Michael McClanahan head of the NAACP in Baton Rouge speaks to reporters outside city hall.


Sanders My campaign is strong in every part of the country.


Actor Alec Baldwin with his wife Hilaria Thomas.


This Jan 13 photo shows gun owner Matthew Short of Come and Take It Texas and DontComplycom at a rally at the Capitol in Austin.


An advertisement for WashburnCrosby s Gold Medal Flour published in a 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping.


Alexis Tsipras leader of the Syriza party gestures to the media as he casts his vote at a polling station in Athens.


Gregory Speck whose taxidermy collection filled an upper Manhattan apartment is seen inside the guest house at his family home in Harrisonburg.


Music fans and service members arrive for the concert.


You asked for it Secretary Lew Here s a suggestion for thenew10.


A man holds a dead rat at the main garbage dump in the city of Peshawar on April 2.


Russ Feingold concedes to Johnson in 2010 Now he is running to get his old seat back.


In Pennsylvania Obama s ground game could be giving him an edge Trail Mix.


Residents of Boca de Pascuales are evacuated.


Candidates are shown firearm techniques at Metropolitan Police Academy.


Adrienne Douglass 34 of Centreville Va came to the Supreme Court to show her support.


ProRussian rebels greets each other as they ride on a tank near the town of Krasnodon eastern Ukraine on Aug 16 Tanks and APCs manuevered on the Ukrainian side of UkrainianRussia border as the humanitarian convoy on the other side of the frontier is still unmoved.


A man reviews airline times inside Dulles International Airport outside Washington in 2012.


Spain s royal family with Pope Benedict XVI Left Letizia Felipe and their daughters Leonor and Sofia King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia next to the pope and Princess Elena.


Two torchbearers TV anchorwoman Yekaterina Andreyeva right and Alexander Vronsky hold Winter Olympics torches in Lake Baikal.


Roses are placed in the bullet holes in the terrace window of Le Carillon restaurant in Paris.


German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures as she confers with her parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democrats Volker Kauder during a debate in the Bundestag the German lower house of parliament in Berlin on July 17.


Soldiers from left Nicole Dickinson 9 Elizabeth LeCours 9 and Lyla Fitzgerald 9 are directed to line up against the wall during dress rehearsal.


Supporters of Morsi hold portraits of the ousted leader and wave Egyptian flags as they shout slogans during a demonstration after the Iftar prayer the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan in Cairo s Nasr City.


Sister Mary Corita circa 1960 Credit Collection of the Associated Sulpicians of the United States Courtesy the Corita Art Center Immaculate Heart Community Los Angeles.


Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller briefs the media during a news conference in Charlottesville Geller confirmed that Virginia state Sen R Creigh Deeds was stabbed multiple times and that his son was killed at the Deeds home in Bath County on Tuesday morning.


A sign rises above the crowd during the Million Man March rally on the Mall.


Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975 Here she scans newspaper headlines ahead of the election with her son Mark along London s Embankment.


Japan s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacts to a question during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo on Nov 18 2014.


Student Ahmed Mohamed left and National Geographic Society chief executive Gary E Knell attend the Social Good Summit at the 92nd Street Y.


A street sign in the Neustadt district of Dresden Germany reads Edward Snowden Square.


Police Took 53k from this Christian band an orphanage and a church.


Steven Miller who was forced out as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service testifies on Capitol Hill.


Students entering the Signature School a charter school in Evansville Ind which ranked 10th on this year s America s Most Challenging High Schools list.


Ian Wilson center right and Caroll Duncanson center left both visiting from New York take snapshots at George Clinton s Mothership.


Nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend Ted Wilbur take questions from the media outside their home in Fort Kent Maine.


Bentivolio Reindeer rancher who puts on an annual Christmas pageant And former teacher who denied accusations he threatened and yelled at students.


A truck dumps snow to Cypress mountain the venue for snowboarding and freestyle skiing ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on February 9 2010 in Vancouver Canada.


Furloughed federal workers protest outside the US Capitol to demand an end to the lockout of federal workers caused by the government shutdown on Oct 4 2013.


A screenshot from Lei Zhengfu s leaked video.


New Jersey Gov Chris Christie addresses the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce 78th annual Walk to Washington and Congressional Dinner in Washington on Thursday.


North Korean state media shows start of new school year.


Jeff Chimenti performs on keyboards in Chicago.


Building America s Future CoChairman and former Pennsylvania Gov Ed Rendell testifies before the Joint Economic Committee during a hearing on fixing America s crumbling infrastructure on Capitol Hill July 24 2013 in Washington DC.


Former CIA agent Evan McMullin announces his presidential campaign as an independent on Aug 10 in Salt Lake City.


A visible image of Cyclone Pam captured by NASA s Aqua satellite showing its wide eye just east of Vanuatu s islands and thunderstorms wrapped tightly around the center.


At a St Paul Minn center Joshua Truax helps callers find health insurance through the MNSure Web site The call center received more than 9600 calls by noon on Monday.


Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III dives into the end zone for a touchdown in the third quarter.


Men carry another coffin through Fallujah On Monday Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki urged the people of Fallujah to expel alQaedaaffiliated militants to avert a fullon military assault.


Mortenson meets students in a class at Gomaran Middle School He made eye contact with every student kneeling in front of their desks.


Surveillance video shows armed robbery in fast food restaurant.


Job seekers meet with recruiters at a job fair.


Two women stop to look at the thousands of love locks that hang from a fence on the Hohenzollernbruecke.


Members of the Maryland House of Delegates take the oath of office on the opening day of the Maryland General Assembly in 2011.


Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass.


Northern Iowa s Wes Washpun left Jeremy Morgan center and forward Bennett Koch walk off the court after losing to Texas A M in double overtime.


File photo Commuters ride the red line train.


Britain s Catherine Duchess of Cambridge leaves an event for the Anna Freud Centre at Spencer House in London.


Robert Palladino created this form board featuring the italicized alphabet in 1972 the same year Steve Jobs enrolled in Reed College.


The presidential candidates were nt the Iowa State Fair s only attentiongrabbers The hog championship attracted quite a crowd too.


Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle Photo Dale Archer.


Ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man he made a good decision Trump tweeted.


Swans are transported to their wintering grounds along the Alster River in Hamburg Germany.


President Obama concludes his remarks after speaking at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington on April 30 2016.


A Prince George s County police officer tries to help manage a traffic jam in this file photo after a shooting in Prince George s County.


Prince George s County firefighter Tom Robinson and 3weekold Columbo a kitten rescued from the engine of a car in October 2012 in Beltsvillekitten rescued from the engine of a car in October 2012 in Beltsville.


Ruth Hammett who will turn 100 this year is seen in this photo dated 1945.


Al Cardenas touts number of female CPAC speakers.


A sidewalk memorial honors slain police officer Ahmed Merabet ahead of his funeral in Bobigny in the northeastern suburbs of Paris The three officers killed in the Paris attacks have been awarded the Legion dHonneur for their bravery.


George HW Bush is out of the hospital after over two months of treatment.


Afghan security forces travel in a Humvee as battles were ongoing with Taliban militants in Kunduz on Sept 28.


Justin Timberlake at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.


A Libyan fighter inside a residential building on the front line in Sirte.


Charlie Hebdo cartoon suggests Alan Kurdi would be groper.


Vice President Biden with Sweden s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.


Here ATK workers unpack a M230 cannon at the AUSA Convention in Washington At the Arlingtonbased defense contractor We very much have in mind flexibility in our infrastructure and workforce so we can be responsive to changes in those customer priorities said Steve Cortese ATK s senior vice president of government relations and communications.


Guatemalan exPresident Otto Perez speaks with journalists at the end of a hearing at the Supreme Court in Guatemala City on Thursday.


A USmade Reaper drone part of Operation Barkhane s aerial detachment flies over a Nigerian military airport in Niamey in January 2015.


Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper is joined by left fielder Jayson Werth as he celebrates his seventhinning home run.


I India s AgniV missile with a range of 3100 miles lifts off from the launch pad at Wheeler Island off India s east coast on Thursday.


The shape of spaghetti alla chitarra the noodles are square rather than round makes them an ideal partner for hearty meat sauces.


Training for the ski freestyle aerials competition at Extreme Park at Rosa Khutor mountain got underway on Sunday.


A Venezuelan student throws a molotov cocktail at riot police during a protest in Caracas.


US and UN officials are worried that the arsenal of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi including rocketpropelled grenades light antiaircraft artillery and shoulder missiles could end up in the hands of Boko Haram and AQIM The end of Gaddafi s regime in Libya sent thousands of Tuareg fighters who fought for him along with massive arsenals of weapons into northern Mali their ancestral home Here soldiers stand near the body of a suspected member of Boko Haram after a raid by soldiers in Kano Nigeria.


Volunteers appeal to community members for donations at the Porterville Water Challenge along Olive Street in Porterville Some area residents saw their wells go dry for months.


Kirk Cousins on Game Changer and backingup RGIII.


Afghan police look at the site of a suicide attack to have hit a minibus carrying foreign security guards in Kabul in June.


View Photo Gallery With a ruling on healthcare law imminent here are other instances when the high court has dipped into political fights.


Passengers ride a bus with a campaign poster depicting Rabbi Ovadia Yosef the spiritual leader of the ultraOrthodox Shas party in Tel Aviv.


NASA s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment.


What Would You Do If You Were nt Afraid Using this as a guide for everyday life is a total gamechanger When you put fear aside and follow your convictions you get to try and achieve so many more things.


A thirdgrade student serves milk at Umejima Elementary School.


This Kensington bus stop is served by Ride On buses.


An Ultras White Knights soccer fan cries during a match between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI at the Air Defense Stadium in a suburb east of Cairo Egypt Feb 8 2015.


According to reports one suspect has been killed while others are still being sought by police.


The mystique of having served at high levels of politics had become instantly bankable Rahm Emanuel resigned his job in the Clinton White House in 1998 to join the investment banking firm of Wasserstein Perella Emanuel was not a numbers guy he admitted but more of a relationship banker By the time he left to run for Congress in 2002 Emanuel has amassed more than 18 million.


Midfielder Marco Verratti of Italy falls to the ground following a tackle by England s Wayne Rooney.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday Aug 6 2015 in Cleveland.


People walk with their arms raised as they are let out of the Malcolm Grow Medical Center on the Maryland base.


Police officers detain an opposition activist during a banned antiKremlin protest in St Petersburg on Dec 31 2011 December protests brought straightforward reporting to mainstream Russian TV it did nt last.


Sonia Van Meter and Jason Stanford with their sons Hatcher.


Houston region crippled by historic flood.


Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy navigates traffic while riding through downtown Washington with the Black Women Bike DC cyclist group on Friday.


Palmer looks at a statue of himself commemorating the 50th anniversary of his first PGA tour win in 1955 at the Weston Golf and Country Club in Toronto.


A large crowd listens during a vigil at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit.


President Obama left pauses after saying that today is the three year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin next to first lady Michelle Obama during a reception in recognition of African American History Month in the East Room of the White House Washington Thursday Feb 26 2015.


Dozens of Ethiopian protesters killed in stampede fleeing police.


Parked cars are covered in dust near a part of collapsed structure at the Watergate complex.


Ron Paul speaking at the University of California at Berkeley Calif in April when he said he was done spending money on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.


Real talk Auburn I actually do nt love Alabama and last year s Iron Bowl was dope.


Paul poses for photos with volunteers after speaking during a rally at his Des Moines headquarters.


This photo taken on Tuesday Feb 1 2011 shows Mayor Guillermo Bill Vidal who immigrated from Cuba following Castro s revolution during an interview in his office in Denver.


The Rev Robert Hardies looks on as Terrance Heath and Richard Imirowicz exchange their wedding vows on March 9 2010.


An undated video still is believed to show Hayat Boumeddiene who French police say is connected to the January terrorist attacks at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher deli in Paris The attackers are believed to be associated with the Islamic State.


Pope Francis gestures next to a wooden chair made for him by inmates during his visit to CurranFromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia.


Students protest near the Indian Embassy against the blockade of cargo trucks along the border with India in Kathmandu on Monday.


Sheremetyevo aiport police staff guard an entrance into the transit area.


Police are investigating an assault on a 43yearold Muslim man in the Bronx on Friday Investigators say the attackers punched and kicked the man.


Mavis Staples a Grammy awardwinning singer and civil rights activist is applauded during the panel on music and social consciousness.


The case against alleged serial killer Charles Severance.


Spain s David Silva left in action against Dutchman Bruno Martins Indi The teams previous World Cup meeting was for the 2010 championship a game won by Spain 10.


A man poses for a photo in front of the Cheese Museum in Amsterdam.


An Amtrak logo is seen in this file photo.


Syrian security personnel and civilians gather where two explosions rocked the University of Aleppo At least 87 people were killed and dozens wounded news reports said.


Smithsonian Natural History Museum collections manager Linda Welzenbach holds a small piece of meteorite.


SANTA CLARA CA FEBRUARY 07 Beyonce performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show at Levi s Stadium on February 7 2016 in Santa Clara California.


Kristina Ilinykh of Russia competes in the women s diving 3meter springboard preliminary.


New York Giants Coach Tom Coughlin gestures from the sideline against the Dallas Cowboys in the second half Sunday.


Gates attended the College of William and Mary graduating in 1965 with a degree in history.


Police stand guard at the CVS Pharmacy on Pennsylvania Avenue that was torched and looted.


Sen Kay Hagan concedes the Senate race in North Carolina to Republican Thom Tillis in Greensboro NC.


A rebel fighter carries his weapon as he walks along orchards near the frontline of Idlib city in northern Syria on March 22.


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Many animals do get tipsy on purpose but plenty of animal drunkenness is anything but.


Vice President Biden tours a tunnel with DC Water general manager George Hawkins right after arriving for an event to highlight the importance of maintaining roads bridges ports and other infrastructure Friday Jan 16 2015 at a river tunnel project in Washington.


Newly arrived Chinese relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane hold signs as they speak to reporters at a hotel in Subang Jaya Malaysia Twentynine Chinese family members seeking answers from Malaysia s government about what happened to their loved ones arrived in Kuala Lumpur said Malaysia Airlines commercial director Hugh Dunleavy according to the Associated Press Twothirds of the 227 passengers aboard Flight 370 were Chinese.


Mitt Romney will get some help on the airwaves during the Olympics.


PayPal cofounders Max Levchin left and Peter Thiel center talk to TechCrunch coeditor Erick Schonfeld speak onstage at Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011.


Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter left meets with former defense secretary James Schlesinger in Plains Ga on October 3 1976.


Neighbors Greg Miller and Mary Bird haul drinks back to their homes in CharlestonA water company executive said it could be days before uncontaminated water is flowing through taps again.


Dedra and Ben along with another couple on Neighbors With Benefits.


Donald Trump at a rally in Dimondale Mich.


Gutierrez answers a question during the interview portion.


Many law enforcement members attend the funeral service.


Satellite images show destruction in Palmyra.


Ridesharing service Via has expanded its business to DC.


A man falls over a child after being tripped by a TV camerawoman as he tries to escape from a collection point in Roszke village Hungary on Sept 8.


Moises Martinez eats breakfast outside his family s Napa apartment which was damaged by the earlymorning quake.


Five ways to stay sane while you re snowed in.


Evidence examined Fairfax case against Jesse Matthew Jr.


Terraces on the larger units range from 250 to more than 800 square feet.


An example forecast provided by Earth Networks to the Washington Naitonals from April 29 2015.


The body of a Syrian Army soldier lies on the ground after heavy clashes in Tal Sheer Syria.


Freshmen Ximena Pidal 14 left from Mexico and Camila Kiger 14 from Brazil in a physics class They are both boarding students.


Young people give the GOP an Obamacare gift.


File The new Google Glass Bold prescription frames in shale color rests on a table at the Google Glass Basecamp space at Chelsea Market.


WINDOW FRAME This window frame is among the fragments from Flight 77 which had left Dulles Airport en route to Los Angeles The window frame is on exhibit courtesy of the American Airlines CR Smith Museum in Fort Worth September 11 museum director Alice Greenwald believes it is important to display portions of the aircraft because of the conspiracy theories that no plane hit the Pentagon It just contradicts directly these ridiculous and insulting allegations Greenwald said.


A girl who fled her home with her family because of the fighting between government forces and rebels flashes a victory sign at a refugee camp near the Turkish border in Azaz Syria.


President Obama addresses the White House correspondents dinner.


Forest Wagner is in stable condition after being attacked by a bear.


Vice President Biden speaks at Drake University in Des Moines on Feb 12.


View Photo Gallery George Mason University Law School imported puppies to play with stressedout law students.


A Pakistani man arranges cauliflowers at a vegetable market in Lahore Yearonyear inflation stood at 69 percent in November the State Bank of Pakistan said in a statement a faster fall than had been estimated Food inflation dropped to 53 percent and nonfood inflation to 81 percent.


A section of a building at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont Fla collapsed into a sinkhole.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Myrtle Beach SC on Tuesday.


NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio smiles after the berthing of the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule to the International Space Station At the time of this frame grab the station was traveling over Brazil.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump left Fox News host Megyn Kelly and Fox News CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes.


Artwork by Banksy adorns the side of a building in the Mayfair area of London.


A crew sets out to retrieve a measurement device in a Greenland fjord and passes by a small hanging glacier on its side wall that is unleashing a stream of water into the ocean.


Locations of communities where cancer rates have spiked recently.


What the Twitterverse said this year about TSA s best and worst airports.


An Indian girl joins others in performing yoga during a festival attended by Narendra Modi the prime ministerial candidate from India s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi.


Models walk the runway at the LWren Scott Fall 2012 fashion show during MercedesBenz Fashion Week.


Reinhold Hanning 94 a former guard at the Auschwitz death camp leaves after the opening of his trial in Detmold Germany on Feb 1 Hanning was convicted Thursday of 170000 counts of accessory to murder.


Mei Xiang chooses a symbol of luck and friendship Bei Bei s birthday celebration included a Chinese zhuazhou a traditional ceremony where several symbolic objects foretell something about a baby s future by which is chosen.


Gov Jan Brewer addresses a crowd of media and citizens at Prescott High School.


James Windle Independent candidate for Washington state s 8th District.


Michael Phelps looks on during the men s 4 x 100 meter relay final The US men finished a disappointing third breaking a streak of six straight gold medals in major events It stinks Phelps said after the race.


Terrence Jennings of Alexandra delivers a kick to Mark Lopez of Sugar Land Texas during their men s Olympic team trials taekwondo match in March Jennings a TC Williams High grad is part of the NoVa delegation to the London Olympics.


Heroin addiction and deaths have become a nationwide epidemic in recent years as users turn to the drug as a cheaper alternative to prescription painkillers.


You can visit the stinky Dutchman s pipe flower at the Ripley garden next to the Hirshhorn.


Remaining Ore occupier insults FBI charges.


Library officials are trying to steer impatient Fifty Shades borrowers toward other titles while they wait.


French police officers seal off a road near the church.


The setup at Quicken Loans Arena continues ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.


Organizers expected 6 million people at the mass surpassing the record 5 million who turned out to see Pope John Paul II at the same park in 1995.


In this Nov 2003 photo John Hinckley Jr arrives at US District Court in Washington The man who shot President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago will leave a psychiatric hospital to live fulltime in Virginia on September 10.


Kara and James confronting Cat their boss.


Slain Dallas police officer Michael Smith 55.


Jesse Williams at the BET Awards on Sunday June 26.


Devotees pray for Malala Yousufzai who was shot on Oct 9 by the Taliban at a Sunday service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore Yousufzai 14 was transferred on Oct 11 from a hospital in a province that is a militant haven to a specialist hospital in the army garrison town of Rawalpindi.


Gribbin unwinds after work with a game of Ultimate Frisbee Most of the guys he plays with are also millennial scientists who are either in academia or the job force.


A father and son return home with vegetables as smoke from a progovernment forces artillery strike ascends in the background in the alAmaria neighborhood in Aleppo.


The Anger Room is a place where the user finds a new kind of freedom.


Police officers carry a fan who collapsed when the Beatles arrived at London Airport.


For nearly a decade Beth Tarini viewed her holiday cards as a symbol of her identity as a strong single woman.


Olaf Danielson birding on Oregon Inlet in North Carolina s Outer Banks.


Premier Christian Radio chief executive Peter Kerridge poses with a giant christening card signed by 5000 Christians for Prince George and the royal family outside St James s Palace in London.


Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett Alex gets a sappy picture book from his grandma for his birthday He defaces it with hilarious results changing the sweet Birthday Bunny into a Battle Bunny on a mission.


BallerYoga founder Cedric Yau has been practicing yoga for eight years.


Salatin has devised innovative methods for raising cattle pigs and poultry in symbiosis with one another and the pasture beneath them.


Activists attend a Voting Rights Amendment Act rally on Capitol Hill on June 25 2014 The rally marked the oneyear anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v Holder which held a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional.


A Turkish protester holds a placard and a press card on April 1 before the trial of two journalists Turkey ranks 151 out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom.


A Prince George s County official surveys the damage caused to a home in Laurel by a fallen tree.


Sarah Stadler holds her long missing cell phone showing a text conversation with Maj Mark Thompson Its discovery has launched a new investigation into Thompson by the military.


The wife of a member of the KKK at a gathering for a BBQ and cross lightingburning ritual in Maryland.


A woman carries her daughter following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.


Yesenia De Jesus Martinez 12 holds a basketball in Rio Venado in Mexico s Oaxaca state In the village boys and girls learn the fundamentals of being an ethnic Triqui among the dozens of indigenous peoples who live in the state as well as basketball Their coach is Sergio Zuniga 43 who hopes the sport will help the poor children set goals and dream big.


The musical icon has been showing up in papers about intestinal gas.


A bumper sticker on Earnest s vehicle presses for the return of the Confederate flag in the Virginia Capitol.


Robert Potts and Jon Harbison are among the Faith and Freedom Coalition staffers reaching out to conservative voters in Georgia where there is a close Senate race The group based in Duluth Ga is led by Ralph Reed.


Christmas lights and snow are seen along the Chesapeake Bay in North Beach Md.


Steven Papa meets with other chefs before dinner service at Petit Trois in Los Angeles.


Singers with the Gay Men s Chorus of Washington perform We Shall Overcome in front of the Supreme Court.


Rapper Chris Brown leaves the US District Court in Washington DC on Oct 28 2013.


An opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline protests outside the Ronald Reagan Building.


In this Feb 1 2011 photo Harborside Health Center employee Gerard Barber stands behind medical marijuana clone plants at Harborside Health Center in Oakland Calif.


Indian riot police keep watch along a sealedoff road leading toward the landmark India Gate monument following weekend clashes between demonstrators and police in New Delhi Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appealed for calm and vowed to protect women as police struggled to quell increasing outrage over sex crimes.


Students take shelter in a vehicle after fleeing their dormitories.


People build a defensive wall with sandbags on a flooded street in Datchet England.


Bill Belichick has won with two different backup QBs this season.


A detail of what is believed to be a portrait of William Shakespeare made when he was living and only rediscovered in 2009.


A medic helps a Palestinian in Shijaiyah which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting in Gaza City.


Protesters clash with riot police in Tunis The assassination of Chokri Belaid an outspoken critic of Tunisia s Islamist government was the first in Tunisia since the uprising two years ago that ousted Ben Ali.


This June 13 2013 handout photo provided by NASA shows the ice front of Venable Ice Shelf West Antarctica in October 2008.


Watch drug lord El Chapo make his escape.


Zaghal posted this photo to Instagram on Oct 1 X By V at the Rocketship he wrote.


Edward I Koch the former congressman and New York mayor whose wisecracks and pugnacity embodied the city he led back from the edge of bankruptcy in the 1970s died Feb 1 of congestive heart failure at a hospital in New York He was 88 PHOTOS Koch brought New York back from the brink of financial ruin READ Ed Koch outspoken former mayor of New York dead at 88.


Trump on SaudiIran fallout Take the oil.


Vera Wang debuted her SS17 collection at Moynihan Station in New York.


Clinton praised McAuliffe for his willingness to work across the aisle particularly his support of Republican Gov Robert F McDonnell s sweeping transportation plan in Virginia.


Riot police dismantle a tent while displacing proEU activists from their barricades at the Ukrainian presidential administration building in Kiev Heavily armed riot troops broke into the offices of a top Ukrainian opposition party in Kiev and seized its servers Monday the party said as antigovernment protests crippled the capital for yet another day Elsewhere police dismantled or blocked off several protest tent camps near key government buildings in the city.


The Sichuan dish mapo tofu meets Canadian poutine at Haikan.


Jets defensive end Leger Douzable right and Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon exchange jerseys after a game Although players compete against one another something they have in common like a friendship college or nationality might bring them together.


Richards was a tennis player who underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1975 and later became an eye doctor She also coached Martina Navratilova to two Wimbledon victories In her 2007 autobiography Richards expressed regret over the type of fame that came with her transsexuality but said she did not regret transitioning gender In 2013 she was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.


Jeb Bush Country is on a very bad course.


President Obama opens up a box containing bottles of White House brewed beer that he was delivering to the firefighters.


North Korean artillery subunits conduct a liveshellfiring drill to test warfighting capabilities in this image released March 14.


Librado Cena William OBrien altercation.


Ryan Seacrest wore an offwhite Burberry tuxedo jacket.


Mackenzie Hild 26 a medical student who spent this past summer in Kenya said her ordeal has given her a totally different perspective on medicine and a new level of empathy.


A handler stands with a beagle in the doggie potty area in the basement of the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York before the dog show.


Wizards guard John Wall throws down the padding that was protecting his fractured wrist as he leaves the court and walks past Wizards owner Ted Leonsis.


Man rescued after spending 66 days at sea.


Olympic Dam Mine South Australia Australia April 1 2015.


Simone Battle of the girl group GRL was found dead in her West Hollywood Calif home She gained notoriety through performances on the TV show X Factor and her band GRL had been signed by megahit maker Dr Luke.


A man lays flowers near a French flag at a memorial in tribute to the victims of the attacks at the place de la Republique in Paris.


Huckabee looks at a quarter horse during a visit to the Linn County Fair in Central City Iowa.


Administrative law judge Roy Pearson leaves court after the second day of his trial in Washington on June 13 2007 Jin and Soo Chung are being sued by Pearson for 54 million for what he calls misleading signage at their drycleaning business.


McLean outfielder Jamie Wang tries to catch a fly ball.


The Battle of Bull Run diorama built by Don Ray and Paul Henderson can be viewed at Miniature World in Victoria BC.


RENO NV JULY 23 Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks during an American For Prosperity rally on July 23 2012 in Reno Nevada Hundreds of people attended an Americans For Prosperity rally to see former Republican presidential candidate speak.


National AFLCIO President Richard Trumka speaks in Portland Ore Monday May 18 2015 about the organization s concerns over the TransPacific Partnership treaty that President Obama is pushing Trumka s visit comes as the US Senate prepares to vote on socalled fasttrack legislation that would let Obama pursue the 12nation trade deal.


They do nt exactly seem to be peaking at the season s stretch run arrives.


Virginia Cavaliers Malcolm Brogdon right attempts a threepoint basket against the Syracuse Orange during the regional finals of the NCAA Tournament March 27 at United Center in Chicago.


Used with permission from Matthew Inman The Oatmeal.


Thai Buddhists hold candles and flowers as they circle in prayer to celebrate Vesak on May 20 in Nakon Pathom province west of Bangkok Vesak commemorates the birth enlightenment and passing of Buddha.


Cruz gets a touch up of his makeup during a break.


High temperatures on June 29 2012 the day of the derecho This was the 2nd day of heat wave that featured 11 straight days above 95.


The prairie grids in the windows are a nod to the craftsman style.


Vice President George HW Bush accepts the Republican Partys nomination as the 1988 presidential candidate at the party s convention in New Orleans.


Clinton celebrates New York s minimum wage hike to 15.


Chris Wallace dadmonishes Trump Clinton audience again and again.


This photo shows a new Mecysmauchenius new species.


People leave the Smithsonian National Zoo on Easter Monday after it was closed because of a shooting nearby.


Garrett Finnell left his sister Karalyn Finnell left center of Oklahoma City and their cousin Amanda Finnell center of Washington DC work on building a snowman near the White House READ Capital Weather Gang.


A group of people who believe they belong to a clearly defined generation but who do nt.


A Danish man Portraits from Ellis Island Augustus Sherman.


Stockpile of oil in developed countries.


President Barack Obama right and British Prime Minister David Cameron left pose for a picture with Denmark s Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt center next to first lady Michelle Obama.


One quarter of Americans have no emergency savings.


Statewide temperature rankings JanuaryMay 2014.


A member of special forces checks under a car parked outside the hotel.


Tensions are high in Brazil ahead of president s impeachment vote.


The Shinola store in Detroit as curated as the company and complete with espresso bar The company opened a holiday popup shop on Nov 15 in the 14th Street corridor in Northwest Washington Early next year a permanent location will open nearby.


Chief Justice John G Roberts seen Jan 28 2014 in Washington cast the decisive vote in the 2012 Supreme Court decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act.


A hunter and coyote dog breeder shows one of his dogs for sale.


Airbnbstyle housing for Europe migrants.


Teens participate in a group counseling activity.


A Trump supporter on Thursday in West Palm Beach Fla.


Sanders speaks during a town hall in Los Angeles.


Wrestlers practice on a carpet in the Palace of Wrestling in Moscow.


Reenactors take part in a dress rehearsal of the assassination trial on June 19 2015 at the Gettysburg Presbyterian Church in Gettysburg Pa.


Hillary Rodham Clinton center laughs with her husband former US President Bill Clinton at their daughter Chelsea s Oxford University graduation ceremony on Saturday.


Maryland corrections officials display evidence from a drone smuggling operation at a Maryland prison last year.


A Native American protester holds up his arms as he and other demonstrators are threatened by private security guards and their dogs.


The belongings of a person recently deported from the United States sit on the floor at the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta Mexico.


Steaks and chops described as Trump meat are shown near the podium with Trump branded wines and water REUTERSJoe Skipper.


Barbra Streisand attends the premiere of Paramount Pictures The Guilt Trip at Regency Village Theatre on Dec 11 2012 in Westwood Calif.


A conceptual illustration of a proposed dino emoji provided by Dominik Schwarz.


A medic and a plainclothes police officer speak with an injured man at the site of the bomb attack in Cairo.


Basketball star Wilt Chamberlain extends a long left in the direction of Muhammad Ali as they meet at an ABC television studio in New York Chamberlain stood 7 feet 1 Ali 62.


Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at Iowa State University in Ames on Tuesday.


Dyar was a man of many interests In 1900 he started taking his family to summer at Skyland a Blue Ridge resort run by George Freeman Pollock who woke guests each morning with a blast on his bugle Pollock s sister Wellesca met Dyar at Skyland and embarked on an affair with him.


Map showing winter 201314 snowfall totals and elevation across the MidAtlantic.


Aerial views of historic blizzard snowfall.


Arrington New antiRedskins ad misses opportunity.


Antigovernment protesters perform the weekly Friday prayer in Ramadi Iraq The longestrunning of the protests in Ramadi has cut off a key trade route linking Baghdad to Jordan and Syria for a month.


Charlotte s lightrail construction offers a Purple Line preview.


This 1952 photo shows the Rev Joseph Ratzinger celebrating an openair Mass in Ruhpolding Germany Although he served as a parish priest Ratzinger was drawn to academics and earned a doctorate in theology from the University of Munich.


Police investigate a suspicious package Monday in downtown Washington.


Joe Cocker performs at the CocaCola Tbilisi Jazz Festival in Tbilisi Georgia Cocker was known for his emotional energetic live performances A Washington Post music critic wrote in 1970 I have never seen a more exciting live rock show.


Siranjan Kulatilake and Hayley Plack meeting for the first time.


Phil Schiller senior vice president at Apple speaks about the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus on Sept 9 2014.


The author and her son happy and healthy at 10 months.


Many folks who want to see Jimmy Carter teach Sunday school arrive the day before and sleep overnight in their cars in the parking lot of the Maranatha Baptist Church Rhoda Creech applies her makeup in the morning as her son Caleb Creech 15 plays on his phone.


In this image from video provided by KCTV5 Frazier Glenn Cross also known as Frazier Glenn Miller is escorted by police in an elementary school parking lot in Overland Park Kan Cross 73 is accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City.


A worker puts a First Book label on a shipping box The organization gave away 15 million new books in 2015.


Visitors take in the underground scene snapping photos of the surreallooking surroundings.


Recruit Antonio Richards squeezes into his protective gear before entering the burning building.


Edgar Orea left and Dwayne D BeebeFranqui argue on the steps of the Carl D Perkins Federal Building in Ashland Ky Orea a supporter of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and BeebeFranqui a supporter of samesex marriage were waiting for Davis to arrive.


Billy Hunter Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association.


The element of surprise is a powerful one in American politics.


A former communications director to Sen Scott Brown.


This is the LA mountain lion suspected of killing a koala.


In this view from Great Falls road an inbound train runs along Metro s Orange line along the old tracks in Virginia.


Fan Byrne Kelly celebrates the team clinching the National League East Washington is in baseball s post season for the first time since 1933.


This Jan 20 1941 photo shows President Franklin Delano Roosevelt waving from the inaugural stand on Capitol Hill in Washington It was his third inauguration He was inaugurated a fourth and last time on Jan 20 1945.


House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa RCalif and other lawmakers rush to the House floor during a series of votes amending the emergency spending package to assist victims of Superstorm Sandy at the Capitol in Washington Tuesday Jan 15 2013.


Cows graze in the plains in the Holingol region.


The scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad Iraq on Sept 30 2012 The new Global Trends 2030 Altervative Worlds report says Islamist terrorism will exhaust itself and ebb by 2030 but the tactics of terrorism will persist.


Birds fly above the beach on Dauphin Island Ala as oil cleanup efforts continue in the background.


Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.


Sept 19 The 10weekold male giant panda cub receives his sixth health exam Giant pandas are an endangered species with about 1600 living in the wild in China.


Six things Donald Trump has written about women.


In 2015 Alfonso Ribeiro originally from Bolivia greets Rolling Thunder riders.


Protesters chant slogans in front of the Supreme Judicial Council building in Cairo Morsi s decree making his decisions above the review of the courts is considered a reflection of the fact that most of the nation s courts are overseen by judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak.


A dancer playing a snowflake prepares to take the stage.


The hole is superficial but a little unsettling for us Earthbound folk.


Customers line up to buy fish caught by Chinese fishermen near Hainan.


A portion of a 45inch photo showing Billy the Kid left playing croquet in New Mexico in 1878 Discovered in 2010 the photograph is only the second verified image of the notorious outlaw.


People leave a restaurant next to a Twin Peaks restaurant near the scene Panicked patrons and bystanders fled for safety after gunfire broke out.


Taking legal action collectively has gotten harder and harder for workers in recent years REUTERSBob Riha Jr.


Congressman mistakes US officials for Indian government representatives.


Kathryn Frazier left and Tracy Curtis prepare to leave their home for their wedding.


A Dec 12 2012 photo of North Korea s Unha3 rocket lifting off.


UNITA rebel soldiers assembling in quartering areas at the end of the war in Angola in 2002.


Elizabeth McGowan of InsideClimate News was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.


View Photo Gallery The US men s women s basketball teams played Brazil in exhibition games at the Verizon Center but it was the Obamas kisscam antics that drew the biggest buzz of the night.


Stephanie Yun of the District shops in 2005 at White Flint mall.


Women wear dresses emblazoned with the GOP symbol an elephant.


Modi left congratulates Indian Space Research Organization Chairman K Radhakrishnan after the spacecraft entered Mars s orbit.


Afghans protest in Kabul in November after seven people from the Hazara minority group were beheaded by Taliban militants.


Police block streets around 16th and Irving NW.


Shannon Noble 31 of Arlington right cheers with her coworkers from the Human Rights Coalition at mile 11 About 40 of her coworkers from HRC were in the race.


Golfing greats Palmer left and Nicklaus are seen on the course of the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta Ga.


At a national meeting at the April 25 House of Culture North Koreans mark an anniversary of the Fatherland Liberation War in Pyongyang.


US troops and their Chinook helicopter wait in the middle of a field in Gruta Poland for clearance to take off on Tuesday.


Demonstrators protest the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson Mo.


Helen Mirren stars as Alma Reville left aside Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock.


President Obama flanked by Defense Secretary Ashton B Carter center and Gen Joseph Dunford chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff delivers a statement Wednesday at the White House on the deployment of US troops in Afghanistan.


Police officers attend a candlelight vigil near where the officers were shot and killed.


Security forces fire tear gas and bullets after protesters storm Iraqi parliament.


Berrigan right stands with supporters including nephew Jerry Berrigan center as they react to the twoyear sentence that his father Philip Berrigan was given in Portland Maine for vandalizing a Navy guidedmissile destroyer during a protest at the Bath Iron Works shipyard.


Churches can help make homes a safer place for LGBT youth.


The vicepresidential debate What Kaine and Pence really meant to say.


Drivers see flashing lights after pedestrian activates signal.


Board member Arlene Taylor listens to a community member during a meeting of the Queen Anne s County School Board in Centreville Md.


Rescue workers search the sunken ship in the Yangtze River in Jianli in central China s Hubei province.


The mother of Michael Brown Lesley McSpadden covers her face after the St Louis County Prosecuting Attorney announced on Nov 24 2014 that a grand jury had decided that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not be charged in the shooting death of Brown.


A rendering of the giant artificial cloud that will be built in St Kjeld.


DeSean Jackson spoke to St Andrew s Episcopal School recently.


Top Afghan Taliban leader reported dead.


Some employers are concerned about their financial obligations to employees who seek ongoing weightloss treatment.


Policemen keep watch near a barricade of prodemocracy demonstrators in Hong Kong.


Clinton supporters cheer during a rally at Dickerson Community Center in Daytona Beach Fla.


Miss DC Haely Jardas poses with a guest at her sendoff party.


Lt Gen John Mulholland shown here as the commanding general of the United States Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg was investigated after going on a vulgar tirade on his troops.


Workers erect scaffolding around the northeast grand pinnacle of the central tower at the Washington National Cathedral.


The first color image ever made of the Pluto system by a spacecraft on approach taken on April 9 shows the dwarf planet and its moon Charon from about 71 million miles away.


Kerry High confidence Syria used chemical weapons.


Obama talks with June Muli head of customer care at MKopa about solar power during the Power Africa Innovation Fair an initiative to increase the number of people with access to power in subSaharan Africa.


A police robot approaches an armored van in Hutchins Tex a suburb of Dallas Police said a gunman who was holed up inside the van was shot by a police sniper at 5 am.


Romney at CPAC I utterly reject pessimism about GOP.


Kinshasa capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is seen just across the Congo River from Brazzaville capital of Congo Republic Researchers have come to Congo Republic to explore the role wild pigs may play in the transmission of Ebola from wildlife to humans.


A KKK BBQ and cross lightingburning ritual in Maryland.


A helicopter crew does reconnaissance over the launch pad.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left and Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra during a wreathlaying ceremony at Revolution Square in Havana on Feb 11.


A red bole layer is made of 66 millionyearold soil that developed on top of an exposed basalt flow during a period of no volcanic activity Thin layers of ash accumulated on the exposed surface The rock hammer shows the scale of this layer.


Machado is interviewed by TV host Jay Leno.


The space shuttle Discovery background switches places with its sister Atlantis foreground at Kennedy Space Center on March 9 2012 in Cape Canaveral FL.


A friction ring a part of the braking system on the 5000 series rail car This item fell off a rail car in December and struck the electrified third rail causing a shutdown of a portion of the Blue and Orange lines.


Demonstrators stand on the steps outside the Supreme Court This was the Supreme Court s first ruling on an ACA provision since 2012 when it upheld the law s central feature the requirement for individuals to have health insurance or pay a fine.


Mack Ordaya 32 of Gaithersburg Md got to the Mall early to stake out a good spot He passed the time doing some work and making phone calls.


Life in a neighborhood designed to withstand the effects of climate change will be greener cleaner and perhaps less stressful.


A rolling billboard with a message for Maryland Gov Larry Hogan drove by the State House in Annapolis during March.


Vincent C Gray and former girlfriend Linda Mercado Greene in 2011.


Archbishop Desmond Tutu who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in fighting apartheid speaks during a felicitation event for him in Dharmsala India Friday Feb 10 2012.


Code Pink demonstrators chant at people lining up to enter Quicken Loans Arena.


Trevor Bauer will start Game 3 instead of Game 2 after he cut his pinkie working on one of his drones.


Ben Lewis a documentary filmmaker speaks at the Jewish Museum in London on Oct 3 Hundreds of British Jews are considering whether to apply for restoration of German citizenship stripped from their ancestors by the Third Reich.


A quarantined woman sobs after learning of a family member s death.


Iranian official calls US GOP letter a propaganda ploy.


Israeli mourners stand next to the flower wreaths covering the grave of Shahar Melamed 43 who was killed the previous day by Palestinian mortar fire in Kibbutz Nirim near Israel s border with the Gaza Strip.


The Rev Chris Starr left of Atlanta and Tony Rodriguez pray outside the Capitol.


Redskins QB Kirk Cousins leaves at the conclusion of a news conference at Redskins Park.


Romney walks to interviews at an airport in Dayton Ohio.


The Washington Monument will be closed until repairs are made to its troubled elevator.


Kasich touts positive campaign after taking second in NH primary.


A police officer stands guard in front of the Capitol.


Chalk messages in support of Donald Trump at Emory University.


How police department composition changed up until 2000.


The area of Kashatagh in Nagorno Karabakh province Here many Syrian Armenians live in the village of Berdzor.


A man stands next to messages of love near the Belle Equipe restaurant site of one of the attacks in Paris.


Mourners comfort each other after the funeral.


The Timberland store inside the company s New Hampshire headquarters.


A healthcare worker dons protective gear before entering into an Ebola treatment centre in the west of Freetown Sierra Leone.


A young migrant girl is helped ashore as she arrives with others aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to Lesbos.


A man looks at a burnt car near the explosion in Donetsk.


Thurston said he would really take in New York by watching where he was going living his moments without staring into the small screen and multitasking Plus it was safer I bought a bicycle he wrote Turns out it s easier to ride the thing when you re not trying to simultaneously check your Twitter.


The Italianate style home of lawyer Michael Nussbaum in the Georgetown neighborhood of Northwest Washington sold less than two days.


McAuliffe talks with Clinton in Harrisonburg The old friends and political teammates have been traveling through the state campaigning since Sunday and will end the tour Wednesday evening in Roanoke.


Chopticon High School freshman Paul Williams 14 attends the antibullying assembly.


Luke Bryan left and Dierks Bentley better known as Lurks.


Employees work at the new SodaStream factory built deep in Israel s Negev Desert that will replace the West Bank facility when it shuts down next month.


Coverage of the moon landing features astronaut Neil Armstrong s iconic quote.


Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Ceremony on Dec 12 2011.


Andrew Frank and Hayley Plack talk about their engagement and the day when Hayley lost her engagement ring at Hayley s apartment in Washington.


Jason Greene an analyst at the Security Officers Management Branch office goes over Gray s paperwork Gray got to the office early to make sure she was the first in line.


Sebastian OKelly left and Brad Kennedy both of Bethesda consult their map during a hike from McLean to Tysons Corner The two have set themselves a challenge to hike around the whole Beltway.


As the Silver Line slices through the Tysons Corner area it creates new residential and retail opportunities including popup stores that will occupy this space outside the Greensboro Metro Station.


The Therapy 2 flies US and Cuban flags en route to Key West.


Workers clean up an area on the grounds of the Washington Monument on Wednesday.


London chooses hope over fear says new mayor.


MYTH Big data is new Ask statisticians and they will tell you that they have been analyzing big data or data as they less redundantly call it for centuries Samuel Arbesman writes in Five myths about big data As they like to argue big data is nt much more than a sexier version of statistics with a few new tools that allow us to think more broadly about what data can be and how we generate it Here an undated photo provided by Facebook shows the server room at the company s data center in Prineville Ore.


A vehicle sits at a car dealership in Kalamazoo the scene of a shooting rampage that lasted four hours.


Retired US Marines Larry Morris left James Tracy and Francis East who lowered the flag in 1961 arrive for the ceremony.


Rev J Allan Klayee bishop of the Jubilee Praise and Worship Center talks about an Ebolaprevention program he created in his 16 churches in Monrovia.


Mr Jo models the Chonghyol ring which he said could purify the blood and lower cholesterol levels.


FilmMaker Akinola Davies Dean ChalkeySomerset House.


Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko shakes hands with a woman as she arrives to visit the tent camp of her supporters in the center of Kiev.


The USCGC Healy one of the two working icebreakers in the Coast Guard fleet is shown here in the Arctic Ocean on June 18 2005.


Mahmoud Abbas left president of the Palestinian Authority is welcomed by European Council President Donald Tusk on Thursday prior to a meeting in Brussels.


A law enforcement officer warns displeased protesters that they are breaking the law as they react to the mistrial.


Families gathered at the Seafarers Union Hall on Sunday Oct 4 2015 in Jacksonville Fla waiting for news on the crew of 33 aboard the missing cargo ship El Faro.


A woman wearing a facekini walks on beach on August 22 2016 in Qingdao Shandong Province of China.


Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia compete in the pairs free skate on their way to gold.


Law enforcement with Conroe Police Department estimate the collection of 1020 thousand marijuana plants found Wednesday Aug 21 2013 in west Conroe Texas are worth 10 million As many as 20000 marijuana plants have been discovered on several plots in a heavily wooded area north of Houston.


Donuts and coffee were served to the photographers by the Flickr crew May 14 2014 Yum.


Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan on the set of Live with Kelly and Michael.


Cruz hugs his newly announced running mate Carly Fiorina during a rally in Indianapolis.


One of the planes used to train the Tuskegee Airmen in 1944 is on view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.


Maman Dedeou a 22yearold laborer had no lawyer when he stood before an Islamic court judge on charges of stealing a mattress Afterward the Islamist police took him to a clearing near the Niger River where a Senegalese man gave him two injections that put him to sleep Dedeou woke up in the hospital His right hand was amputated He fled to Segou and then to Bamako where he now is unemployed and lives with relatives.


In this May 12 2009 file photo Jonathan Gruber professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology participates in a Capitol Hill hearing on the overhaul of the heath care system in Washington.


Female traffic police officers gather in front of bronze statues of the North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to pay their respects in Pyongyang North Koreans turned out to commemorate what would have been the 71st birthday of Kim Jong Il who died Dec 17 2011.


Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.


Jim and Peter Plamondon at one of their Roy Rogers restaurants near their Plamondon Cos headquarters in Frederick Md.


Trever Yakich poses for senior high portraits in Grand Rapids Mich.


Jeffrey Katzenberg left and Steven Spielberg arrive.


This undated handout photo provided by the Maryland State PoliceChild Recovery Unit shows 11yearold son William McQuain Montgomery County Md.


A police officer throws an object at protesters.


People read a tablet and a newspaper at Bread Furst in Washington The Connecticut Avenue store was burglarized twice in recent months.


David Catania launched a bid for DC mayor as an independent candidate on Wednesday March 12 2014 He spoke with reporters outside the city s elections office in Washington Dc.


Washington Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth watches his hit during a game on Aug 17 2014 in Washington.


Earnest optimistic about bipartisan agreement on 2017 budget.


Ferguson resident John West hands a rose to a police officer showing his appreciation with help in cleanup efforts.


Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dressed as Super Mario holds a red ball during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.


Sonia Gandhi talks with her son Rahul while taking a train from New Delhi to Allahabad for the dispersion of her husband Rajiv Gandhi s ashes.


The irresistible Minions glimpse a new swath of fans and profits.


The hikers make their way along a stretch of the canal.


Hollande and Rajoy embrace each other as Merkel stands alongside.


Blue Origin team members ready the New Shepard Crew Capsule during assembly Note the big windows.


June and Barry Steenkamp parents of the late Reeva Steenkamp attend court on the third day of mitigation of sentencing at the high court in Pretoria.


Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice right spoke alongside his wife Janay during a news conference in May.


A woman lights up in Seattle to celebrate the state measure legalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana The US Justice Department says it is continuing to review the Washington state initiative.


Watch global temperatures change from 1880 to now.


A Pakistani army soldier stands guard as election officials in Islamabad carry boxes containing materials for the parliamentary elections to a truck for transportation to polling stations.


Workers bury bodies after the hurricane passed through Jeremie.


From left Bob Elvander Joe Tarbox and Mindel shake hands after a hockey game at the Gardens Ice House in Laurel.


Lenajah Howard left 10 raises her fist in support of demonstrators in Baltimore.


Red lights as far as the eye can see on Pennsylvania Avenue NW If there s one thing travelers want traffic signal engineers to do it s manufacture more greenlight time.


Kurdish Peshmerga forces raise the Kurdish flag at a checkpoint on the road leading from Kirkuk to northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on June 30 2014.


Andre Anton takes a break from gathering his family s belongings as the rain continues to pour inside of his home after a large tree crashed through the roof in Tampa Fla.


The line to enter the viewing for Beau Biden winds through the gymnasium of St Anthony School adjacent to the church.


Stephen Curry a lightly recruited high school player celebrates after scoring 40 points in Davidson s 8276 win over Gonzaga during the first round of the 2008 NCAA men s basketball tournament.


A woman paid respect to the statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium in January In July in the wake of the Sandusky scandal the statue was taken down Paterno died Jan 22.


Sirius Group exposures near Mount Fleming Antarctica circa 1986 The snow pattern behind rocks shows prevailing winds across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.


Carrie Underwood performs wearing a pair of ripped cutoffs with star pattern at the 2013 CMA Music Festival at LP field on June 9 in Nashville.


US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Vladivostok last week.


Detractors have ramped up their hate speech toward President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during the last part of his administration.


This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows what appears to be a bright blue tadpole swimming through the blackness of space Known as IRAS 203244057 but dubbed the Tadpole this clump of gas and dust has given birth to a bright protostar one of the earliest steps in building a star There are actually multiple protostars within this tadpole s head but the glowing yellow one in this image is the most luminous and massive When this protostar has gathered enough mass from its surroundings it will eventually emerge as a fully formed young star The intense blue glow is caused by nearby stars firing ultraviolet radiation at IRAS 203244057 which also sculpts its tail into a long wiggly shape In total this clump spans roughly a lightyear from head to tail and contains gas weighing almost four times the mass of the sun.


Beekeepers Fukahara Tamotsu left and Yamamoto Maoko remove bees from frames at the rooftop beehives of the Ginza honeybee Project in Tokyo The Ginza honeybee Project is on the rooftop of a highrise office building in the heart of Tokyo s Ginza district.


After the service at the Methodist Church of Marianao coffee was served to the congregation.


Donald Trump s lawyer was wrong about what the law views as rape.


A man wearing a facemask attends a demonstration outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.


Rosane Budag of Brazil competes in the women s 50m rifle 3 Positions qualification.


After a successful hunt a proud hunter rewards his eagle by feeding it the lungs of the prey which is considered the most highly prized part of the animal.


Paul Grant s film The Gospel of Healing is about several black faith communities and how they ve responded to the disease.


Quarterbacks coach Matt LeFleur left listens as Griffin and head coach Mike Shanahan talk.


A demo of the new Washington Post app for Kindle Fire.


The current school bus parking lot on the Eleven Oaks site in Fairfax City The lot is right next to a residential neighborhood The city wants to move the buses to a lot which is further from homes.


Mother Paula Gray and daughter Paulette at their home in Southwest.


Families and a juniorleague football team gather on the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation.


From left David Schwimmer Matt LeBlanc director James Burrows Jennifer Aniston Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow at a tribute for Burrows that will air Feb 21 on NBC.


Um Alaa sits besides her belongings waiting for camp officials to distribute tents in the Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq Jordan.


The third Viking 79 flight model in Colorado in 1974 NASA s two Viking mission landers were designed and built by Martin Marietta now Lockheed Martin at its facility near Denver.


The elegance of informality Alek Skarlatos Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler left to right in polo shirts pose with French President Francois Hollande far left and US Ambassador to France Jane D Hartley at Elysee Palace in Paris after receiving the French Legion of Honor.


A woman tries to clear protesters in front of a heavy police presence at North and Pennsylvania avenues.


US President Barack Obama arrives to speak about the recent nuclear deal reached with Iran during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington July 15 2015.


Fairfax County police working a checkpoint seeking witnesses while trying to solve a homicide Only 11 homicides were committed in the county of 11 million last year a very low number.


Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally April 6 in Bethpage NY.


Dick Titus and Zeek Taylor were one of the first samesex couples to marry in Arkansas on Saturday May 10th 2014.


Dozens of parents with toddlers attend a DC Council hearing in October to show support for a paid family leave bill.


Brazil s goalkeeper Julio Cesar left saves the ball.


Andrew Haldane Bank for International Settlements.


A view of the wildfires burning along a river in Fort McMurray.


Family and friends watch as Kelly Vielmo and longtime partner Jack Montgomery hold a quick weddingringbearer rehearsal at home with their children Ravyn Cardel and Raine are have the same mother and have been with living with the couple for more than a year as foster children.


Republican presidential candidates at the recent BloombergWashington Post presidential debate in Hanover NH.


Brooke watches the colors in the rotunda of the US Capitol where he received the Congressional Gold Medal.


The campaign to legalize marijuana in the District of Columbia has settled on its slogans for the Nov 4 election Vote to refocus Police Resources and Legalization Ends Discrimination.


Visitors walk on snow with the Matterhorn in the distance on June 30 2013 near Zermatt Switzerland.


Gabrielle Douglas competes on the uneven bars.


Conversion by local artist Julie WolfeIreland has two of her paintings in hispersonal collection.


Shiite militiamen stand by a destroyed bridge Tuesday in Jurf alSakhar an Iraqi town southwest of Baghdad that has been the scene of clashes for months.


Patches on the sleeve of an occupier at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.


A man plays piano next to a protester in Kiev s Independence Square the epicenter of the country s current unrest.


Syrians cross the border from Ras alAin to Ceylanpinar.


Backyard near Capitol Washington DC Carl Mydans Aug 1935.


Passengers and crew of the Therapy 2 wait at a Cuban immigration checkpoint as they prepare to set sail for Key West Fla Rules for travel between the two nations are loosening but obstacles to normal travel remain.


Crab imperial at the Prime Rib in Washington.


Louis Carter right and others gather outside Ford s Theatre.


Kendrick Lamar with NSO conductor Steven Reineke in the background.


BoutrosGhali left gestures while talking to reporters as he leaves the United Nations for the last time as secretary general.


Men fish on the beach near Fort Moultrie where Dylann Roof is thought to have previously visited dug markings in the sand and taken photos at Sullivan s Island SC.


A depiction of Abraham Lincoln right and Stephen Douglas in their famous 1858 debates at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield Ill.


Jennifer Melsop left screams for happiness after being married to her partner Erika Turner in front of Arlington County Courthouse after being issued a marriage license.


Recycled plastic bottles act as a lazy barrier meant to collect trash in Lagoa da Tijuca one of several lagoons in Barra da Tijuca one of the neighborhoods of the 2016 Olympics.


Surface temperature from the NAM12 The warm front has pushed through the region around sunset and a plume of warm air.


Gareth E Murray a pastor and former state delegate believes in marijuana s medicinal uses.


Kevin Durant finishes with 33 points and eight rebounds including making all 12 of his free throw attempts.


Supporters of Turkey s ruling Justice and Development Party celebrate over the election results in Istanbul Turkey late Sunday June 7 2015.


Jen Chang left and Inae Lee joined over 100 gay couples in a mass wedding during World Pride 2014 at Casa Loma in Toronto on June 26.


Former Cambodian prime minister Pol Pot during a Kampuchean UN mission.


Antigovernment protesters shout at Bolivarian National Guard officers during a protest against Maduro s government at Plaza Altamira in Caracas A National Guard captain died Monday after being shot in the head during a demonstration the military said the 29th fatality in six weeks of clashes between protesters and security forces.


Authorities put out this composite sketch of a man who they say sexually assaulted a woman after a car crash in Fredericksburg Va.


Petraeus talks to the news media after briefing members of the Senate about the situation in Iraq.


An image of Warren Weinstein from a video released anonymously to reporters in Pakistan on Dec 26 2013.


Nick Walker middle stands at the center of a posthumous 28th birthday celebration for his brother Madison who died of a heroin overdose.


Max Scherzer struggled from the start against Milwaukee and gave up a pair of costly home runs.


Pope Francis prepares to enter his new residence at the Vatican.


One of the ads for Thinx that appeared last week in the New York City subway system.


Good news The home s elevator stops at the garage.


Guitarist Joe Walsh of the Eagles performs at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Las Vegas June 1 2002.


Guy Patrick Gotoa a Christian patient wounded in both legs by firearms sits on his bed at Hopital General.


An armored vehicle drives past members of the news media after an operation against militants who took hostages at a restaurant in Dhaka.


Rescue personnel wait with passengers to be transported to land.


Israeli soldiers sleep beside their military vehicle near the border with Gaza.


Souvenirs on sale at Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul ahead of the pope s visit to South Korea.


Susie and Tom McSweeny with their dog Lillie in the living room of their Edgewater home.


Chimenti from left Hornsby Hart Weir Lesh Anastasio and Kreutzmann in Chicago.


Iraqi forces and Shiite militia members hold an Islamic State flag that they pulled down on the outskirts of alAlam.


Rubio shares a moment with state Rep Ellyn Bogdanoff.


Daughter of undocumented parents I do nt feel brave every day.


Manny Pacquiao takes a punch from Erik Morales during a fight Pacquiao won by technical knockout on Jan 21 2006 The pair split two other super featherweight title fights.


Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid.


Welcome to Night Vale creators Joseph Fink left and Jeffrey Cranor.


Seventhseeded Maria Sharapova returns a shot during the women s singles final against fourthseeded Simona Halep.


An Afghan protester shouts antiUS slogans during a demonstration in Jalalabad province against Sunday s shooting of at least 16 villagers by a US Army staff sergeant in the volatile Afghan province of Kandahar The shootings triggered a protest by about 2000 students in the eastern city of Jalalabad the first since Sunday s attack who called for the US soldier to be prosecuted by Afghan authorities in Kandahar.


Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas turned the 400 meters into a diving competition at the finish line The gamble paid off and she took gold over Allyson Felix of the US Though the move was controversial it is legal and other professional runners have used the tactic before Read more here.


World War II veteran Clyde Arnold who says We ve got to win over McConnell We ve just got to.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs up before boarding his campaign plane to depart from Laredo Tex in July.


Hall at the Shorty Awards honoring the best of social media in April in New York City.


Meeting nearly daily US officials had hoped former NSA contractor Edward Snowden would slip up He did nt.


People look through a crack of the former Berlin Wall.


Thousands of demonstrators peacefully march to the spot where Michael Brown was shot and killed on Saturday in Ferguson Mo.


Data recorder recovered in NJ train crash.


A Turkish protester wearing a gas mask runs from a gas bomb during clashes early on the morning of May 31 2013 as part of a protest against the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul.


Chickpea and blackeyed pea fritters at Art and Soul in Washington.


A Winter Olympics torchbearer dives into Lake Baikal with a waterresistant torch.


Jurassic World proves indomitable as the domestic and global box office stomping records left and right.


People pass a display of insect repellent at a CVS store in Old San Juan.


By Joe Sutliff drawn as part of the Draw4Atena campaign.


First lady Michelle Obama hugs former president George W Bush while attending the opening ceremony with Laura Bush and President Obama.


Pedestrians walk past Trump Tower on Wednesday Aug 26 2015.


Denmark s Princess Marie and her husband Prince Joachim are seen with Denmark s Crown Prince Frederik s and Crown Princess Mary s children.


The shutdown also did nt stop the weekly drum circle at Meridian Hill Park.


Chief Wahoo back on players caps in the ALDS is headed to the ALCS.


Capitals goalie Braden Holtby lies on the ice after giving up the gamewinning goal in overtime eliminating Washington from the Stanley Cup playoffs in the Eastern Conference semifinals.


The Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim east of Jerusalem Israel intends to carry out extensive building in this area known as E1 between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem.


View Photo Gallery Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W Crouse 39 was fatally shot during a routine traffic stop and the second person the gunman took his life in a nearby parking lot officials said The gunman was a parttime student at a nearby university.


This photograph taken on February 24 2014 during an aerial survey mission by Greenpeace at East Kotawaringin district in Central Kalimantan province on Indonesia s Borneo Island shows cleared trees in a forest located in the concession of Karya Makmur Abadi which is being developed for a palm oil plantation.


A smallmouth bass with a cancerous tumor.


Terri Upshaw and her husband Pro Football Hall of Famer Gene Upshaw in 2005 He died in 2008 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.


A homeless couple living on a pedestrian bridge watch as Culinary Workers Union members picket at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas on the day of the Nevada caucuses The union is engaged in a contract dispute with the hospital s parent company HCA.


UN special envoy Robert Serry leaves Simferopol in a car Serry abandoned a mission to Crimea region after being stopped by armed men and besieged inside a cafe by a hostile crowd shouting Russia Russia.


Former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney who hosted a town hall in South Carolina Tuesday.


Blues musician Buddy Guy a sixtime Grammy award winner has influenced virtually everyone who has picked up an electric guitar in the last halfcentury Rubenstein said.


One of the earliest photographs of the White House taken in 1865.


Green drives to the hoop in front of Cleveland center Tristan Thompson.


Gloves and boots used by medical staff dry in the sun at a center for patients with the Ebola virus in Gueckedou Guinea.


Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.


Seawater floods the entrance to the BrooklynBattery Tunnel.


A small USmade drone that the Ugandan military uses in Somalia to fight alQaedalinked militants flies above the flag of the Uganda People s Defense Force during a demonstration and briefing attended by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at Kasenyi Military Base in Kampala.


Josh Fox at a hydraulic fracking protest in New York City last year.


Janet Shagam of Arlington Va joins a protest on Capitol Hill Some demonstrators planned to confront their legislators then post video of the encounter online.


A refugee sweeps the cafeteria floor at a shelter in Sumte Germany Six months after the first arrivals the shelter has brought dozens of jobs for both refugees and locals in the sleepy village.


Kentucky Derby entrant Uncle Mo with exercise rider Hector Ramos worksout during morning preparations for the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby.


Chemical compounds that interact and possibly interfere with the endocrine system which controls growth metabolism and reproduction in humans and animals are found in the Potomac River For decades industry along the Anacostia River which feeds into the Potomac left a legacy of pollution in the river although water quality has improved over time READ Blue Plains sewage pact is a rare success of cooperation in the DC region.


In March 2015 Simone Manuel made history with Stanford teammate Lia Neal and Florida s Natalie Hinds as they finished 123 in the 100 freestyle at the NCAA championships They were the first African American women to sweep a podium at a championship event It s definitely a Jackie Robinson Moment for swimming said Cullen Jones who at the 2008 Beijing Games became the second African American swimmer to win a gold medal This was groundbreaking This was history Three African American women on the podium It was amazing I had goosebumps Friends were texting me saying they had tears in their eyes.


Obama meets with Gen Ray Odierno at Baghdad s Camp Victory The president made a surprise visit to Iraq at the end of his first overseas trip to Europe as president.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media during the National Federation of Republican Assemblies at Rocketown in Nashville Tenn Aug 29 2015.


Emmy resides in the 2M apartment building She has her own dog house built in the likeness of the larger property.


Bill Patschak keeps score at the Pour House Trivia Season X World Series in Hagerstown Md on Jan 31 Patschak also wrote a portion of the event s questions.


Construction can be seen near the only subterranean part of the Blue Line extension in University City near the UNCC Campus in Charlotte.


Hezbollah s top military commander laid to rest.


Hossein Saveh Shemshaki of Iran carries his country s national flag.


Rubio addresses a rally at Patrick Henry College.


Obama waves while leaving a green during a round of golf at Farm Neck Golf Club.


While Hendersonville has quaint sections of town that are rural and sparsely populated it also has typical suburban sprawl because it is an outer suburb of Nashville.


Alex Ramirez traveled more than 2500 miles to cross into the United States to reunite with his family.


Walking the Tidal Basin at blossom time is a memorable experience but you may remember it as much for the crowds as the blossoms.


If you can boil a pot of water you can produce bagels like these at home.


Sandra Fluke speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte Since her initial moments in the spotlight she has been honing her speaking and social media skills.


Wang Baoan director of the National Bureau of Statistics speaks to reporters on Jan 19 2016 EPAHOW HWEE YOUNG.


Wizards rookie Bradley Beal finished with 8 points on 2of8 shooting in his NBA debut on Tuesday at the Cleveland Cavaliers.


Marc Danziger left works on a patient s ACL as Ben Stein another doctor watches.


Carrie Underwood accepts the award for Video of the Year for Something In The Water.


Greta Van Susteren pictured at the National Press Club in 2013 wants Fox News to turn over photos and videos she posted on her blog.


Health workers receive buckets as part of their Ebola virus prevention protective gear at the treatment center in Monrovia.


Heavy Memorial Day traffic moves southbound and northbound along I95 in Quantico Va in this 2015 photo.


Hurricane damage near the affected precincts.


Joahnys Argilagos Perez of Cuba and Galal Yafai of Britain compete in a men s preliminary bout.


Arthur A Hartman a career diplomat who represented the United States through a tumultuous period of the Cold War died March 16 in Washington He was 89 Arthur A Hartman US ambassador to France and Soviet Union dies at 89.


Riley Hill 8 rear and his sister Anna 5 play with their chickens while looking for eggs at their home in Hibbing.


Paris March 8 Paris Fashion Week Chanel FallWinter 2016 collection.


Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski can be seen on CSPAN footage grabbing the arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields.


How the bones of a Smithsonian scientist became part of the collections he helped establish.


Mrs Katharine Graham then publisher of the Washington Post and Executive Editor Benjamin C Bradlee look over reports of the 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision which permitted the paper to publish stories based on the secret Pentagon study of the Vietnam War in this June 30 1971 file photo CHARLES DEL VECCHIOTWP.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in West Palm Beach Fla on Oct 13.


An impromptu memorial at the spot where Escobar was killed in Gaithersburg Md.


Inmates carry boxes of produce to those in need after tending to a garden at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover Md.


People visit shops open late on the famous boardwalk of Wildwood.


Miss Curacao Kanisha Sluis a top 15 contestant walks onstage.


South Carolina Republican voters were handed these cards in preparation for participating in the primary.


Mitt Romney makes his concession speech at Boston Convention Center.


Immortalizing the corner in Winslow Arizona.


How to talk about Star Wars if you know nothing about it.


The Harris Teeter store at First and M Streets NE.


Relatives of detained proRussian activists clash with police officers in Mariupol.


Recruits push through the final steps of the Crucible the culminating training that is part of Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island SC on Aug 13 2016.


In this April 23 2015 photo the United Fellowship Center formerly called The Social Club is seen in Nashville Tenn.


American fans support their team playing during the women s ice hockey game against Switzerland.


Thorsten Heins chief executive officer of BlackBerry holds a Q10 smartphone while speaking during a Bloomberg Television interview at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills Calif on Monday April 29 2013.


The office has a Greek portico with columns.


Supporters listen to Joni Ernst during a campaign stop at the Osceola train station.


Beyonce performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVII.


Clinton I do nt want to pay to send Donald Trump s kid to college.


Mykhailo Telezhynetskyi one of the international student workers preparing to leave at summer s end is seen at United Work Travel a help center for international students.


Republican presidential contender Rick Perry right and Rep Steve King RIowa take questions from the media Saturday Oct 22 2011 before a hunting trip near Merrill Iowa.


Architect George Howe added bay windows to the living room in 1945 The portrait above the fireplace is of Edward Burling cofounder of Covington Burling It was painted by William F Draper.


President Obama speaks about Iraq in the Brady Briefing room of the White House in June.


The new streetcar is rolled onto the rails Officials say they are committing about 400 million in local funds to extend the new line to Georgetown.


A view of the City Market at O development at O and Seventh streets NW in the District The large multiphase apartment development includes a hotel what will be the city s largest grocery store and small retail shops.


Fiona Moran of Alexandria VA digs in during a bout of tugowar during a SEAL Team Physical Training Inc class.


A slice of salmon quiche from Panorama Bakery at the Bloomingdale Farmers Market.


An American Eagle flight from DallasFort Worth approaches Garden City Regional Airport in southwestern Kansas Eliminating air traffic controllers at the airport will save the federal government 318756 but it will leave pilots to handle landings takeoffs and weather conditions mostly by themselves.


Migrants from Afghanistan rest in their tent inside of Mytilene s port on Lesbos.


Manila Bay musicians pay tribute to BB King.


Obama Coalition ready to ramp up training of Iraqis.


How to fly your new drone within regulations.


Michelle Obama dances with her daughters Sasha and Malia as they watch performers dance on the city wall in Xian in China s central Shaanxi province.


Howard University students protest sexual assault on campus.


Washington Nationals center fielder Bryce Harper comes home in the bottom of the fifth inning in a 151 victory over the Braves Harper never took a swing in four atbats but drew four walks and scored four runs The feat had nt been seen in baseball in a century.


Metro surveillance video shows arcing insulator fire.


Relatives comfort each other during Nemtsov s funeral.


View Photo Gallery Ephron who emerged over the past four decades as one of America s warmest and most acute chroniclers of contemporary culture and society has died.


Parents take photos of their children onstage at the bee.


Bob Simon Reston founder arrives at the grand opening ceremony.


The aging Frederick Douglass bridge shown here in December is an example of the national problem of poor maintenance and failing infrastructure The country faces an infrastructure crisis as cities and states deal with rising costs and declining budgets.


FBI Director nominee James Comey is among those getting a vote this week.


Capitals left wing Jason Chimera gets the puck past Rangers defenseman Kevin Klein.


A visitor to the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman Okla takes a photograph Feb 8 2014 of a piece called Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep by French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro at the museum.


Birdman soars Selma is snubbed in Oscar nominations.


Beatrice is the only yellow in the group with a strong scent Chapple and other designers see garden roses as deserving greater use in Valentine s bouquets even though they are pricier than standard roses costing as much as 15 a stem.


Kristian Ipsen left with diving partner Troy Dumais does nt want to give up synchronized diving he and Dumais won a bronce in London four years ago but he d love to see the Plunge for Distance in the Olympics again.


People pray outside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 20.


First lady Michelle Obama cheers on children as they run through an obstacle course race in the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday March 28 2016 during the White House Easter Egg Roll.


Belgian investigators inspect the entrance of an apartment in central Verviers a town between Liege and the German border.


Chinese real estate mogul Ren Zhiqiang poses in his office in Beijing in December 2012.


MYTH Pulitzer Prizes honor the best of American journalism The journalism Pulitzers are newspapercentric and limited in their scope Roy J Harris Jr writes in Five myths about Pulitzers The prizes never have been extended to TV news or magazines except those that appear as newspaper supplements Here Philadelphia Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman left and Barbara Laker celebrate following the announcement that they won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.


Ekstrand said she joined the Church of Scientology in 1967 when she was 19 She left 14 years later.


Kenn Borek Air pilots Wally Dobchuk center and Sebastien Trudel right and maintenance engineer Mike McCrae pose in Calgary Alberta on Tuesday with the Twin Otter airplane they used in a successful medical evacuation of two researchers from Antarctica.


Experts warn that governments should act quickly to stop an arms race.


Redskins free safety Madieu Williams and cornerback Richard Crawford defend as Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones fails to complete a pass in the end zone in the second quarter.


Defense attorney Joseph Murtha interviews Dr Carol H Allan during the trial.


Federal authorities said they captured Alvin Ponson who is suspected of robbing gas stations and stores in seven instances in Md DC and Va Here is a surveillance photo of him.


Fans watch the fight on a live telecast monitor along a busy street in Manila.


The 2012 Dandies Quaintrelles Seersucker Bike Ride.


An illegally painted gopher tortoise discovered in Florida.


President Obama watches as Marines salute the body of an American killed in Benghazi this week.


Businessman Donald Trump takes a selfie with atheist voter Justin Scott.


To indulge in this unorthodox tuna tartaremeetsbeet salad Violeta Edelman coowner of Dolcezza and her husband Robb Duncan regularly sneak away from Dolcezza s factory for lunch dates at the nearby Union Market eatery He gets a beer She sips on sparkling rose They share the rare tuna heightened with the acidity of oranges horseradish and tiny fried capers This meal elevates the work lunch and makes us feel we are on a romantic date Edelman said I always feel good after I finish it 1309 Fifth St NE wwwrroysterscomrestaurants 16.


In this Oct 16 2015 file photo the charred remains of the Doctors Without Borders hospital is seen after it was hit by a US airstrike in Kunduz Afghanistan.


Salam 5 an African lion stands on the branches of a tree at the Ramat Gan safari near Tel Aviv in November Treeclimbing lions are relatively uncommon.


Tyrone Strickland Jr was arrested and charged after robbing victims and using the app Offer Up to lure them police said.


A man cleans the tombstone of a deceased relative during the Qingming Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day at Songhe graveyard on the outskirts of Shanghai in April 2013.


Planners have noted that the park though needing overdue repairs has good bones such as slopes and rolls and grand trees The land was once prized for hot springs that supplied water to the White House.


Obama stops by Little League game in Friendship Park.


Venezuelan opposition activists set up a barricade during a protest in San Cristobal in the state of Tachira.


Men jump into a lake in an attempt to grab a wooden cross on Epiphany Day in Sofia Bulgaria on Jan 6 2012 According to local custom the first man to grab the cross thrown into the water by an Eastern Orthodox priest in the annual event will be healthy throughout the New Year.


Israeli surfers gather in a circle offshore in the Mediterranean near the city of Ashkelon About 30 local surfers met in the water to mark the end of a week of fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in the nearby Gaza Strip.


At Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi Md President Obama announced that the Federal Communications Commission will dedicate 2 billion and that several private companies have committed 750 million to help bring technological opportunities to school across the country The initiative known as ConnectEd could have a widespread impact at thousands of schools White House officials said the Internet speed in 70 percent of the nation s schools is too slow.


Nina Lushchenko s nephew Pavel is overcome during her funeral at a cemetery in Veliky Novgorod.


A residential complex in downtown Pyongyang.


Joey Gallo and Nomar Mazara of the Texas Rangers pose for a photo with officer Patrick Zamarripa who was killed Thursday night during the Dallas sniper shootings.


Theodor Geisel aka Dr Seuss wrote over 40 children s books.


Bree Newsome takes down the Confederate Flag from a pole at the Statehouse in Columbia South Carolina June 27 2015 Newsome was later arrested for her action.


Barbra Chikowore a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner poses for a portrait at Washington Hospital Center.


Children from the Duggar family sing during a campaign event in Raleigh for the Rev Mark Harris who is seeking the Republican nomination for Senate in the upcoming North Carolina primary.


Parks whose natural hair is black needs to visit the beauty salon several times over the holidays to maintain the jollySanta appearance.


A plainclothes police officer gathers information on vehicles parked in the vicinity of the Waco Tex Twin Peaks restaurant where nine motorcycle gang members were shot and killed.


What s next for Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala.


Maryland Gov Martin OMalley s guncontrol bill has been amended more than 70 times by the General Assembly.


Chart shows the longterm trend in weekday Metrorail ridership by thousands of trips taken.


People hold up pens during a gathering in front of the city hall of Rennes in western France after the attack.


Tiafoe after finishing an exhibition game at the Geico Champions Celebration.


Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota who sat out his team s season finale with an injury could be getting some big help in April.


People walk past a mural on a restaurant wall in Lithuania depicting Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin kissing.


Human Connectome Project University of Southern California.


Harriet and M15 the adult eagles who inhabit the nest featured on the Pritchett family s nest cam in Florida.


Hussein Chalayan SpringSummer 2017 collection Chalayan s clothes were quite nice with their easy fit and elongated sleeves.


An Iraqi student walks past a pool of blood at the entrance of her school after a mortar attack in Baghdad s Adel neighborhood One girl was killed That day at least 24 Iraqis were killed in ambushes car bombs and firefights as Shiite Muslims headed to the shrine city of Karbala for Ashura one of their most sacred ceremonies.


Egypt s Army Chief and Defense Minister General Abdel Fatah alSissi.


Balloons bob in the air before they are released at Qayyum Stadium in Peshawar in honor of Inoki s Wrestling for Peace Festival.


A firefighter assists a Metro passenger with oxygen aboard a MetroBus.


A large sand drift rests on the boardwalk caused by Hurricane Irene in Ocean City Md Hurricane Irene made landfall in Ocean City early Sunday morning causing minimal damage.


Richard Mourdock s comment on rape draws ire from prochoice and support from prolife contingents.


Allegiant says it will spend more on maintenance this year.


Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso on the red carpet.


An Alaska Airlines plane takes off past a halfcompleted 236foot FAA control tower at Oakland International Airport on July 26 in Oakland Calif.


Wizards guard Bradley Beal reacts after hitting a threepointer in the first half.


Jason Rezaian a Washington Post reporter at the newspaper in Washington.


Flames rise from a vehicle following a fatal crash in Hyattsville Md.


A model wears the Brandon Maxwell SS17 collection during a show.


Obama makes a campaign stop at Ohio University in Athens.


The favela was featured in the 2002 movie City of God.


The mother of a late Maidan activist cries as she holds a picture of her son in front of the Ukrainian president s residence in Kiev during the Heavenly Hundred rally held by relatives of Maidan activists.


Fall colors in Harpers Ferry and the Winchester and Potomac Railroad bridge.


Former US House speaker J Dennis Hastert at the unveiling of his portrait at the Capitol in July 2009.


Two high school students play with the new game Pokemon Go on their smartphones on Flinders Street in Melbourne Australia.


On Sept 4 2013 the anniversary of Mother Teresa s death a nun assists orphans with their studies at an orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity in Ahmedabad.


There s all these places that beer gets to go that wine should get to go too says winemaker Todd Bostock who s turning out canned rose for Dos Cabezas Wineworks in Sonoita Ariz.


Lebanese men stand in front of burning cars.


About 118 migrants on a rubber dinghy wait to be rescued by a Migrant Offshore Aid Station.


Grimmie left Delvin Choice and Kat Perkins seen at The Voice Season 6 Top 12 Red Carpet Event in Universal City Calif.


Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team investigate the scene at the Armed Forces Career Center in Chattanooga.


Diver Alexandro Alvarez inspects the skull of a 15 or 16yearold girl that divers named Naia after a water nymph of Greek mythology.


Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen speaks during a news conference in Charleston SC.


Clinton and Trump meet world leaders at UN.


After a verdict that acquitted George Zimmerman of charges in the death of17yearold Trayvon Martin Eugene Robinson stated the need to talk The conversation we need to have is about how black men even black boys are denied the right to be young to be vulnerable to make mistakes.


In this photo taken Aug 3 bullet holes are seen in a metal door that was shot open at the Terrain compound during looting the previous month in Juba the capital of South Sudan.


Richard Rodriguez center sits near the back door of a crammed S4 bus in Washington DC The bus passed several stops and waiting people because it was at capacity.


Thailand s Prime Minister Kriangsak Chomanan President Jimmy Carter center and their wives Wirat Chomanan and first lady Rosalynn Carter appear at the White House before a state dinner honoring the prime minister Rosalynn Carter wears a twotoned dress with a satin bow belt.


Palettes containing boxes of expired produce wait to be composted at the Safeway Return Center in Upper Marlboro.


Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaking to members of the Ukrainian Army during a meeting at Mariupol.


Marty Hahne a magician from Ozark Mo has a rabbit that he pulls out of his hat during his magic acts The Agriculture Department requires him to have a license for that rabbit as well as a written disaster plan.


People register to vote at a polling station in Caracas.


An archive picture shows the Dome and the Barre des Ecrins mountains in the French Alps near Pelvoux France in 2008.


Romney supporters listen to the GOP presidential candidate at a rally in Springfield.


Kerr Putney chief of the CharlotteMecklenburg police fields questions from the media in Charlotte.


In this Tuesday July 22 2014 photo an assortment of flavored honey straws are shown on display at the Marshall s Farm Honey stand at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa Calif.


Unidentified members of a UN team of chemicalweapons inspectors gather before leaving the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus Syria for an inspecting mission.


Speaker Ryan pushes forward legislation to pause refugee program.


Pakistani forces secure a wall after suspected militants attacked an airport in Karachi.


Idolized by the Beatles Berry yoked together country and R B to help create rockandroll Duckwalking on stage he d sing songs such as Maybelline and Johnny B Goode which sound fresh more than a halfcentury later Read Chuck Berry Hail Hail Rock n Roll.


Retired state trooper Les Strawbridge chats with teachers at Butler Intermediate High School as classes are dismissed He wears a firearm as part of a local plan to protect students.


A vendor offers fruit at a market stand decorated with images of Cuban leader Fidel Castro right and Cuban President Raul Castro center in Havana The island s government said it was a fair decision by the US after Obama said he intends to remove Cuba from the US State Sponsor of Terrorism list.


The teams line the base paths as the National Anthem is sung before the Opening Day game at Nationals Park in 2014.


Lightning strikes ahead of an approaching thunderstorm This photo was taken from inside the Jefferson Memorial at 936 pm.