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Sport

Solenne Piret, who was born without her right forearm, competes at the paraclimbing world championships in Bern, Switzerland, August 2023.

Sports

Britain's Beth Potter, third from left, in a chasing pack in the triathlon Olympic test event in Paris, August 2023.

Sport

A Team USA competitor races down the Champs Elysées in Paris, France, during the final leg of the paratriathlon (which was shortened to a duathlon because the Seine River failed a safety test), August 2023.

Sport

Two of the frontrunners at the 10K mark in the Boston Marathon, April 2023.

Sport

A runner passes the Marine Corps Band from Quantico at the 10-mile mark of the Marine Corps Marathon, Oct. 2019.

Military

A U.S. Air Force Academy cadet leaves her seat on the football field to congratulate a fellow graduate, May 2021.

Science Diplomacy

Dr. Francis Collins, then head of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, shakes hands with a teen from Uganda who was cured of sickle cell disease during a stay at the National Institutes of Health's Children's Inn.

Places

Paris on a summer morning, 2023.

Weddings

Lace sleeves over henna 'tattoos' on a bride's arms, August 2023.

Places

The German town of Wolfstein is the start and finish point of the Dubbeglas Wanderung, a culinary hike held in May 2023.

Military

U.S. military police patrol the pedestrian zone of Kaiserslautern, Germany, during the waning months of the COVID pandemic.

Military

A U.S. aircraft maintainer shows a cadet from the German military academy how to change a wheel on a plane.

Places

A red rose blooms in Oct. 2023 outside the small home in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born.

Refugees

A woman evacuee from Afghanistan sits alone in a large warehouse on a U.S. base in Germany as she waits to be seen by a doctor.

Refugees

American women sew prayer garments and mats from donated fabric for Afghan evacuees, August 2021.

Places

Flowers and candles sit alongside pictures of Elvis Presley outside the hotel he stayed in, in Bad Nauheim, Germany, when he deployed with the U.S. Army in the 1950s.