Photos of the week: Sept. 24-30

WASHINGTON — See what you may have missed in photos from this week’s biggest news stories.

Residents at La Perla community in Old San Juan comfort one another as the community recovers from Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The island territory of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is reeling in the devastating wake of Hurricane Maria. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
U.S. Capitol Police begin to detain protesters laying on the ground in an attempt to maintain order in the hallways outside the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the last-ditch GOP push to overhaul the nation’s health care system, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
In this Sept. 26, 2017, file photo, a Balinese man watches Mount Agung volcano covered with clouds at a temple in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia. Warnings that a volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali will erupt have sparked an exodus of more than 75,000 people that is likely to continue to swell, the country’s disaster agency said. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)
Amos Yee, a teenage blogger from Singapore, talks to reporters outside of the U.S. immigration field office after being released from federal custody following a U.S. immigration appeals court’s decision to uphold his bid for asylum, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Chicago. Yee, an atheist, was accused of hurting the religious feelings of Muslims and Christians in Singapore. The teen’s online posts mocking and criticizing the city-state’s government have twice landed him in a Singapore jail. He left his homeland in December with the intention of seeking U.S. asylum, but was detained in Chicago and remained behind bars during the proceedings. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Confederate flag posters with cotton plants attached were found on bulletin boards at American University on Tuesday night. (Courtesy Max Spivak)
Confederate flag posters with cotton plants attached were found on bulletin boards at American University. Tuesday night. (Courtesy Max Spivak)
Rob Jones is pictured here running the Marine Corps Marathon in 2015.
 (Courtesy Rob Jones Journey)
Rob Jones is pictured here running the Marine Corps Marathon in 2015. (Courtesy Rob Jones Journey)
Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service
Firefighters located the missing individual in the basement of the home, but he was dead. The identities of the victims of the fire are not available. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service)
Residents from Juana Matos buy groceries at Catano Mini Market in the middle of a supply shortage caused by the passage of Hurricane Maria, in Catano, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Since the devastating impact of the hurricane, the supply of goods has been interrupted in the US territory, causing endless lines in gas stations and comercial centers. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise leaves the House chamber in the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. To hugs and a roaring bipartisan standing ovation, Scalise returned to the House, more than three months after a baseball practice shooting left him fighting for his life. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
(WTOP/Mike Murillo)
Duke Ellington School of the Arts teemed with excited students as alumnus Dave Chappelle returned to the school on Friday to receive the key to the city and give a gift of his own. (WTOP/Mike Murillo)
President Donald Trump’s health secretary resigned Friday, after his costly travel triggered investigations that overshadowed the administration’s agenda and angered his boss. Tom Price’s regrets and partial repayment couldn’t save his job. FILE – In this June 15, 2017, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Price announced Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, he is resigning amid criticism of his travel on private planes. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises, Hugh Hefner at his home (aka Playboy Mansion) in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kristian Dowling)
Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91. American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises, Hugh Hefner at his home (aka Playboy Mansion) in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kristian Dowling)
A slipper of an injured commuter is seen stuck on the railing of a pedestrian bridge where a stampede took place at the Elphinstone station, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The stampede broke out on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during the Friday morning rush, killing a number of people police said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, gives a speech about race relations to U.S. Air Force cadets during lunch, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Silveria, the leader of the Air Force Academy delivered a poignant and stern message on race relations in a speech to thousands of cadets after someone wrote racial slurs on message boards outside the dorm rooms of five black students. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)
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Confederate flag posters with cotton plants attached were found on bulletin boards at American University on Tuesday night. (Courtesy Max Spivak)
Rob Jones is pictured here running the Marine Corps Marathon in 2015.
 (Courtesy Rob Jones Journey)
Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service
(WTOP/Mike Murillo)
American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises, Hugh Hefner at his home (aka Playboy Mansion) in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kristian Dowling)

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