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Rebecca Kimmel is seen reflected in her artwork depicting twins at her home Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, in Seattle. Kimmel believes her adoption agency switched her identity with another girl, and that she may have a twin. Thousands of South Korean adoptees are looking to satisfy a raw, compelling urge that much of the world takes for granted: the search for identity. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Parts of downed Shahed drones launched by Russia are piled in a storage room of a research laboratory in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 28, 2024. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

A home is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Chimney Rock Village, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

A man runs for cover as a smoke raises in the background following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Robert Calabretta holds a picture of his biological mother and brother while sifting through family mementos at his apartment, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. After Calabretta was adopted as a baby to an American family, hospital officials told his mother to assume he had died. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Youssef, 3, cries for his uncle Odei, who was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, West Bank, Thursday, June 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, left, and Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges listen as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Scarlett Goddard Strahan, 11, poses for a portrait at her home on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)

Mannika Hopkins laughs with one of her fourth grade students at Greenville Elementary School in Greenville, Fla. on Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Oleg Orlov, the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, listens to questions during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Thousands of demonstrators stormed Sheikh Hasina’s official residence and other buildings linked to her party and family after the longtime Bangladesh prime minister resigned and fled the country.

Reporter Evan Gershkovich hugs his mother, Ella Milman, as President Joe Biden, right, looks on at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., following their release as part of a 24-person prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)