The day in pictures

February 5, 2024: New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram celebrates with fans after defeating the Toronto Raptors at Smoothie King Center.

February 5, 2024: A detail view of the hat worn by Fred Warner of the San Francisco 49ers during Super Bowl LVIII Opening Night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

February 5, 2024: The Los Angeles River soars above normal levels as it carries stormwater toward the Pacific Ocean. California was deluged with heavy rain, mudslides, flooding, and several feet of snow in the mountains. The brunt of the storms hit the Los Angeles area, where 1.4 million people were under a flash flood warning.

February 5, 2024: A ball flys out of the practice sand trap during the first day of the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale.

February 5, 2024: In Nashville, Tenn., Mary Joyce, a Covenant School parent, holds a guest pass to attend Gov. Bill Lee's State of the State address to the Tennessee General Assembly in the House chamber.

February 5, 2024: A beekeeper walks past beehives as beekeepers gather at Place Bellecour during a demonstration in Lyon, central France, to alarm people on the difficulties they face toward foreign honey imports and the excessive mortality of their bees in a threatened environment. Angry beekeepers set up hundreds of hives in Place Bellecour, in the heart of Lyon, on February 5, 2024, to raise public awareness of their difficulties with foreign honey imports and the over-mortality of their bees in a threatened environment.

February 4, 2024: Syrian earthquake survivor Hamza Al-Ahmed walks past destroyed buildings at the camp where he lives in the city of Jindayris in the northwest of Aleppo province. On Feb. 6, 2023, a devastating quake-ravaged Turkey and Syria, killing more than 1,400 people in government-controlled areas of Syria, while more than 4,500 died and tens of thousands were injured in areas held by opposition factions in the country's northwest, according to Damascus. Jindayris, in Aleppo province near the border with Turkey, was one of the area's worst-hits.

February 4, 2024: A person walks down a path lined with snow-covered trees in Jiuquan, in China's northwestern Gansu province.

February 4, 2024 : Team Chile competes in the final of the acrobatic routine artistic swimming event during the 2024 World Aquatics Championships at Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar.

February 3, 2024: Firefighters work on the zone of a forest fire in the hills in Quilpe Comune, Valparaiso Region, Chile. The region of Valparaoso and Viña del Mar, in central Chile, woke up on Saturday with a partial curfew to allow the movement of evacuees and the transfer of emergency equipment in the midst of a series of unprecedented fires, authorities reported.

February 4, 2024 : Danish rider Albert Withen Philipsen competes during the men's elite race of the Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic.

February 4, 2024 : A woman takes a smartphone photo of red lanterns and decorations on display along the trees ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Ditan Park in Beijing. Chinese will celebrate Lunar New Year on Feb. 10 this year which marks the Year of the dragon on the Chinese zodiac.

February 2, 2024: Ralph Fisher holds up Bobby, the three-month-old armadillo that will replace Bee Cave Bob after Armadillo Day at The West Pole in Bee Cave, Texas. Bob is an eight-year-old armadillo owned by Fisher that predicts the weather and political climate in place of a groundhog on Groundhog Day.

February 2, 2024: Fans hold up their cell phones and light up the darkened Chase Fieldhouse as Chris Locke describes the aims of the SL24: Unlocke the Light Foundation before Saint Mark's 67-54 win in the SL24 Memorial Classic.

February 2, 2024: Norma Jean Gargasz and her 3-year-old red healer, Ryder, at the Santa Catalina Mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona.

February 2, 2024: President Joe Biden, standing from left, and first lady Jill Biden, watch as an Army carry team moves the transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Ga., at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Kenya the Giraffe gets ready to make her prediction for the winner of the Super Bowl during a ceremony at the Gulf Breeze Zoo on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

February 1, 2024: Vehicles splash through mild flooding in the northbound lanes of Highway 101 at California Street in Ventura as southbound merges into a single lane after rain fell across Ventura County early.

Febuary 1, 2024: Gangwon-do, KOR; Silver medallists Olivia Ilin (USA), Dylan Cain (USA), Jared Mcpike (USA), Cayla Smith (USA), Jacob Sanchez (USA) and Sherry Zhang (USA) celebrate following the Medal Ceremony following the Figure Skating Team Event at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangwon, South Korea.

A rainbow forms over the Pacific Ocean near Black's Beach, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in San Diego. The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers drenched California on Thursday, flooding roads and toppling trees while triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for powerful downpours, heavy snow and damaging winds.

January 31, 2024: Jefferson Opal, 67, hangs out in his Toyota Scion with his two dogs, Anna and Sandy, at the Kent Hall parking lot The City of Ojai, California, is setting up 8 x 10 ft. tents so they can have a shelter.

CEO and founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, apologized to families in the audience during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis on January 31, 2024, at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

January 31, 2024: Hundreds paid their final respects to Richard Berdnik, the 49th Passaic County sheriff, outside the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Grand Street in Paterson, New Jersey.

January 30, 2024: The casket of former North Arlington Police Chief Joseph Zadroga is carried by NYPD Honor Guard at the Queen of Peace Church in North Arlington, New Jersey.

January 30, 2024: Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) warms up on the court prior to he start of the game against the Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Arena.

January 30, 2024: Ohio State Buckeyes forward Devin Royal (21) takes the floor before the game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

January 29, 2024: Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi (10) reacts to a play in the second half against the Al-Hilal SFC at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

January 29, 2024: The retired space shuttle Endeavour is hoisted into a vertical orientation as it is positioned to be attached to a rocket for display at the California Science Center.

January 29, 2024: People check decorations at a shop before the Lunar New Year in Haian, in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

January 28, 2024: A worker produces red lanterns for the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations in Huai'an, in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

January 28, 2024: Chicago Bulls shooting guard Alex Caruso (6) reacts after a dunk during the first half against the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.

January 27, 2024 : Bulgarian "Kukeri" dancers participate with their masks as they perform in the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik, near Sofia, Bulgaria. The Kukeri Carnival is a festival, which started on January 26, as participants wearing multi-coloured masks, covered with beads, ribbons and woollen tassels. The heavy swaying of the main mummer is meant to represent wheat heavy with grain, and the bells tied around the waist are intended to drive away the evil spirits and the sickness.

January 26, 2024: Snooki, a female Loggerhead Sea Turtle, rests in her 5000-gallon tank in Surf City, N.C. The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center cares for over 100 sea turtles, most of which are cold-stunned - a form of severe hypothermia.

Jan 26, 2024 : Amber Glenn takes a victory lap around the rink following the championship women medal ceremony during the 2024 US Figure Skating Championships at Nationwide Arena.

January 27, 2024: Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after beating Qinwen Zheng of China in the final of the women’s singles at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

January 27, 2024: Members of the Charlies Angels Dance Team perform before a game between the Washington Wizards and the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

January 25, 2024: Hondo Young, 12, rests in the pen with his pig, Cracklin, at the Hays County Livestock Show at Dripping Springs Ranch Park in Dripping Springs, Texas.

January 25, 2024: Blue Hall, 4, helps her friends show their chickens at the Hays County Livestock Show at Dripping Springs Ranch Park in Dripping Springs, Texas. More than 400 4H and FFA participants, ages 5 - 18, showed their chickens, turkeys, rabbits, lambs, goats, pigs, steers and heifers at the event, which ends with an auction on Saturday that is expected to raise more than $1.3 million to be given back to the children.

January 25, 2024: Villagers hang noodles out to dry in a field as they prepare for upcoming Lunar New Year markets in Huai'an, in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

January 25, 2024: Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska hits a return against China's Zheng Qinwen in their women's singles semi-final match on day 12 of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on .

January 25, 2024: A youth looks through an army anti-tank rocket launcher during the 'Know Your Army' exhibition in Prayagraj.

January 24, 2024 : Oscar sits on the lawn asTibetan monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery in Karnataka State, South India, recite prayers during the blessing of animals at Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, Florida.

January 24, 2024 : Students from the Swaminarayan Gurukul school take part in a 'Magh Snan' or holy bath in Ahmedabad, India.

January 24, 2024 : Empty rails are pictured in Frankfurt, Germany. The German train drivers' union GDL has called for a six-day strike starting early Wednesday.

January 23, 2024: A sculler glides on Lady Bird Lake in a dense fog.

January 23, 2024 : The Sanibel Lighthouse got its missing leg back. The leg was lost in Hurricane Ian on Sept. 28, 2022.

January 23, 2024: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley shakes hands with Georgette Georgi Hebert from Bedford, N.H., at Chez Vachon diner in Manchester, N.H., during the New Hampshire presidential primary.

January 23, 2024: A sculler glides on Lady Bird Lake in a dense fog in Austin, Tx.

76ers center Joel Embiid is doused with water by teammates after scoring 70 points in a victory against the Spurs.

January 21, 2024: Jason Kelce reacts after the Kansas City Chiefs score against the Buffalo Bills during the first half for the 2024 AFC divisional round game at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y.

January 22, 2024: Women attend the funeral ceremony of Iranian Revolutionary Guard members who were killed in an air strike in Syria, in Tehran, Iran. An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported.

January 22, 2024: A Hindu devotee has the words 'Sri Ram' written on his forehead as he watches in Hyderabad, India, a live telecast of the inauguration of a temple dedicated to the Hindu Lord Ram in northern Ayodhya. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday opened a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in a grand event that is expected to galvanize Hindu voters in upcoming elections.

January 22, 2024: Palestinian families flee Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, along the coastal road leading to Rafah, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Israeli army bombarded Khan Yunis, the latest epicentre of the war in Gaza after Israeli Prime Minister rejected what he said were Hamas conditions for the release of hostages, even amid mounting pressure from their families.

January 21, 2024 : People hold up their cell phones as they protest against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

January 20, 2024 : TCU Horned Frogs guard Jameer Nelson Jr. and Iowa State Cyclones forward Milan Momcilovic go for a loose ball during the second half at Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

January 20, 2024: Members of the public look at pigeons in their cages during the "British Homing World Show of the Year" at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, northwest England. "The British Homing World Show of the year" is the biggest gathering of pigeon fanciers, attracting up to 15,000 visitors to see the showing and judging of more than 2000 of the country's best homing pigeons.