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People occupy President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence for a second straight day during anti-government protests in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 11, 2022. Within days, Rajapaksa fled the economically crippled island nation and emailed the resignation his critics have demanded for months. Sri Lanka is in a political vacuum for a second day Monday with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by protesters, angry over the country's economic woes. (AP Photo / Eranga Jayawardena)

Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old who was abducted and lynched near the Delta community of Money, Miss., in 1955, is shown in an undated portrait. AP broke the news that a team searching for evidence in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse in June 2022 found the unserved warrant for the white woman whose unproven accusations led to his kidnapping and death. Relatives of Till want authorities to finally arrest Carolyn Bryant Donham nearly 70 years later. (AP Photo, File)

At left, protesting against Texas Senate Bill 8, which would ban most abortions in the state, Cindy Gomez of Austin wears a “handmaid” costume during the Women’s March ATX rally at the state capitol in Austin, Oct. 2, 2021. At right, David Trujillo holds a sign outside an abortion provider in Dallas, Oct. 7, 2021. ( AP Photos / Stephen Spillman (left); LM Otero )

Federal police officers arrive at the pier with human remains recovered during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, western Brazil, June 15, 2022. A federal police investigator said a suspect confessed to fatally shooting Pereira and Phillips in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried. (AP Photo / Edmar Barros)

Mariana López sits with her 7-year-old daughter at their home in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, May 19, 2022. López says she had an obstetric emergency in 2000, but was arrested on suspicion of inducing an abortion. She served 17 years in prison before being released when her 25-year sentence was commuted. El Salvador bans abortion under all circumstances; women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths are sometimes accused of killing their babies and sentenced to years or even decades in prison. (AP Photo / Jessie Wardarski)

Using a tablet screen, Rupesh Kotiya, left, communicates with his son Ronan, 11, who holds a medical suction tube at their home in Plano, Texas, April 10, 2022. Ronan helps care for his father who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Millions of Americans with serious health problems depend on children ages 18 and younger to provide some or all of their care at home. An exact number is hard to pin down, but researchers think millions of children are involved in caregiving in the U.S. (AP Photo / LM Otero)

Vincent Salazar, right, father of Layla Salazar, weeps while kneeling in front of a cross with his daughter's name at a memorial site for the victims killed in this week's elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, looks in the mirror and turns off her camera in Mariupol, Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. Using a body camera, she recorded her team's frantic efforts to bring people back from the brink of death. (Yuliia Paievska via AP)

Escaped inmate Casey White arrives at the Lauderdale County Courthouse in Florence, Ala., after waiving extradition in Indiana Tuesday, May 10, 2022 (Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP)

At left, residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, wait for food at the field kitchen outside the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre, March 9, 2022.. The theater was in use as the city’s main bomb shelter when a Russian airstrike destroyed much of the building on March 16. Survivors say at least 100 people were at the field kitchen at the time of the attack; none of them survived. At right, on March 17, one day after the attack, rubble covers the area where the field kitchen stood. Survivors say about 1,000 people were in the building at the time of the airstrike. AP’s reconstruction of the incident shows about 600 people died in the attack.on March 17, 2022, in Mariupol, Ukraine. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war. (Lev Sandalov via AP) AP Photo / Alexei Alexandrov

Joey and Paula Reed, parents of U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed, stand in Lafayette Park near the White House, March 30, 2022. Reed was released April 27 in a secretive, unexpected prisoner swap in Turkey, first reported by the AP. (AP Photo / Patrick Semansky)

Dr. Marta Kopan, 38 weeks pregnant, holds her 6-year-old son Nazar, April 3, 2022, at an apartment in Lviv, western Ukraine, loaned to them by a cousin after the family fled their home in Kyiv. The place in Kyiv where Marta was meant to give birth was bombed. Her birth plan, like almost everything else, was left behind. (AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty)