First lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump are seated in their motorcade on the South Lawn of the White House, before traveling to the Capitol where President Trump will give the State of the Union address, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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 gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)An “Epstein Reading Room” studio backdrop is set up at a rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union hosted by Defiance.org, the Portland Frog Brigade and COURIER at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)People make their way near piles of plowed snow a day after a winter storm on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)Tetiana Khimion 47, now a sniper in the Ukrainian army, poses with a photograph of herself as a dance teacher taken before Russia’s full-scale invasion, in a park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)Subway trains are parked in a depot as employees of the public traffic are on strike in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)Nyayual Chuol, right, watches her 18-month-old grandson Kool Gatyen Pajock, who was shot during the conflict-hit state, receive treatment at the Akobo County Hospital in South Sudan, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Florence Miettaux)National Guards patrol a highway near Aguililla, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.” (AP Photo/Armando Solis)Firefighters recover a body from the site where homes collapsed during heavy rains and severe flooding in the Parque Burnier neighborhood of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)A Muslim attends afternoon prayer during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court, in London, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)A woman attends a demonstration marking the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel)A man sleeps on a street in Havana, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)Beachgoers gather around the carcass of a sperm whale that washed ashore on Zikim Beach near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)Relatives of those killed during the Russian occupation react at the Wall of Remembrance during a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)A passing car splashes water from a puddle onto a camera lens as photos are taken of the Palace of Parliament illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, to mark the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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