President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth watch as carry teams move the transfer case with the remains of Iowa National Guard soldiers Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa, who was killed in an attack in Syria, during a casualty return, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
Pyongyang citizens and soldiers pay respect to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on the 14th anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death in Pyongyang, DPRK, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho)Rob Jacobs, left, embraces North Carolina State Rep. John Lowery and Chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, as they join with other members of the Lumbee Tribe to celebrate passage of a bill granting the tribe federal recognition, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. “It means a lot,” says Lowery, “because we have been figuring out how to get here for so long. We have been second class natives, and we will never be that again. We will make sure this counts.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)A vendor sells inflatables on Macuto beach in Venezuela, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)A migrant’s belongings are packed before he leaves as police in the background prepares to carry out eviction orders at an abandoned school building where hundreds of mostly undocumented migrants had been living, in Badalona, near Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Pigeons fly by in central Frankfurt, Germany, on a foggy Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)PSG’s Willian Pacho, left, fights for the ball with Flamengo’s Bruno Henrique during the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final soccer match between Flamengo and Paris Saint-Germain in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)Noor Kaida, a 17-year-old Rohingya refugee, poses inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)An aerial view of a Rohingya refugee camp, home to over a million of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, is pictured in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)Mamadou Gueye, a 39-year-old farmer who lost his left hand after a fight with a herder over cattle in May 2022, guards his fields of peanuts Oct. 12, 2025, in Ross Bethio, Senegal. (AP Photo/Andrea Ferro)
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