Pope Francis (L) waves at the end of his weekly general audience at Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican on October 26, 2022. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP) (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)
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People stand next to a photograph of Pope Francis placed at Saint Anthony Catholic church in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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A firefighters works at the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.
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Mar 28, 2025; Atlanta, GA, USA; Michigan State Spartans forward Coen Carr (55) dunks against Mississippi Rebels forward Malik Dia (0) in the second half of a South Regional semifinal of the 2025 NCAA tournament at State Farm Arena. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-Imagn Images TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Will
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Rescue workers search for bodies at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Thursday, April 10.
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TOPSHOT - A Buddhist monk walks past the damaged Mandalay Palace during sunset in Mandalay on March 31, 2025, three days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake. Myanmar declared a week of national mourning on March 31 for the country's devastating earthquake, as the death toll passed 2,000 and hopes faded of finding more survivors in the rubble of ruined buildings. (Photo by Sebastien BERGER / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BERGER/AFP via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 06: King Charles III and Queen Camilla appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 06, 2023 in London, England. The Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms takes place at Westminster Abbey today. Charles acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
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Actor Val Kilmer poses for a portrait in 2017.
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In February, music and peals of laughter filled the atrium of the Brooklyn Museum in New York as families created quilt panels for the "Freedom to Be" project. “At its best, (the quilt) will be a display of the love of these families and a defiant show of the strength of that love,” said Gillian Branstetter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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A Look Back

A reveler wearing decorated hats and costumes hold her dog as she participates in the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, April 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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The week in 32 photos

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Line dance instructor Jasmine King teaches a sequence of choreographed steps to her class at Creatives Rental Space in Atlanta, Georgia, March 19, 2025.
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A sign reading “Welcome to the people’s temple Jonestown” stands at the entrance to the former Jonestown site in Port Kaituma, Guyana, on March 8, 2025.(Will Lanzoni/CNN)
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Actor Matthew McConaughey pauses on a Zuma Beach set in Malibu, California.
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Gorby and Princess Sophia from Puppy Bowl 2025.
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WASHINGTON -- NOV 22: President Gerald R. Ford and President-elect Jimmy Carter go over papers in the Oval Office after the president conceded the election to Carter. It was Carter’s first visit to the White House. Ford’s chief of staff Dick Cheney gives Carter the side-eye. November 22, 1976, Washington, D.C. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona).
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Coleman and Thoms sing at a rehearsal while co-director Dale Lamb conducts the group.
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The top of the Portal of the Last Judgment of the Notre-Dame cathedral of Paris, France.
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Khadija Ishag Abdullah mourns over the grave of her daughter, Naimat Ahmed, 10, who died from illness the day before in Adre, eastern Chad, August 6, 2024.
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Taylor Swift performs during “The Eras Tour” in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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A young girl looks at a pile of destroyed cars left behind in Irpin, Ukraine, after Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022.
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Children look up to the sky at the sound of airstrikes in Gaza City on Monday, Oct. 7, 2023. Residents and health authorities say that mosques, hospitals and schools are being targeted by airstrikes. (Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times)
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The United States' Stephen Curry celebrates with his signature "night, night" pose after making a 3-pointer late in the gold-medal game against France on Saturday, August 10. Curry made eight 3s and scored 24 points as Team USA won 98-87.
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An Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint in the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The National Police and Army are providing security unaided by international troops now in most of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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CNN As Equals climate gender inequality. For related CNN interactive only. Shahnaz (16) is now a mother of 3.5 years old son. She was married at 14 as her father was unable to provide for the family after cyclone. Satkhira, Bangladesh
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DEL RIO, TEXAS - APRIL 8: People watch the solar eclipse watch at Amistad National Recreational Area in Del Rio, Texas, on Monday April 8, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger for CNN)
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias urges the ball into the cup on the 18th green of Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club in the Women's All-American Golf Tournament on Aug. 4, 1950. (AP Photo/Ed Maloney)
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A woman is comforted inside a van during the evacuation of Irpin, a city north of Kyiv under attack by Russian artillery, March 5, 2022. Villages north of Kyiv have been under attack by Russian artillery since the early days. of the invasion.
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Black rodeo culture has been overlooked. This photographer wants to change that
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Pinky, 17, lifts dumbbells during morning fitness and practice session, on the playground at the Altius wrestling school in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 11, 2023.
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), right, speaks with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) after Gaetz voted "Present" and failed the 14th speakership vote for McCarthy, on the House floor at the Capitol, in Washington on Jan. 7, 2023.
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The audience sings along and holds up cash tips for drag queen Alexus Daniels at "Spring Fever Drag Brunch," Sunday, March 26, 2023, at the Kulpmont Winery in Kulpmont, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Ruth Essel, 30, founder of Pointe Black Ballet School, and Kioni, 10, rehearse during class whilst an onlooker watches through the window in London, Britain, August 4, 2023. It was a pointed comment about her Afro-braided hair that spurred Essel to carve out what she calls a safe space for Black dancers. The founder of Pointe Black Ballet School in London said when she was a child, teachers and assistants all but punished her for not fitting the traditional ballerina mould, as if she was using her race as some kind of rebellion. Those challenges inspired Essel, a deputy programme manager at a unit of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, to establish Pointe Black in 2020 at the age of 26. "I wanted there to be a Black environment. I wanted there to be people who looked like me. I wanted there to be a teacher that looked like me," she said.    REUTERS/Alishia Abodunde SEARCH "ABODUNDE BALLET SCHOOL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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TOPSHOT - Five times freediving World Champion France's Arthur Guerin-Boeri swims next to an Orca's (Killer Whales) in the Arctic Ocean in the Spildra Island northern Arctic Circle, on January 27, 2023. - Arctic Atlantic ocean is at +3C as the air temperature is -4C at this time of the year during the polar nights. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nicole sleeps next to her aunt Siomara, who has been raising her since her mother was murdered. At 6 years old, Nicole suffered from night terrors and didn't like to sleep alone.
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ODESSA, UKRAINE - MARCH 5: George Keburia says goodbye to his wife Maya and children as they board a train to Lviv at the Odessa train station in Odessa, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. Hundreds of Ukrainian women and children along some men who came to say goodbye before going back to fight, were at the train stain trying to leave before the violence of the war reaches the city. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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