Photos of the day

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

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Plane Into Building

Firefighters investigate the scene after a single-engine aircraft crashed into a building across the Merrimack River from Lawrence Municipal Airport, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Methuen, Mass. According to police, the pilot of the home-built plane was killed, while no one in the building was hurt. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Israel Settlements

Israeli police evicts settlers from the West Bank settlement of Ofra, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Israeli forces began evacuating nine homes in the settlement following a Supreme Court decision that ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel Settlements

Israeli policeman grabs a young settler from the West Bank settlement of Ofra, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Israeli forces began evacuating nine homes in the settlement following a Supreme Court decision that ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

India Protest

Indian college students participate in a protest rally against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, after the group was accused of attacking students and faculty members at Delhi university in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. The recent spate of violence began after ABVP protested against an invite to Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid, who was jailed last year on sedition charges for allegedly shouting anti-national slogans, to address a seminar on 'Culture of Protests', which was later withdrawn by the college authorities. The protest was also against threats received by a college student for starting a social media campaign against the ABVP. The placard reads, "Say that you are free to speak." (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Trump Speech

President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before his address to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

India US Bar Shooting Cremation

Sunaina Dumala grieves near the body of her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla at their residence on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. Hundreds of grieving family and friends tearfully mourned the 32-year-old engineer in his southern Indian hometown Tuesday after he was killed in an apparently racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar. (AP Photo /Mahesh Kumar A.)

Afghanistan Polio Campaign

An Afghan health worker vaccinates a child as part of a campaign to eliminate polio on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

No Ban No Wall Rally

Protesters take part in a No Ban, No Wall rally to support the rights of immigrants and oppose a border wall and support sanctuary cities, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Italy Volcano

Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, spews lava during an eruption, near the Sicilian town of Catania, southern Italy, early Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. The eruption was not dangerous and the airport of Catania is still open and fully operating. (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)

APTOPIX Italy Carnival

A man stands on a carpet of smashed oranges during Carnival in the northern Italian Piedmont town of Ivrea, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. The traditional orange-throwing battle has its roots in the middle of the 19th century. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

New York Daily Life

Visitors to the National September 11 memorial peak into the museum, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Germany Brazil Art Photography

A visitor sits in front of a series of children portraits in the exhibition 'Exodus' by Brazilian-born photographer Sebastiao Salgado in the Kunsthalle (Art Hall) in Erfurt, central Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Salgado, visited various countries around the globe to document the flight of refugees and the movement of people who were abandoning the countryside for work in the cities. The exhibition displays 170 black-and-white photos and is taking place until April 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Sea eagles herald arrival of winter

A flock of white-tailed and stteler's sea eagles try to catch their prey on drifting ice off Rausu, on the Shiretoko Penusula, Hokkaido on Feb. 28, 2017. The sea eagles, protected as endangered species, heralds the arrival of mid winte. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

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