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Protesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

The top 2025 immigration photos by AP’s photojournalists

6:55 AM on Wednesday, December 3

FILE -Protesters hold umbrellas, placards, and flags as they demonstrate against the proposed building of a new Chinese embassy, and to mark the 11th year of the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong, in London, Sept. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan, File)

China blasts UK for delaying decision again on massive London embassy

4:08 AM on Wednesday, December 3

China has criticized the British government for delaying approval of a massive Chinese Embassy in London

FILE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, hugs Russian President Vladimir Putin before their meeting in New Delhi, India, on Oct. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Putin's visit highlights Indian imports of discounted Russian oil in the face of US sanctions

11:05 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Russian President Vladimir Putin is in India this week for a summit focused on strengthening economic, defense and energy ties

FILE - The Hall of Nations at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, Nov. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)

Trump will play a starring role heading into a big weekend at the Kennedy Center

11:03 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The Kennedy Center, known for theater and opera, becomes the sports world's focus on Friday

FILE - Police officers block a street as demonstrators march at a protest opposing "Operation Midway Blitz" and the presence of ICE, Sept. 9, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Trump administration halts immigration applications for migrants from 19 travel-ban nations

10:50 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The Trump administration is pausing immigration applications, including green cards, for people from 19 countries previously banned from travel

FILE - The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen during a news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Judge issues injunction restricting immigration arrests in nation's capital

9:59 PM on Tuesday, December 2

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from making widespread immigration arrests in the nation’s capital without warrants or probable cause that the person is an imminent flight risk

Republican Matt Van Epps wins special election to U.S. House in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District

8:37 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Republican Matt Van Epps wins special election to U.S. House in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District

James Solomon is elected Jersey City mayor, thwarting ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback

7:40 PM on Tuesday, December 2

James Solomon is elected Jersey City mayor, thwarting ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback

FILE - Clark County Sheriff and Nevada Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo during a news conference, Nov. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt, File)

Nevada governor signs sweeping crime bill as state looks to boost tourism

7:12 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has signed his signature crime legislation, his office announced Tuesday

Justice Department expands legal action against states that have refused its demands for voter data

6:45 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The U.S. Justice Department is suing six more states in its ongoing campaign to obtain voter data and other election information

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in the US, urges them to go back to their homeland and fix it

1:31 PM on Tuesday, December 2

President Donald Trump says he does not want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the United States

Soldiers transport ballots to an electoral facility in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Conservative Salvador Nasralla leads Honduras presidential vote after pause in results reporting

10:21 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Salvador Nasralla of the conservative Liberal Party holds a slight lead over Nasry Asfura of the National Party with votes from about 62% of polling places counted

FILE - Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday Nov. 1, 2021. Andy Buchanan/Pool via AP, File)

Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández freed after Trump pardon

8:00 AM on Tuesday, December 2

The wife of former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández says he has been released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on Air Force One from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., to Joint Base Andrews, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Hegseth defends second boat strike, citing ‘fog of war’

7:48 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday defended the secondary strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, citing the “fog of war” as reason for his not seeing any survivors in the water when the strike was ordered and launched

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Presidential foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, left, attend talks with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, back to a camera, at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US-Russia talks on Ukraine were 'constructive' but work remains, Putin adviser says

4:10 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Talks between Russia and the U.S. on ending the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were constructive, but much work remains

A man consoles a woman at the site of last weeks deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Deadly fire raises fears about safety elsewhere in Hong Kong's high-rise skyline

3:08 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Uncomfortable questions are being raised over who is to blame for Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades

Jersey City Mayor-elect James Solomon gestures during his speech at a watch party, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

James Solomon is elected Jersey City mayor, turning away ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s comeback bid

11:11 PM on Monday, December 1

James Solomon has been elected mayor of Jersey City, thwarting former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback

Colombia expels members of ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor

10:38 PM on Monday, December 1

Colombia says it sent 26 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor to the United States after determining that the rights of some of the children in the group were at risk

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