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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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  • Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
    Credit: AP/LM Otero

  • Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
    Credit: AP/Matt Rourke

  • A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
    Credit: AP/Jenny Aicher

  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
    Credit: AP/Molly Riley

  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
    Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite

  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

  • O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
    Credit: AP/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Jeff Scheid

  • Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
    Credit: AP/NASA/Chris Hadfield

  • When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
    Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

  • A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
    Credit: AP/The Duluth News-Tribune/Clint Austin

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