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Radiating confidence and style, Aretha Franklin strikes a bold pose, turning up her collar and meeting the lens with a determined gaze. This iconic moment was captured in Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday, February 2, 2005, during her inaugural photo session with Matthew Jordan Smith. Clad in a vibrant bright pink leather jacket, she exudes cool energy, accentuated by her short crop hair and striking red lipstick.

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Aretha Franklin’s official photographer captured her distinct style

An airplane passes near the total solar eclipse during the Hoosier Cosmic Celebration at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. April 8, 2024. Bobby Goddin/USA Today Network via REUTERS

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Samantha Casiano cries while visiting the gravesite of her daughter Halo with her daughter Camila and son Louie.

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias urges the ball into the cup on the 18th green of Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club in the Women's All-American Golf Tournament on Aug. 4, 1950. (AP Photo/Ed Maloney)

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O.J. Simpson looks at a new pair of Aris extra-large gloves which the prosecutors had him put on for the jury 21 June 1995 during his double murder trial in Los Angeles. The gloves were the same type found at the Bundy murder scene and the O.J. Simpson estate.

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An electric company worker changing ballasts and lamps on the "Welcome to Las Vegas," sign on July 28, 2005.

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The evolution of Las Vegas

GAZA CITY, GAZA - FEBRUARY 26: A child is seen crying amid others with empty containers, pans as they all wait to receive hot food distributed by charitables and charity organization in Gaza City, Gaza on February 26, 2024. Palestinians are unable to obtain basic food supplies due to the embargo imposed by Israeli forces. (Photo by Omar Qattaa/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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In pictures: ‘Catastrophic’ hunger in Gaza

Zendaya arrives at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on March 10.

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An Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint in the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The National Police and Army are providing security unaided by international troops now in most of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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A local fisherman performs maintenance on his boat at Loji Beach, West Java, surrounded by garbage.

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The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up

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DEL RIO, TEXAS - APRIL 8: People watch the solar eclipse watch at Amistad National Recreational Area in Del Rio, Texas, on Monday April 8, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger for CNN)

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How gangs and gunfire are overwhelming Haiti’s capital

A woman is comforted inside a van during the evacuation of Irpin, a city north of Kyiv under attack by Russian artillery, March 5, 2022. Villages north of Kyiv have been under attack by Russian artillery since the early days. of the invasion.

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Ukrainians have seen ‘unimaginable’ horror. Photographers share their stories

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Black rodeo culture has been overlooked. This photographer wants to change that

Border Patrol agents ask asylum-seeking migrants to line up in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after the group crossed the border with Mexico, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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‘Utter confusion’ for migrants after crossing the border

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Just two northern white rhinos are left on Earth. A new breakthrough offers hope

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This handout photograph taken and released by the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation on April 17, 2024 shows Mount Ruang spewing hot lava and smoke as seen
from Sitaro, North Sulawesi. A volcano erupted several times in Indonesia's outermost region overnight on April 17, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated after it spewed lava and a
column of smoke more than a mile into the sky. Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation/AFP via Getty Images

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CNN As Equals climate gender inequality. For related CNN interactive only. Shahnaz (16) is now a mother of 3.5 years old son. She was married at 14 as her father was unable to provide for the family after cyclone. Satkhira, Bangladesh

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This is what the fentanyl crisis looks like in a state rethinking its historic drug policy

Pinky, 17, lifts dumbbells during morning fitness and practice session, on the playground at the Altius wrestling school in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 11, 2023.

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), right, speaks with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) after Gaetz voted "Present" and failed the 14th speakership vote for McCarthy, on the House floor at the Capitol, in Washington on Jan. 7, 2023.

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The audience sings along and holds up cash tips for drag queen Alexus Daniels at "Spring Fever Drag Brunch," Sunday, March 26, 2023, at the Kulpmont Winery in Kulpmont, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Drag performers are shining deep in coal country

Ruth Essel, 30, founder of Pointe Black Ballet School, and Kioni, 10, rehearse during class whilst an onlooker watches through the window in London, Britain, August 4, 2023. It was a pointed comment about her Afro-braided hair that spurred Essel to carve out what she calls a safe space for Black dancers. The founder of Pointe Black Ballet School in London said when she was a child, teachers and assistants all but punished her for not fitting the traditional ballerina mould, as if she was using her race as some kind of rebellion. Those challenges inspired Essel, a deputy programme manager at a unit of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, to establish Pointe Black in 2020 at the age of 26. "I wanted there to be a Black environment. I wanted there to be people who looked like me. I wanted there to be a teacher that looked like me," she said. REUTERS/Alishia Abodunde SEARCH "ABODUNDE BALLET SCHOOL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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Arnold, as you’ve never seen him before

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These dogs are living the good life in Palm Springs

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BROOKLYN, NY USA - JUNE 17, 2023 Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Saturday June 17, 2023 BROOKLYN, NY. (Photo by Aristide Economopoulos)
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Nothing says summer in New York quite like Coney Island

TOPSHOT - Five times freediving World Champion France's Arthur Guerin-Boeri swims next to an Orca's (Killer Whales) in the Arctic Ocean in the Spildra Island northern Arctic Circle, on January 27, 2023. - Arctic Atlantic ocean is at +3C as the air temperature is -4C at this time of the year during the polar nights. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nicole sleeps next to her aunt Siomara, who has been raising her since her mother was murdered. At 6 years old, Nicole suffered from night terrors and didn't like to sleep alone.

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ODESSA, UKRAINE - MARCH 5: George Keburia says goodbye to his wife Maya and children as they board a train to Lviv at the Odessa train station in Odessa, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. Hundreds of Ukrainian women and children along some men who came to say goodbye before going back to fight, were at the train stain trying to leave before the violence of the war reaches the city. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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This reproduction of a picture from the Homai Vyarawala's collection shows Indian photographer Homai Vyarawalla in her early years. The picture was published in the book "India In Focus : Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla" authored by Sabeena Gadihoke. Vyarawalla, 98, died on January 15, 2012 in Vadodara. Vyarawalla photographed the last days of the British Empire and her work traces the birth and growth of a new nation. Vyarawalla was recently conferred Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour AFP PHOTO / Sam PANTHAKY (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)

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