A man wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of COVID-19 walks past an image of people kissing in Washington.
Mardi Gras reveler Mike Turpin, whose night still isn't over, reacts as a front loader collects beads and other debris left behind by revelers on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans early Ash Wednesday.
Rain falls on oil sheen floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well leak.
Children play basketball at a playground near blighted row houses in Baltimore.
Two homeless men who gave their names as Earl, right, and Angelo eat ice cream cones across the street from a block of vacant row houses in Baltimore. A biennial census of Baltimore's homeless population counted more than 4,000 homeless people in 2011.
Erricka Bridgeford spreads sage as she performs a ceremony near the scene of a murder in Baltimore. Bridgeford leads near-daily ceremonies at murder scenes across the city.
Two young men walk through a neighborhood of vacant row houses in Baltimore. Baltimore has lost nearly a third of its population since it peaked in the 1950s.
A billboard shows a depiction of the American flag alongside a highway at dusk in North Port, Fla.
Kristy Fogden, right, of New Zealand, hands her friend Dave Shaw a guitar as they stand on a sand dune at dusk at White Sands National Monument, N.M.
U.S. Marine Corps Second Lieutenant Joseph Cantu, left, adjusts an incoming plebe's salute during Induction Day at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Molly Hanna hangs her coat during the U.S. Naval Academy's annual Ship Selection Night in Annapolis, Md.
A graduating U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman marches into the Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md.
U.S. Naval Academy graduates celebrate at the end of the Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md.
Hounds wander in a field as huntsman Geoff Hyde, top center, and members of the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club prepare for a fox hunt in Monkton, Md.
Vice President Joe Biden rests his hand on a flag-draped casket containing the remains of his son Beau Biden during a visitation in Dover, Del. Beau Biden died of brain cancer at age 46.
A woman walks past an office building as snow falls in Baltimore.
U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., on the third day of his court martial.
A U.S. Marine Corps carry team loads a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher A. Slutman into a vehicle at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Slutman, of Newark, Del., was among three American service members killed by a roadside bomb near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.
