2017 Year in Pictures: News
2017 – The Year in Pictures
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New Year’s celebrations
JAN. 1, 2017 – Revelers celebrate during fireworks marking the start of the New Year on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian revelers annually mark the turn of midnight on January 1st with fireworks along the famed beach. This year’s fireworks were shortened to twelve minutes due to the economic crisis facing the state and country. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Nightclub attack in Turkey
JAN. 1, 2017 – Relatives of Ayhan Arik, one of the victims of the Reina night club attack mourn during his funeral ceremony in Istanbul.
Thirty-nine people, including many foreigners, were killed early on January 1, 2016 when a gunman went on a rampage at an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul where revellers were celebrating the New Year. (Photo: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
Florida airport shooting
JAN. 6, 2017 – A law enforcement officer evacuates a civilian from an area at Fort Lauderdale ??Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A gunman opened fire in the baggage claim area at the airport Friday, killing several people and wounding others before being taken into custody in an attack that sent panicked passengers running out of the terminal and onto the tarmac, authorities said. (Photo: Wilfredo Lee/AP)
Obama bids farewell
JAN. 10, 2017 – President Barack Obama cries as he speaks during his farewell address in Chicago, Illinois on January 10, 2017.
Barack Obama closes the book on his presidency, with a farewell speech in Chicago that will try to lift supporters shaken by Donald Trump’s shock election. (Photo: Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images)
Turkish cargo jet crash
JAN. 16, 2017 – Plane debris is seen at the crash site of a Turkish cargo jet near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport outside Bishkek. (Photo: Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters)
Israel demolishes Bedouin homes
JAN. 18, 2017 – An Arab Israeli woman sits next to ruins from her dwellings which were demolished by Israeli bulldozers in Umm Al-Hiran, a Bedouin village in Israel’s southern Negev Desert. The Israeli army says it is simply carrying out court rulings against unauthorized building by Palestinians in Area C. Foreign diplomats and rights groups see it as part of a broader move to seize land for potential Jewish settlement expansion. (Photo: Ammar Awad/Reuters)
Trump inauguration crowd
JAN. 20, 2017 – Attendees partake in the inauguration ceremonies to swear in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. (Photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Trump inauguration
JAN. 20, 2017 – Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (L) and former President Bill Clinton arrive on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. In today’s inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Trump inauguration
JAN. 20, 2017 – President-elect Donald Trump waits to step out onto the portico for his Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP)
Trump inauguration
JAN. 20, 2017 – Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump and his family looks on during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP)
Anti-Trump demonstation in the UK
JAN. 20, 2017 – Protesters holding placards attend a demonstration against U.S. President Donald J. Trump outside the United States Embassy in London, England. Mr Trump has become the 45th President of the United States following an inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC today. (Photo: Jay Shaw Baker/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Women’s March
JAN. 21, 2017 – Protesters walk during the Women’s March on Washington. Large crowds are attending the anti-Trump rally a day after U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th U.S. president. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Greeting Comey
JAN. 22, 2017 – President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Trump, on June 16, lashed out at the Justice Department official with authority over the special counsel probe of Russian election-meddling, and acknowledged that his firing of Comey as FBI director is a focus of the investigation. (Photo: Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)
Libya migrants rescued
JAN. 27, 2017 – Sub-saharan migrants sleep at the deck of the Golfo Azzurro boat after been rescued from a rubber boat by members of Proactive Open Arms NGO, at the Mediterranean sea, about 24 miles north of Sabratha, Libya. Rescuers pulled nearly 300 people from two rubber boats in waters off the Libyan coast on Friday and were looking for 100 more believed to be on a another boat missing since Sunday. (Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP)
Trump speaks with Putin
JAN. 28, 2017 – President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Also pictured, from left, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, Press Secretary Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Protesting the ‘Travel Ban’
JAN. 28, 2017 – Protestors rally during a demonstration against the Muslim immigration ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. President Trump signed the controversial executive order that halted refugees and residents from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. (Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
Migrants in Serbia
FEB. 4, 2017 – A migrant from Pakistan warms himself around a fire in an abandoned warehouse where he and other migrants took refuge in Belgrade, Serbia. Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping rough in freezing conditions in central Belgrade looking for ways to cross the heavily guarded EU borders. (Photo: Muhammed Muheisen/AP)
Patriots win the Super Bowl
FEB. 5, 2017 – Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime during Super Bowl 51 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. (Photo: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
Dakota Access pipeline protest
FEB. 22, 2017 – Opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline march out of their main camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. (Photo: Terray Sylvester/Reuters)
Displaced in Mosul
FEB. 27, 2017 – Displaced Iraqi women who just fled their home, rest in the desert as they wait to be transported while Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq. (Photo: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
Conway’s photo op
FEB. 27, 2017 – Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (L) checks her phone after taking a photo as US President Donald Trump and leaders of historically black universities and colleges pose for a group photo in the Oval Office of the White House before a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence in Washington, DC. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Escaping ISIS
MAR. 4, 2017 – A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an Islamic State-controlled part of Mosul towards Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle in Mosul, Iraq. (Photo: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
Famine in Somalia
MAR. 15, 2017 – A malnourished child is processed by an aid worker for a UNICEF- funded health programme catering to children displaced by drought, at a facility in Baidoa town, the capital of Bay region of south-western Somalia where the spread of cholera has claimed tens of lives of IDP’s compounding the impact of drought.
The United Nations is warning of an unprecedented global crisis with famine already gripping parts of South Sudan and looming over Nigeria, Yemen and Somalia, threatening the lives of 20 million people. For Somalis, the memory of the 2011 famine which left a quarter of a million people dead is still fresh. (Photo: Tony KarumbaAFP/Getty Images)
Merkel’s look
MAR. 17, 2017 – Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Flood in Peru
MAR. 17, 2017 – A woman is pulled to safety in a zipline harness in Lima, Peru. Intense rains and mudslides over the past three days have wrought havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents in Lima, a desert city of 10 million where it almost never rains, by surprise. (Photo: Martin Mejia/AP)
Airstrike in Syria
MAR. 19, 2017 – People and a civil defence personnel carry children at a damaged site after an air strike on rebel-held Idlib city, Syria. Photo: Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)
Confirmation hearing for Neil Gorsuch
MAR. 20, 2017 – Judge Neil Gorsuch arrives for the first day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Gorsuch was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy left on the court by the February 2016 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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London’s Westminster Bridge attack
MAR. 22, 2017 – A woman lies injured after a shooting incident on Westminster Bridge in London. (Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters)
Economic crisis in Venezuela
MAR. 18, 2017 – Women carrying babies queue as they try to buy diapers outside a pharmacy in Caracas, Venezuela. Going into a fourth year of crippling recession, Venezuelaa??s 30 million people found themselves skipping meals, suffering shortages of basic foods and medicines, jostling in lines for ever-scarcer subsidized goods, unable to keep up with dizzying inflation rates, and emigrating in ever larger numbers. (Photo: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
Truckin’ Trump
MAR. 23, 2017 – President Donald Trump reacts as he sits in a truck while he welcomes truckers and CEOs to attend a meeting regarding healthcare at the White House in Washington, U.S. (Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)
South Korea’s preseident arrested
MAR. 31, 2017 – Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye (C) leaves the prosecutors’ office as she is transferred to a detention house in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Reuters)
Russian metro bombing
APR. 4, 2017 – A man reacts next to a memorial site for the victims of a blast in St. Petersburg metro, at Tekhnologicheskiy institut metro station in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Photo: Grigory Dukor/Reuters)
UN emergency meeting on Syria
APR. 5, 2017 – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley holds up photos of victims of the Syrian chemical attack during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at U.N. headquarters, April 5, 2017 in New York City. The Security Council is held emergency talks following the worst use of chemical weapons in Syria since the Ghouta attack in 2013. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
US airstrikes against Syria
APR. 7, 2017 – The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter fires a Tomahawk land attack missile from the Mediterranean Sea. The USS Porter was one of two destroyers that fired a total of 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield in retaliation for a chemical attack that killed scores of civilians this week. The attack was the first direct U.S. assault on Syria and the government of President Bashar al-Assad in the six-year war there. (Photo: Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
Terror attack in Sweden
APR. 7, 2017 – Emergency services work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, Sweden.
(Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)
Coptic church bombing in Egypt
APR. 9, 2017 – A woman stands near a pew covered in blood inside a Coptic church that was bombed in Tanta, Egypt. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, which more than 44 were killed and injured more than 100 people and occurred a week before Coptic Easte.r (Photo: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)
Rescues in the Mediterranean
APR. 14, 2017 – Migrants try to stay afloat after falling off their rubber dinghy during a rescue operation by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) ship in the central Mediterranean in international waters some 15 nautical miles off the coast of Zawiya in Libya. All 134 sub-Saharan migrants survived and were rescued by MOAS. (Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)
Worker’s protest in France
MAY 1, 2017 – French CRS anti-riot police officers are engulfed in flames as they face protesters during a march for the annual May Day workers’ rally in Paris. (Photo: Zakaria Abdelkafi/AFP/Getty Images)
Macron wins French election
MAY 7, 2017 – French president-elect Emmanuel Macron greets supporters as he arrives to deliver a speech in front of the Pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris after the second round of the French presidential election.
Emmanuel Macron was elected French president on May 7, 2017 in a resounding victory over far-right Front National (FN – National Front) rival after a deeply divisive campaign. (Photo: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images)
Dems call for Russian investigation
MAY 17, 2017 – House Democrats display a photograph of President Donald Trump welcoming Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to the White House during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. House Democrats have introduced legislation to create an outside, independent commission to investigate possible connections between President Donald Trump and Russian officials. If Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) does not support the legislation then Democrats said they will file a discharge petition to force a vote on the measure. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Car plows through Times Square
MAY 18, 2017 – People attend to an injured man after a car plunged into him in Times Square in New York.
A car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in New York’s bustling Times Square, leaving one person dead and at least 12 other injured. (Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
Confederate staues removed
MAY 19, 2017 – Workers prepare to take down the statue of former Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which stands over 100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans. Mississippi Rep. Karl Oliver of Winona apologized for saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments, only after his comment sparked broad condemnation in both states. The post was made after three Confederate monuments and a monument to white supremacy were removed in New Orleans. (Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)
Trump in Jerusalem
MAY 22, 2017 – President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Manchester Arena attack
MAY 25, 2017 – Members of the public observe a national minute’s silence in remembrance of all those who lost their lives in the Manchester Arena attack in Manchester, England. An explosion occurred at Manchester Arena on the evening of May 22 as concert goers were leaving the venue after Ariana Grande had performed. Greater Manchester Police are treating the explosion as a terrorist attack and have confirmed 22 fatalities and 59 injured. (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Protests in Venuzuela
MAY 26, 2017 – A demonstrator jumps away from a jet of water released from a riot security forces vehicle during a rally against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)
London Bridge attack
JUN. 8, 2017 – Messages of support and condolence are placed on a plinth on London Bridge following Saturday’s terror attack in London, England. Eight people were killed and at least 48 injured in terror attacks on London Bridge and Borough Market on June 3rd. The three attackers were shot dead by armed police. (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)
Comey testifies
JUN. 8, 2017 – A bar patron at Ace’s Bar in San Francisco, watches a television broadcast as former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee. People across the country are flocking to bars and restaurants to watch former FBI director as he testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Warriors win the NBA Championship
JUN. 12, 2017 – Golden State Warriors players and coaches celebrate with the Larry O’Brien Trophy after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in game five of the 2017 NBA Finals at Oracle Arena. (Photo: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports via Reuters)
Grenfell Tower fire
JUN. 14, 2017 – Smoke rises from the building after a huge fire engulfed the 24 storey residential Grenfell Tower block in Latimer Road, West London in the early hours of the morning in London, England. The fire claimed more than 70 lives and left hundreds homeless. (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Congressional baseball game
JUN. 15, 2017 – Democrats and Republicans gather at second base for a prayer prior to the start of the Congressional baseball game with the house chaplain leading the way. Members of Congress took the field for their traditional Republicans vs. Democrats baseball game, with many wearing hats to honor Representative Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded by a gunman as his Republican team practiced a day before. (Photo: Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Cosby mistrial
JUN. 17, 2017 – Actor and comedian Bill Cosby (C) waves as he departs after a judge declared a mistrial in his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Charles Mostoller/Reuters)
Terror attack at London mosque
JUN. 19, 2017 – Men pray after a vehicle collided with pedestrians near a mosque in the Finsbury Park neighborhood of North London, Britain. A van plowed into worshippers in the early hours of Monday, injuring 11 people, two of them seriously, in what Prime Minister Theresa May said was a sickening, terrorist attack on Muslims. (Photo: Neil Hall/Reuters)
Heathcare protests
JUN. 29, 2017 – Dawn Russell gets arrested by Denver police officers after refusing the vacate the offices of Senator Cory Gardner in Denver, Colorado. A handful of people, all of whom are with ADAPT, held a sit-in for 58 hours in the tiny front lobby space in the office of Colorado Senator Cory Gardner. They are asking the senator to vote against the new health care bill. As they were arrested protesters chanted “I would rather go to jail than die without Medicaid.” ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. (Photo: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
G20 protests in Germany
JUL. 2, 2017 – Protestors with masks of politicians drink cocktails in a boat on the Alster river during a demonstration called by several NGOs ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg. (Photo: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
Mosul retaken from ISIS
JUL. 2, 2017 – Members of the Iraqi federal police dance with children and a national flag during a celebration in the Old City of Mosul, where the gruelling battle to retake Iraq’s second city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters is now nearing its end, on July 2, 2017. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
North Korean missile launch
JUL. 5, 2017 – People watch a huge screen showing the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). (Photo: KCNA/via Reuters)
Pence at Space Center
JUL. 6, 2017 – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence touches a piece of hardware with a warning label “Do Not Touch” next to Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana during a tour of the Operations and Checkout Building in Florida. (Photo: Mike Brown/Reuters)
Putin and Trump
JUL. 7, 2017 – President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
California wildfires
JUL. 8, 2017 – Firefighters remove a US flag as flames from the “Wall Fire” close in on a luxury home in Oroville, California on July 8, 2017.
The first major wildfires after the end of California’s five-year drought raged across the state on July 8, as it was gripped by a record-breaking heatwave. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
Arctic warming
JUL. 24, 2017 – An iceberg floats past Bylot Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Icebergs aren’t sea ice, despite being best known for floating about the ocean. They are actually chunks of glaciers that have broken off at the water’s edge. (Photo: David Goldman/AP)
McCain returns to Senate
JUL. 26, 2017 – Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who returned to Capitol Hill after being diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain cancer, leaves the chamber as the Republican-run Senate rejected a GOP proposal to scuttle President Barack Obama’s health care law in Washington. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Kenyan elections
AUG. 10, 2017 – A man seeking safety walks with his hands in the air through a thick cloud of tear gas towards riot police, as they clash with protesters throwing rocks in the Kawangware slum of Nairobi, Kenya. International observers on urged Kenyans to be patient as they awaited final election results following opposition allegations of vote-rigging, but clashes between police and protesters again erupted in Nairobi. (Photo: Ben Curtis/AP)
White Supremacists March in Charlottesville
AUG. 11, 2017 – Peter Cvjetanovic (R) along with Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle and chant at counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Unity Rally ends in tragedy
AUG. 12, 2017 – People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. 32-year-old Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville resident and legal assistant was killed.
Heyer was among the hundreds of protesters who had gathered Saturday in Charlottesville to decry what was believed to be the largest gathering of white supremacists in a decade – including neo-Nazis, skinheads and Ku Klux Klan members. They descended on the city for a rally prompted by the city’s decision to remove a Confederate monument. (PHOTO: Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)
Terror attacks in Spain
AUG. 18, 2017 – People stand next to flowers, candles and other items set up on the Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona as they pay tribute to the victims of the Barcelona attack.
Drivers, on August 17, 2017 plowed into pedestrians in two quick-succession, separate attacks in Barcelona and another popular Spanish seaside city, leaving 14 people dead and injuring more than 100 others. Some eight hours later in Cambrils, a city 120 kilometres south of Barcelona, an Audi A3 car rammed into pedestrians, injuring six civilians and a police officer. (Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump looks at the eclipse
AUG. 21, 2017 – President Donald Trump looks up toward the Solar Eclipse while joined by his wife first lady Melania Trump on the Truman Balcony at the White House on in Washington, DC. Millions of people have flocked to areas of the U.S. that are in the “path of totality” in order to experience a total solar eclipse. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Solar eclipse seen across the U.S.
AUG. 21, 2017 – A near total eclipse is seen from South Mike Sedar Park in Casper, Wyoming. Millions of people have flocked to areas of the U.S. that are in the “path of totality” in order to experience a total solar eclipse. During the event, the moon will pass in between the sun and the Earth, appearing to block the sun. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Hurricane Harvey hits Texas
AUG. 27, 2017 – Houston Police SWAT officer Daryl Hudeck carries Catherine Pham and her 13-month-old son Aiden after rescuing them from their home surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston. (Photo:David J. Phillip/AP)
Hurricane Irma hits the Caribbean
SEPT. 6, 2017 – An aerial photo shows the damage of Hurricane Irma in Orient Bay, on the French side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.
Hurricane Irma sowed a trail of deadly devastation through the Caribbean reducing to rubble the tropical islands of Barbuda and St Martin. (Photo: Gerben Van Es /AFP/Getty Images)
8.2 earthquake hits Mexican coast
SEPT. 8, 2017 – Members of the “Topos” (Moles), a specialized rescue team, search for survivors following the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico’s Pacific coast, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, state of Oaxaca.
Mexico’s most powerful earthquake in a century killed at least 35 people, officials said, after it struck the Pacific coast, wrecking homes and sending families fleeing into the streets. (Photo: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)
Back-to-back hurricanes
SEPT. 10, 2017 – A NOAA-NASA GOES satellite shows Hurricane Irma as it makes landfall on the Florida coast as a category 4 storm as Tropical Storm Jose (R) moves west in the Atlantic Ocean taken at 11:45 UTC on September 10, 2017. As Irma heads up Florida’s west coast its leaving hundreds of thousands of residents without power as more than 100,000 people have taken refuge in shelters and millions have evacuated the area. (Photo: NOAA-NASA GOES Project via Getty Images)
Catalan referendum
SEPT. 11, 2017 – People march during a demonstration celebrating the Catalan National Day in Barcelona, Spain. The Spanish Northeastern autonomous region celebrates its National Day on September 11 marked by the secession referendum of the next October 1 which was approved by the Catalan Parliament and banned by the Spanish Government. (Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images)
Clinton’s launches ‘What Happened’ tour
SEPT. 12, 2017 – Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledges the audience as she arrives onstage to sign copies of her new book “What Happened” during an event at Barnes and Noble bookstore in New York City. Clinton’s book focuses on her 2016 election loss to President Donald Trump. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Trump’s free gardener
SEPT. 15, 2017 – President Donald Trump welcomes 11-years-old Frank Giaccio as he cuts the Rose Garden grass at the White House in Washington. Frank, who wrote a letter to Trump offering to mow the White House lawn, was invited to work for a day at the White House along the National Park Service staff. (Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Kim Jong Un’s missiles
SEPT. 16, 2017 – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017. (Photo: KCNA via Reuters)
Officer ‘not guilty’ in St. Louis
SEPT. 16, 2017 – Demonstrators confront police while protesting the acquittal of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley in St. Louis, Missouri. Dozens of business windows were smashed and at least two police cars were damaged during a second day of protests following the acquittal of Stockley, who was been charged with first-degree murder last year following the 2011 on-duty shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Trump’s first address to the UN
SEPT. 19, 2017 – President Donald Trump speaks to world leaders at the 72nd United Nations (UN) General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City. This is Trump’s first appearance at the General Assembly where he addressed threats from Iran and North Korea among other global concerns. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Signal for silence – Earthquake in Mexico City
SEPT. 21, 2017 – Rescuers make the signal for silence during the search for survivors in a flattened building in Mexico City two days after a strong quake hit central Mexico killing at least 240 people.
A powerful 7.1 earthquake shook Mexico City causing panic among the megalopolis’ 20 million inhabitants on the 32nd anniversary of a devastating 1985 quake. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)
Hurricane Maria shreads Puerto Rico
SEPT. 24, 2017 – A man rides his bicycle through a damaged road in Toa Alta, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico following the passage of Hurricane Maria.
Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed on September 23, 2017 to evacuate people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of collapsing because of flooding from Hurricane Maria. (Photo: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images)
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Assad forces violate cease-fire a?? again
SEPT. 25, 2017 – A search and rescue member holds a baby wrapped with a blanket after Assad Regime’s forces carried out air strikes over the de-conflict zone, at the Jisr al-Shughur district of Idlib, Syria. (Photo: Hadi Kharat/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Taking a knee for social injustice
SEPT. 27, 2017 – U.S. Army veteran Marvin Boatright kneels with a folded U.S. flag as the motorcade of President Donald Trump passes him after an event at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana. This was soon after President Donald Trump had made comments condemning NFL players who kneel during the national anthem. Boatwright said that he wanted to send a message against social injustice. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Victims of the Rohingya crisis
SEPT. 29, 2017 – Children watch in Inani , Bangladesh, as the bodies of children are prepared for the funeral after a boat sunk in rough seas off the coast of Bangladesh carrying over 100 people . Seventeen survivors were found along with the bodies of 20 women and children with over 50 missing. Over a half a million Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh from the horrific violence in Rakhine state in Myanmar causing a humanitarian crisis. (Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Massacre in Las Vegas
OCT. 1, 2017 – People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard in Las Vegas, Nevada. Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old resident of Mesquite, Nevada, suspected of killing at least 59 people and injuring at least 527, shot himself shortly after the attack. The motive is still unknown. (Photo: David Becker/Getty Images)
Trump visits Puerto Rico
OCT. 3, 2017 – President Donald Trump throws a paper towel roll as he visits the Cavalry Chapel in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria thrashed through the US territory, much of the islands remains short of food and without access to power or drinking water. (Photo: Mandal Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump departs from Las Vegas visit
OCT. 4, 2017 – Air Force One departs Las Vegas past the broken windows on the Mandalay Bay hotel, where shooter Stephen Paddock conducted his mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters)
California scorched by wildfires
OCT. 12, 2017 – In this aerial view, a burned neighborhood is seen in Santa Rosa, California.
Hundreds of people are still missing in massive wildfires which have swept through California killing at least 26 people and damaging thousands of homes, businesses and other buildings. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
Rohingya refugees flood into Bangladesh
OCT. 16, 2017 – A Rohingya girl cries as refugees fleeing from Myanmar cross a stream in the hot sun on a muddy rice field near Palang Khali, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Well over a half a million Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Rakhine state causing a humanitarian crisis in the region with continued challenges for aid agencies. (Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
ISIS defeated in Raqqa
OCT. 17, 2017 – Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters ride atop military vehicles as they celebrate victory against the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria. (Photo: Erik De Castro/Reuters)
Punching a Nazi
OCT. 19, 2017 – A man wearing a shirt with swastikas on it is punched by an unidentified member of the crowd near the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term ‘alt-right’, at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida. A state of emergency was declared on Monday by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to allow for increased law enforcement due to fears of violence. (Photo: Brian Blanco/Getty Images)
Funeral for Army Sergeant La David Johnson
OCT. 21, 2017 – Myeshia Johnson kisses the casket of her husband U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson during his burial service at the Memorial Gardens East cemetery in Hollywood, Florida. Sgt. Johnson and three other American soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger on Oct. 4. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Starving in Yemen
OCT. 24, 2017 – Saida Ahmed Baghili, 18, who is affected by severe malnutrition, sits on a bed at the al-Thawra hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen. The heads of three U.N. agencies urged the Saudi-led military coalition on Thursday to lift its blockade of Yemen, warning that a??untold thousandsa?? would die if it stayed in place. (Photo: Abduljabbar Zeyad//Reuters)
Rose McGowan addresses sexual assault
OCT. 27, 2017 – Actress Rose McGowan speaks at the inaugural Women’s Convention in Detroit. In her first public comments since accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, actress Rose McGowan said she has been a??silenced for 20 yearsa?? but wona??t remain quiet about sexual assault and harassment. (Photo: Paul Sancya/AP)
Giving the finger
OCT. 28, 2017 – A woman on a bike gestures with her middle finger as a motorcade with President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course October 28, 2017 in Sterling, Virginia. She was fired from her job the following week. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Astros win the World Series
NOV. 1, 2017 – Houston Astros celebrate defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in game seven to win the 2017 World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Tim Bradbury/Getty Images)
Truck attack in NYC
NOV. 1, 2017 – People gather for a candlelight vigil for victims of the pickup truck attack at Foley Square in New York City. (Photo: Jeenah Moon/Reuters)
Church shooting in Texas
NOV. 9, 2017 – Lorenzo Flores (L) and Terrie Smith react at a line of crosses in remembrance of those killed in the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. (Photo: Rick Wilking/Reuters)
Trump’s Asia trip
NOV. 10, 2017 – President Donald Trump boards Air Force One to depart for Vietnam from Beijing Airport in Beijing, China. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Protesting Trump in Manila
NOV. 12, 2017 – Protesters clash with anti-riot police officers as they try to march towards the U.S. embassy during a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit, in Manila, Philippines. (Photo: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
Roy Moore sexual assault accuser
NOV. 13, 2017 – Beverly Young Nelson, one of the accusers of Alabama Republican Roy Moore, reads her statement at a news conference, in New York. Nelson says Moore assaulted her when she was 16 and he offered her a ride home from a restaurant where she worked. Moore says the latest allegations against him are a “witch hunt.” (Photo: Richard Drew/AP)
Mugabe resigns
NOV. 12, 2017 – Zimbabweans celebrate after President Robert Mugabe resigns in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Photo: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
Matt Lauer fired
NOV. 29, 2017 – Hoda Kotb, left and Savannah Guthrie embrace at the end of the show on the set of NBC’s Today Show in New York City. It was announced on Wednesday morning that long time Today Show host Matt Lauer had been fired for alleged sexual misconduct. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Flynn pleads guilty
DEC. 1, 2017 – Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn departs U.S. District Court after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, in Washington. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Trump’s Jerusalem decision
DEC. 6, 2017 – President Donald Trump holds up a signed proclamation after he delivered a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
President Donald Trump recognized the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital — a historic decision that overturns decades of US policy and risks triggering a fresh spasm of violence in the Middle East.”I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” Trump said from the White House.”It’s the right thing to do.” (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Franken announces resignation
DEC. 7, 2017 – Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., leaves the Capitol after speaking on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington. Franken said he will resign from the Senate in coming weeks following a wave of sexual misconduct allegations and a collapse of support from his Democratic colleagues, a swift political fall for a once-rising Democratic star. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
Mideast protests Trump on Jeresalem
DEC. 11, 2017 – A portrait of US President Donald Trump burns during a demonstration in the capital Tehran, Iran to denounce his declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)
Dem wins in Alabama
DEC. 12, 2017 – Alabama Democrat Doug Jones and his wife celebrate his victory over Judge Roy Moore at the Sheraton in Birmingham, Ala. Jones faced off against Judge Roy Moore in a special election for Jeff Sessions’ seat in the U.S. Senate. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
Amtrak train derailment in Washington state
DEC. 18, 2017 – Emergency crews work at the scene of a Amtrak train derailment in DuPont, Washington. At least three people were killed when a passenger train car plunged from the bridge. The derailment also closed southbound I-5. (Photo: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
Trump’s Christmas
DEC. 24, 2017 – President Donald J. Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump participate in NORAD Santa Tracker phone calls at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida . (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
Conflict, politics, jubilation, tragedy and a look at the brave and the bold are among our selections for the year in pictures for 2017 from Associated Press, Reuters News Agency, Agence-France Presse and Getty Images.
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When the world looks back on 2017, what will it see? From space, the swirling clouds of a hurricane almost as big as the Gulf of Mexico. From the air, scorched earth where neighborhoods once thrived – destroyed from massive wildfires in California. On the ground, the brown waters lapping the suburban cul-de-sacs of southern Texas, green forests uprooted in the mountains of Puerto Rico. And on the screens of our televisions and phones, the displaced refugees of Myanmar, the starving children of Yemen, the angry demonstrators of the Middle East, the defiant marchers of Charlottesville, the accusing faces of women and the abject ones of men. And the inescapable, unforgettable visage of Donald Trump, grinning in triumph, sneering in contempt, or simply walking outside beneath the world’s most famous thatch of hair, streaming and flapping in the wind. – Jerry Adler
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