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This undated photo provided by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control shows a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination card. A Northern California bar owner was arrested on suspicion of selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to several undercover state agents for $20 each. After receiving a tip, undercover agents with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control went to Old Corner Saloon in the city of Clements several times in April and bought fake laminated vaccination cards, officials said. (California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control via AP)

Misty Buckley carries dirty water from her animals’ pens to water plants in her front yard, in Klamath Falls, Ore., July 24, 2021. The family’s house well ran dry in May following historic drought in southern Oregon. Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in the area near the Oregon-California border where the effects of drought have taken a particularly dramatic toll. (AP Photo / Nathan Howard)

Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Senior Chaplain David Sparks looks at a C-5M Super Galaxy transport plane on the flightline at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Monday, June 21, 2021. The aircraft is one of those used for the dignified transfer of remains, conducted upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base to honor those who have died while serving in a military theater of operations. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

FILE - In this July 21, 1963, file photo, Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman’s bayonet aside as she moves among a crowd of Black protesters to convince them to disperse in Cambridge, Md., July 21, 1963. Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, died Thursday, July 15, 2021, in New York, according to Joe Orange, her son in law. She was 99.   (AP Photo/File)

Pink water washes over a salt crust along the receding edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, May 4, 2021. The lake has been shrinking for years, and its levels are expected to hit a 170-year low in 2021 as drought grips the American West. (AP Photo / Rick Bowmer)

In this photo created with an in-camera multiple exposure, Registered nurse Cathy Cullen, part of the first group of nurses who had been treating coronavirus patients in the hospital’s intensive care unit, poses for an in-camera multiple exposure in the empty COVID-19 ICU at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., April 6, 2021. Cullen sometimes tears up when thinking about what she and the other nurses endured. “The birth of my children and marriage aside, being a part of this team, this endeavor, and this pandemic is by far the greatest, worst, most rewarding, most painful thing I have ever done in my life,” she says. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Jerry Ramos is remembered with a collection displayed at his home in Watsonville, Calif., June 6, 2021. A father and essential worker, Ramos died Feb. 15 at age 32, becoming one of more than 600,000 Americans who have perished in the pandemic — and an example of COVID-19’s strikingly uneven and ever-shifting toll on the nation’s racial and ethnic groups. Latinos between 30 and 39 have died at five times the rate of white people in the same age group.(AP Photo / Nic Coury)

In this Saturday, May 23, 2020 image from Louisiana State Police body camera video, An unidentified law enforcement officer applies an electric weapon to the back of motorist Antonio Harris as officers restrain Harris after a high speed chase in Franklin Parish, La., May 23, 2020, in an image from Louisiana State Police body camera video. Troop F of the State Police, a 66-officer unit, has become notorious in recent years for alleged acts of brutality that have resulted in felony charges against some of its troopers.Troopers from the (Larry Shappley / Louisiana State Police via AP)

A home destroyed in the 2020 North Complex Fire sits above Lake Oroville in Oroville, Calif., May 23, 2021. The reservoir is shown at 39% of capacity and 46% of its historical average. The mighty lake — a linchpin in a system of aqueducts and reservoirs in the arid U.S. West that makes California possible — is shrinking with surprising speed amid a severe drought, with state officials predicting it will reach a record low later this summer. The lake helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county that must rebuild seemingly every year after unrelenting wildfires.(AP Photo / Noah Berger)

This photo provided by the Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa shows A man stands in the ruins of what is described as his home in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla., in the aftermath of the June 1, 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in a photo provided by the University of Tulsa. On May 31, carloads of Black residents, some of them armed, had rushed to the sheriff’s office in downtown Tulsa to confront whites who were believed to be planning to lynch a Black prisoner. Gunfire broke out. and over the next 18 hours, white mobs carried out a scorched-earth campaign against Greenwood. Some witnesses claimed they saw and heard airplanes overhead firebombing and shooting at businesses, homes and people in the Black district. More than 35 city blocks were leveled, an estimated 191 businesses were destroyed, and roughly 10,000 Black residents were displaced from the neighborhood. Most historians and experts who have studied the event estimate the death toll to be between 75 and 300. Victims were buried in unmarked graves that, to this day, are being sought for proper burial. (Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa via AP)