Photos of the week: July 21-28

Here are photos from stories that happened last week.

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What the sky over Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., looked like on Friday, July 27, 2018. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)
The D.C. area experienced heavy rain most of last week. See photos. What the sky over Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., looked like on Friday, July 27, 2018. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)
A two-alarm fire engulfs an apartment building on Edmonston Road in Greenbelt, Maryland. (Courtesy Mark Brady/Prince George's County Fire)
A two-alarm fire engulfs an apartment building on Edmonston Road in Greenbelt, Maryland. (Courtesy Mark Brady/Prince George’s County Fire)
Animal Control will be relocating the four-foot alligator to a safe habitat. (Courtesy D.C. police)
D.C. police and a rescue organization found a 5-foot-long caiman and several dogs in the basement of a Southeast property. (Courtesy D.C. police)
Ponies arrive on shore during the annual Pony Swim in Chincoteague, Va., on Wednesday, July 25, 2018. The ponies traveled from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island during “slack tide” when there is little current. (Alex Driehaus/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
The EF-0 tornado that briefly touched down near Thomas Jefferson High School in Licnolnia, Virginia, area also lofted a shipping container over 100 yards. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)
The National Weather Service confirmed Tuesday evening that an early morning tornado touched down for about a minute in the Lincolnia area. See photos. The EF-0 tornado that briefly touched down near Thomas Jefferson High School in Licnolnia, Virginia, area also lofted a shipping container over 100 yards. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources shared photos of shark teeth found in a Huntingtown creek Monday. (Courtesy Maryland Department of Natural Resources)
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources shared photos of shark teeth found in a Huntingtown creek Monday. (Courtesy Maryland Department of Natural Resources)
Standing in front of the state house in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday, dozens of Great Mills high school students and a survivor of the Capital Gazette shooting spoke out against gun violence. (WTOP/Melissa Howell)
Standing in front of the state house in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday, dozens of Great Mills high school students and a survivor of the Capital Gazette shooting spoke out against gun violence. (WTOP/Melissa Howell)
The candidates in Virginia’s U.S. Senate race had a quarrelsome first debate Saturday with President Donald Trump serving as a frequent focal point of the sparring. (AP/Steve Helber)
Firefighters discuss plans while battling the Carr Fire in Shasta, Calif., on Thursday, July 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Children look out a van window as they arrive at Lutheran Social Services, Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Phoenix. Lutheran Social Services said they were expecting reunited families separated at the border when apprehended entering the United States to come through their facility. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Duck boat accident survivor Tia Coleman is comforted by her sister Leeta Bigbee after speaking to the media at Cox Medical Center Branson Saturday, July 21, 2018, in Branson, Mo. Coleman lost nine family members in the accident Thursday on Table Rock Lake which left over a dozen people dead. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Full moon rises over the ancient temple of Poseidon in cape Sounio, about 65 kilometers (40miles) south of Athens, Friday, July 27, 2018. The complete lunar eclipse Friday when the sun, Earth and moon line up perfectly to cast Earth’s shadow on the moon, will be the longest this century. It’s called a “blood moon” because it turns a deep red and will be visible at different times around the world. Additionally, Mars and the sun will be on exact opposite sides of the Earth and will shine its best. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
In this Friday, July 20, 2018, photo, Evangeline Garcia paddles a boat-load of piglets to safety at a flooded village in Quezon city, metropolitan Manila, Philippines. Southwest monsoon rains brought about by a tropical storm continue to flood parts of the metropolitan and provinces causing school and work suspensions. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
In this July 20, 2018 photo, Joshep Balta, a clown named “Cachupito,” peers through the tent curtain to see how many people are waiting for the show, put on by the International Circus, set up in the shanty town of Puente Piedra on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Balta, a 12-year old clown whose parents work at the circus setting up and breaking down the encampment, was discovered by the circus two years ago when he was performing as a clown at street corners. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this July 10, 2018 photo which published in late July, a vendor at the Witches’ Market drinks coffee at her shop full of Andean weavings and embroidery in La Paz, Bolivia. Before Spanish colonizers arrived, the land the market sits on was sacred ceremonial ground where blood was offered to thank the gods for an abundant harvest. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this July 25, 2018 photo, pro-choice activists in favor of decriminalizing abortion wear costumes from the Handmaid’s Tale, a book and now television series, outside Congress where lawmakers passed new, abortion-related legislation which is scheduled to be voted on by the Senate, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The novel’s writer, Margaret Atwood, showed her support on Twitter for approval of the law, which would legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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What the sky over Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., looked like on Friday, July 27, 2018. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)
A two-alarm fire engulfs an apartment building on Edmonston Road in Greenbelt, Maryland. (Courtesy Mark Brady/Prince George's County Fire)
Animal Control will be relocating the four-foot alligator to a safe habitat. (Courtesy D.C. police)
The EF-0 tornado that briefly touched down near Thomas Jefferson High School in Licnolnia, Virginia, area also lofted a shipping container over 100 yards. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources shared photos of shark teeth found in a Huntingtown creek Monday. (Courtesy Maryland Department of Natural Resources)
Standing in front of the state house in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday, dozens of Great Mills high school students and a survivor of the Capital Gazette shooting spoke out against gun violence. (WTOP/Melissa Howell)

The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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