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Image: A helicopter battles a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

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Today in Pictures: May 4

Obama visits Flint, a rare diamond is being auctioned, and more in today's best news pictures.

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Image: A helicopter battles a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

A helicopter battles a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada on Wednesday.

Photos: Entire City Flees Raging Wildfire in Canada

Jason Franson / Canadian Press via AP
Image: U.S. President Barack Obama drinks a glass of filtered water from Flint, a city struggling with the effects of lead-poisoned drinking water, during a meeting will local and federal authorities in Michigan

President Obama drinks a glass of filtered water from Flint, Mich., on his first trip to the beleaguered city since it became the center of a political and environmental firestorm. Twice during his visit to Flint, Obama took symbolic sips from a glass of Flint tap water.

Faces of Flint: Portraits From the Crisis

CARLOS BARRIA / Reuters
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A trout splashes into Jamaica Pond in Boston during the annual stocking of the pond.

Elise Amendola / AP
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A model displays a large diamond the size of tennis ball at Sotheby's in New York. The gem's name is "Lesedi la Rona."

The diamond - the largest discovered in over a century - could sell for more than $70 million, auctioneer Sotheby's said.

Seth Wenig / AP
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Farmers work in a field of blossoming tulips in Den Helder, northern Netherlands.

Muhammed Muheisen / AP
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Horses await baths after an early morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. The 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby is scheduled for Saturday, May 7.

Charlie Riedel / AP
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A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter searches a house for ISIS militants in Tel Asqof, northern Iraq, on May 4.

A U.S. Navy SEAL, advising and assisting Kurdish Peshmerga forces, was killed in an ISIS attack in northern Iraq on May 3.

GORAN TOMASEVIC / Reuters
Image: BESTPIX San Francisco Giants v Cincinnati Reds

Fans bring their dogs onto the field during the season's first "Bark in the Park" before a game between the San Francisco Giants and the Cincinnati Reds at the Great American Ball Park on May 3 in Cincinnati.

Joe Robbins / Getty Images
Image: Flames rise in Industrial area south Fort McMurray Alberta Canada

Flames rise in an industrial area south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on May 3.

CBC NEWS / via Reuters
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