Photos of the week: June 16-22

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The 15,000-square-foot main house has 5 en-suite bedrooms, a foyer with duel staircases, a pub, billiards room, wine cellar, theater and sauna. (Courtesy Platinum Luxury Auctions)
A 112-acre Charlottesville estate modeled after Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and George Washington’s Mount Vernon hits the auction block on June 23. The 15,000-square-foot main house has 5 en-suite bedrooms, a foyer with duel staircases, a pub, billiards room, wine cellar, theater and sauna. (Courtesy Platinum Luxury Auctions)
The new observation deck is the highest public point in the D.C.-area. (WTOP/Shannon Finney)
The new Observation Deck at CEB Tower opened on Thursday and offers views from the highest public point in the D.C. area. The new observation deck is the highest public point in the D.C.-area. (WTOP/Shannon Finney)
A shallow pit and the recovery of 11 amputated limbs were discovered at the Manassas National Battlefield at the site of a field hospital used during the days following the Second Battle of Manassas, also known as the Second Battle of Bull Run. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A shallow pit and the recovery of 11 amputated limbs were discovered at the Manassas National Battlefield at the site of a field hospital used during the days following the Second Battle of Manassas, also known as the Second Battle of Bull Run. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Giant hogweed can grow from 7 to 15 feet in height. (Courtesy Virginia Invasive Species)
A dangerous invasive weed that can grow to towering heights has turned up in Virginia for the first time. The plant’s sap can cause severe burns. Giant hogweed can grow from 7 to 15 feet in height. (Courtesy Virginia Invasive Species)
The fire is in the outer loop portion of the bridge. Smoke has shut down traffic on the inner loop. (Courtesy MDOT)
A fatal traffic collision and fire Wednesday shut down a portion of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge for hours and affected traffic in the surrounding area. The fire is in the outer loop portion of the bridge. Smoke has shut down traffic on the inner loop. (Courtesy MDOT)
The blaze spread through the roof and caused the home to partially collapse.
One person jumped from the second floor to escape. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire & Rescue/Pete Piringer)
Two residents and a firefighter are in the hospital and three families are displaced following a two-alarm townhouse fire in Gaithersburg, Maryland, early Thursday morning. The blaze spread through the roof and caused the home to partially collapse. One person jumped from the second floor to escape. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire & Rescue/Pete Piringer)
Crews used nearly 1 million gallons of water to contain the fire at Georgetown Paperstock Recycling Plant. (Courtesy Pete Piringer via Twitter)
Hundreds of firefighters from every from every fire station in Montgomery County battled a fire overnight and into Saturday afternoon at a recycling plant in Rockville, Maryland. Crews used nearly 1 million gallons of water to contain the fire at Georgetown Paperstock Recycling Plant. (Courtesy Pete Piringer via Twitter)
A boy dressed in an Air Force uniform holds a sword as he salutes Zimbabwean “Junior President” Innocent Chikwanda, during celebrations to mark the Day of the African Child in Harare, Zimbabwe on Saturday, June 16, 2018. The annual holiday commemorates the 1976 uprising in Soweto, South Africa. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Angui Funes, right, sits with her brother, Jesus, after crossing the border back to Reynosa, Mexico, Thursday, June 21, 2018. The family, who was seeking asylum, said they were told by officials they would be separated, so they voluntarily returned to Mexico. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Thousands of supporters of Muharrem Ince, the presidential candidate of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party, attend a rally in Izmir, Turkey, Thursday, June 21, 2018. Ince is seen as a strong contender to end President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 16-year rule in the June 24 presidential election. (AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)
People observe the first rays of sun as they appear through the “Door of the Sun” at the ruins of the ancient city of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, early Thursday, June 21, 2018. Bolivia’s Aymara indigenous communities are celebrating the Andean new year 5,526 as well as the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, which marks the start of a new agricultural cycle. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A motorboat cuts a wake over the light morning waves of Lake Ashmere in Peru, Mass., Monday, June 18, 2018. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)
A woman holds an umbrella as she walks on a dry bank that provides water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi at Rawal Dam in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, June 22, 2018. The water level in dams and rivers are low due to dry and hot weather, causing water and energy shortages. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
In this Monday, June 18, 2018, photo, Mark Pickett, left, and Ryan Craig, right, work to rescue Bruce Salley, who was trapped in his car by flood waters in a supermarket parking in Rockford, Ill. An evening thunderstorm brought heavy rains across the Rock River Valley causing vehicles to get stuck in flood waters and stranding motorists. (Arturo Fernandez/Rockford Register Star via AP)
A racegoer rests between races on the third day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting, which is traditionally known as Ladies Day, in Ascot, England Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
Clouds over a church are illuminated by the setting sun during the 2018 soccer World Cup in Podolsk near Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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The 15,000-square-foot main house has 5 en-suite bedrooms, a foyer with duel staircases, a pub, billiards room, wine cellar, theater and sauna. (Courtesy Platinum Luxury Auctions)
The new observation deck is the highest public point in the D.C.-area. (WTOP/Shannon Finney)
A shallow pit and the recovery of 11 amputated limbs were discovered at the Manassas National Battlefield at the site of a field hospital used during the days following the Second Battle of Manassas, also known as the Second Battle of Bull Run. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Giant hogweed can grow from 7 to 15 feet in height. (Courtesy Virginia Invasive Species)
The fire is in the outer loop portion of the bridge. Smoke has shut down traffic on the inner loop. (Courtesy MDOT)
The blaze spread through the roof and caused the home to partially collapse.
One person jumped from the second floor to escape. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire & Rescue/Pete Piringer)
Crews used nearly 1 million gallons of water to contain the fire at Georgetown Paperstock Recycling Plant. (Courtesy Pete Piringer via Twitter)

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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