Photos of the day

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

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Spain Attacks

A woman and a man cry in front of a memorial tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, Friday Aug. 18, 2017. Police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack, as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

Spain Attacks

Pigeons fly over crowds gathered for a minute of silence in memory of the terrorist attacks victims in Las Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Spanish police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack that killed at least 13, as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Spain Attacks

People look from inside a closed shop as counters and far-right protesters argue during a gathering after a van attack in Barcelona, Spain, Friday Aug. 18, 2017. Police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack, as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain Attacks

A counter protester and a far-right protester argue during a gathering after a van attack in Barcelona, Spain, Friday Aug. 18, 2017. Police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack, as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain Attacks

Far-right protesters shout slogans after a van attack in Barcelona, Spain, Friday Aug. 18, 2017. Police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack, as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain Attacks

Neo-nazis carry a banner with the slogan "Stop islamisation of Europe" during a fascist and Islamophobic protest in Barcelona, Spain, Friday Aug. 18, 2017. The manhunt by Spanish police intensified Friday for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

Spain Attacks

People gather at a memorial tribute of flowers, messages and candles to the victims on Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas promenade on the Joan Miro mosaic, embedded in the pavement where the van stopped after killing at least 13 people in Barcelona , Spain, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Spanish police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe's latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Kenya Elections

A supporter of main opposition leader Raila Odinga holds a placard of his face as she attends a small demonstration outside the Supreme Court in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Dozens of supporters gathered in front of the court building where opposition lawyers were expected to file a petition contesting President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Confederate Monuments Maryland

Workers use a crane to lift the monument dedicated to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney after it was was removed from outside Maryland State House, in Annapolis, Md., early Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Maryland workers hauled several monuments away, days after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Md., Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, following a national security meeting at Camp David. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Confederate Monument Protest Trooper Funeral

Susanne Kain, center left, comforts her husband, Virginia State Police Sgt. CM Kain, center right, during the funeral of Virginia State Trooper-Pilot Berke Bates at St. Paul's Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., on Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Bates died in a fatal crash of a helicopter that had been monitoring a violent white-nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va. (Daniel Sangjib Min/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Philippines Fire

A resident helps with a fire hose as fire engulfs shanty homes in Manila, Philippines, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. About 250 families were left homeless from the fire said Manila Fire District Marshal Superintendent Antonio N. Razal Jr. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippines Fire

Firemen work inside a dark alley as fire engulfs shanty homes in Manila, Philippines on Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. About 250 families were left homeless from the fire said Manila Fire District Marshal Superintendent Antonio N. Razal Jr. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

LLWS Washington California Baseball

Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.'s Drew Rutter (21) scores behind Walla Walla, Wash., catcher Keegan Weston during the fifth inning of a baseball game in U.S. pool play at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. California won 9-0. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Yankees Red Sox Baseball

The scorekeeper at Fenway Park looks out from the left field wall before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Brazil Hang Gliding

A pilot controls his non-motorized aircraft during the 21st FAI World Hang Gliding Championship, in Parana Valley, north of Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. More than 140 pilots from 29 countries will be competing in the skies of Brazil with flights between Formosa, Goias and the Federal District. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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