The top photos of the day by AP photojournalists

From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.

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President Donald Trump departs Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Equipment being placed on the South Lawn of the White House is seen from the Washington Monument, Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Washington. The UFC is holding a mixed martial arts fight on June 14 as part of America 250 celebrations. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks during a primary runoff election night event after winning the Republican party’s nomination Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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An ICE agent holds his baton, with tattoos of skulls on his arm, outside the Delaney Hall detention during a protest against the transfer of detainees on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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A man checks a house that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Burj al-Shemali village near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Ali Salman, 12, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike, lies on a bed at Jabal Amel hospital in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Palestinians inspect a damaged vehicle that was targeted in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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A Syrian farmer gestures while harvesting green wheat used to produce freekeh, a roasted grain widely used in Levantine cuisine and made by harvesting immature wheat and roasting it over open flames to separate and preserve the grains, in a field on the outskirts of Taftanaz, northwestern Syria, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
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Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) listen to speeches by deposed leader Ozgur Ozel during a rally in Izmir, Turkey, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Erdem Sahin)
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A new married couple in traditional attire attend an opposition rally marking the Independence Day in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
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Muslim women perform morning prayer marking the Eid al-Adha holiday on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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A stadium worker cleans the lines during the first round women’s singles tennis match between Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus and Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Machozi Naumi, 45, raises awareness of Ebola in the camp on the property of the city’s ISP (Institut Supérieur Pédagogique), where internally displaced people reside in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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A passenger van drives past a war-damaged building on the eastern frontline after completing security checks to enter the government-controlled city center, ahead of the Islamic Eid al-Adha, in Taiz, Yemen, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Photo by Abdulnasser Alseddik)
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A cat is seen in the foreground as Muslim pilgrims pray at top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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A girl walks through al-Karama camp, established in the early years of the Syrian conflict and built from scratch with light-brick structures covered with fabric to house internally displaced Syrians near the village of Atmeh, Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

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