2018 Best In Show
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First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
This series chronicles the migrant caravan heading north from Central America to the United States. Members of a US-bound migrant caravan cross a bridge between the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca after federal police briefly blocked them outside the town of Arriaga, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S. crowd onto a tractor as they make their way to Mapastepec, Mexico, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Honduran migrant Jose Santos Izaguirre shows his tattoo that reads in Spanish: "Hundred percent Catracho 504," with Catracho referring to his nationality and the number 504 is Honduras' country code when dialing by phone, at a makeshift camp organized by a caravan of Central American migrants traveling to the U.S, in Mapastepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Jose Luis Ramos, a Honduran migrant traveling to the U.S. with a caravan, plays with his 3-month-old son Froilan in the central square of Mapastepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S. make their way to Pijijiapan, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Flip flops belonging to Central American migrants are seen with oranges stuffed into them, as their owners take a dip in a river in Pijijiapan, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Migrants ride in a truck, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Members of a US-bound migrant caravan cross a bridge between the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca after federal police briefly blocked them outside the town of Arriaga, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
A woman migrant sleeps while feeding her son, as she rides with others inside a truck, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Honduran migrants have fun after having a bath in a river in Pijijiapan, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Embraced to one of her daughters while the other one sits on a baby cart, an exhausted migrant woman sleeps on the asphalt as they wait for a ride, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
First Place - 2018 News Picture Story
Migrants, who are part of a caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, rest on the rails in Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018.
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