Historic Flooding Across the Midwest
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Leah Millis / Reuters Photos of the Week: Hudson Yards, Birdman Rally, Cat Yoga
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Andrew Burton / Getty Sound Bites: Dogs on the Microphone
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Ongoing Blackouts Hit Already Struggling Venezuelans
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Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Photos: An Ancient Ceremony to Celebrate the End of Winter
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Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Photos of the Week: Frozen Road, Broadway Gorilla, Penguin Swing Set
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Allison Joyce / Getty The Women Who Are Clearing the Minefields in Sri Lanka
Allison Joyce, a photographer with Getty Images, spent time with some of the women taking on the dangerous but necessary task of clearing Sri Lanka’s remaining minefields.
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David Goldman / AP Alabama Tornado Devastation in Photos
On March 3, a monster of a tornado left a path of destruction more than 20 miles long in Lee County, Alabama.
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© Rory Doyle. All rights reserved. Finalists From Smithsonian Magazine’s 2018 Photo Contest
Smithsonian magazine just announced the group of 60 finalists in its 16th annual photo contest.
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Buda Mendes / Getty Carnival 2019 in Brazil
Colorful images from Rio, São Paulo, and more
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Photos of the Week: Night Surfing, Burning Moorland, Trapped Rat
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Christophe Archambault / AFP / Getty The Masks We Wear
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© Eduardo Acevedo / UPY2019 Winners of the 2019 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest
Some of this year’s winners and honorees, showing remarkable scenes from oceans, lakes, and rivers around the world
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Daily Life in Maine, as Photographed by Robert F. Bukaty
Based in Portland, the photographer Robert F. Bukaty has been working for the AP since 1993, making thousands of photos of Maine’s people, landscape, wildlife, and, of course, its ever-changing seasons.
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CC BY-SA Vadim Razumov / Wikipedia Photos of Abandoned Russia
For years, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling churches.
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