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In this aerial photo, destruction in Downtown Mayfield, Ky., lies in ruins, Dec. 12, 2021, in the aftermath of tornadoes that tore through the region. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)

States Military Academy cadets sit during their graduation ceremony at Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y., May 22, 2021. Despite the academies’ stated commitment to diversity and inclusion, an AP investigation found disparities in the racial composition of student bodies and graduation rates, and accounts of that ranged from racial slights to outright racist behavior.The U.S. military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of the armed services and have welcomed more racially diverse students. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Tears streak down the cheek of Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, after the jury convicted Travis McMichael of Arbery’s murder, in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 24, 2021., in Brunswick, Ga. (AP Photo / Stephen B. Morton, Pool)

Kyle Rittenhouse, right, turns to defense attorney Corey Chirafisi at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., in a Nov. 19, 2021 image from courtroom video, as Rittenhouse reacts to the jury’s verdict acquitting him of all charges in the shooting deaths of two men and the wounding of a third during protests over the 2020 shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer.a Black man,. he was acquitted of all charges at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The jury came back with its verdict after close to 3 1/2 days of deliberation. (AP Photo)

Ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano covers a house on La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands, Nov. 1, 2021. The ash is jettisoned thousands of meters into the sky; the heaviest, thickest particles eventually drift down, accumulating in banks that slowly cover doors, pour into windows, make rooftops sag. Some particles are so big that when they pummel a car roof or the fronds of a banana tree, it sounds like hail. (AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti)

In this Sept. 23, 2021, photo Jhaimarion, 10, listens during an AP interview in Chicago, Sept. 23, 2021, as his mother, Krystal Archie, describes traumatic experiences with police. Archie’s three children were present when police, on two occasions just 11 weeks apart, kicked open her front door and tore through their home searching for drug suspects. She’d never heard of the people they were looking for. The family was ordered to get down on the floor; Jhaimarion, the youngest, was 7 at the time. An AP investigation explores how Black and brown children are disproportionately affected by police force. (AP Photo / Nam Y. Huh)

A 33-year-old mother of three from central Texas is escorted down the hall by clinic administrator Kathaleen Pittman prior to getting an abortion at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Oct. 9, 2021. The woman was one of more than a dozen patients who arrived at the abortion clinic, most from neighboringTexas, where the nation’s most restrictive abortion law remains in effect. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Drug users detained during a Taliban raid walk in line on their way to the detoxification ward of the Avicenna Medical Hospital for Drug Treatment in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. Now the uncontested rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban have set their sights on stamping out the scourge of narcotics addiction, even if by force. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 photo, from left, Zihare Wellons, 7, Shahif Wellons, 12, and Janiyah Acie, 3 Children walk through a new Rec2Tech space at Jefferson Recreation Center in Pittsbburgh, Oct. 1, 2021. The facility will provide access to technology and innovative programming for community members including STEM, computer science and coding education, combined with the arts. Although Pittsburgh has yet to use any of its funding from the American Rescue Plan, passed by Congress last spring, the city says it plans to use some of the money to expand these programs. It also plans to buy 78 electric vehicles, build technology labs and launch a pilot project paying 100 low-income Black women $500 a month for two years to test the merits of a guaranteed income program.(AP Photo / Rebecca Droke)

A young girl holds her stuffed animal overhead as migrants, many from Haiti, wade across the Rio Grande river from Del Rio, Texas, returning to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, to avoid deportation, Sept. 20, 2021. The U.S. was flying Haitians camped in the Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico. (AP Photo / Félix Márquez)