Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

Rev. Raymond Johnson, of Marion, S.C., arranges flowers on the lawn of the home on Galway Drive in Charlotte, N.C., April 30, 2024 where a shootout between a suspect and officers occurred during an attempt to serve a warrant. Four law enforcement officers were killed. AP PHOTO / NELL REDMOND

Student protesters sit in front of a tent during the Pro-Palestinian protest at the Columbia University campus in New York, Monday April 22, 2024. AP PHOTO / STEFAN JEREMIAH

A man wearing a mask walks at the Lycabettus hill as the city of Athens is seen at the background, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The Acropolis and other Athens landmarks took on Martian hues Tuesday as stifling dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Greek capital. AP PHOTO / PETROS GIANNAKOURIS

Amateur trader Manny Marotta holds his laptop in his apartment in Rocky River, Ohio, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The legal writer from suburban Cleveland had been up about $4,000 on “put” options for Trump Media & Technology stock, purchased over the past few weeks. AP PHOTO / DAVID DERMER

Adriane Burnett reads to her son Karter Robinson on Saturday, April 14, 2024 in Birmingham, Ala. Women's participation in the American workforce has reached a high point, but challenges around child care are holding back many working class parents. When women without college degrees face an interruption in child care arrangements – whether it's at a relative's home, a preschool or a daycare center – they are more likely to have to take unpaid time or to be forced to leave their jobs altogether, according to an Associated Press analysis. AP PHOTO / BUTCH DILL

LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels poses with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after being chosen by the Washington Commanders with the second overall pick during the first round of the NFL football draft, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Detroit. AP PHOTO / JEFF ROBERSON

A clean-up worker picks up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., June 4, 2010. AP PHOTO / GERALD HERBERT

Heather Jarvis pauses as she speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, Oct. 19, 2023. Jarvis is part of the fastest-growing prison population in the country, one of more than 190,000 women held in some form of confinement in the United States as of this year. Their numbers grew by more than 500% between 1980 and 2021. AP PHOTO / CAROLYN KASTER

One year after a deadly tornado struck, debris of homes and businesses awaits removal in Rolling Fork, Miss., March 22, 2024. Buildings throughout town remain boarded up, and the remnants of destroyed properties dot the landscape. The tornado killed 14 residents and reduced the town to rubble as it charted a merciless path across one of the country’s poorest regions. AP PHOTO / ROGELIO V. SOLIS

Kevin Reeves looks at his puppy while in his tent in Baker Park, March 21, 2024, in Grants Pass, Ore. AP PHOTO / JENNY KANE