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From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors. ____ Follow AP visual journalism: This photo of a man pushing his bicycle through floodwaters near the Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, taken by AP photographer Eric Gay, is projected Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, onto the same spot in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) This photo of a man pushing his bicycle through floodwaters near the Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, taken by AP photographer Eric Gay, is projected Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, onto…

Ulta Beauty on Thursday raised its full-year forecast, after reporting growth in all major categories and topping Wall Street’s quarterly sales expectations.The beauty retailer said it expects net sales of between $12 billion and $12.1 billion, up from its previous range of $11.5 billion and $11.7 billion, representing an increase from last fiscal year’s net sales of $11.3 billion. It expects earnings per share of $23.85 to $24.30, up from its previous range of $22.65 to $23.20.It expects comparable sales, a metric that takes out one-time factors like store openings and closures, to grow between 2.5% to 3.5%, up from…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor is asking federal officials to impose restrictions on nonessential helicopter flights in his state after a New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair in April, killing six people.Gov. Phil Murphy, in an Aug. 18 letter, requested the Federal Aviation Administration use its authority to “prohibit or sharply reduce” the number of the aircrafts operating in the state.The Democrat noted that the helicopter involved in the April 10 crash was based at a heliport in Kearny, New Jersey and plummeted into the Hudson River just 75 feet (22 meters) from the Jersey…

Celtic have completed the signing of winger Michel-Ange Balikwisha from Royal Antwerp on a five-year deal.The Scottish champions agreed a deal worth up to £5m for the 24-year-old, who becomes Brendan Rodgers’ eighth summer signing. Balikwisha made 145 appearances for the Belgian side and scored his 30th goal for the club against Leuven earlier this month.The Belgium youth international, who moved to Antwerp from Standard Liege for £4m in 2021, is a right-footed winger who plays on the left.His addition frees up Daizen Maeda to play through the middle, where he impressed following Kyogo Furuhashi’s departure last season, although Celtic…

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV praised the virtue of listening before speaking as he received an award Thursday from his Augustinian religious order in the United States on the feast day of St. Augustine.Leo reflected on peace, service and St. Augustine during a video message to his fellow American Augustinians gathered in Philadelphia, near Leo’s alma mater, Villanova University.The former Robert Prevost, who was twice elected the superior of the religious order, thanked his brothers for the award and reaffirmed that “So much of who I am I owe to the spirit and the teachings of Saint Augustine.”Leo has…

Gap stock fell in extended trading on Thursday after the company warned tariffs will impact its profits moving forward.When Gap last reported results in May, it said it expected tariffs to cost between $100 million and $150 million on a net basis, but on Thursday, it said those costs are now going to be between $150 million and $175 million. Its full-year operating margin is expected to be between 6.7% and 7%, down from 7.4% in the previous fiscal year, reflecting a tariff impact between 1 percentage point and 1.10 percentage points.In its current quarter, its expecting its gross margin to…

A Dell Technologies sign is seen in Round Rock, Texas, on June 2, 2023.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesDespite beating on its top and bottom lines, shares of Dell Technologies fell more than 5% Thursday in extended trading after giving third-quarter earnings per share guidance that below Wall Street’s expectations.Here’s how the systems integrator did versus LSEG consensus estimates:EPS: $2.32, adjusted vs. $2.30 estimatedRevenue: $29.78 billion vs. $29.17 billion estimatedDell raised its full year outlook for revenue to be $107 billion at its midpoint and diluted earnings per share to $9.55 at the midpoint, topping Wall Street estimates of $104.6 billion…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran from California who was shot dead wearing a Trump campaign flag wrapped around her shoulders while attempting to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol. Offering military honors to one of the Capitol rioters is part of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite that chapter after the 2020 election as a…

Chelsea have agreed a £40m fee with Manchester United to sign Alejandro Garnacho. The deal, which includes a 10 per cent sell-on fee, represents the fourth-largest sale in United’s history after those of Cristiano Ronaldo, Romelu Lukaku and Angel Di Maria – and the club’s largest ever sale of an academy graduate. A compromise over Garnacho’s valuation had to be reached as United valued him at £50m – which was more than Chelsea were prepared to pay.United negotiated the fee up from an initial Chelsea offer of £25m and are understood to feel it is a good, pragmatic deal, delivering…

KUWAIT: The interior ministry announced that it has busted three criminal networks operating illegally to issue fake work permits and visas and running an illegal parallel hawala money transfer, and arrested over 20 people in the process. The ministry said in a statement on X on Thursday that security men busted a “criminal network” involved in forging transactions for work permits in favor of private companies against money. Six Egyptians, a Syrian and a Kuwaiti were arrested.Security men arrested a senior official at the Public Authority of Manpower who issued work permits to recruit Egyptians for bribes between KD 130…