America in Photos: National Guard Dignified Transfer, Washington State Flood, and AmericaFest
A U.S. Army carry team moves a flagged-draped transfer case containing the remains of Iowa National Guardsman Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., on Dec. 17, 2025. Iowa National Guard members Howard and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, a U.S. civilian working as an interpreter, were killed during an ambush by an Islamic State gunman in Syria. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

America in Photos: National Guard Dignified Transfer, Washington State Flood, and AmericaFest

Notable moments from the past week in America.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and other members of the House Democratic Caucus speak during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Dec. 18, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
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(L-R) Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch rehearse a walkout from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 20, 2025. The astronauts are rehearsing for the scheduled February 2026 10-day mission that will carry them around the moon and back to Earth. Joe Raedle/Getty Images