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The Best Photos of the Week

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Here are 15 of the week's best photos

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers meet to discuss the impeachment vote, the Ice Maze at CityCenterDC in Washington, an airstrike in Syria. Here's a look at 15 of the best photos from the week, selected by photo editors at The Washington Post.

By Dee Swann and Troy Witcher · Read more

In Sight

(Roman Demyanenko)

Perspective

Above the Arctic Circle, a once-flourishing Russian coal-mining town is in rapid decline

Photographer Roman Demyanenko documents life in a northwestern Russian town.

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(Elsa Bleda/Courtesy of Afronova)

Perspective

The vivid, sometimes surreal, nightscapes of Johannesburg

Artist Elsa Bleda's project "Fragments of Nightscapes: Johannesburg" showcases the city at night.

By Troy Witcher and Elsa Bleda · Read more

(Jeff Mermelstein)

Perspective

These photos are 'slipping beneath the skin, slicing the facade, close to the bone, too close for comfort'

Photographer Jeff Mermelstein's new book "Hardened" is a vivid collection of street scenes from New York City.

By Kenneth Dickerman and Jeff Mermelstein · Read more

Must-see photo stories

(Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

Behind the scenes on Capitol Hill as Pelosi leads the House to impeach Trump

Washington Post photographers captured the private moments of members of Congress as they straddled the delicate task of a presidential impeachment.

(Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)

California climate change: Fires, floods and a fight over free parking

Life in Southern California is being transformed as the climate grows hotter, fueling more intense wildfires, deadly mudslides and extreme drought.

By Scott Wilson, Michael Robinson Chavez and John Muyskens · Read more

(Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post)

For one non-binary teen, coming of age means getting their parents to embrace a new name

After years of anguish, Eli Casavant had finally decided that being non-binary felt right. Now Eli needed their parents to understand that this wasn't a phase, and the new name was a big part of that. If Scott and Susan could let go of "Deanna," maybe they could learn to embrace who Eli truly was

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The scene during the premiere of 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' in London

Stars of the film and fans in costumes attend the European premiere of ?Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? at Leicester Square.