Best of AP — Honorable Mention

A clean-up worker picks up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., June 4, 2010. AP PHOTO / GERALD HERBERT

Heather Jarvis pauses as she speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, Oct. 19, 2023. Jarvis is part of the fastest-growing prison population in the country, one of more than 190,000 women held in some form of confinement in the United States as of this year. Their numbers grew by more than 500% between 1980 and 2021. AP PHOTO / CAROLYN KASTER

One year after a deadly tornado struck, debris of homes and businesses awaits removal in Rolling Fork, Miss., March 22, 2024. Buildings throughout town remain boarded up, and the remnants of destroyed properties dot the landscape. The tornado killed 14 residents and reduced the town to rubble as it charted a merciless path across one of the country’s poorest regions. AP PHOTO / ROGELIO V. SOLIS

Kevin Reeves looks at his puppy while in his tent in Baker Park, March 21, 2024, in Grants Pass, Ore. AP PHOTO / JENNY KANE

Deb Robertson sits for a portrait at her Lombard, Ill. home, March 21, 2024. She didn’t cry when she learned two months ago that the cancerous tumors in her liver were spreading, portending a tormented death. But later, she cried after receiving a call that a bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctor’s help had made progress. AP PHOTO / CHARLES REX ARBOGAST

Carole, a 32-year-old former combatant, sits in her home in Bouar, Central African Republic, March 7, 2024. Nearly 5,000 fighters have put down their arms in Central African Republic since a disarmament program launched nearly a decade ago. Yet former rebels, communities and conflict experts say it‘s hard to halt fighting in a country still in conflict and where little other paid work exists. AP PHOTO / SAM MEDNICK

Salvage work continues on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, April 2, 2024, in Baltimore. AP PHOTO / JULIA NIKHINSON

Rescue workers stand near the site of a leaning building in the aftermath of an earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, April 3, 2024. AP PHOTO / JOHNSON LAI

Charlie Russo describes how he shot home movie footage of Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run in 1974 during an interview at his home March 26, 2024, in Savannah, Ga. AP PHOTO / JOHN BAZEMORE

A migrant family from Venezuela eats breakfast alongside the railroad tracks in Mexico City, March 26, 2024. AP PHOTO / FERNANDO LLANO