Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

Bison, also known as buffalo, walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. The wild animals were corralled for transfer to Native American tribes, part of an effort by Indigenous groups working with federal officials to expand the number of bison on reservations. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

FILE—State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, right, prepares to announce his proposed measure to provide legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 17, 2022. On Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wiener's bill into law. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Flowers and balloons have been placed near the scene of a mass shooting at a Walmart, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Chesapeake, Va. A Walmart manager opened fire on fellow employees in the break room of the Virginia store, killing several people in the country’s second high-profile mass shooting in four days, police and witnesses said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

People who lost relatives in the downing of MH17, hug at a bus stop after the court's verdict at Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. A Dutch court has convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of the murders of 298 people who died in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine. One Russian was acquitted for lack of evidence. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

A banner with the numbers and initials of three University of Virginia football players killed in a shooting hangs from a home near the crime scene, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Charlottesville. Va. Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D'Sean Perry were were killed in a shooting, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, in Charlottesville, Va., while returning from a class trip to see a play. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren)

Fish swim in the Mediterranean Sea in Gador sea reserve in Hadera, northern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Climate change, invasive species and explosive human activity are threatening what remains of the eastern Mediterranean's severely impacted ecosystems. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

FILE - Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, Oct. 28, 2022. Elon Mush closed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform the previous day.Employees were bracing for widespread layoffs at Twitter Friday, Nov. 4, as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the social platform. (AP Photo / Jeff Chiu)

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Jason Martin speaks in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 2, 2022, after election officials confirmed more than 200 early votes had been cast in the wrong races following redistricting of the capital city. Reporting by the AP alerted election officials to the mixup; the number of votes cast in error later grew to more than 430 as officials scrambled to correct the problem. (AP Photo / Mark Humphrey)

A visitor to Bonneville Salt Flats poses for photographs near Wendover, Utah, Oct. 8, 2022. The salt has thinned by roughly one-third in the last 60 years, but as climate change drags the West into its third decade of drought, it’s unclear how that affects the seasonal flood patterns the salt flats relies on to maintain its size and footprint. (AP Photo / Rick Bowmer)

The Houston Astros celebrate with the American League Championship trophy after defeating the New York Yankees in Game 4 at Yankee Stadium Oct. 24, 2022. The Astros advanced to the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies; for the first time since 1950, neither team will have a U.S.-born Black player on the roster, the AP reported. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)