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A protester carries a U.S. flag upside down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. The image was part of a series of photographs by The Associated Press that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Ukrainian emergency employees and police officers evacuate injured pregnant woman Iryna Kalinina, 32, from a maternity hospital that was damaged by a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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An explosion erupts from an apartment building at 110 Mytropolytska Street, after a Russian army tank fired on it in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Natali Sevriukova cries in front of her apartment building destroyed in a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Agustina Cañamero, 81, hugs and kisses her husband Pascual Pérez, 84, through a plastic film screen to avoid contracting the coronavirus at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, June 22, 2020. Even when it comes wrapped in plastic, a hug can convey tenderness and relief, love and devotion. The fear that gripped Agustina Cañamero during the 102 days she and her 84-year-old husband spent physically separated during Spain’s coronavirus outbreak dissolved the moment the couple embraced through a screen of plastic film. The image was part of a series by Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Protesters gather in front of a burning fast food restaurant, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. The image was part of a series of photographs by The Associated Press that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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A protester raises her fist in the air next to a burning police vehicle in Los Angeles, May 30, 2020, during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd. The image was part of a series of photographs by The Associated Press that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the bonnet of an armored vehicle of Indian police as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 31, 2019. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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Indian paramilitary soldiers break motorbikes parked outside a college as they clash with students protesting against the alleged rape of a 3-year-old girl in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 14, 2019. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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FILE – A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 3, 2012. The boy was killed by the Syrian army. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)
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FILE – A boy named Ahmed mourns his father, Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian army sniper, during his funeral in Idlib, northern Syria, March 8, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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FILE – Abdullah Ahmed, 10, who suffered burns in a Syrian government airstrike and fled his home with his family, stands outside their tent at a camp for displaced Syrians in the village of Atmeh, Syria, Dec. 11, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)
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FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2006 file photo, a Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah. Oded Balilty captured the powerful image, winning the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2007. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
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U.S. Army soldiers take cover in a fortified position in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. Later on Friday, militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as part of an effort to end 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan) This photograph is one in a portfolio of twenty taken by eleven different Associated Press photographers throughout 2004 in Iraq. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography for the series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP’s 48th Pulitzer. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
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** FILE ** This photograph is one in a portfolio of twenty taken by eleven different Associated Press photographers throughout 2004 in Iraq. “Combat Support Hospital” Army Nurse supervisor Patrick McAndrew tries to save the life of an American soldier by giving him CPR upon arrival at the Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, but the soldier died. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography, Monday April 4, 2005 for the series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP’s 48th Pulitzer. (AP Photo/John Moore)
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An Iraqi man celebrates atop of a burning U.S. Army Humvee in the northern part of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 26, 2004. An explosion leveled a building in northern Baghdad on Monday, setting four U.S. Humvees nearby on fire. At least one U.S. soldier and several Iraqis were wounded. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. This photograph is one in a portfolio of twenty taken by eleven different Associated Press photographers throughout 2004 in Iraq. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography for the series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP’s 48th Pulitzer. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A U.S. Army soldier uses a dummy to draw a sniper into view in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. Later on Friday, militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as part of an effort to end 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site. This photograph is one in a portfolio of twenty taken by eleven different Associated Press photographers throughout 2004 in Iraq. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography for the series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP’s 48th Pulitzer. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
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FILE – Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy, in Miami, Florida, April 22, 2000. Twenty three years after González became the center of a dramatic diplomatic custody battle between Cuba and the United States, the young Cuban is now headed to his country’s congress with hopes of representing his people at a time of record migration and heightened tension between the two seaside neighbors. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
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President Clinton walks to the podium to deliver a short statement on the impeachment inquiry in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Friday, Dec. 11, 1998. Nearing a showdown over the fate of his presidency, President Clinton apologized to the country today for his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair and said he would accept a congressional censure or rebuke. A group of AP photographers won for feature photography for a series of pictures of the events surrounding President Clinton’s impeachment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rescue workers carry Susan Francisca Murianki, a U.S. Embassy office worker, over the rubble of a collapsed building next to the embassy, Friday, Aug. 7, 1998 in Nairobi, Kenya. Terrorist bombs exploded minutes apart outside the U.S. embassies in the Kenyan and Tanzanian capitals Friday. Americans were among the dead, and the U.S. ambassador to Kenya was injured, the State Department said. More than 40 people were killed and 1,000 wounded in Nairobi alone. The AP photo staff won the 1999 Pulitzer for spot news photography fo rthe work. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
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FILE – Russian President Boris Yeltsin dances at a rock concert after arriving in Rostov, Monday, June 10, 1996. The images won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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Oklahoma City fire Capt. Chris Fields carries 1-year-old Baylee Almon, in this file photo shot Wednesday, April, 19, 1995 at the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The child died of her injuries. The photo won the 1996 Pulitzer for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Charles H. Porter IV, File)
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EDS NOTE: NUDITY – FILE – A Rwandan child too weak to stand in line to receive a vaccination, rests his head at the SOS village orphanage housing about 3,000 Rwandan children in the crowded encampment in Ndosho near Goma, in Zaire, now known as Congo, July 28, 1994, The photo won the 1995 Pulitzer for feature photography. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Arzt Larma, File)
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FILE – Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton addresses the media as U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, D-Mass., looks on at a Boston campaign stop the evening of April 28, 1992. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)
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FILE – Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Federation, makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian parliament building in Moscow, U.S.S.R., Monday, Aug. 19, 1991. Yeltsin called on the Russian people to resist the communist hard liners in the Soviet coup. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE – A small boy runs past as a youth clubs the burning body Lindsay Tshabalala, a Zulu beaten and burned to death as a suspected Inkatha faction member set alight by by African National Congress supporters in Soweto, South Africa, Sept. 15, 1990. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Greg Marinovich, File)
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FILE – A Palestinian woman brandishes helmets during a memorial service in Beirut September 27, 1982, for victims of Lebanon’s Sabra refugee camp massacre. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Bill Foley, File)
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FILE – U.S. President Ronald Reagan waves and then looks up before being shoved into the President’s limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel Monday, March 30, 1981. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
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FILE – A black Rhodesian prisoner stands with a rope tied around his neck, to prevent escape, placed there by Rhodesian cavalrymen, background, who detain him for questioning in Lupane, Southern Rhodesia in Sept. 1977. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/J. Ross Baughman, File)
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FILE – A member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. Police stormed the university after students demanded expulsion of a former military ruler and barricaded themselves in the school. A series of images including this photo won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)
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FILE – George H. Derby, a security guard, aims his gun at Edward F. Fisher, 39, who holds a knife at the throat of Ellen Sheldon, 22, lying on the ground, in a kidnapping attempt in a Hollywood parking lot, Ca., Nov. 23, 1973. A series of images, including this photo, won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Anthony K. Roberts, File)
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FILE – Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War, March 17, 1973. In the lead is Stirm’s daughter Lori, 15; followed by son Robert, 14; daughter Cynthia, 11; wife Loretta and son Roger, 12. This photo won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)
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FILE – In this June 8, 1972, file photo taken by Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut, South Vietnamese forces follow behind terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places.The image won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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FILE – In this Dec. 18, 1971, file photo, Bangladeshi guerrillas beat a victim as they torture and execute four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war in Dacca, Bangladesh. Horst Faas and Michel Laurent won the Pulitzer in 1972 for spot news photography, for a series of pictures of tortures and executions in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, Michel Laurent, File)
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FILE – In this Dec. 18, 1971 file photo shot by Associated Press photographers Horst Faas and Michel Laurent, part of a Pulitzer prize winning series, newly independent Bangladesh guerrillas in Dacca use bayonets to torture and kill four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen who had been accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war. Horst Faas and Michel Laurent won the Pulitzer in 1972 for spot news photography, for a series of pictures of tortures and executions in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, Michel Laurent)
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FILE – Heavily armed African American students leave Straight Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on April 20, 1969, after barricading themselves in the building led by Ed Whitfield, far right, demanding a degree-granting African American Studies program. The image won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Steve Starr, File)
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FILE – South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a suspected Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, Vietnam, Feb. 1, 1968. The image won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)
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Civil rights activist James Meredith grimaces in pain as he pulls himself across Highway 51 after being shot in Hernando, Miss., June 6, 1966. Meredith, who defied segregation to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962 completed the march from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss., after treatment of his wounds. The photo won the 1967 Pulitzer for photography. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)
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FILE – A father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle, March 19, 1964. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border. Horst Faas won the 1965 Pulitzer for photography. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)
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This Pulitzer Prize winning black-and-white April 22, 1961 file photo photo by Associated Press photographer Paul Vathis shows President John F. Kennedy, left, and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower with their heads bowed as they walk along a path at Camp David in Thurmond, Md., as the two met to discuss the Bay of Pigs invasion. The photo won the 1962 Pulitzer for photography. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)
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Paul Overby, one of two drivers trapped in the cab of a tractor trailer, is pulled to safety by a rope on the Pit River Bridge across Shasta Lake near Redding, Calif., May 3, 1953. Both Overby and co-driver Hank Baum were rescued before the cab burned and fell to the rocks below. Virginia Schau, an amateur photographer using a Kodak Brownie camera, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for this photo. (AP Photo/Virginia Schau)
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FILE – Residents from Pyongyang, North Korea, and refugees from other areas crawl over shattered girders of the city’s bridge to flee south across the Taedong River and escape the advance of Chinese Communist troops, Dec. 4, 1950. The Chinese entered the Korean War as allies of North Korea, while U.S. troops battled in support of South Korea. The photo won the 1951 Pulitzer for photgraphy. (AP Photo/Max Desfor, File)
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In this Dec. 7, 1946 photo, a woman leaps from an upper story to escape the burning Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta. Seconds later the woman crashed to her death on the hotel marquee. The photo won the 1947 Pulitzer for photography. (AP Photo/Arnold Hardy)
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U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan. The photo won the Pulitzer in 1945. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)
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Dead Japanese soldiers lay scattered around a blasted Japanese pillbox at Tarawa Island in the South Pacific on Nov. 11, 1943 during World War II. A bloody battle ensued after the U.S.Marines invaded the Japanese occupied atoll. The photo won the 1944 Pulitzer. (AP Photo/Frank Filan)
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An Indian sailor pleads for water from a lifeboat adrift on the Indian Ocean in January 1942. AP photographer Frank “Pappy” Noel shot this photo from his own lifeboat after a Japanese torpedo sank a ship carrying Noel, the sailors and others from Singapore. Noel and his fellow survivors eventually reached Sumatra. The photo won the 1942 Pulitzer. (AP Photo/Frank Noel)