Photos of the Week: Ketanji Brown-Jackson and Sen. Booker, ‘Zelensky Way’ and many sheep

A shepherd stands among some 2,000 sheep on the Champs-Elysees Avenue to mark the end of the International Agricultural Fair on March 6 in Paris. Animals and shepherds from a region of southwestern France paraded on the famed avenue in a kind of transhumance to promote their work and their region. Associated Press/Thomas Padilla

 

 

Vice President Harris crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 6 to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Andi Rice/UPI Photo

 

The “People’s Convoy” of truckers makes it way down the Capital Beltway in Silver Spring, Md., on March 6. The convoy, modeled after last month’s Canadian trucker protests, is one of several traveling around the nation’s capital region in protest of COVID-19 mandates and a variety of other issues. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

 

 

 

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II receives Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during an audience at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, on March 7. Steve Parsons/Pool via AP

 

 

Gas prices are seen in front of a billboard advertising HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” in Los Angeles on March 7. The price of regular gasoline broke $4 per gallon on average across the U.S. for the first time since 2008. Associated Press/Jae C. Hong

 

 

Children jump rope and play in the street in New York City on March 7 during the first day since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that school children no longer have to wear masks indoors. The mandate remains in effect for classrooms that serve children younger than 5. John Angelillo/UPI Photo

 

 

A Ukrainian serviceman walks past the vertical tail fin of a Russian Su-34 bomber lying in a damaged building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 8. Associated Press/Andrew Marienko

 

FBI Director Christopher Wray, National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, CIA Director William Burns and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier are seen during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on March 8 to discuss worldwide threats. Greg Nash

 

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) meets with Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson in Booker’s office on March 8. Anna Rose Layden

 

 

Protesters erect an unofficial “Zelensky Way” street sign in honor of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on March 8. Demonstrators sympathetic to Ukraine continue to protest the ongoing Russian military invasion there. Pat Benic/UPI Photo

 

 

 

Demonstrators attack a police barricade that surrounds the National Palace with a makeshift torch on March 8 in Mexico City during a march to commemorate International Women’s Day and protest against gender violence. Associated Press/Jacky Muniello

 

Eugene says goodbye to his partner, Tanya, before boarding a train to Dnipro, Ukraine, from the main train terminal on March 9 in Lviv. As Ukrainian civilians in the east flee to the relative safety of western cities such as Lviv and abroad, many military personnel are heading east to help with the war effort. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

 

 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Billie Jean King pose for a selfie with the Sidwell Friends School girls basketball team following the annual Women’s History Month event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX on March 9. Anna Rose Layden

 

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mahendra Kumar Singh celebrates in Lucknow, India, on March 10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party had a commanding lead in India’s most populous state as votes were counted Thursday, despite criticism of his government’s handling of the pandemic, soaring unemployment and farmer protests. Associated Press/Rajesh Kumar Singh

 

 

People at a makeshift camp wait to board a train heading for Krakow, Poland, after fleeing from Ukraine, at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on March 10. Associated Press/Visar Kryeziu

 

 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exits the truck of Mike Landis, organizer of the “People’s Convoy,” outside of the U.S. Capitol on March 10. Cruz rode with the convoy from their rallying point at Hagerstown, Md., to hold a press conference announcing his support for the convoy and his opinions on mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Anna Rose Layden

 

 

 

A demonstrator shouts anti-government slogans during clashes to protest against the government agreement with the International Monetary Fund to refinance some $45 billion in debt, as legislators prepare to vote on a law to ratify the agreement, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 10. Associated Press/Rodrigo Abd

 

 

 

President Biden meets with Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 10. Doug Mills/Pool/UPI

 

Photos curated by Greg Nash, Anna Rose Layden and Madeline Monroe.

 

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