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Skier Lindsey Vonn starts on a practice run with members of the U.S. Women's Ski Team during practice at Copper Mountain, Colo., Nov. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
PHOTO ESSAY: For US women’s ski team, balancing competition with camaraderie is key
Lying breathless on the floor next to a pool table, Mary Bocock pulls a stretchy exercise band in tandem with Keely Cashman.
 
New signage, The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, is unveiled on the Kennedy Center, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Photos of Trump’s name being added to the Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center has added President Donald Trump’s name to the building after its board, handpicked by Trump, voted to rename it The Donald J.
 
John Lowery, N.C. State Rep. and Chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of N.C., leads a toast to Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., center, front right, as members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, celebrate the passage of a bill granting their people federal recognition, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Photos of the Lumbee Tribe celebrating federal recognition
PEMBROKE, North Carolina (AP) — The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is celebrating the passage of a bill granting their people federal recognition.
 
Construction workers, bottom right, atop the U.S. Treasury, watch watch as demolition continues on the East Wing of the White House to make room for a new ballroom, in Washington, Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Given a moment on a roof with a view of the East Wing demolition, an AP photographer recorded history
When the AP heard that demolition was going to begin on the East Wing of the White House, staff photojournalist Jacquelyn Martin said photography and reporting teams immediately began to brainstorm locations to try to reveal the scope of the work.
 
Construction workers, bottom right, atop the U.S. Treasury, watch as work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
White House East Wing demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction, AP photos show
Associated Press photos show the entire White House East Wing has been demolished as President Donald Trump moves ahead with building a ballroom.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa shake hands at the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Sep. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool)
US designates 2 more gangs in Latin America as foreign terrorist groups
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is designating two Ecuadorian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
 
People protest with go-go music against President Donald Trump's use of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops along the U street corridor in northwest Washington Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump’s crackdown in DC leaves residents on edge as federal agents set up checkpoints
Federal authorities have set up checkpoints around the nation’s capital, asking people for their immigration status and detaining them.
 
Armed officers prepare to place handcuffs on a man from within an apartment complex, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in the Petworth neighborhood of northwest Washington. The officers pictured had "Washington Field Office" on their shirts underneath tactical gear that said Police. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Photos show Trump’s federal crackdown in a DC neighborhood
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s Columbia Heights, usually lively with vendors, has been abnormally quiet, reflecting the impact of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement surge.
 
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, from left, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finland's President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stand before a group photo in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
What Zelenskyy and European leaders’ visit to the White House looked like
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Europe’s top leaders met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.
 
George, 67, walks away with what's left of his belongings, after the city put his mattress and other belongings in a garbage truck, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump’s ‘safe and beautiful’ move against DC homeless camps looks like ugliness to those targeted
The clearing of homeless encampments in the nation’s capital is unfolding under what President Donald Trump calls his Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force.
 
Maria sobs as she recounts how scared and anxious she is for her children, including 4-year-old Juan, if she is taken away by ICE agents, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, while inside her home in Hidalgo County, Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
PHOTO ESSAY: A look at how immigrants in one Texas region are responding to Trump’s deportation threats
WESLACO, Texas (AP) — As President Donald Trump intensifies deportation activity around the country, some immigrants — including many who have lived in Texas’s southern tip for decades — are unwilling to leave their homes, even for necessary medical care.
 
Juanita poses for a portrait in prayer inside a chapel in the Rio Grande Valley, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
As Trump’s raids ramp up, a Texas region’s residents stay inside — even when they need medical care
Immigrants in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley are avoiding medical care due to intensified deportation efforts under the Trump administration.
 
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Sunday, July 13, 2025, in Newark, N.J., en route to Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Quick action by an AP photographer helped make a memorable shot of Trump boarding Air Force One
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Jacquelyn Martin has been a photojournalist for The Associated Press, based in Washington, D.C., since 2006.
 
Bella Bautista, 22, a trans woman from Cartersville, Ga., walks past the U.S. Capitol after attending the World Pride Parade, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A young trans woman’s journey, and her latest destination: World Pride in Washington
Bella Bautista has come to World Pride, determined to be present and to fly the flag of who she is.
 
People attend the World Pride Rally and March at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, June 8, 2025, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
‘Not just a party:’ World Pride celebrations end with defiant politics on display
After the raucous rainbow-hued festivities of Saturday’s parade, the final day of World Pride 2025 in the nation’s capital kicked off on a more downbeat note.
 
A person wearing rainbow heart sunglasses watches the World Pride parade, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Cloudy skies can’t dim joy as thousands fill nation’s capital for World Pride parade
Gray skies and drizzle gave way to sunshine, multicolored flags and celebrations as the nation’s capital hosted the World Pride parade.
 
A person attends the World Pride parade, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
PHOTOS: World Pride gathers LGBTQ+ advocates in Washington for 50th anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — World Pride gathers LGBTQ+ advocates from around the globe. This year, which marks the 50th anniversary of Washington’s Pride festival, is the first time the city is hosting the gathering.
 
Pope Leo XIV's meets Vice President JD Vance after the formal inauguration of his pontificate in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
JD Vance gives Pope Leo XIV a Trump invitation to visit the US
U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican. Vance offered Leo a letter from U.S.
 
Rio Sigala, right, and other parents of students at Mundo Verde Public Charter School keep a close eye on a Suburban that they thought held an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid fears of impending arrests at schools, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. The vehicle turned out to belong to a television cameraman. "As a Latina, seeing how many parents are out here in solidarity makes you feel less alone," Sigala said. "You walk around kind of scared and to see everyone come out, it feels hopeful." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington’s Hispanic community fighting fear and rallying help as rumors of an ICE crackdown bubble
A flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports has fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on schools in Washington, D.C., known to have large Hispanic immigrant populations.
 
With the U.S Capitol seen between them, people sit by signs saying "protect trans kids," and "you can't legislate away trans" as they attend a rally for the Trans Day of Visibility, on the National Mall, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
AP PHOTOS: Under the new Trump administration, Transgender Day of Visibility has a different tone
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of transgender rights gathered on the National Mall on Monday to rally for equality on Transgender Day of Visibility, following a wave of policies signed by President Donald Trump aimed at erasing transgender people from government records, sports and even history.
 
Tears roll down the face of Starlette Thomas, of Bowie, Md., as she holds a chunk of pavement from the Black Lives Matter mural, Monday, March 10, 2025, as the mural begins to be demolished in Washington. "I needed to be here to bear witness," says Thomas, who was present at the 2020 George Floyd protests. "For me the Black Lives Matter sign etched in stone was a declaration of somebodyness and to watch it be undone in this way was very hurtful. To walk away with a piece of that, it means it's not gone. It's more than brick and mortar." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ plaza near the White House
Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C.
 
Wearing a necklace with her name in Hebrew, Charlotte Gleicher, 7, a first grader at Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital, is helped by her teacher, Dafna Kiverstein, to roll out dough for matzah during a "Matzah Factory" field trip at the JCrafts Center for Jewish Life and Tradition in Rockville, Md., Thursday, April 18, 2024, ahead of the Passover holiday. To be kosher for Passover, which begins next Monday evening, the dough has to be prepared and cooked all within 18 minutes and not allowed to rise. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Children learn matzo making and Passover’s traditions ahead of the Jewish holiday
A group of Washington area first graders had no time to waste — they had matzo to make. The students from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital had just 18 minutes to prep and cook the cracker-like, unleavened Passover staple.
 
FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 14, 2023. AP Washington photographer Jacquelyn Martin recalls how being one of a few female photographers covering news and politics was useful when she was assigned as the press pooler for Blinken's last-minute trip to Israel and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks. Martin said, “Sometimes people not knowing what to make of you works in your favor.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)
AP photographer’s early experiences in Washington helped prepare her to cover wartime diplomacy
Jacquelyn Martin, a photojournalist with The Associated Press in Washington, recalls how she often was one of a few female photographers covering news and politics in the nation’s capital and the fine line she had to walk to ensure access.
 
Maya Johnson, 7, of New York, is playfully swung into the lake by her friends during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color, Friday, July 28, 2023, in Petaluma, Calif., at Walker Creek Ranch. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Summer camp in California gives Jewish children of color a haven to be different together
A summer sleepaway camp in California serves as a haven for Jewish children of color. These campers have the shared experience of often being seen as outliers.
 
Benita Lubic, 86, of Washington, right, with her daughter Wendie Lubic, 60, pose for a photograph by the Supreme Court, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Washington. During a May rally in support of abortion rights, Benita Lubic came to the court with a sign saying, "I don't regret my abortion." Her daughter also had an abortion. "We weren't ready to have children or get married," says Wendie Lubic, who later did marry the same man and they have two daughters. "I had an abortion in 1968," says Benita Lubic, "three children was enough and I'm not unhappy about my decision. But I had to see a psychiatrist to get his approval, it was a sham." Lubic and her daughter came out to protest. "I want to protect children who are raped from being denied an abortion," says Benita Lubic, "I'm just sorry that Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't alive to support us." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Protesters turn Supreme Court front into forum on abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — A steady stream of protesters has turned the street in front of the Supreme Court building into an open-air forum encapsulating the fierce national debate over abortion after the leak of a draft opinion suggesting the justices would overturn Roe v.
 
Capri Isidoro, of Ellicott City, Md., looks at her one-month-old baby Charlotte, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Columbia, Md., during a lactation consultation. Charlotte was delivered via emergency c-section and given formula by hospital staff. Isidoro has been having trouble with breastfeeding and has been searching for a formula that her daughter can tolerate well. "If all things were equal I would feed her with formula and breastmilk," says Isidoro, "but the formula shortage is so scary. I worry I won't be able to feed my child." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Baby formula shortage highlights racial disparities
A massive safety recall and supply disruptions have swept many leading formula brands off store shelves.
 
Hasibullah Hasrat, 29, is interviewed at his apartment, in Hyattsville, Md., Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Afghans still adjusting to US: New life, new struggles
For many of the Afghans evacuated to the United States last August, their journey remains very much a work in progress.
 
People cheer after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minn. Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of Floyd. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Guilty verdicts in Floyd’s death bring joy — and wariness
Many Americans reacted with jubilation but also with deep awareness of the progress left to be made after a jury convicted former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the killing of George Floyd.
 
For Peace Corps evacuees, there wasn’t even time for goodbye
The Peace Corps has evacuated about 7,000 volunteers from 60 countries because of the global pandemic.
 
Man dies in COVID-19 outbreak at Maryland nursing home
Maryland health officials say a nursing home resident has died after contracting COVID-19 in an outbreak that has sickened dozens of the facility’s residents and strained its staff.