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Justine Kurland's "SCUMB Manifesto" takes on the male photography establishment.
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Check out these four-legged surfing photos!
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At least eight people have died after a record amount of rain fell over South Korea on Monday and Tuesday, including in the capital, Seoul, inundating city streets and flooding subway stations.
Olivia Newton-John, the dulcet-voiced singer who became a country-pop, folk-pop, rock-pop, disco-pop sensation in the 1970s, starred in the Hollywood musical juggernaut “Grease” and underwent a sultry makeover with her mega-selling 1981 record “Physical,” died Aug. 8 at her ranch in Southern California. She was 73.
Eastern Kentucky floods destroyed roads, bridges and homes. But in the aftermath, communities have come together to rebuild, a sign of the deep roots here.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island nation of Taiwan; people celebrate in Louisville after the FBI arrested and brought civil rights charges against police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in 2020; historic flooding in Kentucky ravaged a grocery store and spoiled its inventory; the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland erupts, again, just eight months after its last one officially ended. See 13 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
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Photographer Sharafat Ali documented life in Indian-controlled Kashmir during the coronavirus crisis.
The Washington Post's picks of noteworthy residences on the market.
Russell was indomitable on and off the court and one of the most fascinating public figures to straddle sports and civil rights. He was intensely driven and innovative as an athlete.
Search-and-rescue teams continue scouring communities in the Appalachian foothills for survivors of devastating floods.
Pope Francis travels to Canada to apologize for the church’s role of abuse in the Indigenous residential school system; Beagles rescued from a Virginia laboratory breeding facility and a raging wildfire near Yosemite National Park burns more than 16,700 acres becoming the state’s largest wildfire of the season. See 10 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
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Just off the coast of Italy, a group of scuba divers are growing basil 25 feet underwater. It's part of a novel type of aquaculture focused on sustainability.
The Washington Post's picks of noteworthy residences on the market.
Norman Lear, who turned 100 on Wednesday, has no intention of slowing down. As he told The Post, “I feel like I could do a second 100.”
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This year's Women Photograph grantees were awarded to eight photographers. One photograph received the Women Photograph + Leica Grant.
Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate because of a wildfire burning thousands of acres near Yosemite National Park
Western Europe deals with an unforgiving heat wave as emergency services confront spreading wildfires; young boys salute Ukrainian soldiers while playing at a self-made checkpoint in Kharkiv; Ivana Trump’s casket is carried from a church after her funeral in New York. See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
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Twelve photographers are shortlisted for this year's LOBA. They were picked by a panel of five judges who reviewed 60 projects submitted by industry experts from across the world.
After visiting all 50 states, getting to all their capitals became a new goal.
