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Firefighters battle the Sugar Fire in Doyle, California.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Riot police officers covered with paint thrown by protesters stand guard in Barcelona.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

Young cadets attend a ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A boy inside a ransacked supermarket in Dakar, Senegal.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo)

Cats on a lava-covered road in Spain's Canary Islands.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Lava is seen through the window of a kitchen in Spain's Canary Islands.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Jon Nazca/File Photo)

A cow is transported by helicopter near Klausenpass, Switzerland.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo)

A gibbon walks amid a model town at a zoo in Bakhchisaray, Crimea.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak/File Photo)

A cow is rescued from floodwaters near Abbotsford, British Columbia.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier/File Photo)

Pro-Trump protesters storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo)

A man is engulfed by a swarm of locusts near Nanyuki, Kenya.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo)

Soccer fields in Stoke-on-Trent, Britain.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Carl Recine/File Photo)

Jacob Lambert
Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.