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U.S. Air Force Academy cadets toss their hats in the air as the Thunderbirds fly overhead during the cadets' graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colo. Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette, via AP |
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A Boy Scout from Troop 74 Boston helps plant over 37,000 US Flags on the Boston Common in preparation for the upcoming Memorial Holiday Weekend in Boston. Each of the flags planted near the Soldiers and Sailors Monument represents a Massachusetts service member who gave his or her life defending the U.S. since the Revolutionary War. CJ GUNTHER, EPA-EFE |
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The USS Arlington, from Norfolk, Va., a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock with several hundred Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., arrives on the Hudson River to kickoff 2018 Fleet Week New York in New York. Bebeto Matthews, AP |
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One of the three young wild owls is measured, weighed and ringed, in the zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The Eagle Owl is the largest owl in Europe. PIROSCHKA OF THE WOUW, EPA-EFE |
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An aerial view of fissure eruptions near the Puna Geothermal Venture facility, and homes in the Lanipuna Gardens and Leilani Estates subdivisions in Pahoa, Hawaii on May 22, 2018. The ongoing eruption of Kilauea is the largest in decades, destroying more than 40 homes to date, and displacing thousands. BRUCE OMORI/PARADISE HELICOPTERS, EPA-EFE |
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A resident tosses a bucketful of water towards a fire that engulfes a Manila slum area in the Philippines on May 23, 2018. The fire destroyed 200 houses affecting 300 families according to local media report. NOEL CELIS, AFP/Getty Images |
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People offer a funeral prayer in Karachi, Pakistan on May 23, 2018 for Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting at at Santa Fe High School in Texas last Friday. Her body arrived in the port city of Karachi, where her family lived and where she is being buried. Fareed Khan, AP |
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A Sri Lankan resident makes his way through floodwaters in Kelaniya, on the outskirts of Colombo on May 23, 2018 as monsoon rains lashed large parts of the island. Flood related accidents have killed at least ten people and damaged nearly 1,000 homes this week, according the Disaster Management Center. ISHARA S. KODIKARA, AFP/Getty Images |
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A Pakistani man baths under a water pipe on a hot summer day in Islamabad on May 23, 2018. FAROOQ NAEEM, AFP/Getty Images |
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A wooden board covers a sinkhole on the North Lawn of the White House, just outside the press briefing room in Washington, DC on May 23, 2018. According to the National Park Service, sinkholes "are common occurrences in the Washington area following heavy rain." JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE |
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A team of performers move a six-meter-tall creature illuminated with lights during a Vivid Sydney media preview at Barangaroo in Sydney on May 23, 2018. "Vivid" is a major outdoor cultural event featuring light installations and projections with the annual event this year running from May 25 to June 16, 2018. SAEED KHAN, AFP/Getty Images |
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