Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Maria Pires poses for a portrait at the shelter where she is staying in eastern Brazil, Sunday, June 15, 2025, after her deportation from the U.S. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A protester wearing flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman shouts slogans at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal's government's various ministries and offices during a protest against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

In this Sept., 2018 selfie image provided by Emma Tsurkov, right, she and Elizabeth Tsurkov are shown in Santa Clara Valley, Calif. Emma Tsurkov, the sister of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli academic at Princeton University who went missing in Iraq nearly six months ago, says the U.S. government and other nations must do more to work to bring her home. (AP Photo/Eric Tucker)

Dana Grimes and her husband bought a new home after theirs was destroyed by a tornado. But, five months after the storm, much of the wreckage still covers their property. Photograph taken in Jayess, Mississippi on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

FILE - Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2024, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

The sun sets behind the Liftboat Robert platform, home of Expedition 501, a global research expedition drilling for fresh water, in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Anaise, 3, clings to her mother, Veronica, an immigrant from Guatemala, as she works at a sewing machine in Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, amid ongoing ICE raids. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Law enforcement officers gather outside the Annunciation Church's school in response to a reported mass shooting, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Heather Colley, right, poses with her son, Michah, outside their home Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Talbott, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Famara Ndure, a fisherman for more than 40 years, leans against his boat in Gunjur, Gambia, after a day of work, on March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Grace Ekpu)

This photo of Leonard Thomas, 23, crying in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, taken by AP photographer Rick Bowmer, is projected Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, onto the flood wall in the Lower Ninth Ward, which was breached, flooding major parts of the city. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

FILE - A firefighter battles the Canyon Fire on Aug. 7, 2025, in Hasley Canyon, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)