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Roll Call staff photographer Tom Williams has won the distinguished Political Photo of the Year award in the White House News Photographers Association’s 2019 Eyes of History contest. The same photo, featuring Vice President Mike Pence in the Capitol, won first prize in the On Capitol Hill category of the visual awards. “The photographer caught an incredible face. “I was talking to his photographer so I think his detail kind of let me go about my business and I felt as though I was in some kind of secure bubble. Thanks to my fellow photographers, judges and the WHNPA for this high honor.” Williams joined Roll Call in 2000. Jabin Botsford of the Washington Post was named Photographer of the Year — the other top award given out by the association — after winning first prize in four different categories of the contest, including Domestic News and Insiders Washington. Bill Clark, Roll Call’s photo editor, also won two awards for his photojournalism. Clark won an award of excellence in the Pictorial category for the following image. Want insight more often? Get Roll Call in your inbox And he won an award of excellence in the Picture Story: Politics category for the image below.

Canada’s ambassador to China sought to retract comments suggesting politics would play a role in the potential extradition to the U.S. of a Huawei Technologies Co. executive, adding another setback to weeks of tension between the two countries. John McCallum said in a statement Thursday that he “misspoke” earlier this week when he discussed the case of Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou. On Tuesday, he said she had “strong arguments” to avoid extradition in part because U.S. President Donald Trump had discussed the case. Those comments contradicted weeks of assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the process was in the hands of Canada’s court system. “As the government has consistently made clear, there has been no political involvement in this process.” Trudeau earlier Thursday brushed off calls from Canada’s main opposition party leader for McCallum’s removal, saying that such a step would do nothing to secure the release of two Canadians who were detained in China following the Huawei arrest. McCallum’s statement Thursday returned to the message that “Canada is conducting a fair, unbiased, and transparent legal proceeding with respect to Meng Wanzhou,” and that “Canada respects its international legal commitments, including by honoring its extradition treaty with the United States.” The U.S. has until Jan. 30 to present a formal request for extradition. Meng has been released on bail and is living in a Vancouver home. At that lengthy meeting with reporters he also said Meng could defend herself because of the “extraterritorial aspect to her case” and because Canada didn’t “sign on” to U.S. sanctions against Iran she may have violated. Support independent journalism from China. Subscribe to Caixin Global starting at $0.99.

rtrh14a.jpg Alan Díaz of the Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2001 for his photograph of armed US federal agents seizing Cuban boy Elián González from the home of his Miami relatives. González, held by Donato Dalrymple, right, was taken by federal agents from his Miami relatives April 22, 2000, to return to his father in Cuba. Díaz died on July 3, 2018. Credit: Alan Díaz/Associated Press Eighteen years ago, veteran Associated Press photographer Alan Díaz won a Pulitzer Prize for an image that marked a new era in Cuban American history. Authorities put González in the custody of Brotons Rodríguez’s extended family in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, but the boy’s father and the Cuban government protested. He talked about trying to win the trust of the family while still maintaining his objectivity. It was 4 a.m. when a colleague gave him the signal that federal authorities were on their way to retrieve González. He quickly jumped from some bushes in the yard, ran through the front door and into the bedroom where Dalrymple and González were hiding in a closet. But not all journalists had Díaz’s sensitivity. That was a different cry and it really gets to you.” Painful, awkward, haunting as the photo was, it served as a symbol for a new era says Joe Garcia, who served as a US representative for Florida’s 26th District from 2013 to 2015. A boy should be with his father.” Related: Here's why US-Cuban relations are so important to all of us The perspectives and politics of Florida’s Cuban Americans have never been the same.

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