Photos of the day

A selection of AP photos taken over the past 24 hours. 

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Severe Weather Texas

Benjamin Lopez, 12, walks past his friends room as he helps clean up after a storm destroyed the house Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in Van Vleck, Texas. Tornadoes are suspected of damaging homes and knocking out power southwest of Houston as part of a strong storm system that moved quickly across much of the state. (Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)

California Immigration

Jesus Salvador places crosses in a pauper's cemetery where hundreds of unidentified migrants are buried Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in Holtville, Calif. As part of a Valentine's Day celebration, a group from San Diego and the Imperial Valley replaced wooden crosses on the graves in this dirt field Tuesday, the final resting place for hundreds of migrants killed while attempting to illegally cross the U.S. - Mexico border through the nearby mountains and desert. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Iraq

A child with severe burns, from scalding water, cries out in pain as a medic cleans his wounds at a hospital in the Zahra neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. Doctors in the small clinic in eastern Mosul say that since the operation to retake the city began months ago, they've only received intermittent deliveries of supplies. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Guatemala Violence

Relatives take part in a burial service holding portraits of Carlos Daniel Xiquin, 10, front, and Oscar Armando Toc Cotzajay, 11, who were kidnapped over the weekend and then killed when family could not raise the ransom money, in Ajuix, Guatemala, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. Authorities found the bodies of the two boys on Sunday, stabbed and thrown into sacks in the municipality of San Juan Sacatepéquez, northwest Guatemala. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Philippines Valentine's Day

Students and faculties from the Catholic-run St. Scholastica's College dance at their campus to show their declaration against the global issue on violence against women and children Tuesday, Feb.14, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. The annual mass dancing dubbed "One Billion Rising" was also in celebration of Valentine's Day. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Romania Valentine's Day

A child holds a heart shaped balloon while walking with an adult in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. Never celebrated before the 1989 fall of the communist rule in Romania, Valentine's Day became ever more popular in the following years and is now widely adopted by Romanian youngsters.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Valentine Day Texas

Community liaison JoAnne McMeans dances with resident Bill Brenton during the senior citizen's Valentine's Day prom in the memory care unit at Prestige Estates Assisted Living and Memory Care in Tyler, Texas, Tuesday Feb. 14, 2017. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP)

Russia Valentine's Day

Young people release red balloons during a flash mob to mark Valentine's Day in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Valentines Day Texas

Capt. Thomas DiMiero kisses his wife, Jennifer DiMiero, during a welcome home ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. The couple was reunited after his nine-month deployment to Afghanistan, where he served with 199 soldiers from the Army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment. The soldiers advised the Afghanistan Army and local and national police and worked on village stabilization operations. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Florida Daily Life

A man walks along the shoreline past a Valentine's Day message written in the sand in Panama City Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. (Andrew Wardlow/News Herald via AP)

Dog Show

Brittany Phelps, of Hickory, N.C., grooms Dolce, a wire hair fox terrier, before competition in the 141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Dog Show

Lenard Clayton and Zues, a cane corso, wait to compete in the 141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Las Vegas Daily Life

Ron Decar, owner of the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, walks dressed as Elvis Presley before officiating a wedding on Valentine's Day, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in Las Vegas. Valentine's Day is one of the busier days of the year at the wedding chapel. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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