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In a May 24, 2011 photo, Sam Shaya, 4, of Metairie, La, makes his way to another vantage point as he watches Mississippi River waters pour through the Bonnet Carre Spillway structure in St. Charles Parrish, La. The spillway diverts water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain. (AP Photo/The Times Picayune, David Grunfeld)

Bao Le, 18, sits for a photo on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. The Associated Press spoke with teenagers and young adults about their experiences on social media and what they wish they had known when they first got online. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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

The moon partially covers the sun during a total solar eclipse, as seen from Mazatlan, Mexico, Monday, April 8, 2024. AP PHOTO / FERNANDO LLANO

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

The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, Oct. 14, 2022. Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users’ feeds, March 23, 2024, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don’t want to keep the limitations place. AP PHOTO / MICHAEL DWYER

Workers harvest salt in the Salinas Grandes salt flats in Jujuy, Argentina, April 25, 2023. The salt flat brings income to towns through tourism and small-scale salt harvesting. AP PHOTO / RODRIGO ABD

Firefighters battle the Smokehouse Creek Fire north of Canadian, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 AP PHOTO / DAVID ERICKSON