Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

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

Melissa Blackhair speaks of daylight saving time, March 4, 2024, from her home in Tuba City, Ariz. Blackhair lives along a stretch of highway that is the de facto border between the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations and two time zones. AP PHOTO / MATT YORK

Refugees crowd a naval vessel docked at Vung Tau, a coastal town near Saigon on April 9, 1975. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 lets the president grant entry for humanitarian reasons and matters of public interest. Previous administrations have admitted large numbers of Hungarians, Vietnamese and Cubans. AP PHOTO / KIM KI SAM

This image provided by the Justice Department and contained in the affidavit in support of a criminal complaint, shows Manuel Rocha during a meeting with a FBI undercover employee. On Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, Rocha, 73, told a judge he would admit to federal counts of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government, charges that could land him behind bars for several years. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT VIA AP

Jeremiah Manley, left, and other attendees at The Cove, an 18-and-up, pop-up Christian nightclub, raise their arms in worship on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. The Cove was started last year by seven Black Christian men in their 20s who sought to build a thriving community and a welcoming space for young adults outside houses of worship. AP PHOTO / JESSIE WARDARSKI

Firefighters battle the Smokehouse Creek Fire north of Canadian, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 AP PHOTO / DAVID ERICKSON

Marseille‘s head coach Gennaro Gattuso gestures to his players during the Europa League League play-off first leg soccer match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Olympique Marseille at Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, Feb. 15, 2024. Gattuso has been fired by the French league club, a person with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press Feb. 19, 2024. AP PHOTO / MARTIN MEISSNER