Sharon Simmons with DoorDash, gets a $100 tip after delivering McDonald's to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
People participate in the Songkran water festival to celebrate the Thai New Year in Prachinburi province, Thailand, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)Pope Leo XIV arrives at Maqam Echahid Martyrs’ Monument in Algiers, Monday, April 13, 2026, on the first day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)U.S. Vice President JD Vance, center, walks with Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir, left, and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar after arriving for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)US flag symbol merchandise and other rhinestone-studded items are displayed at the California Republican Party Convention in San Diego, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace get arrested after blocking traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and opposing U.S. weapons support on Monday, April 13, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)A man flashes a victory sign as he carries an Iranian flag in front of an anti-U.S. billboard depicting the American aircrafts into the Iranian armed forces fishing net with signs that read in Farsi: “The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, The entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground,” at the Eqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution Square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Mourners pray over the six coffins of members of the Al-Jalib family, who were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes in Beirut, during their funeral in the village of al-Sour, Deir al-Zour province, northeastern Syria, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)Mourners react during the funeral of 13 state security officers killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Haifa Kenjo, who fled Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, holds her 15-day-old daughter Shiman inside the tent she uses as a shelter and where she gave birth to her in Beirut, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)A woman reacts at the site of a damaged residential building after it was struck by a projectile fired from Lebanon, in Nahariya, northern Israel Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Seagulls are pictured at the Baltic Sea beach in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, on a sunny Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)People react in the streets after the announcement of partial results of the Hungarian parliamentary in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)A youth using an umbrella to shade himself plays at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)Mirabad ridden by Tristan Durrell clears a fence on the way to winning the Hallgarten & Novum Wines Maghull Novices’ Chase during the Grand National horse race meeting at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Super)A pilgrim kisses her sick grandfather, Ramon Gamboa, after a priest blessed him at his home during the Quasimodo Feast, a procession held the Sunday following Easter, Colina, Chile, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates after winning the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)In this long exposure photo, Orthodox believers walk with candles past a bust of the Russian Tsar Alexander III installed near a church during Orthodox Easter midnight service in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani salutes his supporters during an address marking his first 100 days in office at the Knockdown Center on Sunday, April 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)Doug Bartek takes a break from shoveling soybeans in a bin on his farm near Wahoo, Neb., on Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Fatou, the oldest of Berlin’s zoo and also believed to be the world’s oldest gorilla, arrives at its enclosure to celebrate her 69th birthday in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)Christian Orthodox pilgrims hold up candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where, according to tradition, Jesus was crucified and buried, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)Two armchairs sit at an abandoned railway crossing used as a checkpoint by the Assad regime’s Syrian army, east of Homs, Syria, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
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