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The Best Photos of the Week

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Here are 12 of the week's best photos

Protesters clash with police at Hong Kong International Airport, Simone Biles competes at the U.S. Gymnastics championships, aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton shootings and scenes from the Iowa State Fair. Here's a look at 12 of the best photos from the week, selected by photo editors at The Washington Post.

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In Sight

(Jerry Wolford)

Perspective

An old camera and a roll of film help one photographer rediscover the pleasures of photography

Jerry Wolford revisits a favorite place in North Carolina.

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(Rachel Boillot)

Perspective

Capturing the fading past of Tennessee's old-time country music

Photographer Rachel Boillot captured the Cumberland Plateau in years-long documentation.

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Must-see photo stories

(Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Corn dogs and candidates: Democrats woo voters at the Iowa State Fair

The Iowa State Fair kicked off with the field of democratic candidates taking turns on the soapbox and navigating through corn dogs and livestock.

(Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)

Inside the Border Patrol's largest migrant holding center

The Washington Post gets an inside look at U.S. Border Patrol's largest holding facility along the southwest border.

(Alejandro Ceggara for The Washington Post)

The seaweed invasion

A birds-eye view of how tons of rancid seaweed clogged the white sand beaches of the Mexican Riviera, ruining vacations and devastating businesses.

(Alice Martins/For The Washington Post)

Captured ISIS fighters get short sentences and art therapy in Syria

The Syrian Kurds hope leniency will boost reconciliation and prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State.

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Extreme climate change in the United States: Here are America's fastest-warming places

More than a century of temperature data shows much of the U.S. Northeast is in the grip of extreme warming, with winter heating up more quickly than other seasons.