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Flooding in Kentucky, fires in California. The pope visits Indigenous people in Canada, and the U.S. President isolates because of COVID-19. A look at the past week through photos from around the world.

MPR News photojournalist Ben Hovland spent an evening with Slow Roll MSP, a group aimed to help people reconnect to their communities and create a safe space for Black bodies on bikes.

The first full week of July brought celebrations, competitions, religious reflections and more around the world. Here’s a look at some of the images from around the globe for the week of July 4 through July 11.

From protests, to celebrations, to Pride Parades, to tragedy around the world, here is a collection of some of the best global photojournalism for the week of June 26 through July 4.

Twin Cities Pride returned to Minneapolis over the weekend for its 50th anniversary year, drawing thousands of people to the festival, parade and other events.

Minnesotans tried to stay cool today as an excessive heat warning swept through the state. MPR News freelance photographer Tim Evans endured the heat to capture how residents in the Twin Cities spent their steamy day.

A haunting image of red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside, with a rainbow in the background, commemorating children who died at a residential school created to assimilate Indigenous children in Canada has won the prestigious World Press Photo award.

Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis, got brand-new grass laid out on Thursday — the first time since the field opened 12 years ago.

Educators had walking picket lines outside schools Tuesday morning — including at Justice Page Middle School in south Minneapolis, and at Washburn High School.

The crowd sang, chanted, and carried Ukrainian flags — and signs reading "Stop Putin, Stop War" and "No War in Ukraine" — as they marched across both the Stone Arch Bridge and Hennepin Avenue Bridge.