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Week In Photos: Devastation In Hawaii, Dole's Death, Starbucks

The Fox News Christmas tree was set on fire, an Amazon outage created headaches around the world and WWII veterans visit Pearl Harbor.

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A U.S. Coast Guard diver, tethered to a hovering helicopter, pulls a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just yards from the brink of Niagara Falls, Wednesday in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
A U.S. Coast Guard diver, tethered to a hovering helicopter, pulls a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just yards from the brink of Niagara Falls, Wednesday in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP)

ACROSS AMERICA — Bob Dole, a decorated World War II veteran and retired senator from Kansas who became one of the most powerful Republicans, died Sunday and was remembered this week in services as a statesman who reached across party lines.

In other news of the week, a strong storm flooded parts of Hawaii and downed power lines.

A community mourned the loss of four high school students, and a 15-year-old student was charged as an adult with four counts of first-degree murder, terrorism causing death and other charges.

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Aging veterans returned to Pearl Harbor to remember the attacks of 1941 that launched the United States into World War II. Also, someone set fire to a Christmas tree outside the Fox News headquarters in New York, and an Amazon outage crippled innumerable businesses this week.

See below for the top news photos and events from the past week:

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Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a viewing of their union election on Thursday in Buffalo, New York. The workers at the store voted to unionize on Thursday, a first for the 50-year-old coffee retailer in the United States. (Joshua Bessex/AP)
People hold umbrellas as it begins to rain on an otherwise empty beach in Honolulu on Monday. A strong storm packing high winds and extremely heavy rain flooded roads and downed power lines and tree branches . (Caleb Jones/AP)
Handwritten messages are left at the memorial site at the memorial site on Tuesday outside Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, where a 15-year-old student is accused of killing four classmates and injuring seven other people in a shooting inside the northern Oakland County school. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP)
Leanna Arcila, 7, is licked by Watson, a therapy dog with the police department in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, as she receives her COVID-19 vaccination from Dr. Eugenio Fernandez at Nathanael Greene Elementary School.. (David Goldman, AP)
A worker disassembles a Christmas tree outside Fox News headquarters in New York City on Wednesday. Police say a man is facing charges including arson for setting fire the 50-foot Christmas tree. (Richard Drew/AP)
Pearl Harbor survivor and World War II Navy veteran David Russell, 101, of Albany, Oregon, shows off his commemorative bag to two military personnel before the start of the 80th Pearl Harbor Anniversary ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Tuesday in Honolulu. (Marco Garcia/AP)
Ollie Gordon, a cousin of Emmett Till, speaks at a news conference held at Medill School of Journalism Monday. Till 's family members addressed the final investigation report, recently closed by the FBI, of the lynching of Till in 1955. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images
A pedestrian walks near the Amazon Spheres on the company's corporate campus in downtown Seattle, Tuesday. Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
Holiday themed boats parade past a loaded container ship at the Port of Los Angeles during the "Los Angeles Harbor Holiday Afloat Parade" near San Pedro, California. The backlog of aging cargo at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has decreased 37 percent since last month amid continued supply chain disruptions. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Chris Vigil prepares his snowplow for operation as forecasters predict the first snow of the season to sweep over Front Range communities Thursday at the Colorado Department of Transportation shed in Castle Rock. States are the latest victims of the nationwide labor shortage since trying to find snowplow drivers. (David Zalubowski/AP)
A military honor guard carries the flag-draped casket of former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Friday, after lying in state. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via AP)

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