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On November 9th, 2016, protests erupted in Los Angeles after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States.  The 101 highway was shut down for hours until police arrived and cleared the scene.
Remi Ilkhanipour was born 12 week premature to Arafat and and Payom Ilkhanipour. She weighed in at 1 pound 6 ounces at birth.
Every year during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand, acts of self-mortification are done  in honor of the gods and to display one's devotion to their beliefs.  The ritual happens every year from October 8th to the 17th.
Paula Jean Clifton of Los Angeles, California performs a dove release at the baby shower of her grandson Leonardo Nichols.  Nichols and his partner, Jessica Saravia, will be expecting a baby girl and have chosen the name "Jaycee Jacoby Nichols".
Pastor Cue Jn'Marie has been pastoring The Row Church that meets out on Skid Row in Los Angeles, California every Friday night for the past 12 years.  Skid Row has the most concentrated number of homeless people in the Los Angeles area.  Most of these people suffer from drug abuse as well as mental illness.
Ukranian boys in the Carpathian Mountains gather fresh water for the day.  During the summer months, people will travel higher into the mountains to make cheese to sell while it's in season.
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A man angerily shouts during the protest of Donald Trump being elected in November of 2016.  Thousands of people gathered onto the 101 highway in Los Angeles, California to show their dissapproval for the newly elected president.
Joe Smith, 50, from Cuba, Missouri watches T.V. from his hosptial bed.  He has been suffering from Multiple Sclerosis for the past 25 years and he has been confined to a wheelchair the past 10 years.  He eventually passed away in December of 2017.
A young man in the Kathputli Colony in New Delhi, India hugs his puppet.  These people are being forced out of their homes so that expensive highrises can be built.  The people of the colony who come from generations of magicians, snake charmers, puppeteers, and artists have lived in this community since the 1950's.
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Micky Schechter, whose motorhome was destroyed in the Woosley Fire, attends a town hall meeting to discuss how residents in the Malibu area are to move forward in the reconstruction of their homes and lives.
Thuy Vo Dang, 39, protests in Westminister, California against the Trump administration's possible re-interpretation of a 2008 agreement protecting Vietnamese immigrants arriving before 1995.
Fouzia Alamarou demands justice for her dead son, Kenneth Ross Jr..  Ross was killed by Gardena police in April of 2018 when he was a suspect in a shooting that occured on the 13200 block of Van Ness Avenue.
A young man protests against President Trump's visit to Beverly Hills, California.  The president plans to attend a fundraiser for his reelection campaign.
A young girl falls asleep during the 10pm mass at Our Queen Lady of Angeles Catholic Church in Los Angeles, CA.  Every year on December 12th, the Mexican Catholic community commemorates the appearance of Mary to the Mexican peasant Juan Diego in 1531.