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The week in 10 pics

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  • Trent Mays, left, and Ma'lik Richmond, who allegedly raped an unconscious girl, sit at the defense table Wednesday before the start of their trial in Steubenville, Ohio. If convicted, the pair could be held in a juvenile facility until they turn 21.
    Credit: AP/Keith Srakocic

  • Pope Francis, nee Jorge Mario Bergoglio, waves to a crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday. Bergoglio became the 266th pope of the Catholic Church, as well as its first Jesuit and native of the Americas.
    Credit: AP

  • Paola La Rocca of Buenos Aires celebrates Wednesday at the city's Metropolitan Cathedral after Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is chosen as pope. Other Argentinians were less enthused, as Bergoglio's ascendance elicited painful memories of the Church's complicity in the country's "Dirty War."
    Credit: AP/Victor R. Caivano

  • President Barack Obama arrives on Capitol Hill Wednesday for closed-door talks to discuss the budget with House Speaker John Boehner and the House Republican Conference. We can only assume that his smile quickly dissolved.
    Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite

  • Memorial candles stand beside a picture of Kimani "Kiki" Gray during a vigil for the deceased teen in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Gray, who one eyewitness insists was unarmed, was killed in an altercation with police.
    Credit: AP/John Minchillo

  • GOP spirit animal Donald Trump speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday. Trump theorized that Mitt Romney lost the election because he didn't "talk enough about his success," and later exited the stage to the tune of "For the Love of Money" by the O'Jays.
    Credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, temporarily leapfrogging Marco Rubio as the GOP favorite for 2016.
    Credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

  • Defense lawyers Julia Gatto and Robert Baum hold a news briefing Tuesday after a federal jury convicts their client, New York City police officer Gilberto Valle, of plotting to kidnap, cook and eat women.
    Credit: AP/Bebeto Matthews

  • The Carnival Nightmare Dream cruise ship sits moored at the A.C. Wathey Cruise Facilities in Philipsbug, Sint Marten, Thursday after a diesel generator malfunctioned -- this only a month after a separate Carnival vessel was disabled by a fire that stranded thousands of passengers at sea for days. Carnival: Where passengers experience anything but.
    Credit: Reuters

  • Montefiore Hospital President and CEO Steven Safyer, left, talks supersized sodas while New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg looks on during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday. A judge struck down the city's pioneering ban just hours before it was supposed to take effect. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Jacob Sugarman is Salon's cover editor and the editor of Open Salon. You can follow him on twitter @jakesugarman. More Jacob Sugarman.

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  • This photo. President Barack Obama has a laugh during the unveiling of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Tx., Thursday. Former first lady Barbara Bush, who candidly admitted this week we've had enough Bushes in the White House, is unamused.
    Reuters/Jason Reed

  • Rescue workers converge Wednesday in Savar, Bangladesh, where the collapse of a garment building killed more than 300. Factory owners had ignored police orders to vacate the work site the day before.
    AP/A.M. Ahad

  • Police gather Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to honor campus officer Sean Collier, who was allegedly killed in a shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last week.
    AP/Elise Amendola

  • Police tape closes the site of a car bomb that targeted the French embassy in Libya Tuesday. The explosion wounded two French guards and caused extensive damage to Tripoli's upscale al-Andalus neighborhood.
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  • Protestors rage outside the residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday following the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi. The girl was allegedly kidnapped and tortured before being abandoned in a locked room for two days.
    AP/Manish Swarup

  • Clarksville, Mo., residents sit in a life boat Monday after a Mississippi River flooding, the 13th worst on record.
    AP/Jeff Roberson

  • Workers pause Wednesday for a memorial service at the site of the West, Tx., fertilizer plant explosion, which killed 14 people and left a crater more than 90 feet wide.
    AP/The San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel

  • Aerial footage of the devastation following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province last Saturday. At least 180 people were killed and as many as 11,000 injured in the quake.
    AP/Liu Yinghua

  • On Wednesday, Hazmat-suited federal authorities search a martial arts studio in Tupelo, Miss., once operated by Everett Dutschke, the newest lead in the increasingly twisty ricin case. Last week, President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker, R.-Miss., and a Mississippi judge were each sent letters laced with the deadly poison.
    AP/Rogelio V. Solis

  • The lighting of Freedom Hall at the George W. Bush Presidential Center Thursday is celebrated with (what else but) red, white and blue fireworks.
    AP/David J. Phillip

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