AP Week in Pictures: North America
A lightning bolt crackles from the sky during a storm as migrants are lined up for processing by immigration officials outside the Starr County precinct 2 building after they crossed the Texas-Mexico border early Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Fronton, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Jamari Shaw, 16, stands for a portrait in his East side neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Since last year’s mass shooting, he notices emptier basketball courts in his neighborhood. People seem to stay inside more. He feels a hesitancy to drop into the Tops supermarket now to get water or Gatorade before sports practice like he used to - a gnawing feeling of danger anywhere, from anyone. “I’m definitely gonna carry this with me,” Jamari said after school last week. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
A bullet hole is seen through the bedroom window of Jolene Robledo’s home Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Farmington, N.M. It was among the damage resulting from a deadly shooting along a residential street in the northwestern New Mexico community. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
Francisco Oropeza, center, is escorted to the San Jacinto County courthouse by San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers, right, for a hearing Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Coldspring, Texas. Oropeza is suspected of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy, after neighbors asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., reacts to a reporter’s questions following a news conference following a vote on H.R. 2, a bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers, in the Rayburn Room at the Capitol Building in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Democrats, who have a narrow hold on the Senate, have decried the aggressive measures in the bill as “cruel” and “anti-immigrant,” and President Joe Biden has already promised he would veto it. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
Venezuelan asylum-seeker Oriana Marcano, 29, cries and gives thanks to God for keeping her family safe during the crossing of Panama’s Darien Gap last year, during an interview in El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 12, 2023. “The children were screaming, ‘Mom, my dad!’” she recalls. “My only solution was to get down on my knees — ‘My God, don’t take him from me.’” Once they made it out, they still faced robberies, extortion and pushback across Central America and Mexico. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Garlens Georges, 18, left, helps Dayan Rojas, 19, right, with his tie as they try on prom wear at the Prom Boutique at Lindsey Hopkins Technical College, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Miami. Project UP-START offers Miami-Dade County Schools students in economic need the opportunity to choose clothing free of charge for upcoming prom events. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
A visitor to the Clara Foltz Shortridge Criminal Justice Center walks down a staircase through plumes of smoke, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
People salvage items from a home after a tornado hit Saturday, May 13, 2023, in the unincorporated community of Laguna Heights, Texas near South Padre Island. Authorities say one person was killed when a tornado struck the southernmost tip of Texas on the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Los Angeles Lakers guard Dennis Schroder gets a ball shoved in his face by Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green during the second half in Game 6 of an NBA basketball Western Conference semifinal series Friday, May 12, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Law enforcement personnel hold candles during the 35th Annual Candlelight Vigil to honor the law enforcement officers who lost their lives in 2022, during the National Police Week at the National Mall in Washington, late Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Members of the Air Line Pilots Association International walk an informational picket on behalf of United Airline pilots at O’Hare International Airport Friday, May 12, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Parents and community members chant as they march around P.S. 189 to protest New York City Mayor Eric Adam’s plan to temporarily house immigrants in the school’s gymnasium, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Ambrit Millhouse, a writer for the television series “Abbott Elementary,” leaps as she participates in a Writers Guild rally in front of The Walt Disney Company studio, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
San Diego Padres center fielder Adam Engel (5) takes the field for the bottom of the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
A lightning bolt crackles from the sky during a storm as migrants are lined up for processing by immigration officials outside the Starr County precinct 2 building after they crossed the Texas-Mexico border early Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Fronton, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A lightning bolt crackles from the sky during a storm as migrants are lined up for processing by immigration officials outside the Starr County precinct 2 building after they crossed the Texas-Mexico border early Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Fronton, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Jamari Shaw, 16, stands for a portrait in his East side neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Since last year’s mass shooting, he notices emptier basketball courts in his neighborhood. People seem to stay inside more. He feels a hesitancy to drop into the Tops supermarket now to get water or Gatorade before sports practice like he used to - a gnawing feeling of danger anywhere, from anyone. “I’m definitely gonna carry this with me,” Jamari said after school last week. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
Jamari Shaw, 16, stands for a portrait in his East side neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Since last year’s mass shooting, he notices emptier basketball courts in his neighborhood. People seem to stay inside more. He feels a hesitancy to drop into the Tops supermarket now to get water or Gatorade before sports practice like he used to - a gnawing feeling of danger anywhere, from anyone. “I’m definitely gonna carry this with me,” Jamari said after school last week. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
A bullet hole is seen through the bedroom window of Jolene Robledo’s home Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Farmington, N.M. It was among the damage resulting from a deadly shooting along a residential street in the northwestern New Mexico community. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
A bullet hole is seen through the bedroom window of Jolene Robledo’s home Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Farmington, N.M. It was among the damage resulting from a deadly shooting along a residential street in the northwestern New Mexico community. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
Francisco Oropeza, center, is escorted to the San Jacinto County courthouse by San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers, right, for a hearing Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Coldspring, Texas. Oropeza is suspected of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy, after neighbors asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Francisco Oropeza, center, is escorted to the San Jacinto County courthouse by San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers, right, for a hearing Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Coldspring, Texas. Oropeza is suspected of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy, after neighbors asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., reacts to a reporter’s questions following a news conference following a vote on H.R. 2, a bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers, in the Rayburn Room at the Capitol Building in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Democrats, who have a narrow hold on the Senate, have decried the aggressive measures in the bill as “cruel” and “anti-immigrant,” and President Joe Biden has already promised he would veto it. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., reacts to a reporter’s questions following a news conference following a vote on H.R. 2, a bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers, in the Rayburn Room at the Capitol Building in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Democrats, who have a narrow hold on the Senate, have decried the aggressive measures in the bill as “cruel” and “anti-immigrant,” and President Joe Biden has already promised he would veto it. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
Venezuelan asylum-seeker Oriana Marcano, 29, cries and gives thanks to God for keeping her family safe during the crossing of Panama’s Darien Gap last year, during an interview in El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 12, 2023. “The children were screaming, ‘Mom, my dad!’” she recalls. “My only solution was to get down on my knees — ‘My God, don’t take him from me.’” Once they made it out, they still faced robberies, extortion and pushback across Central America and Mexico. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Venezuelan asylum-seeker Oriana Marcano, 29, cries and gives thanks to God for keeping her family safe during the crossing of Panama’s Darien Gap last year, during an interview in El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 12, 2023. “The children were screaming, ‘Mom, my dad!’” she recalls. “My only solution was to get down on my knees — ‘My God, don’t take him from me.’” Once they made it out, they still faced robberies, extortion and pushback across Central America and Mexico. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Garlens Georges, 18, left, helps Dayan Rojas, 19, right, with his tie as they try on prom wear at the Prom Boutique at Lindsey Hopkins Technical College, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Miami. Project UP-START offers Miami-Dade County Schools students in economic need the opportunity to choose clothing free of charge for upcoming prom events. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Garlens Georges, 18, left, helps Dayan Rojas, 19, right, with his tie as they try on prom wear at the Prom Boutique at Lindsey Hopkins Technical College, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Miami. Project UP-START offers Miami-Dade County Schools students in economic need the opportunity to choose clothing free of charge for upcoming prom events. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
A visitor to the Clara Foltz Shortridge Criminal Justice Center walks down a staircase through plumes of smoke, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
People salvage items from a home after a tornado hit Saturday, May 13, 2023, in the unincorporated community of Laguna Heights, Texas near South Padre Island. Authorities say one person was killed when a tornado struck the southernmost tip of Texas on the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
People salvage items from a home after a tornado hit Saturday, May 13, 2023, in the unincorporated community of Laguna Heights, Texas near South Padre Island. Authorities say one person was killed when a tornado struck the southernmost tip of Texas on the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Los Angeles Lakers guard Dennis Schroder gets a ball shoved in his face by Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green during the second half in Game 6 of an NBA basketball Western Conference semifinal series Friday, May 12, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Los Angeles Lakers guard Dennis Schroder gets a ball shoved in his face by Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green during the second half in Game 6 of an NBA basketball Western Conference semifinal series Friday, May 12, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Law enforcement personnel hold candles during the 35th Annual Candlelight Vigil to honor the law enforcement officers who lost their lives in 2022, during the National Police Week at the National Mall in Washington, late Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Law enforcement personnel hold candles during the 35th Annual Candlelight Vigil to honor the law enforcement officers who lost their lives in 2022, during the National Police Week at the National Mall in Washington, late Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Members of the Air Line Pilots Association International walk an informational picket on behalf of United Airline pilots at O’Hare International Airport Friday, May 12, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Members of the Air Line Pilots Association International walk an informational picket on behalf of United Airline pilots at O’Hare International Airport Friday, May 12, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Parents and community members chant as they march around P.S. 189 to protest New York City Mayor Eric Adam’s plan to temporarily house immigrants in the school’s gymnasium, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Parents and community members chant as they march around P.S. 189 to protest New York City Mayor Eric Adam’s plan to temporarily house immigrants in the school’s gymnasium, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Ambrit Millhouse, a writer for the television series “Abbott Elementary,” leaps as she participates in a Writers Guild rally in front of The Walt Disney Company studio, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Ambrit Millhouse, a writer for the television series “Abbott Elementary,” leaps as she participates in a Writers Guild rally in front of The Walt Disney Company studio, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
San Diego Padres center fielder Adam Engel (5) takes the field for the bottom of the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
San Diego Padres center fielder Adam Engel (5) takes the field for the bottom of the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
MAY 12 - 18, 2023
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from North America made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Patrick Sison in New York.
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