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Charlie Blackmon of the Colorado Rockies jogs off the field after the top half of the second inning against the San Francisco Giants at Coors Field, in Denver, on September 1, 2020. #
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Students attend the 100th anniversary of the founding of Wuhan High School on the first day of the new semester in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on September 1, 2020. #
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Palestinian boys slide down a water canal used for irrigation to cool off as temperatures soared to 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) in the West Bank city of Jericho on September 1, 2020. #
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People use stepping stones to cross the River Wharfe at Bolton Abbey, near Skipton, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England, on August 31, 2020. #
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A man stands in the Reflecting Pool as people attend the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2020, the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. #
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Reflected in a mirrored table, Luke Jerram's illuminated 3-D installation Gaia is displayed with sound from the composer Dan Jones as part of the 2020 Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, at the Royal Naval College in London, on August 28, 2020. #
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An aerial view shows people enjoying the reopening of parks, after the easing of measures imposed by Bogota's mayor and the Colombian government to curb the coronavirus pandemic, at Simón Bolívar Park in Bogota on August 30, 2020. #
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Cate Blanchett, the jury president of the 77th Venice Film Festival, adjusts her face mask as she poses during a photo-call of the Venezia 77 main-competition jury on September 2, 2020, in Venice. #
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People look at an artwork called History of a Hug, by the visual artist Petrit Halilaj, inside the Crystal Palace in the Retiro Park, in Madrid, Spain, on August 28, 2020. #
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Dancers from the Royal Ballet perform beside the Regent's Canal in London on August 30, 2020, one of three performances they put on daily on weekends to experience performing in front of a live, socially distanced audience. #
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Migrants in a dinghy sail on the English Channel toward the south coast of England on September 1, 2020, after crossing from France. Migrant crossings of the channel between France and England have hit record numbers, with thousands having arrived in small boats since the beginning of the year. #
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Anissa Barbato from New York looks out over the city as she takes pictures from the Edge, the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, on September 2, 2020, as it reopened to the public. #
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A damaged Waffle House sign is seen on August 28, 2020, in Sulphur, Louisiana. Hurricane Laura came ashore bringing rain and high winds to the southeast region of the state, reaching wind speeds of 150 mph with a nine-to-12-foot storm surge. #
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Lightning streaks across the sky as President Donald Trump walks down stairs with an umbrella upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland during a storm, after attending a campaign rally, on August 28, 2020. #
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The Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, speaks at Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on September 3, 2020, in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. #
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People place candles at a makeshift memorial on September 1, 2020, in Los Angeles, at the location where Dijon Kizzee was shot and killed on August 31 by Los Angeles sheriff's deputies. #
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A health worker, wearing a protective suit and a face mask, prepares to administer a nasal swab to a patient at a COVID-19 testing site installed in front of the city hall in Paris on September 2, 2020. #
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An employee in a costume poses during the reopening of a movie theater in Managua on August 28, 2020. Movie theaters reopened in Nicaragua after months of being closed due to the coronavirus. #
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Iraqi Shiite Muslims mourn during a reenactment of the Battle of Karbala on the tenth day of the mourning month of Muharram, which marks the peak of Ashura, in the town of Suq al-Shuyoukh, in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, on August 30, 2020. #
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Jimmie Johnson drives the No. 48 Ally Chevrolet down a pit road following an on-track incident during the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway, in Daytona Beach, Florida, on August 29, 2020. #
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