A police officer with Dallas Area Rapid Transit is comforted at the emergency room entrance of the Baylor University Medical Center on Thursday, July 7. Five police officers were fatally shot during a protest over recent police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota.
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Cameron Sterling is comforted Wednesday, July 6, outside the convenience store where his father, Alton, was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sterling, 37, was killed on Tuesday, July 5, and federal authorities are investigating what happened. Vigils and memorials have spread across the country after cell phone video of the shooting was shared widely on social media.
Officials leading NASA's Juno project celebrate at a news conference after the spacecraft was successfully placed into Jupiter's orbit on Monday, July 4. Juno will study Jupiter from a polar orbit, coming about 3,000 miles (5,000 kilometers) from the cloud tops of the gas giant.
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A boy holds a Spider-Man toy in one hand and a lighted candle in the other during a tribute Sunday, July 3, for those killed in a terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Gunmen killed 21 hostages and two police officers before authorities raided a cafe and ended the standoff.
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FBI Director James Comey is sworn in before testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, July 7. Comey defended his handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation, which found that Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless" in the handling of classified information during her time as secretary of state. GOP lawmakers were frustrated, however, over Comey's decision not to seek charges against the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee.
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A white-faced capuchin, born in May, sticks his tongue out at Miami's Jungle Island zoo on Wednesday, July 6. Want to help name him? Check out the zoo's Facebook page. All suggestions have to be in by July 11.
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Women showcase outfits from local South African designers at a fashion show that was held before the Durban July horse race on Saturday, July 2.
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Cantor Joseph Malovany kisses Elie Wiesel's coffin after a private service for the Nobel laureate in New York on Sunday, July 3. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, died after a long illness, his family said. He was 87.
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A staff member at the National Museum of Scotland checks out the taxidermied remains of Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, on Tuesday, July 5. The museum in Edinburgh was opening 10 new galleries devoted to science, art and design.
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attend a campaign rally for her in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday, July 5. Obama said he became a loyal Clinton convert years ago and that their Democratic primary fight is all in the past.
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Men in Najaf, Iraq, mourn over one of the five family members they lost in a bombing that ripped through Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood on Sunday, July 3. At least 215 people were killed in the attack, which ISIS claimed to be responsible for.
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A truck loaded with people drives through a flooded street in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday, July 6. A week of heavy downpours broke levees, flooded cities and left more than 100 people dead in China's Yangtze river basin.
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A reveler tries to hold on to a wild horse Sunday, July 3, during the Rapa das Bestas, or shearing of the beasts, in Sabucedo, Spain. During the four-day festival, wild horses are rounded up and wrestled to the ground to have their manes and tails sheared.
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Children play with toy guns in a rebel-held district of Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, July 6.
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Joey Chestnut competes in the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest at New York's Coney Island on Monday, July 4. Chestnut won by eating 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
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Oscar Pistorius shakes hands as he leaves a courtroom in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday, July 6. Pistorius, the first double-amputee runner to compete in the Olympics, was sentenced to six years in prison after he was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.
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U.S. sailors run near a fighter jet on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower on Wednesday, July 6. The aircraft carrier was in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Young people lay wreaths in Thiepval, France, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme on Friday, July 1. French and British armies fought the Germans during the battle, which took place during World War I.
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Lifeguards tie a rope to a dead whale's tail on Friday, July 1, after it washed ashore along the Los Angeles coastline. The whale was towed back to sea so it could properly decompose, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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A woman rings the doorbell at the gate of the Minnesota governor's home following the shooting death of Philando Castile on Wednesday, July 6. Castile, 32, was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. His fiancee, Diamond Reynolds, live-streamed the aftermath on Facebook. The shooting is being investigated.
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A boy in Mumbai, India, offers prayers during Eid al-Fitr on Thursday, July 7. Eid al-Fitr is a three-day festival that marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
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New members of the New York Police Department celebrate after their swearing-in ceremony on Friday, July 1.
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, pumps his fists during a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday, July 5.
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Police in Harare, Zimbabwe, clash with rioters on Monday, July 4. Police used tear gas and water cannons against taxi and minibus drivers who were protesting what they called police harassment.
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Water is thrown onto revelers during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on Wednesday, July 6.
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Children are drenched as waves hit the Arabian Sea promenade in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, July 6.
Visitors line up Tuesday, July 5, for a preview tour of the Ark Encounter, a theme park in Williamstown, Kentucky, that features a modern interpretation of Noah's Ark.
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Passers-by admire Maja, a 40-year-old elephant, outside a bakery in Berlin on Friday, July 1. Maja was taking a stroll through the neighborhood with her minders from a nearby circus.
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A Soyuz rocket carries a new crew to the International Space Station on Thursday, July 7. See last week in 33 photos
