The Week In Pics From AP And More

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The Week In Pics From AP And More

Photojournalists are great. They make art, often from split-second decisions during fast-moving news events. And they used to do it on film, which I still wrestle with even in the absence of urgency.

AP Photos of the week include images from the Hong Kong fires, Ukraine, the aftermath of the National Guard shootings in D.C., a guy getting high in Brookline, and many more. The funny thing about the Brookline guy is that his photo is from October 3, which maybe only seemed like a week ago.

Miguel Laboy releases a stream of smoke while smoking cannabis in Brookline, Mass., Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

The Week Around The World from The Guardian is a curated selection of photos from individuals and other news agencies. This week they also include look at the Hong Kong fires along with images from Gaza, where people continue to be killed in droves by Israeli air strikes and hunger-related complications during the “cease-fire,” from various troubled U.S. locales, and more.

Palestinian children warm their hands over a fire on a rainy day in Khan Younis. Amnesty International has said Israel is ‘still committing genocide’ against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. Photograph: Ramadan Abed/Reuters

The week in pictures from Reuters includes images from a volcano threatening villagers in Indonesia, a few examples of our regime’s immigration extremism, a smirking Mohammed bin Bonesaw clasping Dear Leader’s hand, a flock of masked ICE thugs crowded into a courthouse elevator, and more.

People use fire extinguishers to put out a fire at the Pavilion of Countries in the Blue Zone at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, November 20. REUTERS/Douglas Pingituro

The Straits Times has photos including this astonishing one of an art installation at Giza, along with some more pedestrian ones.

The end-of-week photo collections are great not just because of the photos, which are the best from some really good photographers, but because often enough they’ll highlight news or happenings you’d otherwise be unaware of. For instance, I never would otherwise have run across that art installation at Giza and that would have been a loss.

Music

Pit Pony, “Vacancy”

Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory, “Who Wants to Live Forever”

Adrian Crowley, “Brother Was a Runaway”

Matt Berninger, “Brotherhood Of Pins”

mary in the junkyard, “this is my california”

Youth Lagoon, “My Beautiful Girl”

Fontaines D.C., “Death Kink”

Manic Street Preachers, “Critical Thinking”

Heartworms, “Extraordinary Wings”

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