The top photos of the day by AP’s photojournalists
Work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Original Publication Date: October 23, 2025 9:14AM
Publication Updated: October 23, 2025 10:33AM
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
A person pushes a protester blocking a caravan of U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel trying to enter Coast Guard Base Alameda on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)Law enforcement officers watch from a ledge of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility as a protester stands outside in an inflatable frog costume on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Iryna Zarytska, a widow of a fallen soldier, ties ID tags on a sakura tree as mothers and widows plant trees on a newly created Love Alley in honor of their sons and husbands who were killed in Russia-Ukraine war in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)A woman sits in front of a graffiti of the Naga flag, near cadres of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) cadres in Ukhrul, in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)Relatives and supporters of the victims of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre march to Belfast Crown Court ahead of the verdict on the trial of a British soldier identified only as Soldier F, Belfast, in Northern Ireland, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)Palestinians stand on the road side after Israeli soldiers blocked access to an area for harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Sa’ir, near Hebron, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)A cross hangs from an olive tree in the Franciscan hermitage on the Mount of Olives with the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the background, in Jerusalem, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Orthodox nuns attend the procession of Saint Dimitrie Bassarabov, the patron saint of the Romanian capital, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/ Vadim Ghirda)An Icelandic horse rolls on a meadow at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on a rainy and stormy Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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