The Week in Pictures: Sept. 24 - Oct. 1, 2020 - NBC News

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Minnesota

President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally on Sept. 30, 2020, in Duluth, Minn.

Trump had an active schedule filled with travel the week he tested positive for Covid-19.

— Alex Brandon / AP

California

Flames from the Glass Fire consume the Black Rock Inn late on Sept. 27 in St. Helena, Calif.

The Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties, which began Sunday, has burned more than 56,000 acres. It is only 5 percent contained.

— Noah Berger / AP

California

Residents of the Oakmont Gardens senior home evacuate as the Shady Fire approaches in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Sept. 28.

Many in the region north of San Francisco have evacuated their homes multiple times since 2017, when the Tubbs Fire tore through Sonoma and Napa counties, killing 22 and destroying thousands of buildings.

— Noah Berger / AP

French Open

The stands are empty at the Simonne Mathieu court during the women's singles second round match between Italy's Martina Trevisan and Cori Gauff of the U.S. at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on Sept. 30.

— Martin Bureau / AFP - Getty Images

Supreme Court

Supporters of Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court pray while touching the doors of the court as Jacquelyn Booth lays on the ground mourning the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 26.

If confirmed, Barrett, 48, would be the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the youngest member of the current court.

— Erin Schaff / The New York Times via Redux Pictures

White House

President Donald Trump walks with Judge Amy Coney Barrett to a news conference at the White House where he named Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Sept. 26.

— Alex Brandon / AP

Moscow

A woman wearing a face shield sits on a bench at an embankment of the Moskva river in Moscow on Sept. 30.

— Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images

South Korea

A family sits at a grave on Sept. 26 in Incheon, South Korea, where the governent, hoping to avoid large gatherings, was encouraging people to visit cemeteries before the annual Chuseok festival.

The festival, which runs from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, is traditionally a time for family gatherings and ancestral rituals, but this year it will be starkly different, with authorities urging the public to stay home.

— ED JONES / AFP - Getty Images

Cleveland

Supporters ring cow bells and wave across the train tracks during an event for Joe Biden at Amtrak's Cleveland Lakefront train station on Sept. 30.

Biden was on a train tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania.

— Andrew Harnik / AP

Cleveland

President Donald Trump and Joe Biden take part in the first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, on Sept. 29, 2020.

Trump talked constantly through the 90-minute debate, sometimes incoherently and other times rattling off unfounded and baseless attacks against Democrat Joe Biden while refusing to let the moderator even ask questions.

Pressed repeatedly, Trump refused to condemn extremist supporters or urge them to stay peaceful in the event of a disputed election while once again suggesting, without evidence, that it might be "rigged."

— Olivier Douliery / AFP - Getty Images

Nepal

A woman reads a book at Chobhar, a picnic spot in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sept. 30.

— Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

Nagorno-Karabakh

An Armenian serviceman fires a cannon towards Azerbaijan positions in the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, on Sept. 29.

Armenian and Azerbaijani forces accused each other of attacks on their territory Tuesday, as fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continued for a third straight day following the reigniting of a decades-old conflict.

— Sipan Gyulumyan / Armenian Defense Ministry Press Service/PAN Photo via AP

Beijing

A police officer standing in the middle of a major intersection controls the traffic during the evening rush hour in Beijing on Sept. 29.

— Nicolas Asfouri / AFP - Getty Images

France

Naguey drinks a final beer with his cat Nela before bars and restaurants close in Marseille, France, on Sept. 27.

As restaurants and bars in Marseille prepared to shut down for a week as part of scattered new French virus restrictions, Health Minister Olivier Veran insisted that the country plans no fresh lockdowns.

— Daniel Cole / AP

Gaza Strip

A girl's silhouette is seen on a tent by the beach in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Sept. 29.

— Mohammed Abed / AFP - Getty Images

California

The Glass Fire begins its descent into the valley after ravaging the hills as night falls on Napa Valley, Calif., on Sept. 27.

— Samuel Corum / AFP - Getty Images