Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB7, the “Individual Freedom” bill, also dubbed the “Stop Woke” bill, during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., April 22, 2022. DeSantis has taken the unusual step of endorsing a slate of school board candidates, putting his weight behind conservatives who share his opposition to lessons on sexuality and what he deems critical race theory. (Daniel A. Varela /Miami Herald via AP, File)

Rev. Chris Morgan leads his congregation at Christ United Methodist Church in Bethel Park Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. The church has a diverse congregation with most leaning toward the center. In regional gatherings across the country this year, United Methodists approved requests of about 300 congregations to quit the denomination primarily over debates over sexuality and theology. (AP Photo/Philip G. Pavely)

Margaret Toman, 78, stands on the steps of her home in Garner, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. She purchased the house to take care of her mother, who recently died of Alzheimer's disease, and is now struggling to pay the bills. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Grain is unloaded from the cargo ship SV. Nikolay in Izmir, Turkey, June 25, 2022. A spokesman for Yayla Agro, the Turkish food company that purchased the grain, said the company had been provided documents stating the cargo had come from the small Russian port of Kavkaz. But satellite imagery shows the grain was loaded at the Russian-occupied Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, Crimea, more than 257 kilometers (160 miles) to the west of Kavkaz. (AP Photo / Yoruk Isik)

Khadidah Stone stands on the dividing line between her old Alabama congressional District 7, to her right with River City Church, and her new district, District 2, to her left, in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 20, 2022. The line splits Montgomery into two congressional districts and is the subject of a high-stakes case that will go before the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up a new test of the Voting Rights Act and the role of race in drawing congressional boundaries. (AP Photo / Vasha Hunt)

FILE - Lisa Manwell helps her son John Jinks, 12, with learning at their home in Canton, Mich., Sept. 21, 2022. Manwell says her son was improperly removed from his classroom last year because of behaviors that stemmed from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (AP Photo / Paul Sancya, File)

Parents of a child killed three days earlier in a mass shooting at a day care center grieve as personnel change the child’s clothes in a coffin at Wat Rat Samakee temple in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, northeastern Thailand, Oct. 9, 2022. A former police officer burst into a day care center Oct. 6, killing dozens of people — preschoolers and teachers — before shooting more people as he fled. (AP Photo / Wason Wanichakorn)

President Joe Biden speaks at an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Oct. 6, 2022. At a fundraiser that night the president made news when he warned that Vladimir Putin might literally go nuclear on Ukraine. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik)

A pick-up truck rolls through downtown, Wednesday Oct. 5, 2022, in Richmond, Vt. A town employee in Richmond is under fire for lowering the fluoride level in the drinking water below the state's recommended level for more than three years. A town commission has voted to return the water to full fluoridation after outrage from some residents. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

Boats lie scattered amid mobile homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, on San Carlos Island in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Sept. 29, 2022. Fort Myers Beach, on a barrier island, was among the storm’s hardest-hit areas. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)

People inspect photos of soccer match stampede victims, trying to identify missing relatives in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Oct. 2, 2022. Panic at the previous night’s match left 125 people dead, most of whom were trampled to death after police fired tear gas inside the stadium. (AP Photo / Dicky Bisinglasi)

FILE - In this June 22, 2017 file photo, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a Dalas news conference, June 22, 2017. As Paxton seeks to fend off his own legal problems and win a third term as Texas’ top law enforcement official, an AP investigation found his agency in disarray behind the scenes, with seasoned lawyers quitting over practices they say aim to slant legal work, reward loyalists and drum out dissent. (AP Photo / Tony Gutierrez, File)