عکس‌های منتخب ۲۰۱۹ از نگاه مجله تایم آمریکا

A security guard and a man run for cover as bullets ricochet off the Earle Cabell Federal Building as a shooter (at left, far background) fires towards them in Dallas on June 17.Tom Fox—The Dallas Morning News/AP

Carrie Lam's proposal to allow extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China had hardly been announced before the territory's leader felt the head of a frustrated generation. Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets—like these on June 10—then did it the next week, and then the next. At one point they numbered 2 million. The extradition bill did die, but it was too late to stop what it had started: Hong Kong had been transformed, and a new normal had arrived.Lam Yik Fei—The New York Times/Redux

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lying on the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas, on June 24.Julia Le Duc—AP

A prayer mat is seen amongst flowers and other tributes at the remains of a makeshift memorial outside the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 20. Five days earlier, a far-right extremist massacred 50 worshippers in two mosques.Adam Dean—The New York Times/Redux

For months, protesters had been marching in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, calling for the ouster of their leader of three decades, Omar al-Bashir. Three days after activist Alaa Salah, 22, was photographed on April 8 speaking atop a car, al-Bashir was gone. A new generation of Sudanese was heard.Lana H. Haroun

Ashen trees near Realidade, Brazil, on Aug. 26. August was burning season in the Amazon, where ranchers use the dry weather to prepare land for crops and pasture.Sebastián Liste—NOOR for TIME

Visitors inside the nave of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia on March 18. The entry fees of roughly 4 million visitors each year help provide the money needed to finish construction. A team is working to complete Sagrada Familia by 2026.Luca Locatelli for TIME

A group of demonstrators take cover during a clash with Venezuelan national police officers on a bridge near Cúcuta, Colombia, on Feb. 23. Clashes along the border stranded aid caravans.Natalie Keyssar for TIME

Jennie Taylor measures a potential gravestone for her husband Brent on Sept. 17, the day before her first wedding anniversary without him. The father-of-seven was killed while serving in Afghanistan in November 2018.Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME

Midwife Topchin Job Goro, 28, cleans off a newborn after the child was delivered in a UNICEF-supported clinic in Borno State, Nigeria, on Oct. 11, 2018.Lynsey Addario for TIME

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claps during President Trump's State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5. Trump had just delivered this line: “We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good.” The message of bipartisan cooperation was one that the Democratic leader could get behind, she told reporters who asked about the viral image the next day, and did so with her clap.Doug Mills—The New York Times/Pool/Getty Images

Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. women's soccer team celebrates after scoring her team's first goal during the World Cup final against France in Lyon on July 7. Days after Trump took aim at Rapinoe on Twitter for saying she would skip a visit to the White House if they won, Rapinoe marked her goals against France with a pose—arms outstretched, chin lifted in defiance—that served as its own rebuttal.Richard Heathcote—Getty Images

Smoke and flames rise from Notre Dame in Paris on April 15. The city was in flames months before the blaze at the cathedral. Protesters enraged over President Emmanuel Macron's economic plans had smashed storefronts and vandalized ATMs. But the smoke that filled the sky that day seemed to give the beleaguered city a sense of unity. Soon, another took hold: how to rebuild?Veronique de Viguerie—Getty Images

Local farmers and their children at an annual Christmas gathering at the community hall in Come by Chance, New South Wales, Australia, in December 2018. Australia is battling the gamut of extreme weather linked to climate change.Adam Ferguson for TIME

Greta Thunberg writes in her journal on the train as she travels from Lisbon to Madrid for a U.N. climate conference on Dec. 5. Days later, the climate activist was named TIME's 2019 Person of the Year.Evgenia Arbugaeva for TIME

Children chant during a climate protest in New York City on Sept. 20. They were among 4 million people who joined the global climate strike that day, in what was the largest climate demonstration in human history.Dannah Gottlieb

Migrants climb the border fence in front of U.S. Border Protection officers as they make an attempt to get onto the U.S. side from Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 1.Daniel Ochoa de Olza—AP

President Trump at a campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa., on May 20.Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME

An opposition demonstrator is struck by a Venezuelan National Guard vehicle in Caracas on April 30. The protester survived the brush with death.Ueslei Marcelino—Reuters

A stray polar bear walks on a road on the outskirts of the Russian industrial city of Norilsk in June. The hungry bear was said to be hundreds of miles from its natural habitat.Irina Yarinskaya—Zapolyarnaya Pravda/AFP/Getty Images

Two-year-old James Gambill of Cartersville navigates his way through Georgia lawmakers as he waits for his father, Rep. Matthew Gambill, a Republican, to be sworn in during the first session at the State Capitol building in Atlanta on Jan. 14.Alyssa Pointer—Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP

Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, America's first black sorority, during homecoming at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The sorority was founded on the campus in 1908.Andre D. Wagner

Retired New York Police Department detective and 9/11 responder Luis Alvarez is applauded after testifying during a hearing on reauthorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund in Washington, D.C., on June 11. Among those clapping: Retired Fire Department of New York Lieutenant and 9/11 responder Michael O'Connell, left; John Feal of the FealGood Foundation, center; and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart. In July, Trump signed into law an extension of the fund—through 2092.Zach Gibson—Getty Images

Fans of rapper and social activist Nipsey Hussle reach through the fence around the Angelus Funeral Home to take pictures of the hearse as it arrives in Los Angeles on April 11. Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, was fatally shot on March 31.Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images

President Trump steps into North Korea as Kim Jong Un waits in the Demilitarized Zone, in Panmunjom, on June 30.Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images

Aviation officials pray at the site of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, shortly after takeoff, near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, on March 12. Following the crash that killed all 157 people, dozens of countries and airlines grounded Boeing’s 737 Max 8.Mulugeta Ayene—AP

Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director, leaves following a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee in Washington on June 19.Andrew Harnik—AP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens an exhibit on the Israel Defense Forces, a driver behind the nation’s booming tech sector, in Jerusalem on June 25.Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME

Miguel Blanco, 28, has a neurological condition and suffers from extreme malnutrition. Blanco was photographed in April in El Barrio Alto de Milagros Norte in Maracaibo, Venezuela.Alvaro Ybarra Zavala—Getty Images Reportage

Storm survivors receive medical attention at Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital in Parsa district, Nepal, on April 2. More than two dozen people were killed and hundreds more were injured during a large storm that swept through the area.Narendra Shrestha—EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Kurdish fighters guard the new border between Kurdistan Regional Government-controlled territory and areas under the control of the Iraqi army near the town of Bashiqa, liberated from ISIS in 2016 by Iraqi and Kurdish forces.Moises Saman—Magnum Photos for TIME

Lady Gaga attends the Met Gala—themed Camp: Notes on Fashion—in New York City on May 6. Her arrival involved four looks.Kevin Tachman—MG19/Getty Images

A woman and a young girl, congregants of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, weep during a news conference on April 28. One person was killed and three people, including a rabbi, were injured at a shooting there a day earlier.Sandy Huffaker—AFP/Getty Images

Supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales take cover from tear gas during a protest in La Paz on Nov. 21. They were carrying coffins of people they say were killed during recent clashes with security forces.Marco Bello—Reuters

Due to a lack of electricity in their homes that prevents them from running air conditioners and fans, people sleep on the sidewalk to deal with the sweltering heat during a blackout in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on May 15.Rodrigo Abd—AP

Jared Kushner, senior advisor to President Trump, and Ivanka Trump at Buckingham Palace during the President's state visit in June.Tim Rooke—Shutterstock

High school seniors preparing to join the Israeli military crawl out in sand dunes during an exercise at a privately run camp for military combat fitness in Herzliya on Feb. 1.Oded Balilty—AP

U.S. Border Patrol agent Carlos Ruiz apprehends a mother and daughter from Ecuador in Penitas, Texas, on Sept. 10. The undocumented immigrants had been hiding for hours in a cotton field after border agents detected and chased their group earlier in the day.John Moore—Getty Images

Participants approach the Day One finish line during the Marathon des Sables, a 140-mile, six-day ultramarathon through the Sahara Desert in Morocco in April.Ryan Christopher Jones—The New York Times/Redux

Ethiopian migrant Mohammed Hussein, who is severely malnourished from imprisonment by smugglers, stands on a scale at the Ras al-Ara Hospital in Lahj, Yemen, on Aug. 1. The 19-year-old weighs 31 kilograms (68 pounds).Nariman El-Mofty—AP

A room in the Gritti Palace hotel during flooding in Venice on Nov. 12.Marco Bertorello—AFP/Getty Images

House Democrats unveiled articles of impeachment against President Trump on Dec. 10, charging him with committing two acts of high crimes and misdemeanors: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.Gabriella Demczuk for TIME

Joe Biden, the former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate, campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 21.Hilary Swift—The New York Times/Redux

Police assist two officers who caught fire after a molotov cocktail was thrown during a protest in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 4. Originally triggered by a 4% subway fare hike, Chile’s demonstrations quickly became a wide-ranging rejection of government policy.Esteban Felix—AP

An image released on April 10 reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5-billion times that of the Sun.National Science Foundation/Getty Images

In the Syrian desert outside Baghouz, a woman resumes her journey after being screened by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Feb. 25. She and her infant were among hundreds of civilians in a series of mass evacuations from the last sliver of the country’s territory still held by ISIS.Felipe Dana—AP

Not since 1924, when Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, had a baseball team in America's capital won the World Series. But on Oct. 30, with a 6-2 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 7, the Washington Nationals did. The Commissioner's Trophy, hoisted that night, mostly withstood the resulting celebration in the victors' clubhouse.Dina Litovsky—The New York Times/Redux

A firefighter extinguishes hotspots near the origin of the Tenaja Fire near Murrieta, Calif., on Sept. 5.Stuart W. Palley

A Horizon High School student sheds a tear at a vigil on Aug. 5 in honor of classmate Javier Rodriguez, who days earlier was slain in a mass shooting while shopping at Walmart in El Paso. Rodriguez was among 22 people who were killed.Callaghan O'Hare—Reuters

Faith Rodgers, flanked by her attorneys, arrives for a news conference in Manhattan to discuss her allegations of sexual, physical and mental abuse against singer R. Kelly on Jan. 14.Drew Angerer—Getty Images

President Trump's shadow is seen behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the Friends of Ireland Luncheon in honor of Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 14.Olivier Douliery—Pool/Getty Images

First Lady Melania Trump cheek-kisses Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next to President Trump during the family photo with invited guests at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, in August.Carlos Barria—Reuters

A woman receives medical attention after an apparent terrorist attack on an upscale hotel in Nairobi on Jan. 15. More than a dozen people were killed.Daniel Irungu—EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, leader of the U.K.’s ruling Conservative Party, announces her resignation in London on May 24. Her resignation took effect in June.Tolga Akmen—AFP/Getty Images

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte share a private moment as the President wraps up his work just before dinner at the Élysée Palace in Paris in September.Christopher Anderson—Magnum Photos for TIME

President Trump holds his notes as he speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One at the White House on Nov. 20.Salwan Georges—The Washington Post/Getty Images

Nuhat Abdul Hamid, 9, from the Syrian Kurdish town of Darbasiyah, aboard a bus transporting refugees to the Bardarash camp in Iraq on Nov. 1.Moises Saman—Magnum Photos for TIME

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) listen as Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House Oversight Committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images

An Israeli soldier points his pistol at a group of Palestinians gathering around a wounded Osama Hajahjeh, 16, near the village of Tekoa, West Bank, in April. Hajahjeh later said he was shot in his legs by Israeli soldiers while he was handcuffed and blindfolded, shortly after being arrested.Mustafa Allbadan—AP

A once vibrant Joshua Tree was severed in an act of vandalism in California's Joshua Tree National Park on Jan. 8.Gina Ferazzi—Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

History was made at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. Eight winners—the event's most co-champions ever—hold the trophy after 20 rounds of competition.Alex Wong—Getty Images

The toll at New York Fashion Week in September.Dina Litovsky—Redux

Shopping carts sit next to a curb after the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso on Aug. 3.Ivan Pierre Aguirre—EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

In the wake of the Christchurch attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugs a mosque-goer at the Kilbirnie Mosque in Wellington on March 17.Hagen Hopkins—Getty Images

A Yezidi boy known as S. who was abducted by ISIS at the age of 9 and returned to his family at 12, a different person.Newsha Tavakolian—Magnum Photos for TIME

Nan Goldin leads a die-in demonstration against the Sackler family at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in February.Elizabeth Bick—The New Yorker

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller prepares to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., on July 24.Gabriella Demczuk for TIME

Significant damage to Notre Dame’s roof, seen on June 26, left its interior open to the elements months after the April blaze.Patrick Zachmann—Magnum Photos for TIME

Loved ones of Christina Langford Johnson watch a helicopter take off carrying her body. Three mothers and six children—all U.S. citizens—were killed in northern Mexico on Nov. 4 when their vehicles were ambushed in the close-knit Mormon offshoot community of La Mora.César Rodríguez—El País

Robert Fuller lies unconscious after plunging prescribed drugs—to end his life—into his feeding tube in Seattle on May 10. Fuller's partner, Reese Baxter, top left, and friends lay their hands on him. The 75-year-old is one of about 1,200 people who have used Washington's Death with Dignity Act to end their lives in the decade since it became law.Elaine Thompson—AP

A mud-caked office at the mining company Vale, 20 days after the deadly rupture of a tailings dam in Córrego do Feijão, near Brumadinho, in Brazil on Feb. 13.Douglas Magno—AFP/Getty Images

Sen. Ralph Fethiere fires his gun outside Haiti’s Senate in Port-au-Prince on Sept. 23. The politician fired the weapon during a clash with opposition protesters. The photographer was hit in the jaw by what appeared to be a bullet fragment, the Associated Press reported, and was later treated for his injury.Dieu Nalio Chery—AP

When Hurricane Dorian tore into the Bahamas in September, it settled in. Forecasters watched as the Category 5 storm hovered for days over Grand Bahama, with its winds reaching 185 m.p.h. and a storm surge 25 ft. high. Coffins, like this one at a cemetery in McLean's Town, were lifted out of the earth. The damage left behind was staggering, estimated at some $3.4 billion.Ramon Espinosa—AP

A man holds a boy during clashes with police outside the refugee camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sept. 29.Angelos Tzortzinis—AFP/Getty Images

Waves of migrants tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, often described as part of faceless caravans flowing from Central America. This intimate scene shows who many of them are. José, 27, and his 6-year-old son, José Daniel, spent weeks trekking from Guatemala to the border, where they crossed into El Paso, Texas, on May 16.Paul Ratje—AFP/Getty Images

An antigovernment protester is arrested near the Tsim Sha Tsui police station in Kowloon, Hong Kong, on Aug. 11.Adam Ferguson for TIME

A trip to a community board meeting in Astoria, Queens, allows a rare quiet moment for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Krisanne Johnson for TIME

Pallbearers for the memorial service of Trinity Love Jones listen to a sermon on March 25. The 9-year-old's body was found in a duffel bag along a trail in Hacienda Heights, Calif.Marcus Yam—Los Angeles Times/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

Queen Elizabeth II and President Donald Trump arrive for a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace in London on June 3.Victoria Jones—WPA Pool/Getty Images

Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, leave federal court in Boston on Aug. 27. The “Full House” actress and her fashion designer husband were charged with conspiring to pay bribes to get their daughters admitted to USC as recruits to the crew team.Katherine Taylor—The New York Times/Redux

Kamala Harris takes a cue from a local drill team at the Des Moines Steakfry on Sept. 21. Once a promising presidential hopeful, the California Senator announced she was dropping out of the 2020 presidential race in early December.September Dawn Bottoms for TIME

Forces allied with the U.N.-backed government reload ammo on the frontline outside Tripoli in April.Lorenzo Meloni—Magnum Photos

Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke kicks off his 2020 presidential campaign in El Paso on March 30. O'Rourke announced in early November that he would abandon his bid for the White House.Christopher Lee for TIME

A girl cries during her father's funeral in Port-au-Prince on Oct. 16.Chandan Khanna—AFP/Getty Images

A roof from a damaged home rests in a field after a tornado storm system passed through the previous night in Celina, Ohio, on May 28.John Minchillo—AP

Suspected members of the Islamic State, some of them bone-thin from sickness, in a prison run by Kurdish-led forces in Syria on Oct. 22.Ivor Prickett—The New York Times/Redux

Protesters demanding #RickyRenuncia—a hashtagged demand for the governor's resignation—took to the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 17. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló later announced he would resign in August, after the biggest protests to seize the U.S. territory in decades.Christopher Gregory for TIME

Young men smash shop windows on the first day of protests in Beirut on Oct. 18. After nearly two weeks of anti-government demonstrations aimed at dismantling the country's political system, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned.Myriam Boulos

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren holds a meet and greet with Iowa voters at a Mason City brewery on May 4.Krista Schlueter for TIME

A man inspects damage to an area where migrants slept inside the Tajoura detention center near Tripoli, Libya, on July 3. An early morning airstrike there killed dozens.Emanuele Satolli

First Lady Melania Trump weathered a tumultuous year for the White House by the side of her husband, as she was in this image on April 11. As the President faces potential impeachment and removal from office, she remains a source of stability.Tom Brenner—The New York Times/Redux