Khalil Amari Allen’s mother, DeLisa Glaspie, right, releases her emotions among close friends and family as balloons fly during a vigil honoring her 18 year-old son, in Southfield on Friday, July 14, 2023. Allen was shot and killed while driving to get food the evening of July 10th. Before Amari left, Glaspie told him, “Khalil, right back,” to which he responded, “OK.” “I just saw so much more for him,” Glaspie said.

Saaduuts Peele cuts his way down the canoe at the Center for Wooden Boats in South Lake Union, Seattle, on Friday, July 26, 2024. In the heart of the city, a colossal, 40-foot, cedar log rests on the lakefront, partially etched by the hands of Peele, Seattle’s local master-canoe carver. At the age of 74 he has begun his ninth canoe after handpicking the tree in May on the Prince of Wales Island, in Southeast Alaska. “I kept running in the yard and this one kept on saying, ‘pick me,’” Peele said. “And I said ‘OK.’ “My heart was going, so I put my name on it.” Peele expressed the toll the process takes, but his priority is on passing down canoe-carving knowledge to his grandkids, as he guides them through the canoe-building process. “It takes a lot,” he said. “It may be my last one. I hope not.”

Soraya Alem, left, and Jarvi Schneider, founders of Otter Oaks Farm, pose for a portrait at one of their plots at Legends Farm in Chicago on Wednesday, July 3, 2025. Alem and Schneider are a part of the Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship program, which is organized through the Chicago Botanical Gardens, offering marginalized groups of people farming education and eventually a farm site to build their businesses. “Not a lot of people from the LGBTQ community own their own farms,” Schneider said. “Everybody eats food, so there should be a representation of everyone in farming. We’re hoping to inspire other people to do it too.”

Ryker Steidinger, 12, left, helps Isaiah Kaskavage, 12, pull his poncho over his head while waiting for a rain delay to pass before a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies at Wrigley Field on Friday, April 25, 2025, in Chicago. 

From left, Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vucevic (9), Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo (13) and Chicago Bulls forward Matas Buzelis (14) look to recover a free throw rebound during the second half of a game against the Miami Heat at the United Center on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Chicago.

Camryn Jackson and Paige McClellan during the fourth and final day of Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025.

Keirstie Carducci, 65, of Ottawa Lake feeds the 12 fawns that are in the fawn pen in her home in Ottawa Lake on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Fawns are Carducci’s favorite animal to take care of, and she said one day she hopes to cut back on rescuing animals and only take in fawns. Keirstie Carducci, 65, of Ottawa Lake feeds the 12 fawns that are in the fawn pen in her home in Ottawa Lake on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Fawns are Carducci’s favorite animal to take care of, and she said one day she hopes to cut back on rescuing animals and only take in fawns.

Team members at Illinois Natural History Survey’s Lake Michigan biologist station collect samples from the artificial reefs off the coast of Illinois Beach State Park on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Zion. 

Florence Andersen, 7, enjoys company from her local mermaid RJ Annest, 16, while eating an icecream at Alki Beach on Saturday, July 6, 2024. Annest had been baking in the Seattle heat wave all morning, entertaining children from around the city during the Seafair pirates parade. "I do a ton of cosplay stuff, so this is fun for me," she said. 

Sophomore butterflyer Stephan Freitag swims breaststroke during practice at IM West on March 2, 2022. Freitag was a member of the MSU Swim and Dive program, up until October, 2020, when the program was terminated.

Ivanna Vysochanska attends a rally to commemorate the upcoming third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of the Wrigley Building in Chicago on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune)

From left, Vera Trainer, an aquatic sciences director at UW’s Olympic Region Harmful Algal Blooms program, or ORHAB, Anthony Odell, research analyst lead at the UW program, and Lizz Miller, Makah Tribe’s water quality specialist, step onto Hobuck Beach to make a routine water sample in Neah Bay. “It’s amazing to have people out there and really caring about public health and caring about the environment and happy to work with the tribe on all of this,” Miller said. “The cooperation between the two is beautiful in a lot of ways. It means everything.”

Gonna Holzberger, 73, of Rochester Hills, and Deanna D.L. Andre, 76, of Troy, while waiting for presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event at the Oakland Expo Center in Waterford Township on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

Chicago Cubs pitcher Matthew Boyd (16) pitches during the fifth inning of a game against the San Francisco Giants at Wrigley Field on Monday, May 5, 2025, in Chicago.

Janice Dale, the closest relative to Pvt. James C. Loyd, as his niece, holds an American flag gifted to her to honor the sacrifice and service of her uncle in her home in Valparaiso, Ind., on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.

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