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Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive after signing a banner that will hang in the Sleep Train Arena at the Sacramento Kings rally on Thursday night, May 23, 2013 at Cesar Chavez Park in downtown Sacramento, Calif. View a photo gallery. -
Carol Kawaykla pauses while looking for items in her tornado-ravaged home Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. View a photo gallery. -
100 year-old Isaac Ortiz and his wife Isabel Ortiz, of Sacramento, were first in line at the southwest entrance to Cesar Chavez Park for the Sacramento Kings rally on Thursday night, May 23, 2013 in downtown Sacramento, Calif. View a photo gallery. -
Vivek Ranadive celebrates with Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson before a rally for the city on keeping the Kings on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at Cesar Chavez Plaza in Sacramento, Calif. View a photo gallery. -
A'Dre Taylor, 8, looks through a pair of binoculars for the first time. "Awesome!" he said. The Sacramento Sheriff's Department aimed at improving the Arden Arcade neighborhood flew the Star Vlll helicopter there for a high tech show and tell with Whitney Avenue Elementary school students. Photo taken May 23, 2013 in Sacramento, California. View a photo gallery. -
Staff Sgt. Joelle Monroe, of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places flags at grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day on Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Arlington, Va. -
Former Vietnam POW Orson Swindle, right, gets a hug from Jim Janeway as he arrives to celebrate the 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Thursday, May 23, 2013. -
This image provided by the Woodland Park Zoo shows the new red-crowned crane chick with one of its parents. Woodland Park Zoo ’s new red-crowned crane chick is on a mission, living as an ambassador for cranes facing habitat loss and life-threatening, human-wildlife conflicts in their Asian range. The zoo is working to bring back the red-crowned crane population in partnership with Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use and the International Crane Foundation, through the zoo’s Partners for Wildlife. -
In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013 photo, a mother mallard keeps a close watch on her 11 chicks as they stroll through the enclosed patio at the Whitefish Care and Rehabilitation Center, in Whitefish, Mont. This is at least the second year this duck has used the patio area as a safe haven to lay her eggs. The ducks are a source of excitement for the residents who do a head count of the ducklings several times per day and often visit each other's room for a better view. All of the residents agree to not use the patio area while the ducks are in residence so as not to disturb or frighten them away. -
President Barack Obama pauses as his speech is interrupted by CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. -
CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin is surrounded by security as she shouts at President Barack Obama during his speech on national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. She was removed from the auditorium. -
Clouds roll near the construction site of One World Trade Center as a storm hits the New York City area, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Heavy rain is expected for the rest of the day and New York's five boroughs are under flash flood warnings. -
Monty Montgomery walks among rubble as he prepares to clean up a friend's tornado-ravaged home Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. -
Mississippi State's Demarcus Henderson dives for the ball but cannot make the catch in foul territory on a ball hit by South Carolina's Brison Celek in the fourth inning of their Southeastern Conference Tournament college baseball game at the Hoover Met in Hoover, Ala., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. -
Mourners leave a funeral service for Antonia Calendaria, 9, a student at Towers Plaza Elementary school who was killed by Monday's tornado Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. View a photo gallery of students, teachers and parents gathering in the tornado's aftermath. -
In this May 19, 2013 photo, a mask and spikes for puncturing tires lay next to the feet of armed men from a local self-defense group as they ride in a pick-up truck near the town of La Ruana, Mexico. Self-defense groups started to spring up in February to fight back the Knights Templar drug cartel which is extorting protection payments from cattlemen and lime growers, butchers and even marijuana growers. The federal government sees both the self-defense forces and the cartel as dangerous enemies. -
As fans, background, react, Pittsburgh Penguins' James Neal (18) celebrates his third-period goal against the Ottawa Senators during NHL playoff hockey playoff game action in Ottawa, Ontario, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. -
Chicago Cubs pitchers Matt Garza, left, and Scott Feldman stand in the dugout during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Neither pitched in the 1-0 loss to the Pirates. -
A team of climbers led by 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura stand on the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Miura on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team said. The photo was taken with a telephoto lens from an altitude of 5,550 meters (18,208 feet). It is not clear which of the climbers in the photo is Miura. -
Law enforcement personnel hold the photos of FBI special agents who were killed in the line of duty during the 27th annual memorial service at the Federal Building in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. -
A woman carrying bags with food walks along the street as she leaves a vegetables market in a Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Thursday May 23 2013. Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest reverse since the tsunami that hit the country over two years ago. Spain has had to pay higher interest rates on selling euros 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in a bond auction that coincided with a sharp drop in global financial markets on worries over ChinaÕs economy. SpainÕs Ibex 35 stock index was down 2 percent. -
An Indian boy drinks water dripping from a government tanker supplying water to residents of a colony in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Many areas of the Indian capital are facing acute water shortage, a repeated annual phenomenon during summer when taps go dry as demand rises. -
New Afghan Army recruits stand in formation at a graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army (ANA) base on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday, May, 23, 2013. -
Indians fill water, supplied by a government tanker, into barrels in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Many areas of the Indian capital are facing acute water shortage, a repeated annual phenomenon during summer when taps go dry as demand rises. -
New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner discusses his policies with a passerby while greeting commuters during a campaign event outside a Harlem subway station, Thursday, May 23, 2013 in New York. Weiner, who ran for mayor in 2005 and nearly did in 2009, is getting into the race to succeed three-term Mayor Michael Bloomberg about two years after a series of tawdry tweets, and obfuscating explanations that capsized his promising congressional career. -
A man wearing a spiderman outfit performs for money as tourists look at the main square in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest reverse since the tsunami that hit the country over two years ago. Spain has had to pay higher interest rates on selling euros 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in a bond auction that coincided with a sharp drop in global financial markets on worries over ChinaÕs economy. SpainÕs Ibex 35 stock index was down 2 percent. -
Lightning from a thunderstorm strikes amid the wreckage of twisted cars and structures at Plaza Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying the elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. -
Pakistani vendors, selling fruits and food outside a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, use lambs to light their carts while waiting for customers on a roadside, on Thursday, May 23, 2013. -
A clown attends the funeral of late author Chinua Achebe, in Ogidi, Nigeria, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Writer Chinua Achebe is being remembered in Nigeria as a fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure, as mourners gather in his hometown for a funeral Thursday. Among attendees was Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who held up copies of Achebe's books during the service at a local Anglican church Ñ including his famous essay "The Trouble With Nigeria" and Ghanaian President John Mahama. -
Trader Peter Tuchman, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. -
In this photo taken Wednesday, May 15, 2013, illuminated mosque minarets are seen on El-Moez Street of the historical Fatimid Cairo, Egypt. Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets. But its rich history and contributions to Islamic art has languished.
