This week in photos, June 20-27, 2015

Photos edited by Kacy Burdette, Alix Colow, Mia Diehl, Armin Harris, and Michele Taylor with Eddie Gilman

Text edited by Andrew Nusca

Pop star Taylor Swift performs live on stage during her 1989 World Tour in Cologne, Germany. A day later, Swift published an open letter to Apple explaining why she planned to withhold her latest album from its new streaming service, Apple Music. The company backed down soon after. Photograph by Sascha Schuermann — Getty Images

Travelers and flight crew walk with their luggage on a road near Charles de Gaulle airport after French taxi drivers blocked roads and protested against Uber. The drivers are on indefinite nationwide strike as they demand a government crackdown on what they say is Uber’s use of unlicensed chauffeurs for its UberPop service. Photograph by Balint Porneczi — Bloomberg via Getty Images

The state flag of Mississippi displayed with the flags of the other 49 U.S. states and territories in the tunnel connecting the senate office building and the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. In the wake of an apparently racist shooting that left nine African Americans dead in Charleston, South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley demanded that the flag of the Confederate States of America be removed from the grounds of the state capitol building, adding political pressure to Mississippi to remove the charged symbol from its flag. Photograph by Chip Somodevilla — Getty Images

Supporters show off their fitness outside the New York Stock Exchange on the day that Fitbit made its initial public offering.Photograph by John Lamparski — Getty Images

President Barack Obama walks with Vice President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C. shortly after the Supreme Court upheld the subsidies for customers in states that do not operate their own exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.”Photograph by Pablo Martinez Monsivais — AP

D’Angelo Russell shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being drafted second overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the 2015 NBA Draft, held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The unexpected pick sent teams scrambling, making for an unusually animated draft.Photograph by Elsa — Getty Images

French police secure the entrance of the Air Products company near Lyon. An attacker carrying an Islamist flag killed one person and injured several others by setting off small explosive devices at a gas factory in eastern France.Photograph by Philippe Desmazes — AFP/Getty Images

An electronic board showing the benchmark Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indices in the Pudong financial district in Shanghai, China. Chinese stocks plunged over 7 percent on Friday, with one key index recording its biggest fall since 2008, hit by tight liquidity conditions ahead of the quarter-end and uncertainty over the central bank’s easing policy.Photograph by Aly Song — Reuters

Students take part in a mass yoga session to mark the first International Day of Yoga at Peking University in Beijing, China.Photograph by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks next to his wife Ri Sol Ju as he gives field guidance at the new terminal of Pyongyang International Airport.Photograph by KCNA/Reuters

Sir Richard Branson at a press conference announcing that the home port of Virgin Cruises will be in Miami.Photograph by Gustavo Caballero — Getty Images

Prosthetic finger attachments for the i-limb quantum by Touch Bionics on display in Lyon, France. The device, an electrically powered prosthetic hand with five independently powered fingers for people with upper limb deficiencies, is the first bionic hand to be approved by the French healthcare system.Photograph by Bruno Vigneron — Getty Images

Don Featherstone, creator of the original pink flamingo, sits surrounded by many of the plastic creatures in this 1998 photo. He died this week at age 79.Photograph by Amy Sancetta — AP

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