Photos this week: January 22-29, 2026 | CNN

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Federal agents confront protesters in Minneapolis on Saturday, January 24. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, was fatally shot by federal agents earlier that day. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times/Redux

A vessel makes it way through the icy Hudson River in New York on Wednesday, January 28. Freezing temperatures gripped large swaths of the United States after a monster winter storm. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

Girls reach to kiss the casket of Ran Gvili, whose remains were brought back to Israel on Monday, January 26. Ran was one of the 251 Israelis who were abducted by Hamas during its terror attack on October 7, 2023. After 843 days. all Israeli hostages — living and dead — are now back on home soil. Chaim Goldberg/AFP/Getty Images

Seattle Seahawks defensive tackle Leonard Williams celebrates on the field with his wife, Hailey, after the Seahawks defeated the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, January 25, to clinch a spot in the Super Bowl. The Seahawks will face the New England Patriots on February 8. Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP

Alex Honnold takes a selfie after scaling Taipei 101, one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, January 25. He is the first known climber to free solo Taipei 101, meaning an ascent without ropes, safety nets or other equipment – just his bare hands and a chalk bag to help with grip. It was live-streamed on Netflix. Ritchie B Tongo/EPA/Shutterstock

A model is seen backstage at the Viktor & Rolf fashion show in Paris on Wednesday, January 28. Mirella Malaguti/WWD/Getty Images

Thousands of people endure subzero temperatures to protest against the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis on Friday, January 23. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times/Redux

A satin bowerbird cools down at a birdbath in Kandos, Australia, on Tuesday, January 27. Mark Evans/Getty Images

A farmer and his son knock snow off of a hoop barn where they store hay in Cynthiana, Kentucky, on Sunday, January 25. A major winter storm slammed many states over the weekend. Michael Swensen/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Residential buildings are seen during a power outage in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, January 22. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy, Russia carried out 612 combined drone and missile attacks on the country’s energy facilities in 2025. Over the last three months, Russia has continued to attack power plants and electrical substations. Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images

A boy picks flowers from a field near destroyed buildings in the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees, which is north of Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Thursday, January 29. Israel launched a war on Hamas after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks in which the militant group and its allies killed more than 1,200 people and took 251 hostages to Gaza. In the over two years since, more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 170,000 injured in the enclave, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Thousands of Palestinians are believed to be buried under the rubble. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images

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A car hangs over the edge of a cliff Tuesday, January 27, after a landslide in Niscemi, Italy. The ground collapse began a couple of days earlier following severe weather from Cyclone Harry. More than 1,500 people had to evacuate the hilltop town. Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images

Serbian fans celebrate after their men’s water polo team defeated Hungary to win the European Championships on Sunday, January 25. Darko Vojinovic/AP

An Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshipper prays inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Tuesday, January 27. John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images

People watch as a Viking galley longship burns in Lerwick, on Scotland’s Shetland Islands, during the Up Helly Aa festival on Tuesday, January 27. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and culminates with up to 1,000 “guizers” (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longship and setting it alight. Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

St. Pauli’s Ricky Jade-Jones, left, competes for a header with RB Leipzig’s Willi Orban during a Bundesliga match in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday, January 27. Selim Sudheimer/Getty Images

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing at the edge of a truck loading bay at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operations center in Union City, Georgia, on Wednesday, January 28. The FBI served a warrant at the elections office as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election. A source familiar with the matter told CNN the search is related to an effort by the Justice Department to seize election records and search for alleged voter fraud in the county, including Atlanta, which has long been a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters

A person walks near a tear gas canister that was fired in Minneapolis during protests on Saturday, January 24. Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio/AP

Models present creations by designers Georges Hobeika and Jad Hobeika during a fashion show in Paris on Monday, January 26. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

St. Louis Blues center Brayden Schenn eyes the puck before a faceoff in Dallas on Friday, January 23. Jerome Miron/Imagn Images

Engineers work in the ring building area, assembling concrete segments to make the tunnel wall, at the beginning of the Euston Tunnel at Old Oak Common in London on Tuesday, January 27. The tunnel boring machines will complete the final 4.5-mile stretch from Old Oak Common to London Euston. Leon Neal/Getty Images

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A man is tackled after spraying an unknown substance at US Rep. Ilhan Omar, left, during a town hall she was hosting in Minneapolis on Tuesday, January 27. Omar was not injured in the attack, and she ignored staffers’ pleas to end the town hall early. The dramatic moment punctuated a high-profile public appearance for a progressive lawmaker who has been the subject of Republican attacks and scrutiny as President Donald Trump’s administration focuses its attention on Minneapolis, the city she represents. The man accused of attacking Omar has been identified as 55-year-old Anthony J. Kazmierczak, a Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson confirmed to CNN. Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images

Mountain peaks are seen above the fog that clouds the Italian village of Toblach, between the Olympic venues in Cortina and Antholz on Tuesday, January 27. The Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony will be held on February 6. Odd Anderson/AFP/Getty Images

Asma Al Zawaraa hugs her 14-year-old son, Mohammad, at a hospital morgue in Gaza City after he was killed along with his 13-year-old cousin on Saturday, January 24. The two Palestinian boys were killed by Israeli fire while collecting firewood, according to their families. The Israeli military confirmed to CNN on Sunday that “troops operating in the northern Gaza Strip identified several terrorists who crossed the Yellow Line, planted an explosive device in the area, and approached the troops, posing an immediate threat to them.” It said the incident was the same in which the boys were killed. But a military source claimed that “they were not children,” without offering evidence. The boys’ uncle insisted they were far away from the Yellow Line, “almost at the entrance of Kamal Adwan hospital. What the occupation army says is a lie; those are innocent children they killed in cold blood.” Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images

Circus ringmaster Alain Andre, aka "Petit Gougou,” prepares to enter the stage during the Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival in Monaco on Friday, January 23. Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images

A fallen tree limb lies on a parked car in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, January 25. The city was among those significantly affected by last week’s powerful winter storm. Nicole Hester/The Tennessean/USA Today Network/Imagn Images

In this long-exposure photo, Italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti hits a return during a match at the Australian Open on Monday, January 26. Martin Keep/AFP/Getty Images

Griselda Hernandez, a Venezuelan migrant who crossed into the United States with her family in 2023 using the CBP One app and self-deported to Mexico in December after her husband and father-in-law were detained by federal agents in El Paso, Texas, is embraced by her daughter Valentina near the border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Thursday, January 22. Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

CNN’s Sara Sidner and Anderson Cooper, left, interview Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara during a CNN town hall in the city on Wednesday, January 28. Frey stood by the city’s sanctuary policies and repeated his demand that federal immigration agents leave the city. Austin Steele/CNN

A dancer wearing a costume made of goat hair performs during the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik, Bulgaria, on Saturday, January 24. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images

Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reveal a new Doomsday Clock during a news conference in Washington, DC, on Friday, January 23. At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. Nearly eight decades later, the clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest the timepiece has ever been to midnight. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

A woman rides a swing above the frozen Kyiv Reservoir in Lyutizh, Ukraine, on Saturday, January 24. See last week in 34 photos. Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images