Day in Photos: DOGE Meets with Lawmakers, Macron Addresses Nation, and Stegosaurus Unveiled
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, his son, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy after a meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson and other lawmakers in Congress in Washington on Dec. 5, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Day in Photos: DOGE Meets with Lawmakers, Macron Addresses Nation, and Stegosaurus Unveiled

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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Protesters take part in a demonstration against the South Korean President in Seoul on Dec. 5, 2024. South Korea is facing significant political turmoil after President Yoon Suk-yeol declared emergency martial law, accusing opposition parties of destabilizing governance and sympathizing with North Korea. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
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Yemeni farmers carry vegetables they harvested from a field in Yemen's northern Abs district of the Hajjah governorate, on Dec. 5, 2024. Essa Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images
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Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. is seated to testify on a House Task Force hearing on the Secret Service's security failures regarding the assassination attempts on President-elect Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 5, 2024. Benoit Tessier/Reuters
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A stegosaurus fossil nicknamed Apex is unveiled to the media at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Dec. 5, 2024. Billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, who bought the stegosaurus fossil for $44.6 million, is loaning it to the museum for four years. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
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In an aerial view, trucks covered in snow are parked in Watertown, New York, on Dec. 5, 2024. This region in New York is experiencing the second snowstorm of the week and has been under a Winter Storm Warning for two days. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images
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President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives with his wife Jennifer Rauchet to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 5, 2024. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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French President Emmanuel Macron appears on screen as he makes a television address to the nation after Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government was toppled in a no confidence vote in parliament, in Paris on Dec. 5, 2024. Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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A painted stork eats a fish as it is pictured in the Delhi Zoo in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 5, 2024. Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images
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This photo illustration taken on Dec. 5, 2024 shows new Japanese 10,000 yen notes (approximately 66 USD), which were released in July 2024 with a portrait of financier Eiichi Shibusawa—often referred to as the pioneer of the modern Japanese economy, on display in Tokyo. Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images
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Fabien Penone, France's ambassador to Indonesia, East Timor, and ASEAN, sits in an 18th-century train wagon after inaugurating a plaque commemorating the rebel French poet Arthur Rimbaud at Tuntang Station in Ambarawa, Central Java, Indonesia, on Dec. 5, 2024. Devi Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
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This aerial photograph shows the lakebed of the Jablanicko artificial lake, through which the Neretva River flows, near the Bosnian town of Konjic on Dec. 5, 2024. In recent years, the hydroelectric potential of Bosnia-Herzegovina's rivers has decreased. Elvis Barukcic/AFP via Getty Images
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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his “plan for change” speech at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, on Dec. 5, 2024. Darren Staples-WPA Pool/Getty Images
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A supporters of Ghana Vice President and ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia attends the final rally of the NPP in Accra, Ghana, on Dec. 5, 2024, ahead of Ghana's presidential election scheduled for Dec. 7. Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images
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People exercise at the Maidan, an urban park, amid foggy conditions in Kolkata, India, on Dec. 5, 2024. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images
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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, arrives for a meeting with Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle at the Torre Ejecutiva, the government's headquarters, in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Dec. 5, 2024, in the framework of the LXV Mercosur Summit. Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images
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Employees work in a cable factory of the German company Draxlmaier, specialized in the manufacture of automotive components, in Jemmal city in Tunisia's Monastir region on Dec. 5, 2024. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images
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Boxes containing the costumes for the seven dwarfs are stored backstage during the Christmas pantomime “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” at St Helens Theatre Royal, in St Helens, northwest England, on Dec. 5, 2024. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images
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Pigeons stand on a decorative water well outside the Bazar Souq Waqif, with the Fanar mosque and the Abdulla Bin Zaid Al-Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center in the background, in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 5, 2024. Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images
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A worker walks at Solusi Bangun, Indonesia's Andalas cement plant at Lhoknga in Aceh province on Dec. 5, 2024, which was rebuilt after the 2004 tsunami. Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images
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Ecuador's Vice-President Veronica Abad arrives under heavy security to the judicial complex in Quito, Ecuador, on Dec. 5, 2024. Abad filed before justice a protection action after being suspended from office for 150 days by Ecuadorean government. Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images
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Cars are submerged in water along a flooded street following torrential rainfall in Tripoli, Libya, on Dec. 5, 2024. Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images
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A police officer stands guard next to weapons that had been used by criminals before being melted at a steel factory in Nobsa, Colombia, on Dec. 5, 2024. A total of 23,000 fire guns have been melted to become steel to support social projects according to Military Forces. Alejandro Martinez/AFP via Getty Images
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First lady Jill Biden, right, visits Kasr Al Hosn Fort, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 5, 2024. Altaf Qadri/AP Photo
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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to testify before the Bundestag Afghanistan investigative commission in Berlin on Dec. 5, 2024. The commission is tasked with analyzing Germany's role and the policies it followed in the period between the 2020 Doha Agreement and the hasty evacuation of international troops in the summer of 2021. Michele Tantussi/Getty Images
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An Indian soldier blows fire as he performs an acrobatic maneuver known as “Mallakhamb” during an event in Jaipur on Dec. 5, 2024. Himanshu Sharma/AFP via Getty Images
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More than 2,000 people gathered at the Place de Catalogne in Perpignan in southern France on Dec. 5, 2024 for a demonstration by civil servants and teachers on strike to demand more human and financial resources and a rollback of the latest measures announced by the censured government on Dec. 4. JC Milhet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
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This handout photo shows the launch of PSLV-C59 carrying two satellites of European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-3 spacecraft from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India on Dec. 5, 2024. (Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)/AFP via Getty Images)
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Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito leaves after visiting the Hagia Sofia Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on Dec. 5, 2024. Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty Images
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An artist restores the site of Seto Machhindranath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Dec. 5, 2024. Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images