Michael Palumbaro talks on the phone with a friend who lives upstairs in his apartment building while he cooks dinner at home on January 26, 2025 in Philadelphia, Penn. Palumbaro, who was one of the first residents to move into this LGBTQ-friendly senior housing complex, cooks food to share with his friends nearly every Sunday.
Bundled spectators look on as swimmers compete in the 200m freestyle competition Feb. 23, 2024, in Newport, Vermont, where the water temperature hovered around 31 degrees. About 170 ice swimmers flocked to Newport to compete in the Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival - the only outdoor ice swimming competition in the Americas.
High school boys competing in bulldogging laugh as an announcer reads off the winners May 29, 2023, at the Custer County Fairgrounds in Hermosa, South Dakota. In individual time trials, competitors lept off the back of their horses and wrestled steers to the ground, each vying to be the fastest.
Hannah Pilkey, plant production manager, hand pollinates American Chestnut trees with Darling 54 transgenic tree pollen on July 17, 2026. Over about two weeks in the summer, researchers hand pollinate thousands of blooms, wiping pollen samples of Darling 54 pollen from glass microscope slides.
Blooms pollinated with transgenic pollen are bagged and numbered by researchers, shown here on July 17, 2026, at the SUNY ESF experimental planting site in Syracuse, New York.
A woman retrieves laundry from a clothesline at the The Casa del Migrante Arcangel Rafael shelter for asylum seekers on April 15, 2024, in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City. The shelter currently houses about 75 people, most of whom have fled Venezuela or Colombia.
Peggy and Mike Stowe, from Essex, Vermont, look for birds on June 8, 2024, at an annual birding workshop in Unity, New Hampshire.
From left, Rev. Dr. Celeste Dildick-Davis, Pastor Samual J. Kelly Jr., Pastor Roger Smith, Pastor ruth Kelly, and Rev. Michael Bailey, all members of the Middletown Ministerial Alliance, April 29, 2023, at Faith United Church in Middletown, Ohio.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, speaks to supporters before they set out on one last night of canvassing on the eve of the election, November 3, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York.
Musicians with the Craghead Colliery Band parade the local banner through town before heading to the Durham Miners Gala on July 12, 2025, in Stanley, England. The Durham Miners Gala, held since 1871, is a political parade, rally and celebration of unions and working-class life.
Brenda Magaña Díaz, a strategist for the Xochitl Gálvez presidential campaign, leaves a strategy meeting April 15, 2024, at the campaign's offices in Mexico City.
A teacher helps a young Akwesasne Freedom School student plant seeds May 18, 2023, in Akwesasne. The Freedom School teaches students the Mohawk language in an immersive environment.
From right, Diane Kacin, Pam Stamp and Nancy Adams take in the solar eclipse before totality, on the edge of Lake Champlain, April 8, 2024, in Burlington, Vermont. The three women have been friends since they were 10 years old, they said, and planned their eclipse trip nearly a year in advance.
Victor Alvelais brings a meal to Jakorian Williams, who is enrolled in the Dallas Cred program, Feb. 28, 2024, in Dallas, Texas. Dallas Cred works with young people to interrupt and prevent violence, by forging long-term personal relationships and connecting them with various community services.
Spectators take in totality over Lake Champlain on April 8, 2024, in Burlington, Vermont. As the moon crossed in front of the sun, the mid-day light turned to dusky sunset, and the crowd erupted in whoops and cheers.
Zephy Levine, 10, jams with his dad Neil Levine April 20, 2024, at home in Berkeley, California. Ruth Whippman writes about raising Zephy and his brothers in the book “BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity.”
Anna Schindler washes the basement racks at Waterbury Sports, July 14, 2023, in Waterbury, Vermont, in hopes of preventing mold following catastrophic flooding in the region. Schindler works in the salon upstairs from the sports store, and helped with cleanup alongside other neighbors, friends and strangers.
Vergennes Union High School students rally outside their school April 29, 2024, the day of the third vote on the school budget in Vergennes, Vermont. Vermont voters rejected nearly a third of proposed school budgets in local elections this spring, facing, on average increase in statewide education taxes.
Major Jason Scoggins, in a rearview mirror, patrols with the Dallas Police violent crimes unit as they arrest a man Feb. 27, 2024, in Dallas, Texas. Dallas police began a "hot-spot" policing strategy in January 2023.
Carlton Rauschenberg wheels vegetables into a refrigerated truck during a Farm Connex pickup on May 14, 2025, in Johnson, Vermont.
New York City Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa carries notes to speak to the media at a campaign event outside a Manhattan subway station on Sept. 26, 2025 in New York City.
Adonis Williams parks his truck outside a moving job September 3, 2025, in Queens, New York. Williams, who has been in the moving business for 23 years, helps people escaping domestic violence move their belongings for free.
Casey Tobias organizes donated clothing out for offer at the County Closet free store on October 11, 2025, in Three Rivers, Michigan.
Kevin Dunn leaves a Church of the Messiah-owned property where he was working to install free wifi service on October 9, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan. Dunn is a digital steward with Church of the Messiah’s Equitable Internet Initiative, meaning he is getting on-the-job training on internet installation while working to provide free internet in the Island View neighborhood.
Women board a subway car reserved for women and children under age 12 on April 17, 2024, in Mexico City. The Mexico City subway system has included some women-only subway cars since 1970, in an effort to combat sexual harassment.
ulia Alvarez Icaza Ramirez, a spokesperson for Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidential campaign, prepares her notes before participating in a weekly radio interview program with other campaign representatives on April 17, 2024, in Mexico City. Mexico is expected to elect its first female president this year, as candidates Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will face off in the election in June.
Alan Knight, left, and Father Bryan Brooks pray during a vigil outside McAlester Prison while Phillip Hancock is executed inside on Nov. 30, 2023. Knight was friends with Hancock for 44 years, since they were young teenagers. Brooks has organized vigils outside each execution at the prison since the 1990s. Oklahoma has executed more people per capita than any other state.
Madonna Thunder Hawk waves to her granddaughter at the Thunder Ridge housing development May 30, 2023, on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Jennifer Cornelius processes carrots for the Center for an Agricultural Economy’s Just Cut program on April 14, 2025, in Hardwick, Vermont. Just Cut distributes locally grown produce in ready-to-use form to institutions such as K-12 schools, colleges, and hospitals.
Local families parade the Trimdon miners’ banner through the streets on July 11, 2025, in Trimdon, England. In small mining communities across this area, such as Trimdon, on the evening before the Durham Miners Gala, people parade the local banner through the streets of their town, and intergenerational crowds come outside to watch and listen to the brass band.
Louise Swift, 10, front, and Luke Morrison, 12, line up for their turns in a goat agility competition August 24, 2023 at the Caledonia County Fair in Lyndonville, Vermont. Competitors guided their goats through a small obstacle course, including through traffic cones and through a kiddie pool, each trying to finish the fastest. Morrison won, with a time of 17.5 seconds.