Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

Town Clerk Sandra Lacasse, places a sign outside the town office as polls opens March 5, 2024, for Super Tuesday and when the town holds its annual Town Meeting in Elmore, Vt. AP PHOTO / DAVID GOLDMAN

The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, Oct. 14, 2022. Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users’ feeds, March 23, 2024, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don’t want to keep the limitations place. AP PHOTO / MICHAEL DWYER

Workers peel shrimp in a tin-roofed processing shed in the hamlet of the Tallarevu, in Kakinada district, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Feb. 11, 2024. AP PHOTO / MAHESH KUMAR A.

A Russian Rosguardia (National Guard) servicemen secures an area as a massive blaze seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2024. Several gunmen have burst into a big concert hall in Moscow and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, injuring an unspecified number of people and setting a massive blaze in an apparent terror attack days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on the country in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide. AP PHOTO / DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV

Jerry Hal Saliterman, of Crystal, Minn., is wheeled out of U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., March 15, 2024, after he made his initial appearance on charges connected to the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” The FBI recovered the slippers in 2018. Another man charged in the case has already pleaded guilty and was sentenced to time served because of his ailing health. AP PHOTO / STEVE KARNOWSKI

Chelsea Goodrich poses for a portrait at a friend's house in Ketchum, Idaho, Sept. 19, 2023. Goodrich's father, a popular Idaho dentist and former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, was excommunicated after sharing details about his relationship with her when she was a child during a religious confession. Recordings obtained by The Associated Press show that instead of helping prosecutors, the church used a legal playbook that has helped protect itself from sex abuse claims. AP PHOTO / JASON DEAREN

Dr. Frank Jobe, right, known for the development of the historic elbow procedure known as “Tommy John Surgery,” speaks as he and Tommy John, left, are honored during a ceremony at Doubleday Field at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., July 27, 2013. AP PHOTO / MIKE GROLL

In this image taken from a video provided by the Richmond Wildlife Center, Executive Director and founder Melissa Stanley wears a fox mask as she feeds an orphaned red fox kit, March 10, 2024, in Richmond, Va. Stanley said the mask creates a visual barrier to prevent animals from imprinting on humans.

Workers harvest salt in the Salinas Grandes salt flats in Jujuy, Argentina, April 25, 2023. The salt flat brings income to towns through tourism and small-scale salt harvesting. AP PHOTO / RODRIGO ABD

Keli’inowelo Makainai-Matsuda, great-great-great-granddaughter of Hamana Kalili who is known as the father of shaka, flashes a shaka, March 6, 2024, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. AP PHOTO / MENGSHIN LIN

This image from video made by Kenneth Chesebro and provided by Georgetown University Law Center's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum, shows the fake electors meeting at the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison, Wis., Dec. 14, 2020. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER'S INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION, LAW FORWARD AND STAFFORD ROSENBAUM VIA AP

LinkedIn Denver-based hybrid journalist Thomas Peipert captured the rip-roaring sport of skijoring that took readers into a place they may never visit in person. Peipert had wanted to do an all-formats story for years about the extreme sport in the Colorado mountain town of Leadville. The timing worked out this year. While the package highlight was a video featuring GoPro footage from a skier and a horse, Peipert also captured beautiful still photographs of the event and wrote a lively and fun text story. A skijoring team competes in Leadville, Colo., March 2, 2024. Skijoring draws its name from the Norwegian word skikjoring, meaning "ski driving." It started as a practical mode of transportation in Scandinavia and became popular in the Alps around 1900. Today's sport features horses at full gallop towing skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pole that's cut in half. AP PHOTO / THOMAS PEIPERT