BEST IN SHOW - PROFESSIONAL (photo by Ana Elisa Sotelo) A groom leads a horse into the sea at Pebbles Beach in Bridgetown, Barbados on Aug. 23, 2024. In Barbados, grooms train racehorses at dawn in the cool waters of Carlisle Bay near the historic Garrison Savannah track.
BEST IN SHOW - STUDENT (photo by Karsyn Meyerson) Julie Rana, center, asks a question while speaking with friends Jill Colburn, left, and Kimberly LaFave, at the Izaak Walton League shooting range in Leesburg, Va., on Nov. 16, 2024.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD (photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Secret Service agents cover Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as he lies on the ground bleeding after he was shot during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024.
(photo by Megan Smith/USA Today) Attendees take their seats ahead of the Democratic National Convention’s first day at Chicago’s United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 19, 2024. President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were featured during Monday's ceremonies.
(photo by Natascha Tahabsem) After two years of displacement, a Syrian girl looks out from a car window at the Jaber-Nassib border crossing in Mafraq Governorate, Jordan, on Dec. 9, 2024.
(photo by Ruolin Lu) A man holds a “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom” sign at Kamala Harris’s campaign rally on Oct. 29, 2024, near the Washington Monument, in Washington, D.C. More than 75,000 people gathered on the Ellipse for the event.
(photo by Hanna Leka) Members of the Debre Mitmak Tsadkane Maryam E.O.T. Church choir celebrate Meskel in a parking lot in Hyattsville, Md., on Sept. 26, 2024. The Ethiopian holiday honors the fourth century finding of the True Cross of Jesus.
(photo by Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press) Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris watches a backstage monitor before stepping onstage for her final campaign rally, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pa.
(photo by Alyssa Schukar for The New Republic) Zach Storjohann and 5-year-old Kyle Kenner hold down a calf during branding and vaccination at the Burdick Ranch in rural Cherry County, Neb., on April 18, 2024. The annual event brings together about 60 volunteers from nearby ranching families.
(photo by Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Donaven Capers makes U.S. flags at the Valley Forge Flag manufacturing plant in Lane, S.C., on Feb. 22, 2024.
(photo by Chasity Smith) Sean Smith shares a quiet moment with his youngest child, Sean Jr., in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on June 15, 2024, offering a chance to reconnect after a long day of groomsman duties and celebration during a family wedding reception.
(photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI) President Joe Biden meets with officials about the federal response to the Los Angeles wildfires, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2025.
(photo by Emily Hanna) Police line the streets while tensions rise in Armenia as a consequence of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan's decision to hold another anti-government protest, Wednesday, October 2, 2024 in Republic Square, in Yerevan, Armenia.
(photo by Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press) Elon Musk accepts a chainsaw as a gift from Argentine President Javier Milei during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 20, 2025.
(photo by Hoi Yan Tang) Crowds line the streets as participants march in America’s National Independence Day Parade, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2024.
(photo by Elizabeth Billman) Senior Lealani Ricks high-fives freshman Lauryn Jones during Howard Softball’s Senior Day game in Washington, D.C., April 19, 2025. Howard defeated Morgan State University 11-5 and went on to win its first conference regular-season title in 16 years.
(photo by Jocelyn Augustino) President Joe Biden waves to the crowd with his grandson Beau Biden Jr., 4, at his side, after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 20, 2024.
(photo by Katina Zentz/The Frederick News-Post) Atley Shafer, 16, works with a calf at Shafdon Farms in Jefferson, Md., on July 3, 2024. She and her sister Aubree, 13, grew up on the farm and now work there with their family.
(photo by Lexi Critchett/GW Hatchet) An Evangelist of Christ carries a cross through Lafayette Park in the early hours of Nov. 6, 2024, passing in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., as poll projections call the presidential race for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
(photo by Allison Robbert for The Washington Post) Players for the Rosedale Tigers practice under a cloudless sky in one of Washington, D.C..’s hottest areas on June 18, 2024. The Kingman Park neighborhood is considered to be a heat island because of its sparse tree cover.
(photo by Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Press) Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., Rep. Terri Sewall, D-Ala., Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Rev. Jesse Jackson, are among those leading a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., on March 9, 2025.
(photo by Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post) Fourth-grader Omari Woodland sits in his new Hyattsville, Md., apartment on Jan. 30, 2025. His neighborhood school denied him enrollment, saying it could not accommodate his wheelchair.