Day in Photos: US Independence Day, Gas Station Explosion, Diogo Jota Tribute
People celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade in Banner Elk, N.C., on July 4, 2025. Allison Joyce/Getty Images
People celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade in Banner Elk, N.C., on July 4, 2025. Allison Joyce/Getty Images

Day in Photos: US Independence Day, Gas Station Explosion, Diogo Jota Tribute

A glimpse into the world through the lens of photography.
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Three RF-5E Tigergazer reconnaissance version fighters and two F-5F fighters fly during a retirement ceremony for RF-5E Tigergazers at an air base in Hualien, Taiwan, on July 4, 2025. After decades in service, Taiwan’s Vietnam-era F-5 fighter jets are being retired as part of the island democracy’s transition to more advanced hardware. Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo
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Smoke rises after a gas station exploded on the outskirts of Rome on July 4, 2025. At least 40 people were injured. Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP
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People attend a funeral for policeman Guillaume Kip in Marche-En-Famenne, France, on July 4, 2025. Kip died on duty on June 24 after he was struck by a vehicle during a chase in the North of France. Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images
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A Brazilian Navy member powers an amphibious vehicle during an exercise at Prainha da Gloria beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 4, 2025. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images
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Rescue workers recover a victim of a residential building collapse in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 4, 2025. A five-story building collapsed, killing at least seven people and injuring eight, officials said, with rescuers searching the rubble for trapped victims. Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images
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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (L), Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins (2nd L), and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (2nd R) watch President Donald Trump talk to journalists as they arrive at Joint Base Andrews, Md., early on July 4, 2025. Trump returned from Iowa, where he spoke at the Salute to America Celebration at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
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A bird flies as smoke rises over Kyiv following mass Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's capital on July 4, 2025. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
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Laborers dry maize kernels at a wholesale grain market in Jalandhar, India, on July 4, 2025. Indian exporters are eyeing the possible reintroduction of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs next week, though many hold out hope for a last-minute reprieve. Shammi Mehra/AFP via Getty Images
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Tributes are laid for Diogo Jota at Anfield in Liverpool, England, on July 4, 2025. The Liverpool soccer player, a Portuguese national, Jota, 28, was killed in a car crash July 3 in Zamora, Spain. He was traveling in a Lamborghini with his brother, returning to the UK for the start of the Premier League season, when the car crashed after a tire blowout while overtaking a car. Jota leaves behind his wife of two weeks, Rute, and their three young children. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Police attempt to control protesters outside the High Court in support of Palestine Action's appeal against proscription at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on July 4, 2025. The High Court is holding an urgent hearing over Palestine Action's application for judicial review, following the government's decision to proscribe the pro-Palestinian campaign group. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper issued the prescription order after activists from the group broke into RAF Brize Norton, an air force base, and spray-painted two Voyager aircraft on June 20. The ban will make it illegal to be a member of the group or to invite support for it. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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High school students react with their results of the baccalaureate exam (high school graduation exam) at a school in Saint-Ouen, France, on July 4, 2025. Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images
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Rescuers search for victims of a ferry accident off the Bali Strait in Jembrana, Indonesia, on July 4, 2025. At least six people are dead and dozens unaccounted for after a ferry sank in rough seas on its way to the Indonesian resort island Bali, according to rescue authorities who said 29 survivors had been plucked from the water so far. Dicky Bisinglasi/AFP via Getty Images
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A Buddhist monk passes langurs along a road in McLeodganj, India, on July 4, 2025. Niharika Kulkarni/AFP via Getty Images
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Pictures of the remaining Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Palestinian terrorists are displayed along a long table by a beach outside the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 4, 2025, calling upon the U.S. to intervene for the hostages' release and for a cease-fire. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
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Detainees are seen at Krome Detention Center run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami on July 4, 2025. President Donald Trump was present at the opening of the nearby “Alligator Alcatraz,” a 5,000-bed facility at an abandoned airfield in the Everglades, part of his expansion of illegal immigrant deportations. Alon Skuy/Getty Images
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Joey Chestnut wins the men's competition at Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City on July 4, 2025. Chestnut made his return to the contest to compete for a 17th win after missing the 2024 event due to a sponsorship dispute with Major League Eating. Adam Gray/Getty Images
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Cranes lift a flipped bus from the company Flixbus, after an accident on the A19 highway near Roebel, Germany, on July 4, 2025. About 20 people were injured. Rene Schroeder/NEWS5/AFP
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Larry the Downing Street cat sits outside No. 10 in London on July 4, 2025. Now 18, the cat is a favorite sight for visitors. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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Tennis fans watch the women's singles third-round match between Japan's Naomi Osaka and Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on the fifth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on July 4, 2025. Pavlyuchenkova won. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images