A firefighter battles the Pickett Fire in the Aetna Springs area of Napa County, Calif., Aug. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)A Hindu woman performs evening rituals to the Sun god during the Hartalika Teej festival at the Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, in the the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)Katy Perry performs as part of the “Lifetimes Tour” on the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Aug. 20, 2025. (Photo by Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP)Maria Isabel Ortiz mourns during the funeral of her son, Michael Astaiza, a police officer killed when a police helicopter was shot down by a dissident faction of the former FARC guerrilla group, in Cali, Colombia, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)A wall of dust towering hundreds of feet approaches the Phoenix metro area on Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of 13-year-old Karim Qdeih, who was killed along with others in overnight Israeli strikes, during his funeral outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)Ayami Sato pitches during the second day of tryouts for the Women’s Professional Baseball League, in Washington, Aug 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)Venus Williams, of the United States, reacts against Karolina Muchova, of the Czech Republic, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, in New York, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)President Donald Trump holds the FIFA World Cup Winners Trophy during an announcement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, hugs her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)Ukrainian war veteran Oleksandr Dashko trains in a pool in Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 12, 2025, for the upcoming 6.5km swimming race across the Bosporus Strait. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Pope Leo XIV holds a newborn during his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Aug.20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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