Too busy collecting costume materials to keep up with headlines this week? No worries. We’ve collected some of the best news photography from this week’s trending stories to catch you up before trick-or-treaters come knocking.
Last Friday, Hillary Clinton declared that businesses and corporations don’t create jobs. On Oct. 28, she clarified things.
‘You don’t create jobs!’ (Photo: Steve Jurvetson/Creative Commons)
Lady Liberty celebrated her 125th birthday on Oct. 28.
The Statue of Liberty during a flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. (Photo: Pete Souza/Newscom)
Social media blew up all day Oct. 29 in honor of National Cat Day. Here’s my favorite:
Adorable. (Photo: Newscom)
Republicans thought they were set to win the U.S. Senate race in Georgia , but polls suggest there might be a runoff election in January.
Republican Senate candidate David Perdue arrives for a rally before a debate at the Georgia National Fair. (Photo: Newscom)
Brittany Maynard made news earlier this month because she planned to “die with dignity” on Nov. 1. But in a new video released yesterday, she announced she’s not ready to die—yet.
Brittany Maynard and her husband on their wedding day before she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. (Photo: The Brittany Maynard Fund)
“The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickens—.” That’s what a senior Obama administration official was cited as saying, using Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nickname. Netanyahu has reportedly told advisers that he has “written off” the Obama administration.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Newscom)
Elephants at Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna are celebrating Halloween with fresh pumpkins being fed to them.
Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said the elephants also enjoy playing with the pumpkins. (Photo: Newscom)
ISIS is still terrorizing the Middle East.
Iranians gather to show their support of the people of Syria and Iraq, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo: Maryam Rahmanian/Newscom)
Iraqi refugees girls, who fled from ISIS violence in Mosul, wait up to receive food. (Photo: Ceerwan Aziz/Newscom)
Experts at The Heritage Foundation say the United States shouldn’t trust Iran. The country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blames America for creating ISIS.
Hundreds of people in the Turkish village of Suruc, near the border town of Kobane, mourn the death of Kurdish fighters who died while battling ISIS militants. (Photo: Barbaros Kayan/Newscom)
Have you noticed that bag of Halloween candy for trick-or-treaters is getting more expensive every year? It is—thanks to a federal sugar program that artificially keeps the price of sugar excessively high.
According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it cost 37.5 cents to buy a pound of wholesale refined beet sugar in the United States. (Photo: Creative Commons)
The San Francisco Giants won the World Series, 4-3, against the Kansas City Royals on Oct. 29.
Michael Morse of the San Francisco Giants celebrates after hitting an RBI single in the fourth inning of Game 7 of the World Series against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. (Photo: Kyodo/Newscom)
Kaci Hickox, a Maine nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, dominated headlines this week because she decided to defy her 21-day quarantine. Meanwhile, President Obama addressed the nation saying, “progress is possible.”
President Obama delivers a statement about Ebola on the South Lawn of the White House Oct. 28.
