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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)

Migrants cross the Acandi River on their journey north near Acandi, Colombia, Sept. 15, 2021. The migrants, most Haitian, were on their way to crossing the perilous Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama. dreaming of eventually reaching the U.S. (AP Photo / Fernando Vergara)

In this March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by The Associated Press, Louisiana State Trooper Jacob Brown slams motorist DeShawn Washington against the hood of a police cruiser during a traffic stop in Ouachita Parish, La., after troopers found marijuana in the trunk of Washington’s car, in a March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by the AP. Use of force was omitted from the police report. (Louisiana State Police via AP)

This image provided by NOAA taken Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 and reviewed by The Associated Press shows Oil slicks are visible at the flooded Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, La., in an Aug. 31, 2021 photo released by NOAA and reviewed by the AP. State and federal regulators responded to the spill site on the banks of the Mississppi River after AP provided the photos of the spill and the company acknowledged a “sheen of unknown origin” at its flooded refinery. (NOAA via AP)

U.S military aircraft takes off at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. The massive U.S.-led airlift was winding down Saturday ahead of a U.S. deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan by Tuesday. Most allies have completed their own airlifts and flown out after 20 years of deployment in the country. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)