As the year comes to a close, it’s time to take a look at some of the most memorable events and images of 2019. Events covered in this essay (the second of a three-part photo summary of the year) include the Pan American Games in Peru, a blackout in New York City, a spelling bee with eight co-champions, a polar bear on the streets of a Russian city, the testimony of Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill, the resignation of a British Prime Minister, and much more. See also “Top 25 News Photos of 2019” and “2019 in Photos: Part 1,” and “2019 in Photos: Part 3.” The series comprises 120 images in all.
2019 in Photos: A Look at the Middle Months
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In this May 7, 2019, photo, black, female cadets with the Class of 2019 pose at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Thirty-four black women—a record number—graduated this year from West Point, among a class of roughly 1,000 cadets. The cadets said they were proud to be part of a milestone at the historic academy after four years of testing their limits. #
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U.S. Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, eats chicken during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 2019. Cohen was making a statement regarding U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr's refusal to testify before the committee hearing on his handling of the Mueller report. #
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Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo gesture as they walk toward the gate of Insein prison upon being freed after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar, on May 7, 2019. The two journalists were freed after being held by Myanmar’s government for more than 500 days, charged and convicted under the Official Secrets Act for their investigations into a massacre of 10 Muslim men that implicated Myanmar's security forces. #
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A man holds the hand of Maria al-Gazali, a Palestinian baby, as her body lies on a stretcher in a hospital in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza Strip, on May 5, 2019. Three Palestinians, including Maria, were killed in Israeli strikes in northern Gaza, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said. #
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Ben Rhodes, driver of the Carolina Nut Ford, sits in his truck during practice for the North Carolina Education Lottery 200, a NASCAR race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 17, 2019. #
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Firecrackers explode near supporters of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during clashes with the police in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 22, 2019. Indonesian President Joko Widodo said authorities had the volatile situation in the country's capital under control after several people died in riots by supporters of his losing rival in last month's presidential election. #
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The eight co-champions of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee, (from left) Shruthika Padhy, 13, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Erin Howard, 14, of Huntsville, Alabama; Rishik Gandhasri, 13, of San Jose, California; Christopher Serrao, 13, of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey; Saketh Sundar, 13, of Clarksville, Maryland; Sohum Sukhatankar, 13, of Dallas, Texas; Rohan Raja, 13, of Irving, Texas; and Abhijay Kodali, 12, of Flower Mound, Texas, hold the trophy in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on May 31, 2019. #
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Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement outside 10 Downing Street in London, England, on May 24, 2019. The prime minister announced that she would resign on June 7, 2019. #
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A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the hood of an armored Indian police vehicle as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on May 31, 2019. Government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir fired tear gas and pellets to disperse hundreds of protesters who clashed with them during a protest against the recent killing of a Kashmir rebel leader and also an annual protest marking Al-Quds Day. #
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A girl waits to be given asylum or a humanitarian visa at the immigration office on the Mexico-Guatemala international bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico, on June 6, 2019. #
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A protester clenches his fist as hundreds of thousands of people march on the streets to stage a protest against an unpopular extradition bill in Hong Kong on June 16, 2019. #
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A stray polar bear walks on a road on the outskirts of the Russian industrial city of Norilsk on June 17, 2019. The hungry polar bear was observed hundreds of miles from its natural habitat, authorities said. #
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media (visible, reflected in his eyes) prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2019, as he traveled to Camp David in Maryland. #
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Click to view imageThe bodies of Salvadoran migrant Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria lie in the Rio Grande in Matamoros, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico, on June 24, 2019. This photograph ricocheted across social media and renewed debate in the United States about the plight of Central American migrants. Speaking with Reuters from her home in the central municipality of San Martín, Rosa Ramírez, Óscar's mother, cradled two of her granddaughter's most treasured toys, a blue-eyed baby doll and a stuffed purple monkey. Her friends have urged her to store her son and granddaughter's belongings, but she is not ready for that yet. "Ever since he first told me that they wanted to go, I told him not to," Ramirez said, recalling conversations with her son. "I had a feeling, it was such an ugly premonition. As a mother, I sensed that something could happen." #
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Trailing lights from stars in space and from sources on Earth are seen in this composite time-lapse image taken during orbit over Namibia to the Red Sea, aboard the International Space Station on July 5, 2019. #
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren makes a pinky promise as she chats with Sydney Hansen, 8, of Oakland, California, during a campaign stop at a town hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire, on July 8, 2019. #
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Derrick Halsey, a wildlife-capture specialist known as a "mugger," hands off a kid mountain goat to the Olympic National Park Wildlife Branch chief Patti Happe on July 9, 2019, after airlifting the goat and two others to Hurricane Ridge in the park near Port Angeles, Washington. For the second straight summer, officials are rounding up the sure-footed but non-native mammals from remote, rugged parts of the park so they can be relocated to their natural habitat in the Cascade Mountains. The animals were introduced to the Olympic Peninsula by hunters in the 1920s. #
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Seen from the air, a large section of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Midtown neighborhoods sits in darkness during a partial blackout on July 13, 2019, in New York City. City and Con Edison officials claimed over 60,000 customers were impacted by the power loss, disrupting traffic signals, subway service, and Manhattan's busy theater district for several hours. #
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Italy's team competes in the highlight-routine artistic-swimming final during the 2019 World Aquatics Championships at Yeomju Gymnasium in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 15, 2019. #
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A girl wearing a dress featuring the Puerto Rican flag stands by police blocking the road leading to the La Fortaleza governor's mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 18, 2019. Protests were taking place, with participants demanding Governor Ricardo Rosselló resign after the leak of online chats that showed him making misogynistic slurs and mocking his constituents. #
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A cat disrupts play in the second half between Tigres UANL and the Real Salt Lake during their Leagues Cup game at Rio Tinto Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 24, 2019. #
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Viacheslav Kolesnikov of Ukraine dives, as seen through a wall filled with holes, during the men's high-diving competition at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 24, 2019. #
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A girl climbs a baobab tree while looking for baobab leaves to be cooked as a meal in Malamawa village, Zinder Region, Niger, on July 30, 2019. In the African Sahel, located between the Sahara Desert and the equator, the climate has long been inhospitable. But now rising temperatures have caused prolonged drought and unpredictable weather patterns, exacerbating food shortages, prompting migration, and contributing to instability in countries already beset by crisis. #
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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in before testifying at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Office of Special Counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2019. #
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A family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near the Russian city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, on August 5, 2019. Russian officials said the powerful explosions left 12 people injured and one missing and forced over 16,500 people to leave their homes. #
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People pay their respects at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting that left a total of 22 people dead at the Cielo Vista Mall Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on August 5, 2019. #
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives in the U.S. aboard the Malizia II, a zero-carbon yacht, after a 15-day journey across the Atlantic, on August 28, 2019, in New York. #
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