Photos of the week: Feb. 24-March 3

Here are photos from stories that happened last week.

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People snap up photos of the moment the statue is unveiled on Saturday, March 3, 2018. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)
Marion Barry was memorialized Saturday morning with an 8-foot statue outside of the Wilson Building, which houses the mayor’s office and the D.C. Council on Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest D.C. People snap up photos of the moment the statue is unveiled on Saturday, March 3, 2018. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)
Powerful winds caused the sign for Potomac Mills to lean dangerously last year. (WTOP/John Domen)
The sign for Potomac Mills that can be seen on Interstate 95 leans dangerously, as the D.C. area was bombarded by powerful winds over the weekend. (WTOP/John Domen)
Giant panda Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. (Courtesy Skip Brown, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)
National Zoo veterinarians and panda keepers artificially inseminated Mei Xiang, 19, Thursday afternoon. It will be several months before the zoo finds out if the procedure was successful. Giant panda Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. (Courtesy Skip Brown, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)
The body of Rev. Billy Graham is carried into the Capitol Rotunda where he will lie in honor as President Donald Trump, officials and dignitaries pay tribute to America’s most famous evangelist, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, in Washington. The North Carolina-born farm boy became a media-savvy Southern Baptist minister and spiritual adviser to numerous presidents, reaching millions around with the world with his rallies — or what he called “crusades” — through his pioneering use of television. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Nik Wallenda did it again: The high-wire entertainer walked on a wire 75 feet up and as wide as a nickel at National Harbor. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)
Nik Wallenda did it again: The high-wire entertainer walked on a wire 75 feet up and as wide as a nickel at National Harbor. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)
(Courtesy Special Olympics Virginia)
Supporters of the Special Olympics in Northern Virginia braved the chilly waters along the Potomac River in Dumfries last Saturday. (Courtesy Special Olympics Virginia)
A tourist squints as local man puts colored powder on her face during the celebration of Holi in Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
A woman arranges the hair of a girl as they sell candies and cigarettes beside a street in metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Friday, March 2, 2018. Makeshift stalls of street vendors are common along pedestrian lanes in the crowded capital. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Performers dance during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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People snap up photos of the moment the statue is unveiled on Saturday, March 3, 2018. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)
Powerful winds caused the sign for Potomac Mills to lean dangerously last year. (WTOP/John Domen)
Giant panda Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. (Courtesy Skip Brown, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)
Nik Wallenda did it again: The high-wire entertainer walked on a wire 75 feet up and as wide as a nickel at National Harbor. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)
(Courtesy Special Olympics Virginia)

The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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