2023 Domestic (US) Spot News Picture Story

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First Place - 2023 Domestic (US) Spot News Picture Story

An aerial view wreckage in the town of Rolling Fork after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 26, 2023. New research suggests that as average temperatures rise, the sorts of intense storms that frequently spawn tornadoes are becoming more common outside parts of the Midwest known as tornado alley.

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The McKnight family gather belongings from the wreckage of their home as Mississippi braces for another round of potentially severe weather after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 26, 2023.

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Shirley Stamps, 58, is surrounded by her grandchildren as she sits on her bed and sorts through her belongings in the wreckage of her home after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 25, 2023.

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Ester Johnson-El, 62, inspects the wreckage of her home where she rode out the storm with her nephew, grandson, and her grandsons mother after a monster storm system spawning tornados tore through the South and Midwest on Friday in Wynne, Arkansas, U.S. April 1, 2023.

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An American flag amidst the wreckage of a home after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 27, 2023.

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Cedric Miles, 42, searches for belongings inside his destroyed home after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 25, 2023.

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An aerial view of a home without a roof in the aftermath of a tornado, after a monster storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Friday in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. April 2, 2023.

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Sharon Nicholson-Taylor, 69, is helped to stand by her husband Mark, 66, in front of the wreckage of their apartment. Sharon and their dog Buster were both in bed sleeping when the tornado hit their home after a monster storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Friday. Sharon was transported to the hospital with a leg injury after her husband Mark pulled both her and the dog from beneath the debris. The couple and dog have since been staying in a relatively undamaged room in their apartment which gets cold at night. This has broke me down, said Sharon, we are trying to make this work but it is not working, in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. April 2, 2023.

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Two friends, who wish to remain anonymous, embrace after seeing each other for the fist time since a monster storm system spawning tornados tore through the South and Midwest on Friday. The man on the right described seeing his cousin put into the back of the pickup truck to be taken to the hospital immediately following the storm. He then went to go look for his cousins two children who he was told were in her house but when he arrived to the site of his cousins trailer home he could not find it. There was no home, he said it was gone. His cousin later died as a result of her injuries and he is unsure about the whereabouts and status of her children in Wynne, Arkansas, U.S. April 1, 2023.

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Destroyed semi trucks are seen through a car window as Mississippi braces for another round of potentially severe weather after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 26, 2023.

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Community members form a prayer circle around the Shipley family who lost 5 family members in a tornado when a volatile storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Tuesday and Wednesday in Glenallen, Missouri, U.S. April 5, 2023.

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Nicholas Pinkins, 34, holds his youngest daughter Nickayla, 1, outside the wreckage of his home after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 27, 2023.

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Second Place - 2023 Domestic (US) Spot News Picture Story

Students from the nearby Harpeth Hall School pray while visiting a memorial at the school entrance after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 29, 2023. On March 27 there was a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Six peoplethree students and three staffwere killed at random. The following week hundreds of students, parents and teachers marched to the State Capitol and held demonstrations demanding action by the legislature to toughen gun laws. The Republicans who control state government rejected these calls. On March 30, Representatives Jones, Pearson and Johnson whose districts are in Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis, the states three largest cities interrupted the legislature by chanting No action, no peace on the House floor, and legislative proceedings were forced to a halt. In response to these actions, on April 6th the Republican supermajority voted to expel Rep. Jones and Pearson, who are black, but not to expell Rep. Johnson, who is white. In less than a week both Representatives were reinstated following votes in their respective districts.

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People attend a vigil after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 29, 2023.

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Protesters gather as Republicans who control the Tennessee House of Representatives prepare to vote on whether to expel three Democratic members for their role in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 6, 2023.

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Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones raise their fists as a video of the previous week's gun control demonstration at the statehouse is screened and Republicans who control the Tennessee House of Representatives prepare to vote on whether to expel them for their role in it, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 6, 2023.

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Tennessee State Troopers guard the Tennessee State House after a vote on to expel two of three Democratic members for their role in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse the previous week, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 6, 2023.

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Rep. Justin Pearson, Rep. Justin Jones, and Rep. Gloria Johnson leave the Tennessee State Capitol after a vote at the Tennessee House of Representatives to expel two Democratic members for their roles in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse the previous week, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 6, 2023.

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Mary Joyce (center) and other Covenant School parents cry in the House hearing room during a House education administration committee after things became heated over Tennessee House Bill 7064, which would permit guns to be carried on school campus, grounds and recreation areas by active duty or retired law enforcement officers and military members, on the third day of the special session on public safety to discuss gun violence in the wake of Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., August 23, 2023.

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Representative Justin Pearson waves from the house gallery after Representative Jones returned to the house floor after his reinstatement days after the Republican majority Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel both of them for their roles in a gun control demonstration on the statehouse floor, at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 10, 2023.

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Representative Justin Jones leaves the Historic Metro Courthouse after being reinstated by the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County with 36-0 votes, after the Republican majority Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two Democratic members, representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, for their roles in a gun control demonstration on the statehouse floor, outside the Historic Metro Courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 10, 2023.

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Justin J. Pearson looks from inside a car after a vote for his reinstatement by the Shelby County Commission, days after the Republican majority Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel him and Rep. Justin Jones for their roles in a gun control demonstration on the statehouse floor, in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., April 12, 2023.

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Democratic Tennessee state Representative Justin Pearson, who was ousted from the Tennessee House of Representatives along with another young Black colleague for breaking decorum with a gun control demonstration on the House floor, reacts next to Representative Justin Jones, as he returns to the state legislature after being reinstated in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. April 13, 2023.

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Oceana R. Gilliam climbs stairs at the Tennessee State Capitol while wearing the state flag ahead of a special session on public safety where gun control bills will be proposed in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., August 21, 2023.

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Third Place - 2023 Domestic (US) Spot News Picture Story

Wind fueled wildfires in August devastated communities in Maui. One in Kula A destroyed countless structures and caused environmental ramifications. A later wildfire killed nearly 100 people and destroyed the historic town of Lahaina. Neighboring towns throughout the Hawaiian Islands and beyond rallied to the people who were displaced and those who were grieving. Mark Ross works on cutting burnt fence on his property that was destroyed by last weeks fire on Wednesday August 16, 2023 in Kula, HI. The chimney is all they is visible from a house that he used to live in and was being rented out to another family.