Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has concentrated his efforts as the “Nation’s Doctor” on mental health, the importance of community, and well-being-- tracing this focus back to his Indian-American upbringing in the Miami suburbs.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made their joint debut as the 2024 Democratic ticket Monday night at a packed rally in Philadelphia.

The Shulls Mill Dam in Boone, North Carolina, is removed as part of a national effort to restore habitats across the United States.

This photo combination shows Belarus political prisoners, clockwise from top left, Viasna human rights group founder and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski in , Belarus' opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova, journalist Andrzej Poczobut and opposition activist Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya holding a portrait of her jailed husband Syarhey Tsikhanousky.

FILE - In this March 12, 2020 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Jordan Goudreau, a former U.S. Green Beret who organized a failed crossborder raid in 2020 to remove President Maduro has been arrested in New York. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Josephine Fraser, 22, who was born and raised in Lahaina, holds her son Zyon Dias, 18 months, as she watches Ireh Dias, 3, front, run around outside their small home at Ke Ao Maluhia at the Maui Lani housing development, spearheaded by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Kahului, Hawaii. The family has moved multiple times over the past 11 months after being displaced by the 2023 wildfire and are the first to move into the modular home community being built for those affected. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Protesters demonstrate against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro won reelection in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024, the day after the vote. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle prepares to testify about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, at the Capitol, Monday, July 22, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Shelia Mae Dobbins walks with her oxygen tube inside her home in Gloster, Miss., Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Dobbins feels her life — and health — were better before Drax began compressing tons of wood chips nearby, (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Friday, July 26, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

illustration includes a photo obtained by The Associated Press of then-U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Jose Irizarry and other images from DEA documents. (AP Illustration/Marshall Ritzel)