Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former police captain who put public safety at the center of his campaign for New York City mayor, was leading a field of 13 Democratic candidates in the primary election, though the outcome likely won't be known for weeks.
Participants are driving from Jackson, Mississippi to Washington to push for voting rights legislation six decades after activists called "Freedom Riders" protested against segregated bus terminals in the South.
Much of the U.S. Southwest is in the grip of a drought that has cut hydropower supplies, leaving rivers running dry and prompting ranchers to sell livestock.
President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to help clear up flooding in annexed Crimea, the Kremlin said, after heavy rain caused damage in cities on the Black Sea peninsula.
Devastation from 11 days of Israel-Hamas violence, India's second coronavirus wave, remembrance a year after George Floyd's murder and more top photos from May 2021. Produced by David Lucas.
