Lydia Davis dances with hoops during a street party on Broadway, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. celebrating the 2030 Super Bowl scheduled to be played at the Tennessee Titans NFL football team's Nissan Stadium. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
Flames and smoke rise from an Ebola treatment center in Rwampara, Congo, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is passed a replica World Cup Trophy by Ezequiel Cecchi, 49, after making a World Cup soccer tournament announcement at Harlem Tavern, Thursday, May 21, 2026 in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)Palestinians shop for sheep and goats ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha at a livestock market in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press before boarding his plane at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Thursday, May 21, 2026. Rubio is traveling to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)Mourners grieve over the bodies of relatives who were killed two days before by Israeli airstrikes in the southern village of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, at the morgue ahead of the funeral procession in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Ismail family home, destroyed in Israeli airstrike at Al-Maghazi camp, in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Muslim pilgrims touch the walls of the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)The bodies of two children, whom relatives said were killed by an explosion caused by war remnants while they were playing in the village of Abu Habbah in eastern Idlib countryside, are carried during their funeral in Abu Habbah, Syria, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)People sit along the Seine river next to “The Pont Neuf Cave,” an inflated art installation by French street artist JR, on Paris’ oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, Thursday, May 21, 2026, which will be open to the public from June 6-28. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)Members of the Regiment 30 Guard sing holding torches during the Heroes’ Day march in memory of the country’s war heroes, traditionally celebrated on Ascension Day, forty days after Orthodox Easter, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)Arisa Sasaki poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Titanic Ocean’ during the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/John Locher)An electric rickshaw driver splashes water on his face to cool off under the intense summer heat in Lucknow, India, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)Sudanese student Magdah Abu Kassem, 12, who left Sudan with her family during the civil war, poses with her notebook in front of her class room at a refugees school for children, in Tajoura, east Tripoli, Libya, Monday, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)A woman poses for a photographer in front of a poster showcasing the famous red carpet during the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)A United Airlines passenger jet approaches Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)A shirt belonging to Suleiman Abdelsaid, who went missing in 2024 at age 18, is displayed on a bed at his family home in Omdurman, Sudan, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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