Today’s top pics: Government shutdown hits national parks and more
Top photos of the day as selected by the Associated Press.
APTOPIX Cornell Wake Forest Basketball
Wake Forest guard Brandon Childress (0) shoots between Cornell forward Jimmy Boeheim (3) and forward Josh Warren (22) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Allison Lee Isley/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
APTOPIX India Womens Wall
Policemen stand guard near the state secretariat anticipating protests following reports of two women of menstruating age entering the Sabarimala temple, one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. Two women on Wednesday entered one of India's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites that had been forbidden to females between the ages of 10 and 50, sparking protests across a southern state, with police firing tear gas at several places to break up stone-throwing protesters, police said. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)
APTOPIX Cold Southwest
Midway Ice Castles take shape as artisans construct popular winter attraction Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Midway, Utah. A winter storm has covered cactus with snow in parts of the American Southwest as temperatures in the desert fall below those of Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
APTOPIX Vatican Pope
Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
APTOPIX Financial Markets Wall Street
A trader talks on his phone on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. Stock markets started the new year with a tumble, as disappointing Chinese economic data on Wednesday renewed concerns that a global trade war is weighing on growth. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
APTOPIX Lord Taylor Flagship Closing
Women peer in the front door of Lord & Taylor's flagship Fifth Avenue store which closed for good, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in New York. After 104 years, the104-year old retail store locked its doors forever. The venerable department store famed for its animated holiday windows ended a blowout sale mid-afternoon Wednesday that left whole floors empty. By the end, clothes that once sold for as much as $100 were going for $5.99. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
APTOPIX Cold Southwest
Tourists look at and take photos of a snow-covered Grand Canyon, in Arizona. A winter storm has covered cactus with snow in parts of the American Southwest as temperatures in the desert fall below those of Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Anna Johnson)
APTOPIX Cuba Obit Desmond Boylan
A person throws flowers into the sea during a memorial service for late photojournalist Desmond Boylan, from the Malecon promenade where some of his ashes were also scattered into the water at sunset in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Boylan, a photographer who covered war and conflict across the world before dedicating his life to documenting the daily joys and tribulations of life in Cuba for The Associated Press, died suddenly while on assignment on Saturday, Dec. 29 in Havana. He was 54. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
APTOPIX Denmark Train Accident
A view of the scene after a train accident on the Great Belt Bridge in Nyborg, Denmark, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. A Danish passenger train apparently hit falling cargo from a passing freight train Wednesday, an accident that killed six people and injured 16 others as it crossed a bridge linking the country's islands, authorities said. Authorities said the trains were going past each other in opposite directions. Aerial TV footage showed one side of front of the passenger train had been ripped open. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
APTOPIX Government Shutdown
Snow covers Lookout Studio in Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. While parts of the national park were closed due to the partial government shutdown, much of the park's South Rim was open and accessible. (AP Photo/Anna Johnson)
