President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a celebration for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Harry S. Truman at Naval Station Norfolk, Sunday Oct. 5, 2025 in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
The top photos of the day by AP’s photojournalists
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
Federal officers hold down a protestor in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, after protesters learned that U.S. Border Patrol shot a woman Saturday morning on Chicago’s Southwest Side. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)A protester reacts after getting sprayed by a Department of Homeland Security officer outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Law enforcement hold back protesters near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)An inflatable Statue of Liberty floats in a pool outside the Haus der Kulturen der Welt museum as part of the exhibition Possibility of Unvernunft (Die Möglichkeit der Unvernunft) by satirist Jan Boehmermann and the artist collective Gruppe Royale, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)Law enforcement agents aim their weapons from the roof of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as a helicopter flies past during a protest on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Nikos Chadjilias places a frame with honey in an empty beehive on the roof of a building in the Ilioupoli suburb of Athens, Greece, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)People gather at a bar as they enjoy the first night of the weekend in Damascus, Syria, early Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men inspect an etrog, a citrus fruit, to determine if it is ritually acceptable as one of the four items used as a symbol on the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)Pro-Palestinian demonstrators pass in front of Rome’s Colosseum, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, during a march calling for an end to the war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Palestinian women bake bread in a clay oven, using plastic for fire, at a UN school used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Pope Leo XIV blesses a child at the end of a Mass for the Jubilee of Migrants and Missionaries in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)A man takes a bath with his daughters beside damaged structures due to a recent strong earthquake in Bogo, Cebu Province, Central Philippines on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Riders from different tribes compete during “Al-Mermah”, a traditional equestrian fencing competition and cultural heritage event, in Qena, 457 kilometers (284 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)A man waits for customers at a stall beside war-damaged buildings ahead of a parliamentary election set to take place Sunday, in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)An elderly woman reacts next to the house destroyed by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)A woman sits on a bench next to the Bosphorus in Istanbul on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Family members and supporters cheer and hold portraits of contestants during the Miss Lebanon 2025 contest in Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso of Spain in action during the qualifying for the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)Chairman of opposition “ANO” (YES) movement Andrej Babis arrives at his election headquarters after most of the votes were counted in the parliamentary elections in Prague, Czech Republic, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)Young Jewish men attend a vigil for the victims of the attack on at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)Demonstrators with a Georgian and Ukrainian national flags stand behind a burning barricade not far from a police line during an opposition rally in the city center of Tbilisi, Georgia, on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, boycotting the municipal elections and calling for the release of political opponents. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)Police officers clash with protesters during a pro-Palestinian rally in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla after ships were intercepted by the Israeli navy, in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)A priest blesses animals during a Mass in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, considered the protector of animals, on the Saint’s feast day, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day.
