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Milky Way, Kentucky Derby, Baby Formula Shortage: Photos Of The Week

See some of the best news photos from the past week, including an incredible image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

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Sonny Leon celebrates after riding Rich Strike past the finish line to win the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.
Sonny Leon celebrates after riding Rich Strike past the finish line to win the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

ACROSS AMERICA — See some of the best news photos from the past week. Among them are some taken in Kentucky, where the 148th Kentucky Derby returned to Churchill Downs, with Rich Strike beating 80-1 odds in an exciting upset to the race.

In Boston, Mario Batali was found not guilty on sexual misconduct charges.

Across the country, a national shortage of baby formula has forced parents to scramble to find food for babies.

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On the West Coast, a wildfire has expanded and destroyed multiple homes in Southern California.

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration have released a first image of Milky Way's massive black hole, a historically significant feat due to the difficult nature of photographing a black hole.

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Horses come through the first turn during Saturday's 148th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Crown Pride (7), with Christophe Lemaire aboard, runs amid the others in the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Celebrity chef Mario Batali (center) is seated next to defense attorney Anthony Fuller (left) at Boston Municipal Court for the first day of Batali's pandemic-delayed trial on Monday. A judge in the bench trial found Batali not guilty Tuesday of indecent assault and battery charges, which had stemmed from accusations that he forcibly kissed and groped a woman after taking a selfie with her at a Boston restaurant in 2017. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
Shelves typically stocked with baby formula sit mostly empty at a store in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday. Parents across the U.S. are scrambling to find baby formula because of supply disruptions and a massive safety recall that swept many leading brands off store shelves. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
A limited-supplies sign is posted on the baby formula shelf at a grocery store on Tuesday in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
A.B. Montoya photographs a building that was completely burned in the Calf Canyon Fire in Rociada, New Mexico, on Tuesday. The former owner of this house was related to his dad. The largest wildfire burning in the United States was heading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico on Wednesday, prompting officials to issue another set of warnings for more people to prepare to evacuate as the fast-moving fire picked up momentum. (Luis Sanchez Saturno/The New Mexican via AP)
A firefighter battles flames at a structure burning during a wildfire Wednesday in Laguna Niguel, California. (AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez)
Firefighters work to put out flames in a structure during a wildfire Wednesday in Laguna Niguel, California. (AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez)
This image, released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration on Thursday, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) heads to his office Thursday as he is surrounded by reporters after House investigators issued a subpoena to McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol in Washington. The House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack has been investigating McCarthy's conversations with then-President Donald Trump on the day of the attack and meetings that the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides conspired how to overturn his defeat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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