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Trees rise from a field submerged by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Sept. 1 near Freeport, Texas.
One week after Harvey roared into the Gulf Coast, some residents in Texas struggled with no drinking water, fires continued to erupt at a stricken chemical plant and funerals began for some of the mounting toll of victims.
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Residents check on their house and two of their cats behind thick smoke during the La Tuna Fire on Sept. 2 near Burbank, California. The wildfire focred the evacuation of hundreds of homes in Sun Valley, Burbank and Glendale.
Twenty large blazes burned across the state over a holiday weekend of record heat, including one outside Yosemite National Park that moved through ancient sequoia trees and another that burned five homes in Los Angeles.
About 100 Los Angles firefighters are expected to return soon from Texas, where they've been helping survivors from Hurricane Harvey.
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The Visions In Motion dance group prepares to march in the West Indian American Day Parade in celebration of the Caribbean Carnival on Sept. 4 in New York.
Revelry, cultural pride and newly tightened security mixed Monday at one of the largest U.S. celebrations of Caribbean communities, as the city tried to ensure safety at an event that has been marred by nearby violence.
In all, thousands of revelers, musicians, dancers and costumed troupes turned out to bounce to the steel-drum beat of Brooklyn's melting-pot Labor Day tradition: a daylong West Indian party, featuring a morning festival called J'ouvert, which combines the French words "jour" and "ouvert" and refers to daybreak, and an afternoon Caribbean Carnival parade.
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A car is surrounded by debris from Hurricane Irma on the Dutch half of the Caribbean island of St. Martin on Sept. 7. Irma weakened from a Category 5 storm to Category 4 on Friday morning with maximum sustained winds near 155 mph, but it remained a powerful hurricane.
French, British and Dutch military authorities rushed aid to a devastated string of Caribbean islands where at least 12 people were dead and thousands homeless.
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Storm damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, in St. Martin on Sept. 6, 2017. Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving thousands homeless after destroying buildings and uprooting trees. Significant damage was reported on the island that is split between French and Dutch control.
Irma, the strongest Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record, struck the island as a fearsome Category 5 storm. No other storm in recorded history has maintained top winds of 185 mph for 37 hours.
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Northern lights, aurora borealis, illuminate the sky over Torsfjorden near Reine, on Norway's Lofoten Islands, on Sept. 8.
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Ivanka Trump arrives at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 6 in Maryland.
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A groom naps as newlywed couples attend a mass wedding ceremony held by the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea on Sept. 7.
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The Eagle Creek wildfire burns as golfers play at the Beacon Rock Golf Course in North Bonneville, Washington on Sept. 4.
Wildfire season this year was supposed to be mild after an extremely wet winter and spring but has ended up one of the worst in U.S. history in land burned. The foliage that sprouted from previous rain and snow has gone bone-dry in intense heat, feeding flames in places that have not seen downpours in months and strangling cities with smoke.
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A North Korean soldier stands on the bank of the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 4. The five-nation BRICS grouping meeting in China said on Sept. 4 it "strongly deplores" North Korea's latest nuclear test, adding to global condemnation of Pyongyang.
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