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Law enforcement officers standoff against protesters outside an ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., on Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
People gather at a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 13, 2025, prior to the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Hussein Dheini, 12, who was wounded in the pagers attack carried out by Israel on September 17, 2024, stands next to his mother, Faten Haidar, at the entrance of their home in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, on May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
Demonstrators confront riot police during a protest against chronic cuts to electricity and water in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mamyrael, File)
A balloon bearing the image of President Alassane Ouattara floats above supporters during a campaign rally in Koumassi, Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)
A boy is detained as youth-led protests calling for reforms to healthcare and education turn violent in Sale, Morocco, on Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)
Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City with their belongings along the coastal road in Nuseirat, toward the southern Gaza Strip, on Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
Rwanda's Eric Nkundabera, right, leads teammates Patrick Byukusenge and Mike Uwiduhaye during the team time trial mixed relay event at the road cycling World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda on Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
President Donald Trump looks through the window of Marine One upon his arrival at the White House in Washington on Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Security personnel take position just before the arrival of President Donald Trump on Air Force One at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)
Election volunteers count ballots in Blantyre, Malawi, on Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)
Residents walk past a soldier patrolling the Siloe neighborhood in Cali, Colombia, on Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga, File)
People take refuge in a metro station being used as a bomb shelter during a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov, File)
A man walks on the shore with Haystack Rock in the background at Cannon Beach, Ore., on Aug. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
Fans try to get autographs during a practice round for the Ryder Cup golf tournament at the Bethpage Black golf course, in Farmingdale, N.Y., on Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
Luis, 30, who fled Venezuela after being an opposition political activist while at university, poses for a photo at the apartment complex where he lives in Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 19, 2025. An aspiring entrepreneur with a degree in mechanical engineering, Luis requested asylum in the U.S. and received a work permit which allows him to support himself as an Amazon delivery driver as he goes through the legal asylum process. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
Children practice at a boxing school in an underground shelter in the frontline city of Kherson, southern Ukraine, on Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Keeper Jessica Ray watches Humboldt Penguins at London Zoo during the annual weigh-in to monitor the health and development of the zoo's animals on Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
A supporter of presidential candidate Samuel Doria Medina applies lipstick on another at a campaign rally in La Paz, Bolivia, on Aug. 12, 2025, five days ahead of presidential elections. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Macaws fly past a family on a scooter during a training session for the birds in a field in Depok, Indonesia, outside Jakarta, on Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
A model applying makeup is reflected in a mirror during the Mr. and Mrs. Kibera leadership contest held on International Youth Day in Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
Erika Kirk wipes tears as she prepares to speak at a memorial for her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 21, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Farmer Turkan Ozkan, 64, cries next to one of her animals killed during a fire in Guzelyeli, on the outskirts of Canakkale, northwest Turkey, on Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
A person walks on a bridge over the Miljacka River, which is almost dried up and covered with algae, during a heat wave and drought in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut, File)
Residents salvage electrical wire, which they will sell later, after a fire hit a poor community in Manila, Philippines, on Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
An asylum seeker from Ecuador hugs her father as he is detained by federal agents in New York on July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, File)
Birds perch on a park bench as a dense fog envelopes the Sydney skyline causing major commuter delays, on Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
Dresses hang at a garment store in Beijing on July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)
A worker pounds into rock to make gravel and sand in Kenscoff, a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)
The powerful tail of a sturgeon propels the fish airborne, on July 23, 2025, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Migratory birds surround a boat as people feed them early in the morning near the banks of the river Yamuna in New Delhi, on Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador months earlier by the United States under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, is welcomed home by his relatives in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez, File)
Bride Jamaica Aguilar prepares to enter the flooded Barasoain church for her wedding in Malolos, Bulacan province, Philippines, on July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
Hossam Azzam holds the body of his child, Amir, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
Photos of flood victims are displayed on a memorial wall in Kerrville, Texas, on July 10, 2025, a week after a catastrophic flood came barreling through the region, killing more than 130 people. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
Israelis take shelter in a Jerusalem basement during an Iranian missile strike on June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
Baby ostriches huddle near a heat lamp after being moved into a barn following recent flooding at a farm in Bend, Texas, on July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
Naima Abu Ful poses for a photo with her 2-year-old malnourished child, Yazan, at their home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A man jumps as waves lash his house during high tide on the shore of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India, on June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
Street vendor Boniface Kariuki falls to the ground after he was shot in the head by a policeman, center, during a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
Palestinians carry away food and humanitarian aid from a World Food Program convoy that had been headed to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
Republican members of Congress reach to shake hands with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center bottom, after Johnson signed President Donald Trump's bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, on July 3, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
People take cover as a firework explodes during a protest near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)
People evacuate after a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, File)
A photo of a child lies amid rubble after an Israeli strike on June 25, 2025, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
The tail of an airplane sticks out of a building where it crashed in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)
People protesting immigration enforcement are detained by Texas state troopers near the Alamo in downtown San Antonio on June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
The Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, is partially covered with sheets as Matthias Huss, head of the Swiss glacier monitoring group GLAMOS, stands nearby, on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system intercepts missiles during an Iranian attack on Tel Aviv, Israel, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
A protester waves a flag as a Waymo self-driving taxi burns near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
A family poses for a photo after Eid al-Adha prayers on June 6, 2025, on a beach in Keta, Ghana. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)
People watch as Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, departs the White House in Washington en route to the Trump National Golf Club Washington D.C. for a crypto dinner on May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Pilgrims dance the Sevillanas on June 8, 2025, during the annual Catholic pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin of El Rocio that draws hundreds of thousands of faithful in El Rocio, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Hailee Allen saves a family picture from Lynn and Don White's home on May 17, 2025, after a deadly tornado tore through London, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
The Air Bandits aerobatic team, led by Lithuanian pilot Jurgis Kairys, performs above a pyrotechnics display at the Aurel Vlaicu International Airport during the Bucharest International Air Show in Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)
A man rides his bicycle in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa on Oct. 30, 2025, in Black River, Jamaica. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Friends and relatives of Jorge Luis Mendoza Cuelho, 14, ride with his coffin during his funeral in Belen, a district nicknamed the "Venice of the Jungle," in Iquitos, Peru, on May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
Jabir Kaur, center, who's husband, Sukhwinder Singh, died after consuming toxic liquor, mourns on May 13, 2025, in Majitha, India. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill, File)
A man walks though Churchill Downs before the Kentucky Derby horse race in Louisville, Ky., May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
A portrait of the late Pope Francis is projected onto a water fountain at Magic Water Circuit in Lima, Peru, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)
Wounds from a Russian strike cover Kostiantyn Bychek's face at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
A man holds rosary beads during a prayer for Pope Francis' health in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Members of an expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest stand by their tents at the Everest Base Camp in Nepal on April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Pasang Rinzee Sherpa, File)
Bodies of Palestinians, who were killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel, are prepared for burial at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
An injured woman sits near her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike, in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Snow falls on people walking through Red Square in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow as temperatures hover just below freezing on April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
A coffee bar in Istanbul sprays mist to cool people passing by on July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Shaima Seiam lies wounded at Nasser Hospital beside the body of her infant daughter, Ahlam, who was days away from her first birthday, after their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)
Pope Leo XIV attends the International conference, "Raising Hope for Climate Justice," in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Snow covers railroad tracks that were once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
A container ship approaches the Port of Santos, the largest port in Brazil, which plays a key role in the country's trade and logistics, on April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)
Riot police use pepper spray against a protester after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison in Istanbul on March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Huseyin Aldemir, File)
A group of migrants wait to be processed between two border walls separating Mexico and the United States after crossing illegally before dawn, Jan. 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Children cast shadows on a basketball court during a sports workshop at a park in Santiago, Chile, on Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo, File)
Dogs stand on the winner's podium at the PetExpo in Bucharest, Romania, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)
Palestinians gather at a table, surrounded by the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings, for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
The Northern Lights shimmer over homes in Nuuk, Greenland, on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Delia Donn confronts a riot policeman during one of the weekly protests demanding better pensions for retirees in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
The snow moon rises behind Philopappos Hill, between the Parthenon, left, and the Philopappos Monument, right, in Athens, Greece, on Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Girls scream while they ride the Tempest at the Rand Show in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
Palestinians Ali Marouf and his mother, Aisha, cook on the roof of their house, which was destroyed by an Israeli offensive, in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A man smokes a cigarette in a state-run bodega in Havana on Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
People watch a live broadcast of the release of three Israeli hostages from Gaza during a gathering at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
The body of a man killed during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang, lies in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
St. Louis Cardinals' Victor Scott II scores against the San Francisco Giants during a baseball game in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters at a protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, the day before his inauguration for a third term, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
Mohammad Naser takes cover from the rain in the ruins of his house, which was destroyed in an Israeli offensive, in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
People fleeing M-23 rebels arrive by boat in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
A statue of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad, which was toppled and defaced during the overthrow of the Assad regime, lies in ruins atop a mountain in Dayr Atiyah, Syria, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, is escorted by fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross on Jan. 30, 2025, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
A man carries a sheep on a motorcycle during a wildfire in Patras, Greece, on Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
Fans join the Chinese punk rock band Gum Bleed as they perform during a music festival in Hangzhou, China, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
Luis Sanchez, center, rides on a boat with other Venezuelan migrants after giving up hopes of reaching the U.S. amid President Trump's crackdown on migration, on Feb. 23, 2025, near Gardi Sugdub, along Panama's Caribbean coast. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Firefighters battle flames engulfing a beachfront property in Malibu, Calif., during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent, File)
Smoke rises from an Israeli strike in Gaza City on June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A polar bear rests on the stairs of an abandoned research station on Koluchin Island off of Chukotka, Russia, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Makhorov, File)
Yu Xiaofeng leaps into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin, China, on Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
A protester, wearing a flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman, shouts outside the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal's government, during a protest against corruption and a ban on social media in Kathmandu, on Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
But people — people stand out, no matter where they may be. And moments in time have the power to freeze the world with the snap of a digital camera's shutter, over and over around the planet — from Gaza to Ukraine, the Philippines to Haiti, Maine to the White House to California and so many points in between.
That's what The Associated Press' corps of photographers documented in 2025: the frenzied and the quiet, the bloody and the contemplative, and even healthy doses of joy, wonder and discovery to help us see that our violent and sometimes inexplicable world is full of good things, too.
In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with the AP are trusted eyewitnesses to news and have won 36 of AP's Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917.
They are far more than eyewitnesses, though. They are journalists, explorers, artists, understanders. They are experts in vantage point and light, in people skills and storytelling.
Sometimes it's the color: the saturated, angry oranges in Etienne Laurent's arresting image of firefighters in California battling a blaze that had engulfed a beachfront property in Malibu, California.
Sometimes it's the action and the movement: Robert F. Bukaty's photo of the back half of a sturgeon, propelling itself fiercely through the waters of Maine and leaving bubbles in its wake. Or the kinetic energy that bursts from Aaron Favila's frame of men massing to salvage electrical wire after a fire in a poor Philippine community.
Sometimes it's what photographers call “negative space": Petros Giannakouris' image of the Parthenon and the moon at night, their magnificence dramatically amplified by the midnight-blue sky that fills most of the frame.
Sometimes it is juxtaposition across images and continents: Niranjan Shrestha's photo of a demonstrator in Nepal, his hair cascading behind him and his arms outstretched after he grabbed a flak jacket and a shield from a policeman during the chaos of a protest — and its mirror image of joy, Andy Wong's image of a woman with her own arms in the air as she jumps into a pool carved from ice in frozen northeastern China.
Sometimes it is pure grief and heartbreak, as in Julia Demaree Nikhinson's close-up of Erika Kirk wiping a tear from her reddened right eye before speaking at a memorial for her husband, slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Or even double heartbreak: a Palestinian woman, gravely injured, holding the body of her infant daughter at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli airstrike — and the realization that mere weeks later, the photographer herself, Mariam Dagga, would die in another airstrike while covering the same hospital.
Finally, sometimes it is simply quiet contemplation — a rarer moment in these jumbled days — as seen through the lens of Jenny Kane, who captured the silhouette of a lone man walking on the beach near a rock jutting from shore at the edge of the land in Oregon.
Whatever the subject, whatever the memorable trait, one thing is constant. In every single image, AP photographers carefully calibrated their equipment — both creative and mechanical — to bring the world glimpses of itself that resist forgetting.
And after a confusing year crammed with history and heartbreak, when only the images remain for most of us, that photographic act — carving grooves of collective memory with color and light and verve and creativity — may be one of the most important contributions of all.
Photo editing by Benjamin Snyder, Enric Martí, and Jacqueline Larma.
Law enforcement officers standoff against protesters outside an ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., on Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
People gather at a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 13, 2025, prior to the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Hussein Dheini, 12, who was wounded in the pagers attack carried out by Israel on September 17, 2024, stands next to his mother, Faten Haidar, at the entrance of their home in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, on May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
Demonstrators confront riot police during a protest against chronic cuts to electricity and water in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mamyrael, File)
A balloon bearing the image of President Alassane Ouattara floats above supporters during a campaign rally in Koumassi, Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)
A boy is detained as youth-led protests calling for reforms to healthcare and education turn violent in Sale, Morocco, on Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)
Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City with their belongings along the coastal road in Nuseirat, toward the southern Gaza Strip, on Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
Rwanda's Eric Nkundabera, right, leads teammates Patrick Byukusenge and Mike Uwiduhaye during the team time trial mixed relay event at the road cycling World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda on Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
President Donald Trump looks through the window of Marine One upon his arrival at the White House in Washington on Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Security personnel take position just before the arrival of President Donald Trump on Air Force One at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)
Election volunteers count ballots in Blantyre, Malawi, on Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)
Residents walk past a soldier patrolling the Siloe neighborhood in Cali, Colombia, on Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga, File)
People take refuge in a metro station being used as a bomb shelter during a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov, File)
A man walks on the shore with Haystack Rock in the background at Cannon Beach, Ore., on Aug. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
Fans try to get autographs during a practice round for the Ryder Cup golf tournament at the Bethpage Black golf course, in Farmingdale, N.Y., on Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
Luis, 30, who fled Venezuela after being an opposition political activist while at university, poses for a photo at the apartment complex where he lives in Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 19, 2025. An aspiring entrepreneur with a degree in mechanical engineering, Luis requested asylum in the U.S. and received a work permit which allows him to support himself as an Amazon delivery driver as he goes through the legal asylum process. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
Children practice at a boxing school in an underground shelter in the frontline city of Kherson, southern Ukraine, on Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Keeper Jessica Ray watches Humboldt Penguins at London Zoo during the annual weigh-in to monitor the health and development of the zoo's animals on Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
A supporter of presidential candidate Samuel Doria Medina applies lipstick on another at a campaign rally in La Paz, Bolivia, on Aug. 12, 2025, five days ahead of presidential elections. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Macaws fly past a family on a scooter during a training session for the birds in a field in Depok, Indonesia, outside Jakarta, on Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
A model applying makeup is reflected in a mirror during the Mr. and Mrs. Kibera leadership contest held on International Youth Day in Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
Erika Kirk wipes tears as she prepares to speak at a memorial for her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 21, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Farmer Turkan Ozkan, 64, cries next to one of her animals killed during a fire in Guzelyeli, on the outskirts of Canakkale, northwest Turkey, on Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
A person walks on a bridge over the Miljacka River, which is almost dried up and covered with algae, during a heat wave and drought in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut, File)
Residents salvage electrical wire, which they will sell later, after a fire hit a poor community in Manila, Philippines, on Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
An asylum seeker from Ecuador hugs her father as he is detained by federal agents in New York on July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, File)
Birds perch on a park bench as a dense fog envelopes the Sydney skyline causing major commuter delays, on Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
Dresses hang at a garment store in Beijing on July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)
A worker pounds into rock to make gravel and sand in Kenscoff, a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)
The powerful tail of a sturgeon propels the fish airborne, on July 23, 2025, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Migratory birds surround a boat as people feed them early in the morning near the banks of the river Yamuna in New Delhi, on Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador months earlier by the United States under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, is welcomed home by his relatives in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez, File)
Bride Jamaica Aguilar prepares to enter the flooded Barasoain church for her wedding in Malolos, Bulacan province, Philippines, on July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
Hossam Azzam holds the body of his child, Amir, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
Photos of flood victims are displayed on a memorial wall in Kerrville, Texas, on July 10, 2025, a week after a catastrophic flood came barreling through the region, killing more than 130 people. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
Israelis take shelter in a Jerusalem basement during an Iranian missile strike on June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
Baby ostriches huddle near a heat lamp after being moved into a barn following recent flooding at a farm in Bend, Texas, on July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
Naima Abu Ful poses for a photo with her 2-year-old malnourished child, Yazan, at their home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A man jumps as waves lash his house during high tide on the shore of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India, on June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
Street vendor Boniface Kariuki falls to the ground after he was shot in the head by a policeman, center, during a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
Palestinians carry away food and humanitarian aid from a World Food Program convoy that had been headed to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
Republican members of Congress reach to shake hands with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center bottom, after Johnson signed President Donald Trump's bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, on July 3, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
People take cover as a firework explodes during a protest near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)
People evacuate after a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, File)
A photo of a child lies amid rubble after an Israeli strike on June 25, 2025, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
The tail of an airplane sticks out of a building where it crashed in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)
People protesting immigration enforcement are detained by Texas state troopers near the Alamo in downtown San Antonio on June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
The Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, is partially covered with sheets as Matthias Huss, head of the Swiss glacier monitoring group GLAMOS, stands nearby, on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system intercepts missiles during an Iranian attack on Tel Aviv, Israel, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
A protester waves a flag as a Waymo self-driving taxi burns near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
A family poses for a photo after Eid al-Adha prayers on June 6, 2025, on a beach in Keta, Ghana. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)
People watch as Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, departs the White House in Washington en route to the Trump National Golf Club Washington D.C. for a crypto dinner on May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Pilgrims dance the Sevillanas on June 8, 2025, during the annual Catholic pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin of El Rocio that draws hundreds of thousands of faithful in El Rocio, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Hailee Allen saves a family picture from Lynn and Don White's home on May 17, 2025, after a deadly tornado tore through London, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
The Air Bandits aerobatic team, led by Lithuanian pilot Jurgis Kairys, performs above a pyrotechnics display at the Aurel Vlaicu International Airport during the Bucharest International Air Show in Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)
A man rides his bicycle in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa on Oct. 30, 2025, in Black River, Jamaica. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Friends and relatives of Jorge Luis Mendoza Cuelho, 14, ride with his coffin during his funeral in Belen, a district nicknamed the "Venice of the Jungle," in Iquitos, Peru, on May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
Jabir Kaur, center, who's husband, Sukhwinder Singh, died after consuming toxic liquor, mourns on May 13, 2025, in Majitha, India. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill, File)
A man walks though Churchill Downs before the Kentucky Derby horse race in Louisville, Ky., May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
A portrait of the late Pope Francis is projected onto a water fountain at Magic Water Circuit in Lima, Peru, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)
Wounds from a Russian strike cover Kostiantyn Bychek's face at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
A man holds rosary beads during a prayer for Pope Francis' health in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Members of an expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest stand by their tents at the Everest Base Camp in Nepal on April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Pasang Rinzee Sherpa, File)
Bodies of Palestinians, who were killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel, are prepared for burial at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
An injured woman sits near her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike, in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Snow falls on people walking through Red Square in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow as temperatures hover just below freezing on April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
A coffee bar in Istanbul sprays mist to cool people passing by on July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Shaima Seiam lies wounded at Nasser Hospital beside the body of her infant daughter, Ahlam, who was days away from her first birthday, after their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga, File)
Pope Leo XIV attends the International conference, "Raising Hope for Climate Justice," in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Snow covers railroad tracks that were once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
A container ship approaches the Port of Santos, the largest port in Brazil, which plays a key role in the country's trade and logistics, on April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)
Riot police use pepper spray against a protester after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison in Istanbul on March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Huseyin Aldemir, File)
A group of migrants wait to be processed between two border walls separating Mexico and the United States after crossing illegally before dawn, Jan. 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Children cast shadows on a basketball court during a sports workshop at a park in Santiago, Chile, on Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo, File)
Dogs stand on the winner's podium at the PetExpo in Bucharest, Romania, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)
Palestinians gather at a table, surrounded by the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings, for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
The Northern Lights shimmer over homes in Nuuk, Greenland, on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Delia Donn confronts a riot policeman during one of the weekly protests demanding better pensions for retirees in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
The snow moon rises behind Philopappos Hill, between the Parthenon, left, and the Philopappos Monument, right, in Athens, Greece, on Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Girls scream while they ride the Tempest at the Rand Show in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
Palestinians Ali Marouf and his mother, Aisha, cook on the roof of their house, which was destroyed by an Israeli offensive, in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A man smokes a cigarette in a state-run bodega in Havana on Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
People watch a live broadcast of the release of three Israeli hostages from Gaza during a gathering at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
The body of a man killed during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang, lies in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
St. Louis Cardinals' Victor Scott II scores against the San Francisco Giants during a baseball game in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters at a protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, the day before his inauguration for a third term, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
Mohammad Naser takes cover from the rain in the ruins of his house, which was destroyed in an Israeli offensive, in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
People fleeing M-23 rebels arrive by boat in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
A statue of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad, which was toppled and defaced during the overthrow of the Assad regime, lies in ruins atop a mountain in Dayr Atiyah, Syria, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, is escorted by fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross on Jan. 30, 2025, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
A man carries a sheep on a motorcycle during a wildfire in Patras, Greece, on Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
Fans join the Chinese punk rock band Gum Bleed as they perform during a music festival in Hangzhou, China, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
Luis Sanchez, center, rides on a boat with other Venezuelan migrants after giving up hopes of reaching the U.S. amid President Trump's crackdown on migration, on Feb. 23, 2025, near Gardi Sugdub, along Panama's Caribbean coast. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Firefighters battle flames engulfing a beachfront property in Malibu, Calif., during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent, File)
Smoke rises from an Israeli strike in Gaza City on June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A polar bear rests on the stairs of an abandoned research station on Koluchin Island off of Chukotka, Russia, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Makhorov, File)
Yu Xiaofeng leaps into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin, China, on Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
A protester, wearing a flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman, shouts outside the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal's government, during a protest against corruption and a ban on social media in Kathmandu, on Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
