Henry County Local correspondent Joe Durbin pauses in the late day sun as he interviews participants during the Beef Bash 2025 tasting event at the Berry Center, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in New Castle, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
President Donald Trump displays an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Two men walk by a wooden coffin placed on a statue base during a demonstration by European farmers outside the EU Summit meeting in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Marius Burgelman)Flamengo fans react after their team lost the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final soccer match against Paris Saint-Germain in Qatar, in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)Orthodox Christians nuns carry Christmas trees after receiving them during a distribution in the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, ahead of the Christmas holiday. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Ultra-Orthodox Jewish family light candles in the fifth night of Hanukkah in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)An aerial view of buildings peaking through a dense layer of fog in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)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)A girl rescues books from a shop near the premises of the Prothom Alo daily newspaper which was set on fire by angry protesters after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)Luge athlete Walter Vikstrom from Finland takes a practice run in Lake Placid, N.Y., Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Dog walkers stand on the beach at Girvan with the granite island of Ailsa Craig in the background in Scotland, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Chanthy Khuon, left, and Bryan Sheriff, second from left, try to secure a large pile of carpet and padding onto a truck after taking it out of the home of Khuon’s son after flooding Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Pacific, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
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