and Donetsk both strongholds of proRussian separatists in eastern Ukraine.


King Juan Carlos third from right is flanked by Galicia Regional President Alberto Nunez Feijoo second from right and Minister of Public Works and Transport Ana Pastor third from left as he leaves the University Clinical Hospital in Santiago de Compostela.


A US soldier carries a body bag containing the remains of a victim of the mass suicides at Jonestown.


Foreign nationals and members of various South African civil society groups take part in an antixenophobia march through Cape Town.


Some people in Baltimore began throwing bottles and cones at police in riot gear but protesters quickly linked arms and some raised hands to quell the outburst.


US President Barack Obama smiles after joking about a lack of a predicted Republican alternative to Obamacare in 2015.


Protesters march toward downtown Minneapolis on Interstate 35W a day after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict the New York police officer in the death of Eric Garner Garner a 43yearold African American was suspected of selling loose cigarettes in violation of tax laws.


Mike Brown points to the gold ring showing the orbital path of Planet Nine.


Chrissie Hynde recently stirred up controversy for comments she made about rape.


Kevin Durant s image has hardened as he s approached free agency.


Greg Bloom 33 in rear works at a table in Big Bear Cafe in the District s Bloomingdale area on Feb 19 Younger voters numbers have risen in Washington neighborhoods such as Bloomingdale Shaw Columbia Heights and the 14th Street corridor.


Mourners gather outside St Anthony s of Padua to pay their respects to Beau Biden.


The Meade Mobile provided information for employees on relocating to Maryland s Fort Meade The NSA occupied buildings there in the late 1950s and the area is home to NSA headquarters today.


German police officers carry bags out of a house believed to belong to the parents of crashed Germanwings flight 4U 9524 copilot Andreas Lubitz.


The paints might be colorful but the professionals generally speaking are not.