FILE - Riders show off their skills during Maslenitsa, or Shrovetide holiday celebrations in St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
Feb. 18 – 24, 2026
AP mobile scroll: a selection of standout vertical images published by The Associated Press in the past week.
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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
FILE – A banner showing U.S. President Donald Trump hangs from the Department of Justice, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File)FILE – Members of the United States’ Olympic gold medal hockey team react as President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)FILE – Alysa Liu of the U.S. competes during the women’s figure skating free program at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)FILE – Youths climb a tree during a gathering of therians, people who say they identify as non-human animals, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)FILE – Vehicles are covered in and surrounded by snow after an overnight snowstorm, Feb. 23, 2026, in Fort Lee, N.J. (AP Photo/Pablo Salinas, File)FILE – Seen through a charred vehicle, other burned vehicles litter the road after the Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” in Guadalajara, Mexico, Feb. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)FILE – 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, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)FILE – People attend a demonstration in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, to mark the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)FILE – A worshiper prays during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at Al Rahman mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)FILE – Logan Eaton, 9, plays catch in the outfield before a spring training baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Colorado Rockies, Feb. 22, 2026, in Surprise, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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