Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks with reporters on the steps at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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 plane takes off from the Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport as smoke from an earlier Israeli airstrike still rises in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Rescue workers check a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)A member of the Iranian community flashes a victory sign from behind a poster of Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi during a rally outside the Iranian embassy in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Nepalese police guard filled ballot boxes before being taken away for counting at polling station for the parliamentary election in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)A billboard showing a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes, looms over an empty square in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Savannah Guthrie visits the Today show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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