People sit in the shade to avoid the heat in Goyang, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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 Vatican Swiss guard is hit by a beam of light as he waits for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)Israel’s team compete during the Acrobatic Team Final at the European Aquatics Championships in Saint-Denis near Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)A person sits on the ground during Abdul El-Sayed’s, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, election night party, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)A metal gate depicting a tree remains among the rubble after a wildfire hit the northwest part of Spokane, Wash., Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Abdul El-Sayed waves as he arrives for a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)Smoke rises from a burning factory beside a highway on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)Texas Rangers’ Ezequiel Duran (20) is doused by Alejandro Osuna, right, as the team celebrates Duran’s run-scoring double in the ninth inning a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in Arlington, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) CORRECTION: “run-scoring double” is correct not “run-scoring single”A Lebanese family takes shade under the damaged solar panels of their destroyed house in the village of Zawtar al-Gharbieh, south Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)A woman prays during a candlelight vigil Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in Twin Falls, Idaho, to honor the victims of a recent shooting at a local In-N-Out Burger. (AP Photo/Andrew Eakin)Paraphernalia supporting President Donald Trump covers a desk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Firefighters put out a fire after Russian missiles hit a warehouse in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)Activists of National Conference party hold placard during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on the anniversary of the revocation of special status of the region, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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