Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil held at Cutler Park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to honor the lives lost after an SUV slammed head-on into the city’s holiday party over the weekend. (Scott Anderson/Patch )
ACROSS AMERICA — From the convictions of three men in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery to the full-fledged comeback of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, last week brought a series of memorable moments.
We've rounded up photos showing all of these top moments in the past week, below.
ebraska running back Jaquez Yant (0) leaps into the end zone to score a touchdown against Iowa during the first half of an NCAA college football game at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)People look at televisions during a Black Friday sale at a Best Buy store in Overland Park, Kansas. Retailers are expected to usher in the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season today with bigger crowds than last year in a closer step toward normalcy. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)A float depicting "Goku" moves down Central Park West during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. The parade is returning in full, after being crimped by the coronavirus pandemic last year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, from Space Launch Complex 4E, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. NASA launched the spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)Tears streak down the cheek of Ahmaud Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones after the jury convicted Travis McMichael in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia. Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, Pool)President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden serve dinner during a visit to Fort Bragg to mark the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)People make their way at Times Square after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in New York. AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)Assistant Fire Manager Leif Mathiesen, of the Sequoia & Kings Canyon Nation Park Fire Service, looks for an opening in the burned-out sequoias from the Redwood Mountain Grove which was devastated by the KNP Complex fires earlier in the year in the Kings Canyon National Park, California. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
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