Review The Top Stories Of The Week In These 13 Photos

ACROSS AMERICA — Below, Patch chronicles the top stories of the week in pictures as the country continues to struggle with supply chain issues, Gen. Colin Powell died of complications of COVID-19, the Chicago Sky won their first WNBA championship title, critics and supporters of Dave Chappelle's Netflix special gathered outside Netflix's headquarters and much more.

Containers stack up next to employees' vehicles at the Port of Los Angeles on Monday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an order that aims to ease bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that have spilled over into neighborhoods, where cargo trucks are clogging residential streets.

Phoenix Mercury's Brittney Griner (42) shoots against Chicago Sky's Azura Stevens (30) during the first half of Game 4 of the WNBA Finals on Sunday in Chicago. The Chicago team won the title game.

Phillip Bradley, with the National Park Service, lowers American flags around the Washington Monument to half-staff in honor of Gen. Colin Powell, the former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state who died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He had also been treated over the past few years for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. He was 84.

Critics and supporters of Dave Chappelle's Netflix special and its anti-transgender comments gathered outside the company's offices in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Wednesday.

The Montalto and Hoyer families hold hands inside the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Flordia, on Wednesday during Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz's guilty plea on all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings. The Montaltos' daughter, Gina Montalto, 14, and the Hoyers' son, Luke Hoyer, 15, were among the 17 people who were killed in the Valentine's Day 2018 massacre.

Security officers guard the entrance to a film set near Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Friday, a day after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded director. The Bonanza Creek Ranch film set has permanent structures for backgrounds used in Westerns, including "Rust," the film Baldwin was working on when the prop gun discharged.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris stand together at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial as they arrive to attend an event marking the 10th anniversary of the dedication of memorial in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

An aircraft caught fire soon after a failed take-off attempt at Houston Executive Airport on Tuesday in Brookshire. Texas.

Officials cleaned up birds covered with oil in a massive oil spill earlier this month, then released them back to the sea at Huntington Beach, California, on Wednesday. The spill washed blobs of oil ashore affecting wildlife and the local economy, though the environmental damage so far has been less than initially feared. But environmental advocates say the long-term impact on sensitive wetland areas and marine life is unknown and shop owners in surf-friendly Huntington Beach fear concern about oil will keep tourists away even once the tar is gone.

Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney speaks to reporters outside the Capitol on Thursday after the House voted to hold former White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

The Boston Red Sox's Christian Arroyo breaks his bat and grounds out during the seventh inning in Monday's Game 3 of baseball's American League Championship Series with the Houston Astros in Boston.

A bronze statue of Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla killed in 2016, faces Arturo Di Modica's "Charging Bull," surrounded by bananas, in New York's Financial District. The pop-up installation by the social media platform Sapien.Network aims to show that Wall Street has gone “bananas.” The group said the fruit would later be distributed to local food banks.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.