A photographer explores a sport created as a solution to end, or at least reduce, dog fights. The sport consists of a set of physical tests that assess a dog's potential, without resorting to a physical confrontation between them.
Walter F. Mondale, the former Democratic senator and vice president whose unusually candid and forward-looking bid for the pinnacle of American politics was blocked by President Ronald Reagan’s landslide reelection victory in 1984, died April, 19, 2021 at his home in Minneapolis. He was 93.
The former law enforcement officer suspected of gunning down three people Sunday in Austin has been captured after a 20-hour manhunt, according to the Associated Press. Authorities tracked down Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41, an ex-detective at the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, early Monday after getting two 911 calls about a man walking along a road in the Austin suburb of Manor. He had a pistol in his waistband but was taken into custody without any further violence, the AP reported.
The funeral of Prince Philip, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, is both an intimately private and very public event. Private, in that because of coronavirus restrictions, only 30 family members and representatives of the armed services are taking part. The royal family urged the public to stay away from Windsor Castle and other properties. But the procession and service are being televised, much like Philip encouraged for the queen’s coronation in 1953. And the imagery of the day is being shared around the world.
A rescue effort transports a Rothschild’s giraffe by barge from an island to a conservancy in Kenya; colorful fiber-optic lights glow at the Field of Light immersive art installation in California; demonstrators face stun grenades while protesting the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minn.; slain Capitol Police officer William Evans arrives at the U.S. Capitol to lie in honor. See 13 of the week’s most interesting and gripping images from around the world, selected by Washington Post photo editors.
A gunman killed eight people and then himself at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday, in a mass shooting that left at least four others injured, authorities said.
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Her signature polka dots are featured in the mostly outdoor exhibit.
It was the second time in less than three months that mourners gathered in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda to honor a fallen police officer. Evans, like Brian D. Sicknick before him, was protecting members of Congress and others on Capitol Hill from a violent incursion and died in the line of duty. Evans, 41, was killed April 2 when he and another Capitol Police officer, standing in front of a steel barricade near the Russell Senate Office Building, were struck by a car whose driver intentionally rammed the barrier, authorities said. The other officer survived, and the driver was fatally shot by police.
Crowds flocked to eat and drink outdoors as Britain began to ease restrictions after a third national lockdown.
Hundreds of protesters surrounded the Brooklyn Center Police Department as officers in riot gear fired stun grenades and tear gas. The Minnesota National Guard, already deployed to the Twin Cities for the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, arrived later.
Lorenzo Tugnoli photographed Elie Saib in the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion. After the photo was nominated for a World Press Photo, the two met.
From 41-gun salutes to distanced moments of silence, Brits mourned the death of 99-year-old Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and father of heir to the throne, Prince Charles, in both traditional and pandemic-curtailed ways.
Ancient Egyptian royal mummies, headed to a new resting place, are paraded through Cairo; a car rams into a barricade at the U.S. Capitol and struck two police officers; Britain’s Prince Philip dies in London at 99; an announced sellout crowd of fans attends the Texas Rangers baseball home opener at Globe Life Field in Arlington. See 15 of the week’s most interesting and gripping images from around the world, selected by Washington Post photo editors.
DMX, the gruff-voiced, chart-topping rapper who electrified listeners with songs such as “Party Up (Up in Here)” and “X Gon’ Give It to Ya,” drawing inspiration from his hardscrabble life while also emerging as a star of action films and crime thrillers, died April 9 at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was 50.
With a little over 100 days until the start of the Tokyo Olympics, check out photos from over the years of this special tradition.
Prince Philip overcame a difficult and nomadic childhood to become the abiding consort to Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history. A derring-do naval officer and outdoorsman, he sometimes found life as second banana frustrating but in the end, he was always there for his Queen and Country.
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For Catholics across the world, this is the second Easter during the pandemic. While the endpoint is emerging in a few countries, such as the United States, that have raced ahead with vaccinations, the picture is different in Europe, where the rollout has been dismally slow and half the continent’s nations are in some form of lockdown.
