BEST IN SHOW (photo by Erin Schaff/The New York Times) Shawn Armstrong lays in bed with her mom Ann Brown before they fall asleep at home in Choctaw, OK on May 29, 2023. Shawn’s son Joshua is in jail on a murder charge after he shared drugs with a friend who overdosed. Shawn said the only thing that’s calmed her down and helped her fall asleep during this time has been having her mom rub her arm before they go to sleep.
BEST IN SHOW - STUDENT (photo by Allison Robbert/The GW Hatchet) President Joe Biden pauses before answering a question in the State Dining Room of the White House Nov. 9.
(photo by Shuran Huang for NPR) A Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center resident holds a tambourine during her final performance as part of Sound Impact's "Use Your Voice" residency in Alexandria, VA, on Friday, May 26, 2023. Sound Impact collaborates with Alexandria Juvenile Detention Center to provide incarcerated youth with live performances and arts-integrated education. The three-day “Use Your Voice” residency culminates in a joint performance - fusing the youth's words and musical creations with Sound Impact’s live music.
(photo by Carol Guzy/NPR/Zuma Press) Echoes of everyday life are frozen in a macabre stillness the moment time stopped when Russian bombs rained down on Ukraine’s residential dwellings in liberated towns including Borodianka, Ukraine on April 21, 2022. Civilian things. Scorched plates and melted microwaves. A kitchen table still holds food left uneaten begging the question, ‘What were they cooking that last day of normal?’
(photo by Sarah L. Voisin / The Washington Post) A group of 220 migrants, including infants and families, were taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the morning on August 12, 2022 in Eagle Pass, Texas. They crossed the Rio Grande to enter the U.S. and many had made the long perilous journey from Venezuela or Cuba. Data shows a record number of undocumented immigrant crossings at the southwest border for fiscal year 2022. The number topped 2.76 million, breaking the previous annual record by more than 1 million.
(photo by Julia Nikhinson/AP) Gov. Wes Moore kisses his daughter, Mia, after being sworn in as the 63rd governor of the state of Maryland, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, in Annapolis, Md. Moore, the first Black governor of Maryland and the third Black governor in the United States, took the oath of office using a Bible owned by Frederick Douglass, a Marylander who escaped slavery on the state’s Eastern Shore before becoming an author and famed abolitionist.
(Tierney Cross/The Hill) Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) steps into an elevator following a vote in the Capitol on Wednesday, June 22, 2023.
(photo by Stefani Reynolds/AFP) A person watches as volunteers light the Memorial Day Watchfire in Syracuse, New York, Sunday, May 28, 2023. It is said that after a battle, there was an age-old tradition of building a large fire, in the hopes that it would guide lost soldiers back to where they needed to be. Today, the Memorial Day Watchfire honors that tradition, and those who served, by respectfully retiring worn or tattered American flags that can no longer be used.
(photo by Elizabeth Frantz for Reuters) U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leaves her weekly news conference with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 14, 2022.
(photo by Hailey Sadler) Anya (8) from Mariupol and Lina (7) from Kyiv, Ukraine seek refuge in the playhouse they made under the trees outside of the shelter where their families are staying in Tbilisi, Georgia. This little corner is their safe space. Despite their resilience, children are at a particularly high risk of long-term psychological impacts of being exposed to the violence of war and forced removal from home.
(photo by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) Rhodes Odendahl, 3, watches the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2023.
(photo by Svet Jacquelyn) Hulya stands over the grave of her daughter, Zehra, son-in-law, Hikmet, and their children Kaan, 4, and Bilge, 1, on February 16. after earthquakes struck regions of Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023.
(photo by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks) Jennifer Joyce Gibbs-Phillips, aka- “MotherLove”
(photo by Bonnie Cash / UPI) Jockeys wait for the call to post ahead of The Sir Barton Stakes at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday, May 21, 2022.
(photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) U.S. President Joe Biden looks out the window of the U.S. Presidential Limousine “The Beast” as he departs the White House to deliver his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on February 07, 2023 in Washington, DC.
(photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images) Supporters of Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) celebrate her victory during an election watch event on November 8, 2022 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Spanberger, the incumbent, was in a tight race with contender Yesli Vega.
(Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA) Bonita Springs, FL, USA--November 22, 2022--A house displaced by Hurricane Ian floats in the waterways between Bonita Springs and Fort Myers Beach.
(photo by Caroline Gutman for The Washington Post) Valerie Moore stands for a portrait on her front step, one block away from the Convanta Energy incineration facility in Chester, Pennsylvania. For over three decades, Covanta Energy, located in a historically Black community, has trucked in Philadelphia’s waste and spewed out harmful dust across the town.
(Leigh Vogel/Getty Images) Audience members react as KPop star Eric Nam performs during the National Museum of Asian Art Centennial Celebration: Headlining Concert on May 13, 2023 in Washington, DC.
(photo by Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) Adam Laxalt, a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Nevada, holds a rally for the upcoming midterm election at Stoney’s Rockin’ Country club in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022.
(photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Emotions overflow as people react outside the Supreme Court as constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years are ended by the Supreme Court, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Washington, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases.
(photo by Sarah Silbiger for The New York Times) President Joe Biden speaks to members of the White House press corps on the beach in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Monday June 20, 2022.
(photo by Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post) A. Tabesh at his home in Baltimore, Maryland on February 8, 2023. Tabesh, who arrived in the U.S. after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, was a member of a clandestine U.S.-trained counterterrorism force known as the Zero Units in Afghanistan. In 2017, he lost his left leg in a 2017 firefight against the Islamic State-Khorasan terrorist group in Parwan province.
(photo by Sanwaree Sethi Robinson) A two year old looks up at the cheetah themed decorations for her older brother's birthday celebration.
(photo by Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times) Traffic moves through high winds and low visibility on Interstate 29 south of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A ‘bomb cyclone’ drove temperatures dangerously low in the upper Midwest and Great Plains.