Every year, The Associated Press chooses a selection of photos that best documents the year’s top news stories as chronicled by photojournalists around the world. Today, this collection was distributed by the AP to its members and subscribers worldwide.
This year’s set of compelling and newsworthy images was selected by Acting Director of Photography Denis Paquin.
Below is a gallery featuring this year’s news selection.
Trump Inauguration
President-elect Donald Trump waits to step out onto the portico for his Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Trump Inauguration
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts, as Melania Trump and his family looks on during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Trump Inauguration
President Donald Trump dances with first lady Melania Trump, at The Salute To Our Armed Services Inaugural Ball in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Obama Farewell Address
President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago on Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Trump
President Donald Trump, right, meets with leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 27, 2017. Also at the meeting are White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, left, and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, on the couch. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Hanida Begum, a Rohingya Muslim woman who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, kisses her infant son, Abdul Masood, who died when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore of the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on Sept. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Naseer Ud Din, a Rohingya Muslim man, holds his infant son, Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife, Hanida Begum, cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on Sept. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Bangladeshi villagers cover bodies of Rohingya women and children at Shah Porir Deep, in Teknak, Bangladesh on Aug. 31, 2017. Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar capsized in Bangladesh and over two dozen bodies of women and children were recovered, officials said. (AP Photo/Suvra Kanti Das)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, on Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Rohingya Muslims, newly arrived from Myanmar, scuffle for puffed rice food rations donated by local volunteers in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, on Sept. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stretch their arms out to collect food items distributed by aid agencies near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, on Sept. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Rohingya Muslims, who spent four days in the open after crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry their children and belongings after they were allowed to proceed toward a refugee camp, at Palong Khali, Bangladesh, on Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks
Bodies of Rohingya Muslim children, who died after their boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal as they were crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, lie on a roadside near Inani beach in the district of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sept. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Texas Church Shooting
Mourners pray at a vigil for the victims of the First Baptist Church shooting on Nov. 6, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community killing more than two dozen and injuring others. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Church Shooting Texas
Kenneth and Irene Hernandez pay their respects as they visit a makeshift memorial with crosses placed near the scene of a shooting at the First Baptist Church on Nov. 6, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community killing more than two dozen and injuring others. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Church Shooting Texas
A memorial for the victims of the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church, including 26 white chairs each painted with a cross and and rose, is displayed in the church on Nov. 12, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community killing more than two dozen and injuring others. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Venezuela Political Crisis
Anti-government protesters work together to aim a giant slingshot holding a glass bottle of fecal matter, at security forces blocking their march from reaching the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuela
Opposition lawmakers brawl with pro-government militias who are trying to force their way into the National Assembly during a special session coinciding with Venezuela's independence day, in Caracas, on July 5, 2017. At least five lawmakers were injured in the attack. (AP Photos/Fernando Llano)
Venezuela
Demonstrators clash with authorities on the fence of La Carlota Air Base in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 24, 2017. Demonstrators took to the streets asking for restraint from security forces after more than 70 people were killed during almost 90 days of protests seeking President Nicolas Maduro's removal. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuela
Bolivarian National Guards fire rubber bullets as they advance on anti-government demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 28, 2017, two days before the vote to begin the rewriting of Venezuela's constitution. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Israel Palestinians
A Palestinian man leaps with a sling shot during clashes with Israeli security forces during a demonstration to mark the 69th anniversary of the "Nakba" in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on May 15, 2017. Palestinians annually mark the Nakba Day, or the Day of the Catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled, or were expelled from their homes during the first Israeli-Arab war in 1948. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Airport Shooting Florida
People take cover outside Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 6, 2017, after a shooter opened fire inside a terminal at the airport, killing several people and wounding others before being taken into custody. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Turkey Attack
Family and friends mourn on Jan. 1, 2017, during the funeral for Ayhan Akin, one of the victims of a shooting at a nightclub in Istanbul. An assailant, believed to have been dressed in a Santa Claus costume, opened fire at a nightclub in Istanbul's Ortakoy district during New Year's celebrations, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens of others in what the province's governor described as a terror attack. (AP Photo)
Philippines Fire
Residents of a community in suburban Navotas sift through the smoldering debris following an early morning fire on Jan. 10, 2017 in a northern suburb of Manila, Philippines. Fire officials said the fire razed more than 600 shanty homes and left more than 1,500 families homeless. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
EU Libya Migrants
African refugees and migrants, mostly from Sudan and Senegal, wait for assistance aboard a rubber boat out of control, 25 miles north of Sabratha, off the Libyan coast, in the early morning of Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
EU Libya Migrants
Wrapped in blankets, Sub-Saharan migrants sit on the deck of the Golfo Azzurro boat after their rescue from a rubber boat by members of Proactive Open Arms organization in the Mediterranean sea, about 24 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, on Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Europe Migrants
Migrants wait to board the MV Aquarius, as 193 people and two corpses were recovered on Jan. 13, 2017, from international waters in the Mediterranean Sea about 22 miles (35 km) north of Sabrata, Libya. The MV Aquarius search and rescue vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee picked up 183 male and 10 female migrants, thought to have originated from African countries including Nigeria, Gambia and Senegal. (AP Photo/Sima Diab)
EU Libya Migrants
African migrants try to reach a rescue boat from the Spanish aid organization Proactiva Open Arms, after falling from a punctured rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea, about 12 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, on July 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
EU Libya Migrants
Two young migrants sit in a boat after being rescued by aid workers from the Spanish aid organization Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, about 15 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, on July 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Serbia Europe Migrants Weather
Migrants queue for food in front of an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, on Jan. 10, 2017. Hundreds of migrants are sleeping in parks and make-shift shelters in the Serbian capital in freezing temperatures waiting for a chance to move forward toward the European Union. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbia Migrants Daily Life
A group of migrants, left, gather around a fire to warm themselves in an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, on Jan. 30, 2017. Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping in freezing conditions in central Belgrade looking for ways to cross the heavily guarded EU borders. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Spain Barcelona
People flee the scene in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 17, 2017, after a van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
Germany Government
German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles as she leads this year's first cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin on Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Trump Speech
President Donald Trump, backed by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 28, 2017, before delivering his address to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
G20 Summit Putin Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg. Trump and Putin met for more than two hours. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
North Korea Founder's Birthday
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade on April 15, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Russia Hacking
National Intelligence Director James Clapper, left, and FBI Director James Comey, center, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 10, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian Intelligence Activities. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Congressman Shot
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, is placed into an ambulance at the scene of a shooting at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., on June 14, 2017. Members of Congress were practicing for a game when a gunman started shooting. (AP Photo/Kevin S. Vineys)
Trump Refugees Seattle
Demonstrators sit in the concourse at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Wash., with a sign that reads "We are America," on Jan. 28, 2017, as more than 1,000 people gather to protest the order signed the day before by President Donald Trump that restricts immigration to the U.S. President Trump's executive order banned legal U.S. residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days and put an indefinite hold on a program to resettle Syrian refugees. (Genna Martin/seattlepi.com via AP)
Congress Health Overhaul
A demonstrator is taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police during a protest against the Republican health care bill outside the offices of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 10, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
McCain
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who returned to Capitol Hill after being diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain cancer, leaves the chamber as the Republican-run Senate rejected a GOP proposal to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law on July 26, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Romania Official Misconduct
Romanian riot police detain a man whose face is covered in blood after minor clashes erupted during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, on Feb. 2, 2017. Brief clashes broke out between protesters and police in Romania's capital, as tens of thousands of people protested for the second night a government decision to decriminalize official misconduct. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
India Kashmir Protest
Kashmiri youth clash with Indian security forces during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on Feb. 9, 2017. Indian forces fired teargas to disperse the protesters during a strike called by separatists to mark the anniversary of the execution of Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri man who was convicted and given a death sentence for his alleged role in the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Spain Catalonia
Thousands of people march to protest the Catalan government's push for secession from the rest of Spain in Barcelona on Oct. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
France Police Violence
Police officers charge on protesters during clashes at a protest against alleged police abuse, in Paris on Feb. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Russia Protest
Police detain a protester in Moscow on March 26, 2017. Thousands of people crowded into Moscow's Pushkin Square for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, the biggest gathering in a wave of nationwide protests that were the most extensive show of defiance in years. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Spain Catalonia
Spanish National Police push away supporters of the Catalan independence referendum outside the Ramon Llull school, assigned as one of the polling stations by the Catalan government, in Barcelona on Oct. 1, 2017. The referendum's supporters vowed to ignore a police ultimatum to leave the schools they are occupying to use in a vote seeking independence from Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Spain Attacks
People stand in a circle around candles and flowers placed on the ground on Aug. 24, 2017, for the victims of an attack a week earlier on the historic Las Ramblas promenade in Barcelona, Spain, where a man drove a van into a crowd, killing at least 13 people and wounding many others. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Spain Attacks
King Felipe of Spain, center, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, center left, and and Catalonia regional President Carles Puigdemont, center right, join people observing a minute of silence in memory of the terrorist attack victims on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 18, 2017. The day before, a man drove a van into a crowd on the historic promenade, killing at least 13 and injuring many others. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Spain Catalonia
Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont works on his speech at his desk inside the Palau de la Generalitat, which is the seat of the Catalan government, in Barcelona, Spain, on Oct. 10, 2017. In his highly anticipated speech delivered later the same day, Puigdemont said the landslide victory in a disputed Oct. 1 referendum gave his government the grounds to implement its long-held desire to break century-old ties with Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Kenya Elections
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Residents hold their hands up in the air toward police as a man genuflects, right, next to the body of a man who had been shot in the head and who the crowd claimed had been shot by police, in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug. 9, 2017. Kenya's election took an ominous turn as violent protests erupted in the capital. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Kenya Elections
A man seeking safety walks with his hands in the air through a thick cloud of tear gas toward riot police, as they clash with protesters throwing rocks in the Kawangware slum of Nairobi, Kenya on Aug. 10, 2017. International observers urged Kenyans to be patient as they awaited final election results following opposition allegations of vote-rigging, but clashes between police and protesters again erupted in Nairobi. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Kenya Elections
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, seen reflected in the hood of the presidential vehicle in which he is standing, addresses his supporters on a street in Ongata Rongai, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Kenya Elections
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta waves from behind bulletproof glass as he arrives for his inauguration ceremony at Kasarani stadium in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 28, 2017. Kenyatta was sworn in, ending a months-long election drama that saw the first vote nullified by the country's top court and the second boycotted by the opposition. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Kenya Elections
Supporters of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta clash with police during his inauguration ceremony after trying to storm through gates to get in and being tear-gassed, at Kasarani stadium in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 28, 2017. Kenyatta was sworn in, ending a months-long election drama that saw the first vote nullified by the country's top court and the second boycotted by the opposition. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Kenya Elections
Opposition supporters react near the body of a man killed by a stray bullet apparently fired by police, during clashes in the Jacaranda grounds quarter in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 28, 2017. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term the same day in front of tens of thousands who gathered to celebrate what they hoped would be the end of months of election turmoil, which Kenyatta said stretched the country "almost to the breaking point." (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Zimbabwe Political Turmoil
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, center, arrives to preside over a student graduation ceremony at Zimbabwe Open University on the outskirts of the capital, Harare, on Nov. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
South Africa Immigrants
A metro police officer fires rubber bullets at anti-immigrant protesters in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Malaysia North Korea
In this image made from a Feb. 13, 2017, video provided by Fuji TV, Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is transported on a stretcher at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. Japan's Fuji TV broadcast on Oct. 8, 2017, what it described as exclusive airport security videos showing an unconscious Kim being taken on a stretcher to an elevator. It said he was being taken to an ambulance to be transported to a hospital. Kim died on the way to the hospital. (Fuji TV via AP)
Malaysia North Korea Assassination
In this March 1, 2017, photo, Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, center, a suspect in the ongoing investigation into the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, is escorted by police from Sepang court in Sepang, Malaysia. Appearing calm and solemn, two young women accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader, were charged with murder. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)
Guatemala Fire
Shirley Palencia mourns over the coffin containing the remains of her 17-year-old sister Kimberly Palencia Ortiz, a victim of the youth shelter fire, during her burial ceremony at the cemetery in Guatemala City on March 17, 2017. Authorities have said the fire that swept through parts of the institution on March 8 began when mattresses were set ablaze during a demonstration by residents protesting conditions at the overcrowded youth shelter. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Britain Concert Blast
Helpers attend to injured people inside the Manchester Arena in Manchester, Britain, after a blast on May 22, 2017. A suicide bomber attacked an Ariana Grande concert as it ended, killing over a dozen of people among a panicked crowd of young concertgoers. (PA via AP)
London Attack
Emergency personnel work at the scene outside the Palace of Westminster, London, where a policeman was stabbed and his apparent attacker shot by officers on March 22, 2017. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire via AP Images)
Britain Parliament Incident
Emergency workers transport an injured person to an ambulance, close to the Houses of Parliament in London, on March 22, 2017. Officials say a man with a knife attacked a police officer at Parliament and was shot by officers. Nearby, witnesses say a vehicle struck several people on the Westminster Bridge. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Britain Attack
Police forensic officers work in Parliament Square below a statue of Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament in London on March 23, 2017. A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians then stabbing a police officer to death before being fatally shot by police within Parliament's grounds. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Britain Concert Blast
People stand near flower tributes for the victims of Monday's bombing at St Ann's Square in central Manchester, Britain, on May 26, 2017. British police investigating the Manchester Arena bombing arrested a ninth man while continuing to search addresses associated with the bomber. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)
Russia Subway Explosion
Blast victims lie near a subway train hit by an explosion at the Tekhnologichesky Institut subway station in St.Petersburg, Russia, on April 3, 2017. (AP Photo/DTP&ChP St. Petersburg via AP)
Sweden Truck Crash
Emergency personnel work at the scene after a truck crashed into a department store, injuring several people in central Stockholm, Sweden, on April 7, 2017. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said everything indicates that the crash was "a terror attack." (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
France Wildfires
Sunbathers are evacuated from the beach in Le Lavandou on the French Riviera as plumes of smoke rise in the air from burning wildfires on July 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Manhattan Shooting
Authorities stand near a damaged Home Depot pickup truck after its driver drove onto a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial in New York, striking and killing several people on Oct. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Manhattan Shooting
A New York police officer stands next to a body covered with a white sheet near a mangled bike after a motorist drove a pickup truck onto a bike path near the World Trade Center in New York on Oct. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Egypt
Blood stains remain on pews inside the St. George Church after a suicide bombing in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, on April 9, 2017. Bombs exploded at two Coptic churches in the northern Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria as worshippers were celebrating Palm Sunday, killing over 40 people and wounding scores more. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Philippines Militant Siege
Philippine troops head back to the devastated village of Mapandi which has been cleared of Islamic State group-linked militants in Marawi city in southern Philippines on Oct. 19, 2017. Two days after President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of Marawi city, the military announced the killing of more suspected militants in the continuing military offensive. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Philippines Militant Siege Human Rights
A damaged mosque with holes blasted out of its dome is seen in the battle-scarred Marawi city in southern Philippines on 19, 2017, two days after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of the city from militants. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Britain London Fire
A resident in a nearby building watches smoke rise from the Grenfell Tower on fire in London on June 14, 2017. A massive fire raced through the high-rise apartment building in west London, killing at least 80 people and injuring many others. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Britain London Fire
A person peers out of a window from the Grenfell Tower in London as a fire rages in the building on June 14, 2017. The massive fire raced through the high-rise apartment building, killing at least 80 people. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Britain London Fire
Firemen examine the scorched facade of the Grenfell Tower in London on a huge ladder on June 15, 2017, the day after a massive fire raced through the high-rise apartment building in west London, killing at least 80 people. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby, center, gestures as he leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., with his publicist Andrew Wyatt, second from left, after a mistrial was declared in his sexual assault trial on June 17, 2017. Cosby's trial ended without a verdict after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Confederate Monuments Chapel Hill
Police surround a Confederate monument during a protest to remove the statue at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Aug. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Confederate Monuments Protest
People are thrown into the air as a car drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. The white nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred counterprotesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)
Confederate Monuments Protest
White nationalist protesters clash with counterprotesters at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and police in riot gear ordered people to disperse after the chaotic violent clashes. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Confederate Monuments Protest
A counterprotester uses a lighted spray can against a white nationalist protester at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. The white nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency after chaotic violent clashes broke out between the groups. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Somalia Explosion
Men remove the body of a man killed in a blast in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Oct. 14, 2017. The huge explosion from a truck bomb killed at least 20 people and shaken residents called it the most powerful blast they'd heard in years. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Sierra Leone Mudslides
Volunteers handle coffins during a mass funeral for victims of heavy flooding and mudslides in Regent at a cemetery in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Aug. 17, 2017. Churches across Sierra Leone held special services on Sunday, Aug. 20, in memory of the more than 450 people who were killed in mudslides and flooding earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Manika Kamara)
Italy Earthquake
Rescuers pull Pasquale, a 7-month-old boy, from the rubble of a collapsed building in Casamicciola, on the island of Ischia, near Naples, Italy, on Aug. 22, 2017, a day after a 4.0-magnitude quake hit the Italian resort island. Hospital officials on Ischia say that three brothers rescued from the rubble of their home are all in good condition. (ANSA via AP)
Hurricane Irma
An American flag is torn as Hurricane Irma passes through Naples, Fla., on Sept. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Harvey
Two people walk down a section of Interstate 610 in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Harvey
Houston Police SWAT officer Daryl Hudeck carries Catherine Pham and her 13-month-old son Aiden after rescuing them from their home surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Harvey
Rescue boats float on a flooded street as people are evacuated from rising floodwaters brought on by Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston. The storm, which later became a hurricane, dumped record rainfall throughout the Houston area. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Harvey
Interstate 69 is covered by floodwaters from Harvey, in Humble, Texas, on Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Harvey
Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround homes in Port Arthur, Texas, on Aug. 31, 2017. The storm, which later became a hurricane, dumped record rainfall throughout the Houston area. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
St. Maarten Hurricane Irma
This photo provided by the Dutch Defense Ministry shows storm damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, in St. Maarten, on Sept. 6, 2017. Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving thousands homeless after destroying buildings and uprooting trees. (Gerben Van Es/Dutch Defense Ministry via AP)
Hurricane Irma
Annette Davis kisses her son Darius, 3, at a shelter in Miami on Sept. 9, 2017, after evacuating from their home in Florida City, Fla., ahead of Hurricane Irma. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Cuba Hurricane Irma
People move through flooded streets in Havana, Cuba, on Sept. 10, 2017, after the passage of Hurricane Irma. The powerful storm ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Hurricane Irma South Carolina
Pedestrians walk past a flooded car on a street in Charleston, S.C., as Tropical Storm Irma hits the area on Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Peru Floods
People stranded in floodwaters hold onto a rope as they wade to safety in Lima, Peru, on March 17, 2017. Intense rains and mudslides wrought havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents in Lima, a desert city of 10 million where it almost never rains, by surprise. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria
Nestor Serrano walks on the upstairs floor of his home, where the walls were blown off, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on Sept. 26, 2017, in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Hurricane Irma
Larry Dimas surveys the wreckage of his trailer, which he rents out to others, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Immokalee, Fla., on Sept. 11, 2017. His tenants evacuated and nobody was inside when it was destroyed. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria
People sit on both sides of a destroyed bridge that had crossed the San Lorenzo de Morovis river, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria
Homes and other buildings destroyed by Hurricane Maria lie in ruins in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Cuba Hurrican Irma
A despondent Mariela Leon sits in front of her home, damaged by flooding from Hurricane Irma, in Isabela de Sagua, Cuba, on Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Trump Puerto Rico
President Donald Trump tosses paper towels into a crowd at Calvary Chapel in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 3, 2017. Trump helped sink Puerto Ricans bond prices with talk of wiping out the U.S. territory's debt but his budget director dismissed the idea of a bailout as the bankrupt island fights to recover from Hurricane Maria. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria
Rafael Reyes embraces his wife Xarelis Negron and his son Xariel as they stand in the remains of their home destroyed by Hurricane Maria, in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 7, 2017. The Reyes family lost all of their belongings and their house, and are looking forward to being able to rebuild and continue their life. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Hurricane Irma
U.S. Air force personnel evacuate U.S. citizens from St. Martin aboard an aircraft after the passage of Hurricane Irma, on Sept. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
Hurricane Irma
Jean Chatelier walks down a street flooded by Hurricane Irma after retrieving his uniform from his house so he could return to work today at a supermarket in Fort Myers, Fla., on Sept. 12, 2017. Chattier walked about a mile each way in knee-high water as a Publix supermarket was planning to reopen today. "I want to go back to work. I want to help," said Chatelier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
South Korea Ferry Salvage
Workers try to raise the sunken Sewol ferry between two barges during a salvage operation in waters off Jindo, South Korea, on March 23, 2017. The 6,800-ton South Korean ferry emerged from the water, nearly three years after it capsized and sank into violent seas off the country's southwestern coast, an emotional moment for the country that continues to search for closure to one of its deadliest disasters. (Choi Young-su/Yonhap via AP)
Mexico Earthquake
An altar to the Virgin of Guadalupe is covered with fallen debris inside the earth-damaged home where Larissa Garcia, 24, lived with her family in Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, on Sept. 9, 2017. The family was caught under rubble when the house partially collapsed, leaving Garcia with a broken arm and her father with a head injury. Her mother, who had to be pulled out from underneath a foot-thick section of wall which collapsed on her back, remains in a wheelchair and unable to walk. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Mexico Earthquake
Rescue workers search for people trapped inside a collapsed building in the Del Valle area of Mexico City on Sept. 20, 2017, the day after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the area. At least 369 people were killed by the earthquake, including 228 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Mexico Earthquake
The body of woman hangs crushed by a collapsed building in the neighborhood of Roma Norte, in Mexico City, on Sept. 19, 2017. Throughout Mexico City, rescue workers and residents dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings seeking survivors following a 7.1 magnitude quake. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Mexico Earthquake
An injured man is pulled out of a building that collapsed during an earthquake in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City on Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Mexico Earthquake
Volunteers pick up the rubble from a building that collapsed during an earthquake in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City on Sept. 19, 2017. Survivors quickly rallied, clambering over grotesque ruins of buildings and joining professional rescue workers to try to save friends, neighbors and strangers. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Mexico Earthquake
A man is rescued from a collapsed building in the Condesa neighborhood after an earthquake struck Mexico City on Sept. 19, 2017. The 7.1 earthquake stunned central Mexico, killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and destroying countless buildings. (AP Photo/Pablo Ramos)
Mexico Earthquake
A family attends the wake of an earthquake victim, under a tarpaulin serving as a makeshift shelter, in the city of Jojutla, Morelos state, Mexico, on Sept. 20, 2017, as people in the city mourn those killed by yesterday's 7.1 magnitude earthquake. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Las Vegas Shooting
A body is covered with a sheet after a mass shooting in which dozens were killed at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 1, 2017. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)
Las Vegas Shooting
A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Las Vegas Shooting
People assist a wounded woman at the Tropicana during an active shooter situation on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 1, 2017. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
Las Vegas Shooting
Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 2, 2017, following a mass shooting at a music festival. Authorities say Stephen Craig Paddock broke the windows and began firing with a cache of weapons, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Las Vegas Shooting
Investigators load a body from the scene of a mass shooting at a music festival near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
California Wildfires
A helicopter dumps water on a home as firefighters battle a wildfire in the affluent Anaheim Hills neighborhood of Anaheim, Calif., on Oct. 9, 2017. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP)
California Wildfires
Jim Stites watches part of his neighborhood burn in Fountaingrove, Calif., on Oct. 9, 2017, as more than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds burn though California wine country. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)
California Wildfires
Homes burned by a wildfire are seen on Oct. 11, 2017, in Santa Rosa, Calif. Wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through Northern California sending residents on a headlong flight to safety through smoke and flames as homes burned. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
California Wildfires Life on Edge
Todd Caughey hugs his daughter Ella on Oct. 10, 2017, as they visit the site of their home destroyed by fires in Kenwood, Calif. For many residents in the path of one of California's deadliest blazes, talk is of wind direction, evacuations and goodbyes. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Chile Wildfires
A couple walks through a neighborhood destroyed by wildfires in Chile's Santa Olga community on Jan. 26, 2017. Officials say the town was consumed by the country's worst wildfires, engulfing the post office, a kindergarten and hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Iraq Mosul
Airstrikes target Islamic State positions on the edge of the old city of Mosul, Iraq, on July 11, 2017, a day after Iraq's prime minister declared "total victory" there. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraq Mosul
Fleeing civilians walk past the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continue their advance against Islamic State group militants in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, on July 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraq Mosul Civilians
A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, on March 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraq Mosul
Federal Police Rapid Response Forces fire a rocket toward Islamic State positions near the old city in Mosul, Iraq, on March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraq Mosul
An injured man is transported atop an Iraqi special forces armored vehicle during fighting against Islamic State group militants in western Mosul, Iraq, on March 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraq Mosul
A woman holds a young injured girl as Iraqi forces continue their advance against Islamic State group militants in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, on July 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraq Mosul
In this aerial photo, a thick layer of brown dust covers the old city of Mosul, Iraq, on the bank of the Tigris river on July 10, 2017. Iraq's U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic old city to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraq Mosul
Civilians trying to flee get undressed to be checked for explosives after suicide bombers exploded themselves, as Iraqi forces continue their advance against Islamic State group militants in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, on July 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
US North Korea
Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student detained and imprisoned in North Korea, is carried off an airplane at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati on June 13, 2017. Warmbier arrived in Ohio after being released by North Korea, where he was serving a 15-year prison term with hard labor for alleged anti-state acts. His parents have said he has been in a coma and was medically evacuated. Warmbier later died. (Sam Greene/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
OJ Simpson Parole
Former NFL football star O.J. Simpson arrives for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev., on July 20, 2017. Simpson was convicted in 2008 of enlisting some men he barely knew, including two who had guns, to retrieve from two sports collectibles sellers some items that Simpson said were stolen from him a decade earlier. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool)
Russia Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Nov. 20, 2017. Putin met with Assad ahead of a summit between Russia, Turkey and Iran and a new round of Syria peace talks in Geneva, Russian and Syrian state media reported. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
France Election
French presidential candidate for the far-right Front National party, Marine Le Pen, left, French journalist Christophe Jakubyszyn, second left, French journalist Nathalie Saint-Cricq, second right, and French presidential candidate for the En Marche! movement, Emmanuel Macron, right, get prepared by technicians prior to the start of a live televised debate in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris on May 3, 2017, as part of the second round election campaign. Macron and Le Pen were facing off in their only direct debate before a presidential runoff election. (Eric Feferberg/Pool Photo via AP)
France Election
French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron kisses his wife Brigitte before addressing his supporters at his election day headquarters in Paris on April 23, 2017. Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced to a runoff in France's presidential election, remaking the country's political system and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union. Macron won to become France's new president. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
France President
New French President Emmanuel Macron rides in a military vehicle on the Champs Elysees avenue toward the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on May 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)
Netherlands Election Wilders
A man holds a placard reading "Don't Give Hate And Fear A Vote" as firebrand anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, left, passes by during a campaign stop in Breda, Netherlands, on March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
South Korea Election
South Korea's presidential candidate Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party raises his hands in front of the media as his party leaders, members and supporters watch television for the exit polls in the presidential election at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on May 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Britain Election
British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip stand on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in London, after addressing the media on June 9, 2017, following an audience with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, where May asked to form a government. May's gamble in calling an early election backfired spectacularly, as her Conservative Party lost its majority in Parliament. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Eclipse Missouri
In this multiple exposure photograph, the phases of a partial solar eclipse are seen over the Gateway Arch in St. Louis on Aug. 21, 2017.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Eclipse Michigan
Piper Truza watches a phase of a partial solar eclipse visible in Detroit on Aug. 21, 2017. Millions of Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses as the moon blotted out the sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the U.S. from coast to coast in nearly a century. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Thanksgiving Day Parade
Heavily armed police patrol the parade route during the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, on Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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