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The top photos of the day by AP's photojournalists

2025-05-23 12:05 Last Updated At:12:22

May 22, 2025

From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.

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Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Children play at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Children play at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment places flags at the headstones of service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, ahead of Memorial Day, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment places flags at the headstones of service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, ahead of Memorial Day, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Elle Fanning poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Sentimental Value' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Elle Fanning poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Sentimental Value' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Rapper Kid Cudi, center, arrives at Federal Court for the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, in New York, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Rapper Kid Cudi, center, arrives at Federal Court for the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, in New York, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Municipal workers remove the cover that protected a monument of Kyiv legendary founders from Russian missile attacks on the fourth year of Russia-Ukraine war on the country's main square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)(

Municipal workers remove the cover that protected a monument of Kyiv legendary founders from Russian missile attacks on the fourth year of Russia-Ukraine war on the country's main square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)(

Children cool themselves by a fountain at Muzeon park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Children cool themselves by a fountain at Muzeon park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Nicholas Valentin holds onto a one-day-old foal outside of its stall at a farm that is home to a program that offers addicts a chance to care for animals with the goal of landing a job related to the racing industry and putting themselves on a new path, in Nicholasville, Ky., on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Nicholas Valentin holds onto a one-day-old foal outside of its stall at a farm that is home to a program that offers addicts a chance to care for animals with the goal of landing a job related to the racing industry and putting themselves on a new path, in Nicholasville, Ky., on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

People watch as Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, departs the White House en route to Trump National Golf Club Washington DC for a crypto dinner, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

People watch as Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, departs the White House en route to Trump National Golf Club Washington DC for a crypto dinner, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Emily Birger wipes away tears during a vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, Israeli Embassy staff members who were shot and killed while leaving an event at a Jewish museum in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Overland Park, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Emily Birger wipes away tears during a vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, Israeli Embassy staff members who were shot and killed while leaving an event at a Jewish museum in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Overland Park, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across the port of Gaza City on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across the port of Gaza City on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters as an image of President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social regarding the tax cuts package appears on screen in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters as an image of President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social regarding the tax cuts package appears on screen in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A woman combs the hair of another at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A woman combs the hair of another at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Workers clean a roof at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, Thursday, May 22, 2025, as Panama and Venezuela prepare to resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino refused to recognize the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Workers clean a roof at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, Thursday, May 22, 2025, as Panama and Venezuela prepare to resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino refused to recognize the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Children play at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Children play at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment places flags at the headstones of service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, ahead of Memorial Day, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment places flags at the headstones of service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, ahead of Memorial Day, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Elle Fanning poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Sentimental Value' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Elle Fanning poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Sentimental Value' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Rapper Kid Cudi, center, arrives at Federal Court for the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, in New York, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Rapper Kid Cudi, center, arrives at Federal Court for the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, in New York, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Municipal workers remove the cover that protected a monument of Kyiv legendary founders from Russian missile attacks on the fourth year of Russia-Ukraine war on the country's main square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)(

Municipal workers remove the cover that protected a monument of Kyiv legendary founders from Russian missile attacks on the fourth year of Russia-Ukraine war on the country's main square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)(

Children cool themselves by a fountain at Muzeon park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Children cool themselves by a fountain at Muzeon park in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

Nicholas Valentin holds onto a one-day-old foal outside of its stall at a farm that is home to a program that offers addicts a chance to care for animals with the goal of landing a job related to the racing industry and putting themselves on a new path, in Nicholasville, Ky., on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Nicholas Valentin holds onto a one-day-old foal outside of its stall at a farm that is home to a program that offers addicts a chance to care for animals with the goal of landing a job related to the racing industry and putting themselves on a new path, in Nicholasville, Ky., on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

People watch as Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, departs the White House en route to Trump National Golf Club Washington DC for a crypto dinner, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

People watch as Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, departs the White House en route to Trump National Golf Club Washington DC for a crypto dinner, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Emily Birger wipes away tears during a vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, Israeli Embassy staff members who were shot and killed while leaving an event at a Jewish museum in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Overland Park, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Emily Birger wipes away tears during a vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, Israeli Embassy staff members who were shot and killed while leaving an event at a Jewish museum in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Overland Park, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across the port of Gaza City on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across the port of Gaza City on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters as an image of President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social regarding the tax cuts package appears on screen in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters as an image of President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social regarding the tax cuts package appears on screen in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A woman combs the hair of another at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A woman combs the hair of another at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Workers clean a roof at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, Thursday, May 22, 2025, as Panama and Venezuela prepare to resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino refused to recognize the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Workers clean a roof at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, Thursday, May 22, 2025, as Panama and Venezuela prepare to resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino refused to recognize the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was deposed as Venezuela's leader.

Cuba, a major beneficiary of Venezuelan oil, has now been cut off from those shipments as U.S. forces continue to seize tankers in an effort to control the production, refining and global distribution of the country's oil products.

Trump said on social media that Cuba long lived off Venezuelan oil and money and had offered security in return, “BUT NOT ANYMORE!”

“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA - ZERO!” Trump said in the post as he spent the weekend at his home in southern Florida. “I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” He did not explain what kind of deal.

The Cuban government said 32 of its military personnel were killed during the American operation last weekend that captured Maduro. The personnel from Cuba’s two main security agencies were in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, as part of an agreement between Cuba and Venezuela.

“Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years,” Trump said Sunday. “Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will.”

Trump also responded to another account’s social media post predicting that his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will be president of Cuba: “Sounds good to me!” Trump said.

Trump and top administration officials have taken an increasingly aggressive tone toward Cuba, which had been kept economically afloat by Venezuela. Long before Maduro's capture, severe blackouts were sidelining life in Cuba, where people endured long lines at gas stations and supermarkets amid the island’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Trump has said previously that the Cuban economy, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, would slide further with the ouster of Maduro.

“It’s going down,” Trump said of Cuba. “It’s going down for the count.”

A person watches the oil tanker Ocean Mariner, Monrovia, arrive to the bay in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A person watches the oil tanker Ocean Mariner, Monrovia, arrive to the bay in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

President Donald Trump attends a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump attends a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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