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Olga Lopatkina embraces her adopted children in a park in Loue, western France, July 2, 2022. After two months of tense negotiation and an initial objection by a senior Russian official, Lopatkina successfully retrieved her children just before they seemed set to vanish completely. An AP investigation found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren’t wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship. (AP Photo / Jeremias Gonzalez)

A woman is baptized during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in Batavia, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2022. In the version of America laid out in the ReAwaken tour, Christianity is at the center of American life and institutions, but it’s under attack, and attendees need to fight to restore and protect the nation’s Christian roots. It’s a message repeated over and over at ReAwaken — one that upends the constitutional ideal of a pluralist democracy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Andriy Kotsar, who was captured and tortured three times by Russian soldiers, sits at a table after a service at Pishchanskyi church in the recently liberated town of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 21, 2022. An AP investigation found that Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine, extending to both civilians and soldiers throughout the city. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)

J.R. Majewski, Republican candidate for Ohio's 9th Congressional District, takes the stage at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio., Sept. 17, 2022. AP’s reporting showed numerous misrepresentations by Majewski, including his false claim to be a combat veteran of Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Tom E. Puskar)

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)

A balloon with a picture of Queen Elizabeth II floats at a memorial to the queen at Green Park, near Buckingham Palace in London, Sept. 10, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

At left, Monica Eberhart speaks on her phone in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 25,.2022. Before her recent abortion she said, “I have to get it done, I can’t really wait. … I absolutely cannot afford another baby, whether that be financially or mentally.” About 10 weeks pregnant, Eberhart had to travel to Indianapolis for the abortion after Ohio imposed a ban on abortions once fetal heart activity could be detected. At right, Interstate 70 in Richmond, Ind., the route route Eberhart traveled from Dayton, Ohio to Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos, File)

FILE - New graduates line up before the start of a community college commencement in East Rutherford, N.J., on May 17, 2018. President Joe Biden is expected to announce Wednesday Aug. 24, 2022 that many Americans can have up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt forgiven. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Millaray Huichalaf, a Mapuche machi — a healer and spiritual guide — rides in a boat on the Pilmaiquen River in Los Rios, southern Chile, July 12, 2022. During years of training to become a machi, she started having dreams about Kintuantü, a ngen, or protector spirit, living by a broad bend of the Pilmaiquen. “Through dreams and visions in trance, Kintuantü told me that I had to speak for him because he was dying,” Huichalaf says. She has led a sometimes-violent battle against hydroelectric plants on the Pilmaiquen, which flows through rolling pastures from a lake in the Andes’ foothills. “I am the river too, we’re as sacred as the river,” says. “At the same time as we’re fighting for the river, we’re in the process of territorial recovery and spiritual reconstruction.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Author Salman Rushdie is attended to after he was stabbed onstage before a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2022. AP journalist Joshua Goodman was in the audience with just a smartphone; his coverage was rushed to AP members and customers. (AP Photo / Joshua Goodman)

A dirt road, shown Oct. 26, 2021, leads to what was once the home of Paul Adams and his family on the outskirts of Bisbee, Ariz. Adams, a Mormon and U.S. Border Patrol agent living with his wife and six children, admitted he had posted videos on the dark web of him molesting two of his children, a 9-year-old girl and a younger daughter he began raping when she was only 6 months old. Adams killed himself after his arrest. The revelation that Mormon officials directed an effort to conceal years of abuse in the Adams household sparked a criminal investigation of the church by Cochise County attorney and a civil lawsuit by three of the Adams’ children. (AP Photo / Dario Lopez-Mills)

In this photo made with an Optical Gas Imaging thermal camera, a plume of heat from a flare burning off methane and other hydrocarbons is detected in the background next to an oil pumpjack as a cow walks through a field in the Permian Basin in Jal, N.M., Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/David Goldman)