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Associated Press 100 Photos of 2025: AP photos that defined the year

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published 12:07 AM PST, December 1, 2025

Years come and go, sometimes before we even realize that time has passed. Events blur and run together. The news is overwhelming, and even those who follow it closely can feel a sense of unremitting vertigo. Such is 21st-century life on a connected and chaotic planet.

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A protester, wearing a flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman, shouts outside the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal's government, during a protest against corruption and a ban on social media in Kathmandu, on Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A protester, wearing a flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman, shouts outside the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepalโ€™s government, during a protest against corruption and a ban on social media in Kathmandu, on Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo / Niranjan Shrestha)
Yu Xiaofeng leaps into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin, China, on Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Yu Xiaofeng leaps into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin, China, on Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo / Andy Wong)

But people โ€” people stand out, no matter where they may be. And moments in time have the power to freeze the world with the snap of a digital cameraโ€™s shutter, over and over around the planet โ€” from Gaza to Ukraine, the Philippines to Haiti, Maine to the White House to California and so many points in between.

A polar bear rests on the stairs of an abandoned research station on Koluchin Island off of Chukotka, Russia, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Makhorov)
A polar bear rests on the stairs of an abandoned research station on Koluchin Island off of Chukotka, Russia, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo / Vadim Makhorov)
Smoke rises from an Israeli strike in Gaza City on June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Smoke rises from an Israeli strike in Gaza City on June 1, 2025. (AP Photo / Jehad Alshrafi)
Firefighters battle flames engulfing a beachfront property in Malibu, Calif., during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)
Firefighters battle flames engulfing a beachfront property in Malibu, Calif., during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo / Etienne Laurent)

Behind the Pictures: The California wildfires

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The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo / Ethan Swope)

ย Editor’s Note: Just a few of their top AP Photos for 2025. Visit below link to view the entire site and galleries. And I hope you support independent journalism, decades of photosgraphs and news. –DrWeb

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