Photos of the week: Dec. 29 – Jan. 5

Here are photos from stories that happened last week.

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One person was critically injured Friday morning after a tractor trailer overturned. (Courtesy Maryland State Highway Administration)
Prince George’s County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady said the crash happened near MD-450/Annapolis Road in the median. One person was critically injured Friday morning after a tractor trailer overturned. (Courtesy Maryland State Highway Administration)
In this photo provided by the Office of Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton, a transgender pride flag, right, is displayed along with U.S. left, and Virginia, second from right, flags, outside newly elected Virginia congresswoman Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s office in Washington on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Wexton is a Democrat from 10th District in northern Virginia who was sworn in Thursday, Jan. 3. (Office of Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton via AP)
A group of furloughed feds hold a protest against government shutdown in College Park, Maryland, on Adelphi Road. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)
A group of furloughed feds hold a protest against government shutdown in College Park, Maryland, on Adelphi Road. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)
A young boy at the gates of the National Zoo on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, during the government shutdown. (WTOP/Alejandro Alvarez)
A young boy at the gates of the National Zoo on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, during the government shutdown. (WTOP/Alejandro Alvarez)
This 2017 photo provided by Morgan Kuznia shows her brother Riley Kuznia at his Marine graduation ceremony in San Diego. The 20-year-old U.S. Marine from Minnesota was killed in a shooting at the Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., his mother said Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. The U.S. Marine Corps said in a statement that the shooting was under investigation and that there was no danger to local residents “as the event transpired within the grounds of Marine Barracks 8th and I.” Marine Corps spokesman Chief Gunnery Sgt. John Jackson said the wound “was not self-inflicted.” (Morgan Kuznia via AP)
Two Eastern bongos went into labor around the same time and welcome two baby bongos the day after Christmas. (Courtesy Virginia Zoo)
Two Eastern bongos went into labor around the same time and welcome two baby bongos the day after Christmas. (Courtesy Virginia Zoo)
The handheld chemical and explosives analyzer at Dulles International Airport, testing two small plastic bags lying next to activist and actress Rose McGowan’s lost wallet, left little doubt: “Cocaine hydrochloride.” (Prosecution evidence)
On Tuesday, the first image of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule taken by the New Horizons spacecraft revealed a bowling pin. On Wednesday, more distinct and color images revealed a snowman. Full Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Johns Hopkins University/NASA
In this Oct. 26, 2018 photo, a man walks past vacant rowhomes in the Harlem Park neighborhood of Baltimore. “There are whole sections of our city that look like 1980’s Beirut,” said Carol Ott, an advocate for tenants’ rights in Baltimore who has helped bring the punishing scope of the decades-old problem to light. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, file photo, fireworks explode over the Victoria Harbor during New Year’s Eve to celebrate the start of year 2019 in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, file photo, Indians feed seagulls from the boat in the river Yamuna on the first day of the new year in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
A man stands in the water as he watches fireworks over Copacabana Beach during New Year’s celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 photo, a masked, female member of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN, stands by a mural depicting a masked version of the Virgin of Guadalupe, during an event marking the 25th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico. Mexico’s leftist Zapatistas have continued their aggressive criticism of the country’s new president, accusing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of dishonesty and vowing to confront him. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Catarina Alonzo Perez, mother of the second Guatemalan child this month to die while in U.S. custody, stands in her kitchen in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Felipe was healthy when they left, according to the family. The last time he spoke with his mother was a day before they were taken into detention by border agents. Felipe told his mother that he was fine. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Walk between mirror installations with a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and a Christmas tree in the background at the VDNKH (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A U.S. Border Protection officer stands under the rain as he watches the border fence between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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One person was critically injured Friday morning after a tractor trailer overturned. (Courtesy Maryland State Highway Administration)
A group of furloughed feds hold a protest against government shutdown in College Park, Maryland, on Adelphi Road. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli)
A young boy at the gates of the National Zoo on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, during the government shutdown. (WTOP/Alejandro Alvarez)
Two Eastern bongos went into labor around the same time and welcome two baby bongos the day after Christmas. (Courtesy Virginia Zoo)

The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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