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From moments of celebration to scenes of devastation, 2025 delivered images that defined a turbulent year in America. These photos captured some of those defining stories.
An electronic board displays “Happy New Year” as confetti falls after the ball drop at Times Square during New Year’s celebrations in New York City Jan. 1, 2025.
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Police investigate a crime on Bourbon Street in New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025.
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A Tesla Cybertruck exploded in flames outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, killing the driver and injuring seven others in Las Vegas Jan. 1, 2025.
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Firefighters fight flames from the Palisades Fire burning the Theatre Palisades during a powerful windstorm in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles Jan. 8, 2025.
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Donald Trump takes the oath of office as his wife Melania and his children look on during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2025.
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Emergency response units search the crash site of an American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., Jan. 30, 2025. The American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kan., collided in midair with a military helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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Demonstrators hold banners as they march during a protest after the arrest by U.S. immigration agents of Palestinian student protester Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University in New York City March 10, 2025.
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A crane vessel lifts the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River in New York City April 10, 2025.
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Members of the clergy attend the funeral Mass of Pope Francis at the Vatican April 26, 2025.
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States, appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025.
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A search-and-rescue volunteer holds a T-shirt and backpack with the words Camp Mystic on them in Comfort, Texas, July 6, 2025.
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Charlie Kirk speaks before he is assassinated during Turning Point’s visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10, 2025.
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A memorial dedicated to Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 11, 2025. Zarutska was stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte.
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This redacted photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows files documented on Aug. 12, 2019, during a search of Jeffrey Epstein’s home on Little St. James island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Members of the U.S. National Guard stand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Dec. 22, 2025.
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A makeshift memorial on the Brown University campus near the site of a shooting in Providence, R.I., Dec. 15, 2025.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia shakes hands with attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg as he arrives with wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura at U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt, Md., Dec. 22, 2025.
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Year in focus: Images that defined America in 2025 From moments of celebration to scenes of devastation, 2025 delivered images that defined a turbulent year in America. These photos captured some of those defining stories.
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Year in focus: Images that defined America in 2025
