The Daily Beast showcases the best photography that captured a whirlwind decade of protests, political convulsions, and the power of the human spirit.
An Afghan man was detained by U.S. Marines from the First Battalion, Eighth Marines Bravo Company at their base in Talibjan after a battle against Taliban insurgents in Musa Qala district in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on November 7, 2010.
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A woman put her hand near a crack on a wall as she waited for food distribution in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 27, 2010, two weeks after a killer 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the capital.
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Shaun White of the United States celebrated with fellow American Scott Lago after White won the gold medal and Lago the bronze in the Snowboard Men's Halfpipe final on day six of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Cypress Snowboard & Ski-Cross Stadium on February 17, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.
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An elderly Afghan woman showed off her inked finger after she made it to the polls to cast her vote on September 18, 2010 in Kabul, Panjshir, Afghanistan. The Taliban warned voters to boycott the polls, threatening violence to disturb the election process.
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An Italian couple sat during lunch as Steve Black of Australia dove past their balcony in the lead up round four of the 2010 Red Bull Cliff Diving world series in Polignano a Mare on August 5, 2010.
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Miner Osman Araya hugged his wife after he was the sixth miner to be hoisted to the surface during a daring rescue in Copiapo on October 13, 2010. Chile's 33 trapped miners had to travel nearly half a mile through solid rock in a shaft just wider than a man's shoulders, after a two-month survival ordeal due to a cave-in.
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Riot police walked in the street as a couple kissed on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver broke out in riots after their hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks, lost in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals.
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In this July 19, 2011 photo, a leopard attacked a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and attacked several villagers, including at least four guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports.
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Houses were swept away by water following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori City in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. A massive 8.9 magnitude quake hit northeast Japan, causing many injuries, fires and a 33-foot tsunami along parts of the country's coastline. The earthquake also set off a disastrous meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge kissed on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, watched by bridesmaids Grace van Cutsem (L) and Margarita Armstrong-Jones and pageboy Tom Pettifer, after their wedding in Westminster Abbey, in central London on April 29, 2011.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, received an update on the Navy SEAL mission to kill Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
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College student Jajuan Kelley covered his mouth with a Skittles wrapper as he stood in a crowd of thousands rallying at the Georgia State Capitol in memory of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on March 26, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin's shooting by a neighborhood watch captain led to questions of the "Stand Your Ground" law in Florida and other states.
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A roller coaster was submerged in the ocean in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, New Jersey on November 11, 2012.
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In this March 26, 2012 photo, Tibetan exile Jamphel Yeshi screamed as he ran, engulfed in flames after setting himself on fire, at a protest in New Delhi, India, against Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to India. Yeshi died two days later while hundreds of other activists were being held without charge before the president's arrival. Hu arrived in New Delhi for a summit with India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa.
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Neil Heslin, father of six-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Jesse Lewis, wiped tears away as he testified during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on assault weapons bans on February 27, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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Isaac Botella Perez of Spain competed in the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Vault final on Day 10 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at North Greenwich Arena on August 6, 2012 in London, England.
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Police officers ran towards the second explosion at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The first explosion knocked down 78-year-old US marathon runner Bill Iffrig at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon race.
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge left the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's hospital with their newborn son on July 23, 2013 in London, England.
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Black Lives Matter supporters at the Peoples Assembly demonstrated on July 16, 2013 in London. Tens of thousands of people gathered to protest in a march through the capital protesting against the Conservative Party cuts.
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In a now-infamous performance, Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus performed onstage during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center on August 25, 2013 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Newly elected Pope Francis appeared at the window of his future private apartment to bless the faithful, gathered below in St. Peter's Square, during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican on March 17, 2013.
Osservatore Romano/Reuters
Marina owner Mitzi Richards carried her granddaughter as they walked on their boat dock at the dried-up lake bed of Huntington Lake, which was at only 30 percent capacity as yet another severe drought gripped California on September 23, 2014.
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Edward Crawford Jr., returned a tear gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 13, 2014, after police shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown.
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Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shown smoldering in a field on July 17, 2014 in Grabovo, Ukraine near the Russian border. Flight 17, on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and carrying 295 passengers and crew, is believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile in an area under control of pro-Russian militias, according to U.S. intelligence officials and Ukrainian authorities.
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Militant Islamist fighters took part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province on June 30, 2014, to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq. The Islamic State, or ISIS, an al Qaeda offshoot, posted pictures online of people waving black flags from cars and holding guns in the air.
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Anti-government protesters clashed with police in Kiev's Maidan, or Independence square, on February 20, 2014 in Ukraine. Violence flared between police and anti-government protesters, who called for the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an abandoned trade agreement with the European Union. The next day, Yanukovych fled to Crimea and then Russia as the country's parliament voted to remove him from his post.
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Kearston Farr comforts her daughter, Taliyah Farr,5, as they stand in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people of June 19, 2015. A 21-year-old white gunman is suspected of killing nine people during a prayer meeting in the church, which is one of the nation's oldest black churches in Charleston.
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A paramilitary police officer investigated the scene before carrying the body of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi from the sea shore, near the beach resort of Bodrum, Turkey, on Sept. 2, 2015.
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French fire brigade members aided an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following a fatal terrorist attack in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015.
Christian Hartmann/Reuters
Rainbow-colored lights shone on the White House to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The high court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage in all 50 states.
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A Baltimore Orioles batter hit the ball in the final inning against the Chicago White Sox in an empty Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, MD on April 29, 2015. The closing of the game to fans followed the unrest related to the death of city resident Freddie Gray, who was arrested for possessing a switch blade knife and died while in custody of the Baltimore Police.
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Armed gunmen faced off with police officers near the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, during an attack on the offices of the newspaper which left 11 dead, including two police officers.
Anne Gelbard/GettyFrench fire brigade members aided an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following a fatal terrorist attack in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015.
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A migrant carrying a child fell after tripping on TV camerawoman (R) Petra Laszlo while trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village, Hungary, September 8, 2015.
Marko Djurica/Reuters
A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling was detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., on July 9, 2016.
Jonathan Bachman/Reuters
U.S. gymnast Simone Biles competed in the qualifying round for the women's Beam event of the Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 7, 2016.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton hugged U.S. President Barack Obama as she arrived onstage at the end of his speech on the third night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., on July 27, 2016.
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A body lay on the ground in Nice, France on July 15, 2016 after 86 people were killed and almost 500 others injured when a truck intentionally ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday.
Eric Gaillard/Reuters
A displaced Iraqi boy lead his animals to safety after escaping from the ISIS-controlled village of Abu Jarboa during clashes with militants near Mosul, Iraq on November 1, 2016.
Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Beyonce and Chris Martin of Coldplay performed during the half-time show at the NFL's Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos in Santa Clara, California on February 7, 2016.
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Jackeline, 26, held her 4-month-old son, who was born with microcephaly, in front of their house in Olinda, near Recife, Brazil, on February 11, 2016, in a suspected case of Zika virus infection.
Nacho Doce/Reuters
Peter Cvjetanovic (R) along with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, chanted at counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017. One female counter protester died at the Unite the Right Rally after being deliberately run over by a white supremacist.
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U.S. President Donald Trump threw rolls of paper towels into a crowd of local residents affected by Hurricane Maria as he visited Calgary Chapel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, U.S., on October 3, 2017.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Photographers helped a Rohingya refugee escape the Nad River at the crossing of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on November 1, 2017. Myanmar's army has been accused of a campaign of rape and genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population.
Hannah McKay/Reuters
Emmanuel Macron, the candidate (and eventual winner) in the 2017 French presidential election, gestured to supporters after the first round of 2017 French presidential election in Paris, France, on April 23, 2017.
Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Kandy Freeman participated in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of Trump Tower in New York City, January 14, 2017.
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People gathered for the Women's March in Washington U.S., on January 21, 2017.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Attendees arrived in Washington, DC for the inauguration ceremonies to swear in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, spoke by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House on January 28, 2017.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Myeshia Johnson, wife of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, who was among four special forces soldiers killed in Niger, kissed his coffin at a graveside service in Hollywood, Florida, October 21, 2017.
Joe Skipper/Reuters
A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cried as her mother was searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center, during a crackdown by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as it executed the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy towards undocumented immigrants.
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Students were brought out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting at the school that killed and injured multiple people on February 14, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh arrived for testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy on the court left by retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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Participants arrived for the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, DC on March 24, 2018. Galvanized by a massacre at a Florida high school, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets in cities across the United States in the biggest protest for gun control in a generation.
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Meghan Markle walked down the aisle in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 during her wedding to Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
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A Pro-European Union protester held the Union Jack and the European flag in front of the Victoria Tower at The Palace of Westminster in central London on September 13, 2017, to warn about the terms of Brexit, after Britain voted to leave the EU.
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One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 10, 2018, during the tech executive's first appearance before Congress.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel deliberated with U.S. president Donald Trump at the second day of the G7 summit on June 9, 2018 in Charlevoix, Canada. Also pictured are (L-R) Larry Kudlow, director of the US National Economic Council; Theresa May, UK prime minister; Emmanuel Macron, French president; Merkel; Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japanese deputy chief cabinet secretary; Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister; Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Japanese senior deputy minister for foreign affairs; and John Bolton, US national security adviser.
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White House Communications Director Hope Hicks left the U.S. Capitol after attending the House Intelligence Committee closed-door meeting in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2018.
Leah Millis/Reuters
Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrived at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, on May 25, 2018. Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment and assault by multiple actresses in exposes in the New Yorker and The New York Times, setting off the viral #MeToo movement in response.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Players from the USA lifted the FIFA Women's World Cup Trophy following their team's victory at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France Final match between The United State of America and The Netherlands at Stade de Lyon on July 07, 2019 in Lyon, France.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence applauded U.S. President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump's second State of the Union address was postponed one week due to the partial government shutdown.
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The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lay on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, on June 24, 2019. The pair drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez' wife, Tania told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current.
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Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), billionaire Tom Steyer, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former tech executive Andrew Yang, former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and former housing secretary Julian Castro stood at the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls participated in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times.
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A man watched the historic Notre Dame Cathedral burn, engulfed in flames, in central Paris on April 15, 2019. A huge fire swept through the roof of the famous medieval structure, sending flames and huge clouds of grey smoke billowing into the sky. The flames and smoke plumed from the spire and roof of the Gothic cathedral, visited by millions of people each year.
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A pro-democracy activist held a yellow umbrella in front of a police line on a street in Mongkok district on November 25, 2014 in Hong Kong.
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, posed with their newborn son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle on May 8, 2019 in Windsor, England.
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Flames reflected on a LA City fire truck on Sepulveda Blvd. in the Sepulveda Pass as the Getty fire burned in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2019.
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