This week in photos: Washington Examiner

In advance of Fleet Week performances, Team Oracle aerobatics pilot Sean D. Tucker and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the San Francisco Bay on Thursday.

In a defining moment of her political career, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Friday she will join fellow Republicans in voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in a move likely to clinch President Trump’s second nomination to the high court.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, said Thursday the FBI’s investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was not hindered and predicted the Senate will confirm Kavanaugh “very soon.”

Liam Vasquez, 2, left and his father, Will Vasquez, right, try on Halloween masks at a Target department store on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Discounters like Walmart and Target are expanding their costume offerings and creating designated sections where customers can find more of their Halloween needs in one place.

A man looks at a mosque that is isolated by water after its bridge was broken due to the massive earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Friday.

Protesters against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sit in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday.

People form a human chain around the shuttered site of a country music festival where a gunman opened fire on the first anniversary of the mass shooting, Monday, in Las Vegas. As people were linking arms and holding hands Monday night near the concert site, officials and several hundred others across town listened to bagpipes and the names of the 58 victims being read aloud.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is on track to be the only Senate Democrat to break ranks with his party and vote to elevate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. “I believe Dr. Ford. Something happened to Dr. Ford,” Manchin said, but quickly added the caveat, “I don’t believe the facts show it was Brett Kavanaugh.”

First lady Melania Trump waves to children and others as she visits Chipala Primary School, in Lilongwe, Malawi, on Thursday. Mrs. Trump is visiting Africa on her first big solo international trip, aiming to make child well-being the focus of a five-day, four-country tour.

A Palestinian protester falls down on a barbed fence as he runs for cover from teargas fired by Israeli troops during a protest east of Khan Younis on Friday. The Israeli military said about 20,000 protesters participated.

President Trump makes his second visit to Minnesota, with a rally on Thursday in Rochester, Minn.

A father gives water to his malnourished daughter at a feeding center in a hospital in Hodeida, Yemen. With US backing, the United Arab Emirates and its Yemeni allies have restarted their all-out assault on Yemen’s port city of Hodeida, aiming to wrest it from rebel hands. Victory here could be a turning point in the 3-year-old civil war, but it could also push the country into outright famine. Already, the fighting has been a catastrophe for civilians on the Red Sea coast.