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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)

A female informant on an undercover drug buy was allegedly raped in this Alexandria, La., house, shown Sept. 8, 2022, while her law enforcement handlers left her unmonitored in January 2021. The ranking officer in the operation, recently retired, told AP: “We’ve always done it this way. She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before. Looking back, it’s easy to say, ‘What if?’” (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)

Kirsten Gomez, center, accompanied by family member Kathy Hall, cries in Hindman, Ky., Aug. 2, 2022, as she takes a moment to reflect on what her family has gone through in the aftermath of massive flooding. At least 37 people in the region died in historic flooding late on the night of July 28. (AP Photo / Brynn Anderson)

A detail from the Oct. 14, 1906 cover of the French magazine Le Petit Parisien, from a drawing titled “Massacre of Negroes through the Streets of Atlanta.” (Courtesy Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center via AP)

Pelicans nest on Raccoon Island, a Gulf of Mexico barrier island that is a nesting ground for brown pelicans, terns, seagulls and other seabirds in Chauvin, La., May 17, 2022. Climate change is accelerating the erosion and disappearance of these barrier islands, threatening the habitat of one of last century’s most celebrated conservation success stories — the decades-long effort to bring the pelicans back from the edge of extinction. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)

Former Associated Press investigative reporter Jean Heller stands near a copy of her story printed in the front page of The New York Times at her home in Southport, N.C., on Saturday, July 9, 2022. In July 1972, Heller broke the story about the U.S. Public Health Service study in which Black men in Alabama went untreated for syphilis so researchers could document the disease's effects. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

In this July 2017 photo, Brevard County, Fla., Sheriff Wayne Ivey gets ready to spin his popular “Wheel of Fugitive” in Titusville, Fla., in July 2017. The popular weekly video segments feature photos of 10 of the county’s most-wanted criminals. (Malcolm Denemark / Florida Today via AP)

In Athens, Ala., June 23, 2022, Daniel Guess holds a photograph of himself, right, along with his father, Larry Guess, center, and brother David Guess. David, 51, was shot to death in March over payment for an auto part — a seemingly routine dispute that escalated, like many U.S. incidents of gun violence. And like many such victims, his killing drew little attention outside his local area, but his death shattered many lives. (AP Photo / Brynn Anderson)

Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old who was abducted and lynched near the Delta community of Money, Miss., in 1955, is shown in an undated portrait. AP broke the news that a team searching for evidence in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse in June 2022 found the unserved warrant for the white woman whose unproven accusations led to his kidnapping and death. Relatives of Till want authorities to finally arrest Carolyn Bryant Donham nearly 70 years later. (AP Photo, File)

Archbishop Gregory Aymond leads a livestreamed Easter Mass in St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, April 12, 2020, without any congregants due to the coronavirus pandemic. The FBI has opened a widening investigation into Roman Catholic sex abuse in New Orleans, looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them. The Archdiocese of New Orleans declined to discuss the federal investigation. “I’d prefer not to pursue this conversation,” Aymond told the AP. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)

FILE - In this March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video, 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. (Louisiana State Police via AP, File)

Amber Heard, center, and lawyers Elaine Bredehoft, right, and Ben Rottenborn, left, react as verdicts are read in a Fairfax, Va., courtroom, June 1, 2022, in a still image from pool video. The jury sided with actor Johnny Depp in his libel suit against ex-wife Heard, vindicating his allegations that Heard lied about Depp abusing her before and during their brief marriage, but the jury also found that Heard was defamed by one of Depp’s lawyers, who accused her of creating a detailed hoax.