An attendee prays during Faith Night worship events at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)
Dec. 17–23, 2025
AP mobile scroll: a selection of standout vertical images published by The Associated Press in the past week.
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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Workers add President Donald Trump’s name to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts after a Trump-appointed board voted to rename the institution, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)A miner marches during a protest President Rodrigo Paz’s decision to remove fuel subsidies in La Paz, Bolivia Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Freddy Barragan)A cat casts a shadow against the ground at Kabatas ferry terminal as the sun rises over the Bosphorus strait, in Istanbul, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)An elderly man looks out of his broken window as an apartment building was hit by a Russian drone during an aerial attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)People dressed in Santa Claus costumes take part in a morning run in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, during the annual Santa race through the streets of the Spanish capital. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Carriers used to transport shelter pets from an overwhelmed Southern animal shelter to foster and rescue groups farther north, sit on the tarmac between connecting flights at Culpeper Regional Airport in Brandy Station, Va., Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)Carolina Panthers tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders leaps over Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Benjamin Morrison during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)Aria Wogoman, 5, leaves her flooded home following heavy rains on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Redding, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)An aerial view of buildings peaking through a dense layer of fog in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang, who openly criticized the Chinese government after seeing first-hand how surveillance technology built up the government’s power and is now being accused of corruption by Beijing, is illuminated by cellphone infrared facial recognition beams as he stands for a photo in the oil fields of Midland, Texas, where he’s currently living in exile, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/David Goldman)A Pintado petrel flys over the Drakes Passage on the way to Antarctica, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
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