Photos of the week: May 4-11

Volunteers clean up the area surrounding the C&O canal during Canal Days on May 4, 2019. (WTOP/Melissa Howell)

Here are photos from stories that happened last week.

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The French Embassy hosted the D.C. Chocolate Festival on May 4, 2019. (WTOP/Melissa Howell)

Another one of the mobile sculptures entered in this year’s Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race. (Courtesy of Delegate Luke Clippinger) — The 21st Annual Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race is an event that requires participants to design a human-powered piece of art that covers 14 miles through the streets of the city. (Courtesy of Delegate Luke Clippinger)

tractor-trailer fire — A tractor-trailer transporting food caught on fire, causing parts of I-270 to close. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire/Pete Piringer)

The Humane Rescue Alliance in D.C. has a new initiative called “Happy Hour.” It’s a time where someone can take a shelter dog home and spend a relaxing few hours while making a new four-legged friend. (WTOP/Mike Murillo)

With the help of some air compressors, a virtual city of inflatable bounce houses expanded to life on Friday next to Rosecroft Raceway in Oxon Hill, Maryland, where the complex will welcome paying customers for the next two weekends. It started out flattened, and taking up a lot of space on a field near Rosecroft Raceway. But then the compressors kicked in. (WTOP/Kristi King)

In this image made available by SussexRoyal on Wednesday May 8, 2019, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, joined by her mother Doria Ragland, show their new son to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. Prince Harry and Meghan have named their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. (Chris Allerton/SussexRoyal via AP) — In this image made available by SussexRoyal on Wednesday May 8, 2019, Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, joined by her mother Doria Ragland, show their new son to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. Prince Harry and Meghan have named their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. (Chris Allerton/SussexRoyal via AP)

In this May 5, 2019, photo, Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn is transported on the royal palanquin by royal bearers during the Royal Procession on Land to encircle the city for the king’s coronation ceremonies in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

In this March 5, 2019 photo, a cargo ship arrives at the Port of Tacoma, in Tacoma, Wash. U.S. and Chinese negotiators resumed trade talks Friday, May 10, 2019, under increasing pressure after President Donald Trump raised tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods and Beijing promised to retaliate. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

A young woman is dropped off outside the STEM Highlands Ranch school as she walks the parking lot to her vehicle Wednesday morning, May 8, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo., the day after two students opened fire on students at the school. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

AP Photo/David Zalubowski

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