Looking back at the
#YearInPictures, September 2025
Sept. 30, Quantico, Virginia: Top U.S. military commanders were summoned for campaign-style speeches from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Trump leveraged the meeting to trumpet his policy moves, and suggested troops should use cities as “training grounds.” 📸 nytmills
Sept. 10, Orem, Utah: Fear and confusion rippled through the crowd at Utah Valley University after Charlie Kirk, the divisive right-wing political activist, was fatally shot on stage during a speaking event. 📸 Tess Crowley/The Deseret News, via apnews
Sept. 16, Baidoa, Somalia: Malyun Ali Ibrahim and her daughter at an emergency feeding center. Somalia’s health care system was in disarray after the Trump administration dismantled the Agency for International Development and ended much foreign assistance. 📸 storitellah
Sept. 18, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A mother and her almost two-year-old daughter Joy, center, lived for months at a gas station that...