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News Pix: California Wildfires, Drag Queens vs. Facebook, Dissident Art on Alcatraz

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The Boles Fire ran through Weed, destroying more than 150 buildings. The small town near Mount Shasta lost an entire neighborhood of houses and two churches. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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A massive pyrocumulus cloud generated by the King Fire rises above the mountains west of Lake Tahoe on Wednesday evening. The blaze had covered 76,000 acres by Friday morning and was 10 percent contained. On Thursday, a suspect was arrested and charged with deliberately starting the fire. (Steve Ellsworth via Flickr)

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Sister Roma, flanked by other drag queens and San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, speaks after Facebook announced it will reactivate hundreds of LGBT user profiles for two weeks. The profiles had been deactivated for using pseudonyms, leading to threats of protest and a meeting between Facebook officials and drag queens. (Isabel Angell/KQED) 

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A mobile sign on Panoramic Way in Berkeley was supposed to tell drivers that the road would be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, but instead warned of a much larger threat across the Bay. (Fred Werner/Berkeleyside)

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Artist Ai Weiwei goes over designs with curator Cheryl Haines at his studio in Beijing. Weiwei, a Chinese dissident, is set to open a new public art exhibit on Alcatraz, but because he is barred from leaving China, he won't be able to attend. (Jan Stürmann/For-Site Foundation)

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