U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One at Paris Orly Airport, Wednesday, June 17, 2026, in Orly, France. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
Dog Tinkerbell walks along as England flags decorate Kirby Estate in London, ahead of England’s first World Cup soccer match against Croatia, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Racegoer Suzette Field poses for photographers as she arrives on the second day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting in Ascot, England, Wednesday, June 17, 2026.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Luigi Mangione, center, appears for a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, Pool)Locals watch the World Cup soccer match between England and Croatia projected on a barn wall, in Kumrovec, northern Croatia, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)Palestinians collect their belongings from their evacuated homes after the Israeli army issued a number of short term access permits for residents of the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)A video from the Communist era secret police surveillance archives, seen through a pinhole, shows Anton Uncu sitting on a metal bed, a day before the opening of the “A.REST 1989 — The Securitate Video Archive” exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, lay a wreath at the National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)Hezbollah supporters listen to the speech of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem during a sermon marking the first day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the grave of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Habiba al-Kafarna, 5, who was orphaned when her parents, Ahmed and Sajida, were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in 2025, stands behind a sofa in the Gaza City home where she lives, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Priests attend the weekly general audience with Pope Leo XIV, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)Khadija Al-Ladawi, 71, participates in a psychological support session using a virtual reality headset in a tent operated by a medical technology team in Zawaida, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana).Kashmiri students hold placards as they participate in a government organized boat campaign in the Dal Lake to raise awareness about protecting agricultural land in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, watches his tee shot on the 11th hole during a practice round for the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., Wednesday, June 17, 2026.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)A man clears the rubble as writing in Hebrew on the wall reads “revenge, regards to the arrested, people, wake up,” at one of the West Bank mosques that were vandalized and partly set on fire by Israeli settlers overnight, in the village of Jiljilya, north of Ramallah, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George celebrates after winning the D.C. Mayor primary election during an election night party at the Howard Theatre, Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Pittsburgh Pirates’ Bryan Reynolds (10) celebrates in the dugout with his teammates after hitting a two run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)Argentina’s Lionel Messi (10) celebrates after scoring their second goal during the World Cup Group J soccer match between Argentina and Algeria in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
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