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FILE – Pope Leo XIV is cheered by faithful on the occasion of his visit to a nursing home, in Saurimo, Angola, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)


FILE – Angel Reese is introduced by the Atlanta Dream on Friday, April 17, 2026, in Atlanta. The Dream acquired Reese for first-round draft picks in 2027 and 2028. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, FIle)


FILE – Linh Mai, a 10-week-old Asian elephant calf, copies “auntie” Swarna reaching into the hay feeder during her public debut at the National Zoo, in Washington, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)


FILE – Former President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani sing “Wheels on the Bus” to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K in the Bronx in New York, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)


FILE – A robot starts off for the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon and Humanoid Half Marathon on the outskirts of Beijing on Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)


FILE – Men fish smelt fish (named locally as koryushka) known as a special local delicacy, famous for its “cucumber” smell, which passes in April from the Baltic Sea to Lake Ladoga via St. Petersburg to spawn, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, April 20, 2026, with a highway bridge in the background. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)


FILE – Bob Paice, Pearly King of Forest Gate attends St George’s Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square in London, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)


FILE – President Donald Trump supporters sit on a tailgate near the venue where the president is scheduled to speak later, Friday, April 17, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)


FILE – Barber Mohammad Mehdi cuts the hair of his client Ayman Al Zein inside his shop, which was damaged in an Israeli airstrike that also damaged Al Zein’s shop, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)


FILE – People comfort each other outside the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Shreveport, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)


FILE – Special Electoral Jury appointees recount votes for the 2026 general election, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)


FILE – Zainab, the sister of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike, hugs her helmet as she mourns over her coffin in the village of Baysariyeh, southern Lebanon, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)


FILE – Forensic experts carry the body of a victim down a pyramid after authorities said a gunman opened fire, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)


FILE – Faithful wait for Pope Leo XIV at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon, Saturday, April 18, 2026 on the sifth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)


FILE – People wave Hezbollah flags and an image of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Zefta, southern Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026, as displaced residents drive back to their villages following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)


FILE – People climb on old tanks at the Armored Corps memorial site during a ceremony marking Israel’s annual Memorial Day for the soldiers who died in the nation’s conflicts and victims of nationalistic attacks, in Latrun, Israel, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, FIle)


FILE – The sun rises behind a tanker anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati, File)


FILE – A woman member of the Basij paramilitary, affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, holds her gun during a state-organized rally in support of the supreme leader marking National Girl’s Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)


FILE – A minibus drives past an empty checkpoint where a mannequin dressed as a soldier stands in downtown Khartoum, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)


FILE – Displaced people cross a destroyed bridge as they return to their villages, following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, in Tayr Felsay village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)


FILE – Palestinian youth play while swimming in a port basin in Gaza City, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
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