Nat CastañedaSeptember 07, 2017Comment

Photos of the day

Nat CastañedaSeptember 07, 2017Comment

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

Spain Catalonia

People walk past a giant Spanish flag placed at the Colon square in Madrid, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. The cabinet that makes up the executive branch of Catalonia's government has unanimously endorsed a decree calling for an Oct. 1 "binding self-determination referendum" on the region's independence from Spain. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Europe Migrants Rescue

Migrant boys sleep on the deck of the Spanish NGO ProActiva Open Arms vessel hours after being rescued on the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. More than 200 migrants have been rescued Wednesday morning from foundering rubber dinghies about 25 miles north of the Libyan coastal town of al-Khums. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Malaysia Hungry Ghost Festival

Malaysian Chinese people burn a giant paper statue of the Chinese deity "Da Shi Ye" or "Guardian God of Ghosts" during the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival in Kuala lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. The Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated during the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, when prayers are offered to the dead and offerings of food and paper-made models of items such as televisions, refrigerators and sport cars are burnt to appease the wandering spirits. It is believed that the gates of hell are opened during the month and the dead ancestors return to visit their relatives. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)

Confederate Stained Glass

A detail of stained glass windows depicting two iconic Confederate generals that are being removed is seen at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Cathedral authorities announced Wednesday that windows depicting generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson will be removed and stored pending a decision about their future. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Colombia Pope

Pope Francis is recorded with a tablet as he greets journalists on board the flight to Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Pope Francis is traveling to Colombia on a five-day apostolic trip during which he will visit the cities of Bogota, Villavicencio, Medellin and Cartagena. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

China Daily Life

A woman covers her face from the dust as people walk across a demolishing building in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday warned that the world economy faces growing risks and uncertainties from countries turning inward on trade and resisting combating climate change, delivering an implicit rebuke to his American counterpart, Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Europe Migrants Rescue

Members of the Spanish NGO ProActiva Open Arms distribute life jackets to migrants as they rescue them from a rubber dinghy on the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. ProActiva Open Arms rescued more than 200 migrants Wednesday morning from foundering rubber dinghies about 25 miles north of the Libyan coastal town of al-Khums. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Trump

President Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at Andeavor Refinery to promote his tax overhaul plan, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017 in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Puerto Rico Irma

Andrea Rivera Roberto, a 69-year-old woman who suffers emphysema, sits next to a cot at a shelter set up at Berta Zalduondo elementary school during the passage of Hurricane Irma in Fajardo, northeastern Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Heavy rain and high winds lashed Puerto Rico’s northeast coast Wednesday as Hurricane Irma roared through Caribbean islands. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

India Myanmar Attacks

A young Rohingya refugee boy looks out from a torn blanket used as a wall at a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. The U.N. refugee agency said some 123,000 Rohingya refugees have fled western Myanmar since the violence erupted on Aug. 25. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Portugal Daily Life

The full moon rises behind Lisbon's Saint George's castle hill as night falls Wednesday, Sept. 6 2017. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Congress Health Overhaul

Protesters demanding affordable health care raise their clenched fists during a rally Hart Senate Office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

NFL Player Vegas Police

Las Vegas police Undersheriff Kevin McMahill speaks during a press conference on accusations by Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Las Vegas. Bennett has accused Las Vegas police of racially motivated excessive force in a Twitter posting saying he was threatened at gunpoint following a report of gunshots at an after-hours club at a casino-hotel. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Royals Tigers Baseball

Detroit Tigers center fielder JaCoby Jones (40) watches a Kansas City Royals' Salvador Perez solo home run over the fence in the second inning of a baseball game in Detroit, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

US Open Tennis

Fans stand at their seats as fog and lights glow over them prior to a quarterfinal match between Roger Federer, of Switzerland, and Juan Martin del Potro, of Argentina, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)