alt="A group of Central American migrants near the El Chaparral crossing in Tijuana climb the fence between Mexico and the U.S. on Nov. 25, a day of turmoil at the border."
 alt="As the U.S. opened a new embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, violence erupted just miles away at the Gaza border, where Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinian protesters like this injured man, who was evacuated by horse cart. "
 alt="Jeff Flake, center, listens to fellow GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, right, on Sept. 28, moments after Flake called for a delay in Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. His change of heart proved brief; eight days later he joined a slim majority to elevate Kavanaugh to the bench."
 alt="A resident flees his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Nov. 9 with only the clothes on his back. Wildfires erupted in Northern and Southern California in early November, forcing an estimated 160,000 to evacuate."
 alt="An abandoned walker on a cul-de-sac inside a devastated mobile home park in Paradise, Calif., on Nov. 15."
 alt="Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle hold hands during their post-wedding carriage procession in Windsor, England, on May 19."
 alt="A view from above shows the catastrophic force of a fast-moving lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, seen here on May 19. The eruption destroyed nearly 700 homes and displaced thousands."
 alt="A Honduran child plays with a mask near train tracks in Arriaga, Chiapas, southern Mexico, on Oct. 26."
 alt="Naomi Osaka of Japan hits against Simona Halep of Romania during the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 22."
 alt="Kim Prahinog competes in a transgender beauty pageant in the Philippines on April 6. The country, which is heavily Catholic, has earned a reputation for being one of the most LGBTQ-tolerant in Southeast Asia."
 alt="Chairman Chuck Grassley during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Christine Blasey Ford to testify about sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27."
 alt="A U.S. Border Patrol spotlight shines into a field as agents search for undocumented immigrants near McAllen, Texas, on Feb. 22."
 alt="This image of 7-year-old Amal Hussain in October drew global attention to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Saudi-led war in Yemen, where the U.N. says 14 million could be on the edge of starvation. On Nov. 1, Amal’s family said she had died in a refugee camp."
 alt="Migrant children file through a tent city in Tornillo, Texas, on June 18. The U.S. houses unaccompanied minors at the detention facility, which came under scrutiny amid controversy over the Trump Administration’s family-separation policy, which was later reversed."
 alt="In a historic summit, President Trump appeared friendly with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, whom he had ridiculed as “Little Rocket Man.” But since the June 12 meeting in Singapore, progress on denuclearization talks has stalled."
 alt="President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hold hands during a ceremony as the late evangelist Billy Graham lies in repose at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 28."
 alt="Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, adjusts his tie while he waits to meet with Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 30."
 alt="Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria plays a backhand in his quarter-final match against Kyle Edmund of Britain on Day 9 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 23."
 alt="Midshipmen listen as President Trump speaks during a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis on May 25."
 alt="Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group, holds a rally in Portland, Ore., where they were met by anti-fascist counterprotesters, on Aug. 4."
 alt="A raccoon scurries up the side of the UBS Tower in St. Paul, Minn., on June 12."
 alt="Joseph Wachira, 26, comforts Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino on the planet, moments before he passed away in March."
 alt="Patrick Robinson of the Philadelphia Eagles is overcome after the team defeated the New England Patriots 44-31 in Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis on Feb. 4. The Eagles, led by backup quarterback Nick Foles, clinched the first Super Bowl title in franchise history, setting off confetti on the field and raucous celebrations back home."
 alt="Boys at the Nakhimov Naval School in Murmansk, Russia, in September. Kozyrev made this image as a co-laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award."
 alt="Flooding passes under a Jayhawk helicopter during a U.S. Coast Guard search-and-rescue operation, after Hurricane Florence inundated communities, in North Carolina on Sept. 18."
 alt="Peas and Carrots walk in their hotel room at the Willard InterContinental Hotel after an introductory news conference held by the National Turkey Foundation in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 19."
 alt="Ukraine's Oleksandr Abramenko, seen here on Feb. 18, won gold in the freestyle men's aerials finals at the 2018 Winter Olympics. His performance in PyeongChang made him the first Ukrainian man to ever win a gold medal in the Winter Games."
 alt="Performers take cover from the cold as they move along Sixth Avenue during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Nov. 22."
 alt="An abandoned home in the village of San Miguel Los Lotes, near the Guatemalan city of Escuintla, after a June volcanic eruption."
 alt="As the Woolsey Fire burns, llamas are tied to a lifeguard stand on the beach in Malibu on Nov. 9."
 alt="Fire retardant is dropped on a burning hillside in Malibu on Nov. 11."
 alt="Lacey Carillo Quintera, 15, celebrates her quinceañera by taking pictures with her family at the La Lomita overlook in Culiacán, Sinaloa, in February."
 alt="Stormy Daniels enters federal court in Manhattan on April 16."
 alt="Vice President Mike Pence catches himself when coming up stairs to the stage during a rally hosted by the American Conservative Union in Kansas City, Mo., in November."
 alt="Christine Blasey Ford swears in at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for her to testify about sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27."
 alt="A volunteer member of the advance team for President Trump blocks a camera as a photojournalist attempts to take a photo of a protester during a campaign rally in Evansville, Ind., on Aug. 30.
 alt="People are brought out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Seventeen people were slain. Survivors of the massacre ignited a nationwide movement against gun violence."
 alt="Demonstrators fill Pennsylvania Avenue in preparation for the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, D.C., on March 24."
 alt="Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, addresses fellow protesters in response to the police shooting of his brother, in Sacramento on March 28. Stephon was fatally shot 10 days earlier."
 alt="A woman hands a Black Lives Matter sign back to a young boy, who was readjusting his position in a tree, at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 12."
 alt="Capital Gazette reporters Pat Furgurson, center, and Chase Cook hug at a makeshift office in a parking garage of a mall in Annapolis, Md., during coverage of the fatal shooting in their newsroom on June 28. Five colleagues were killed."
 alt="Survivors of a landslide make their way to safety in the mining town of Itogon, in the northern Philippines, on Sept. 17, two days after the supertyphoon Mangkhut triggered the disaster."
 alt="A <a href=&quot;https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/10/iran-nomad-tribes-fading-away/&quot;>shepherd</a> in Iran's Khuzestan Province moves his flock inside a shelter during a dust storm."
 alt="Jason Coffman, center right, father of Thousand Oaks shooting victim Cody Coffman, is comforted by Anthony Ganczewski at a funeral service for his son in Camarillo, Calif., on Nov. 14. Cody was among a dozen killed in a shooting at a country music bar."
 alt="White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and National Security Adviser John Bolton watch President Trump announce military strikes on Syria during a statement at the White House on April 13. "
 alt="A Border Patrol helicopter flies over as a group of men who crossed the U.S. border illegally and tried to run from agents are detained in Mission, Texas, on Aug. 15."
 alt="Workers take down the LeBron James banner from the Sherwin Williams building in Cleveland on July 3."
 alt="Mitch Haniger of the Seattle Mariners watches a home run by Chad Pinder of the Oakland Athletics in the second inning of a game at Safeco Field in Seattle on Sept. 26."
 alt="Center lane lines are partially visible along the lava-covered road in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii, on May 11."
 alt="A statue is wrapped in caution tape in Pioneer Plaza by the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, during the NRA convention, in Dallas on May 4."
 alt="A steeple lies next to the Elah Baptist Church after being blown off by the strong winds of Hurricane Florence in Leland, N.C., on Sept. 16."
 alt="Members of New York's Chief Medical Examiner office transport the body of designer Kate Spade from her apartment building, after she reportedly committed suicide, in New York on June 5."
 alt="Abdul Rashid is pushed by his father, Hamisha Gul, on a gurney before a surgery. In April, the boy was among seven children from an extended family in eastern Afghanistan who each lost part of one leg—two lost most of both—after an explosion near home."
 alt="The skin of a polar bear is being dried to be prepared for clothing in Point Hope, Alaska, in May. Van Lohuizen made this image as a co-laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award."
 alt="A decorated fence next to a suspected minefield inside the DMZ on March 21. A nearby sign warns not to enter, or a person could “get killed instantly.”"
 alt="The wreckage of a fatal crash outside of Tisdale, Sask., on April, 7. A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos hockey team crashed en route to Nipawin for a game, killing more than a dozen and sending over a dozen more to the hospital."
 alt="Young participants of a summer camp organized by a nationalist party sit inside a tent with their rifles as they receive instructions during a tactical exercise in a village near Ternopil, Ukraine, on July 28."
 alt="Members of the Sanctuary Church and the Rod of Iron Ministries hold their rifles while listening to a sermon during a blessing ceremony in Newfoundland, Pa., on Feb. 28."
 alt="Fans celebrate France's World Cup victory over Croatia at Le Rosalie in Paris on July 15."
 alt="Members of the Law Enforcement Explorers program, a New York Police Department program for high school students, light candles at the makeshift memorial space for Lesandro Guzman-Feliz in the Bronx on June 27. Hundreds attended the funeral of the 15-year-old, known as Junior, whose fatal stabbing was caught on video and stunned the city."
 alt="First Lady Melania Trump watches as President Trump cheers with guests during an Independence Day picnic for military families on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4."
 alt="As President Trump arrived to pay his respects to the victims of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, hundreds took to the streets on Oct. 30 to voice their concerns about Trump's policies and to stand up against hate."
 alt="“I want to do what the President wants me to do,” says Attorney General Jeff Sessions, seen boarding a government plane to Washington in March. “I&nbsp;do feel like we’re advancing the agenda that he believes in. And what’s good for me is it’s what I believe in too.” Sessions was forced out in November."
 alt="Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman speaks at the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics team doctor who pleaded guilty in 2017 to sexual assault charges, in Lansing, Mich., on Jan. 19."
 alt="A demonstration by members of pro-Palestinian and other civil society groups outside the U.S. Consulate General in Johannesburg on May 15, one day after dozens of Palestinians were killed along the Israel-Gaza border on the same day the U.S. formally moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem."
 alt="White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner speaks during the dedication ceremony of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on May 14."
 alt="A giant bust of Abraham Lincoln at a storage yard of presidential heads, sculpted by David Adickes, in Houston on Jan. 7, 2018."
 alt="Shepard Smith during a day of work at Fox News in New York on March 1, 2018."
 alt="Deputy sheriff Dorothy Onikute responds to an overdose call on Feb. 4 in Alcalde, N.M. This photo appeared in &quot;The Opioid Diaries,&quot; TIME's March 5 special report on the national emergency, which killed nearly 49,000 people in the U.S. last year. Photographer James Nachtwey and TIME's Paul Moakley traveled across the country to interview opioid users, first responders and others directly affected by the addiction epidemic. &quot;The only way to make real sense of it,&quot; Nachtwey wrote, &quot;was to see what happens to individual human beings, one by one.&quot; "
 alt="A man carries another man, who lost his legs during the battle of Raqqa, in April."
 alt="A handout photograph from the German government shows a group of leaders at the Group of Seven summit, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Trump, in Canada on June 9."
 alt="A handcuffed Harvey Weinstein is led out of a police station in lower Manhattan following his arrest on May 25. The initial reporting on the disgraced movie producer triggered a wave of sexual abuse allegations from scores of women."
 alt="Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, leaves the Capitol on Feb. 27 after facing more than eight hours of questions from a House committee about Russian election interference. Hicks, a close confidante of President Trump’s, announced plans to resign the next day."
 alt="An unidentified man tries to hold back the press as Saudi investigators arrive at the consulate ahead of Turkish police, amid a growing international backlash to the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Istanbul on Oct. 15. Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and critic of the Saudi crown prince, was killed at the consulate."
 alt="Relatives wait for information outside a prison where a riot left at least six police officers dead in the Mexican state of Veracruz on April 1."
 alt="Razor wire is used to help protect a shipping container holding guns and sensitive material. After President Trump's orders in October, some 7,000 active-duty troops began to flood border communities from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, a deployment that equals the troops fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria."
 alt="An injured man is carried into a car as soldiers disperse demonstrators in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Aug. 1 after protests erupted over alleged fraud in the country's historic elections."
 alt="A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, on June 12."
 alt="Contestants hopeful to be crowned Ms. Senior America in Atlantic City, N.J., in October were judged in four categories over the course of the three-day pageant: interview, talent, evening gown, and philosophy of life."
 alt="Nakosha Smith, a founder of the Caramel Curves, an all-female African-American motorcycle club, burns out in New Orleans on March 24."
 alt="Pura, 15, rides around her neighborhood in a pink 1950s Chevy convertible as her community gathers to celebrate her  quinceañera in Havana in June."
 alt="Participants attend Respect Rally Park City on the one-year anniversary of the Women's March in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 20."
 alt="Aretha Franklin's casket during a viewing at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit on Aug. 28. Franklin, 76, died from advanced pancreatic cancer on Aug. 16."
 alt="Alina and Igor Leschina share a kiss during their wedding ceremony this summer at a community center, located next to a minefield, in Avdeevka, Ukraine."
 alt="A neighborhood in Paradise lies in ruins on Nov. 15. The Camp Fire tore through houses, apartment buildings and stores."
 alt="An injured man rests in a bed at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on May 14."
 alt="A piece of an American flag lays scorched on the ground at a mobile home park following the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., on Nov. 14."
 alt="A Honduran man and his two daughters take the road toward Tijuana, from Mexicali, on Nov. 20."
 alt="Capetonians collect water from the Kalk Bay spring on Feb. 1; at&nbsp;some springs, waits would drag on for hours."
 alt="Sen. John McCain's coffin arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Aug. 30. McCain died five days earlier. &quot;At his death,&quot; his office said in a statement, &quot;he had served the United States of America faithfully for sixty years.&quot;"
 alt="Earthquake damage on Vine Road, near Wasilla, Alaska, on Nov. 30."
 alt="A bomb blast left scores dead and injured in central Kabul on Jan. 27. According to the United Nations, more than 8,050 noncombatants have been killed or injured so far this year in Afghanistan."
 alt="Civilians in a truck flee Afrin, a predominantly Kurdish city in northern Syria, on March 18, the day it fell to militias backed by Turkey. The city was both the latest front in Syria's eight-year war and a showcase for the tortured politics that are driving the conflict."
 alt="A damaged building is seen after an earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, on Feb. 8."
 alt="Three children receive treatment after a gas attack in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, on Feb. 25."
 alt="Brennan Caton, center, Misty Lawson and Courtney Caton, right, listen to the Coast Guard radio inside their home for updates on the tsunami warnings that shook Tofino, British Columbia, after an Alaskan earthquake on Jan. 23."
 alt="First Lady Melania Trump, President Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron prepare to have their picture taken during a visit to Mount Vernon, Va., on April 23."
 alt="As a caravan of Central American migrants made their way across Mexico in April by bus, foot and freight train, President Trump vowed they would be turned away at the U.S. border. And when about 150 reached the San Ysidro port of entry, the nation's busiest, on April 29, they were told it was at capacity. The migrants—several of whom are seen here walking to a shelter in Tijuana five days earlier—said they feared for their lives in their home countries, some of which have among the highest murder rates on the globe. On April 30, a handful were allowed into the San Ysidro port to begin the asylum application process."
 alt="Bill Cosby departs after the first day of his retrial for his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on April 9."
 alt="Gene Tabachnick, a friend of the slain brothers David and Cecil Rosenthal, stands near their graves during a burial ceremony in Pittsburgh on Oct.&nbsp;30."