The pilot of a U.S. aircraft holds a Venezuelan flag from the cockpit window after landing at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Thursday, April 30, 2026, as direct air service between the United States and Venezuela resumes after seven years. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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 classroom at a school is in ruins after it was hit days ago by an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)President Donald Trump clasps his hands on the Resolute Desk as he speaks before signing an executive order regarding retirement savings in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)A man, right, puts the five months son of Lebanese Civil Defense worker Hussein Ali Satti on his father’s coffin who was killed alongside two colleagues in an Israeli strike on Tuesday, during his funeral procession in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Kentucky Derby entrant So Happy waits to get a bath after a workout at Churchill Downs Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Soldiers wait for the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron at the military command post during the Orion 2026 military exercises at Mailly-le-Camp, eastern France, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, Pool)Sam Altman, center, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, right, arrive at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)Cattle graze under solar panels Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at a farm in Christiana, Tenn. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum arrives at the National Palace to give her daily morning press conference in Mexico City, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Artists Gilbert & George pose with their artworks at their exhibition called ‘Our George Crompton, WORLDS and WINDOWS by Gilbert & George’ during the media preview at The Gilbert & George Centre in London, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)People arrive before Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a parade in Front Royal, Va., Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)Girls sing a song as they show the movement of missiles with their hands next to the portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in a state-organised rally celebrating the birthday of Imam Reza, the 8th Shiite Muslims’ Imam, and supporting the supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)A sapper demines an agricultural field in Balakliia, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)Britain’s King Charles III walks to his vehicle during the departure from the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)A man walks between rapeseed fields on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)A statue of a man holding a flag which covers his face, and signed ‘Banksy, has appeared in Waterloo Place in London, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)Lebanese women sit at the beach as the sun sets in the southern port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)A giant statue of Nipper the dog sits atop a building in the warehouse district in Albany, N.Y., Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
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