Photos of the day

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

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Haiti Child Abuse

Children sit on their beds at the Foyer Notre Dame de la Nativite orphanage on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The State Department is being urged by a group of U.S. senators to pressure the Haitian government into closing the orphanage where several children being adopted by U.S. families have been victims of alleged sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Trump

President Donald Trump arrives in Sterling, Va., Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, to visit the Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center in Reston, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump Russia Probe

A intelligence memo is photographed in Washington, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. After President Donald Trump declassified the memo, the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee released it based on classified information that alleges the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump Russia Probe

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., leaves after speaking outside of the House Intelligence Committee room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. House Republicans released a partisan and bitterly disputed memo that they say shows surveillance abuses in the early stages of the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. The memo, prepared by Republicans on the House intelligence committee, says there was "a troubling breakdown of legal processes" in the Russia investigation. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pyeongchang Olympics

A crane carries a sculpture of a human form near an Olympic cauldron as preparations take place for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Mexico US Tillerson

Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, from left, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, take their position for a group photo at the end of their joint press conference in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Tillerson's Mexico stop kicks off a weeklong trip to Latin America which will take him to Argentina, Peru, and Colombia, with a final stop in Jamaica. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Pyeongchang Olympics

A large North Korean flag hangs from an apartment building at the Olympic Village prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Doctor Sexual Assault

Randall Margraves, father of three victims of Larry Nassar , left, lunges at Nassar, bottom right, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich. The incident came during the third and final sentencing hearing for Nassar on sexual abuse charges. The charges in this case focus on his work with Twistars, an elite Michigan gymnastics club. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

South Korea Daily Life

A worker hangs on a rope to adjust an image on a building in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Russia Stalingrad Battle Anniversary

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend a laying ceremony at the monument to Motherland during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, once known as Stalingrad, Russia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The five months of fighting in Stalingrad between August 1942 and February 1943 is regarded as the bloodiest war battle in history. The death toll for soldiers and civilians was about 2 million. Most of the city was reduced to rubble before Nazi forces surrendered on Feb. 2, 1943. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

South Africa Cape Town Water Crisis

A woman collects water in a settlement near Cape Town on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. South Africa's drought-hit city of Cape Town introduced new water restrictions in an attempt to avoid what it calls "Day Zero," the day in mid-April when it might have to turn off most taps. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Spain Weather

Vehicles drive along a high road as snow covers the landscape in Pagozelai, around 55 km (34 miles) from Pamplona, northern Spain, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Authorities have announced new snow and extreme low temperatures for the next few days across Northern Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Britain Votes For Women

Women, including curator Carol Jacobi, fourth left, and one of their daughters Stella, aged 9, pose for photographers by looking at a portrait of suffragist votes for women campaigner Millicent Fawcett by British artist Annie Swynnerton, painted around 1899, during a photocall at the Tate Britain gallery in London, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The painting is going on display to mark the centenary on Feb. 6 of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which gave women over 30 who met minimum property qualifications the right to vote. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Uruguay African Sea Goddess

A woman is seen performing a ritual for the African sea goddess Yemanja, at a beach in Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Thousands of worshippers come to the beach on Yemanja's feast day, bearing candles, flowers, perfumes and fruit to show their gratitude for her blessings. The celebration coincides with the Roman Catholic Feb. 2 feast day of the Virgin of Candelaria. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Uruguay African Sea Goddess

A woman releases a small boat as an offering for the African sea goddess Yemanja, at a beach in Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Thousands of worshippers come to the beach on Yemanja's feast day, bearing candles, flowers, perfumes and fruit to show their gratitude for her blessings. The celebration coincides with the Roman Catholic Feb. 2 feast day of the Virgin of Candelaria. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Mardi Gras Kickoff

Members of the Pussyfooters dance at the Krewe of Cleopatra Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Mardi Gras season is kicking into high gear with a slew of major parades throughout New Orleans. Although Carnival season officially began Jan. 6, the festivities really kick into high gear the two weekends ahead of Fat Tuesday. This year Fat Tuesday is Feb. 13.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

People Hasty Pudding Harvard Rudd

Actor Paul Rudd is kissed by actors dressed in drag as he accepts his pudding pot trophy at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Rudd was honored as "Man of the Year" by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Pyeongchang Olympics

The waning moon rises beyond the Alpensia Ski Jumping Center at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Club co-handler Al Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 132nd celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Phil's handlers said that the groundhog has forecast six more weeks of winter weather. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Spain Weather

A flock of sheep, back, graze on a field as snow covers the landscape in Gorriti, around 55 km (34 miles) from Pamplona, northern Spain, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Authorities have announced new snow and extreme low temperatures for the next few days across Northern Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

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

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