Day in Photos: Memorial Day Preparations, Plane Crash, and Renaissance Exhibition
Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment place flags at the headstones of U.S. military personnel buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in preparation for Memorial Day in Arlington, Va., on May 22, 2025. Nearly 1,500 service members entered the cemetery at pre-dawn hours to begin the process of placing a flag in front of approximately 260,000 headstones. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Day in Photos: Memorial Day Preparations, Plane Crash, and Renaissance Exhibition

A glimpse into the world through the lens of photography.
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Tunisian Saluki hunting dogs play on a beach in Cap Angela, in the Bizerte region of Tunisia, on May 22, 2025. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images
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Firefighters work the site where a small plane crashed into a San Diego, Calif., residential street, on May 22, 2025. The Federal Aviation Authority said a Cessna 550 crashed at around 3:45 a.m. local time. The neighborhood is close to the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. The crash left a “gigantic debris field” and damaged some 15 homes and parked cars, ABC News quoted the San Diego assistant fire chief as saying. Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images
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Athletes compete in the Women's 200m Backstroke during the New Zealand Swimming Championships at Sir Owen Glenn National Aquatic Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, on May 22, 2025. Phil Walter/Getty Images
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks to the media after the House narrowly passed a bill forwarding President Donald Trump's agenda at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 22, 2025. The tax and spending legislation, in what has been called the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” Act, redirects money to the military and border security and includes cuts to Medicaid, education, and other domestic programs. Johnson was flanked by House Committee Chairmen who helped craft the legislation. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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Women walk back to their homes as they carry dried bamboo for firewood at Bogum village in Lakhimpur district of India's Assam state, on May 22, 2025. Biju Boro/AFP via Getty Images
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A worker fries tofu over a furnace fueled by a combination of plastic waste, wood, and coconut husks at a traditional tofu factory in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, on May 22, 2025. Approximately 60 traditional tofu factories in Klagen, Tropodo village, Krian district, use a combination of plastic waste, wood, and coconut husks to fuel furnaces, boilers, and fryers in an effort to cut fuel costs, despite national bans on open waste burning. Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images
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Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen meets with Japan's Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 22, 2025. Japan Pool/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images
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An Afghan vendor holds a pair of parrot for sale at Koch-e Kafuroshi, or bird market, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 22, 2025. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
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Romania's Interim President Ilie Bolojan (L), Marian Enache (C), the president of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR), and Romanian president-elect Nicusor Dan (R) pose in front of magistrates members of the CCR after he received the presidential mandate from the president of CCR at Parliament Palace in Bucharest, Romania, on May 22, 2025. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
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The Koru yacht owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is seen moored in Théoule-sur-Mer in Cannes, France, on May 22, 2025. According to reports, Jeff Bezos will marry Lauren Sánchez in Venice, Italy, in June. Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images
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Sudanese army soldiers transport a dog on a scooter in Salha, south of Omdurman, two days after the Sudanese army recaptured it from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on May 22, 2025. The Sudanese army said on May 20 that it had dislodged rival paramilitaries from their last positions in Omdurman, part of the Sudanese capital, securing all of Khartoum state nearly two months after recapturing the capital's centre. Ebrahim Hamid/AFP via Getty Images
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A boy jumps among buffaloes to cool off in a natural stream on a hot summer day in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on May 22, 2025. Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during ceremony to address members of Germany's 45th Armoured Brigade (Panzerbrigade 45) of the Bundeswehr at a ceremonial roll-call in Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 22, 2025. Germany, which leads a multi-national NATO task force in Lithuania, is in the process of deploying a 5,000-strong brigade to Lithuania on a permanent basis. NATO is strengthening its eastern flank as a deterrence to what it sees as an aggressive Russia. Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images
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FBI agents cordon off the scene outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead in the early hours of May 22, 2025, in Washington. Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead late Wednesday, May 21, outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted
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President of the European Council Antonio Costa (C) is honored by Ebrie Chiefs during a ceremony of the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on May 22, 2025. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images
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An aerial view shows a 135-meter-long container ship by the shore in the Trondheimsfjord outside Byneset by Trondheim, Norway, on May 22, 2025, after it ran aground, almost hitting a house. Jan Langhaug/NTB/AFP via Getty Images
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Spanish Minister of Culture Ernest Urtasun addresses the attendees during the restitution ceremony for seven paintings seized during the Civil War and not returned to their legitimate owners by the Franco regime, at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, on May 22, 2025. Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images
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Punjab Police personnel detain farmers as they block road traffic during a protest against state and central governments demanding a complete loan waiver and compensation for crops damaged due to recent rain and hailstorms, in Amritsar, India, on May 22, 2025. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images
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A Hiroshima city official takes out the list of atomic bomb victims, which is kept in the stone chamber of the cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims, and carefully turns over each page to check its condition at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan, on May 22, 2025. STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images
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Riders take the start of the 12th stage of the 108th Giro d'Italia cycling race of 172kms from Modena to Viadana, Italy, on May 22, 2025. Luca Bettini/AFP via Getty Images
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A visitor looks at 'A Pastoral Landscape' by Claud Lorrain as it is displayed at the Courtauld Gallery, as part of a selection of works from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in London on May 22, 2025. An exhibition of 18 masterpieces is going on display at The Courtauld Gallery in London from May 23, featuring paintings by renowned artists including Monet, Degas, Turner, and Gainsborough, among others, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The works from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham collection are on extended show at the Courtauld while the Barber undergoes building improvements. Leon Neal/Getty Images