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  1. The exterior view of a Kerr County home damaged by historic flooding on 4 July

  2. Donald Trump wears a dark suit and blue tie as he stands at a podium in the White House briefing room.

  3. File image of Donald Trump meeting Jair Bolsonaro

  4. Some Nigerians watch as former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the US Embassy in Abuja in 2021

  5. LA Mayor Karen Bass shaking hands with rescued workers

  6. Man sifts through muddied objects

  7. A close-up photo of Dr Phethiwe Matutu, head of Universities South Africa. She is wearing glasses and has short, cropped hair

  8. Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania

  9. President Donald Trump at the US border in San Luis, Arizona, on 23 June 2020

  10. Anjani Sinha is wearing a black and white pinstripe jacket, grey tie and white shirt

  11. Cierra Ortega sips from her Love Island tumbler cup in the Love Island villa. She has on a black dress.

  12. Liberian President Joseph Boakai and Donald Trump are seen in the picture.

  13. The wildfires in Canada seen out of a plane's window

  14. Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G20 Summit on September 4, 2016 in Hangzhou, China.

  15. Furniture and various colorful bags of clothes and other items sit on the dirt along with wet mattresses in the background

  16. A family of six pose for a selfie taken by the dad Arthur who is wearing a red Make America Great Again hat. Two of the young boys wear MAGA/Trump hats as well. The mom and dad and all four children are wearing football jerseys from different teams.

  17. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S. July 8, 2025.

  18. Floods swamping store in New Mexico.

  19. A woman holds a candle during a vigil for the victims of floods in Texas

  20. Elon Musk, wearing black, with hands together, fingertips touching, and a baseball cap.

  21. Vladimir Putin, who has thinning grey hair and wears a navy suit, white shirt and navy polka dot tie, looks toward Donald Trump, who has blonde hair combed to the side and wears a navy suit with a white shirt and red tie, at the G20 leaders summit in 2018

  22. A US flag is pictured flowing in the wind on a large white flag pole.

  23. Vehicles sit submerged as a search and rescue worker looks through debris for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding in Texas.

  24. A composite image shows the faces of Renee Smajstrla, Jane Ragsdale, Julian Ryan and Sarah Marsh