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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

One year after a deadly tornado struck, debris of homes and businesses awaits removal in Rolling Fork, Miss., March 22, 2024. Buildings throughout town remain boarded up, and the remnants of destroyed properties dot the landscape. The tornado killed 14 residents and reduced the town to rubble as it charted a merciless path across one of the country’s poorest regions. AP PHOTO / ROGELIO V. SOLIS

Dana Holladay-Hollifield poses for a photo in front of Hunstville Hospital, in Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 27, 2024. Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital. AMANDA SHAVERS / THE CULLMAN TIMES VIA AP

In this image taken from a video provided by the Richmond Wildlife Center, Executive Director and founder Melissa Stanley wears a fox mask as she feeds an orphaned red fox kit, March 10, 2024, in Richmond, Va. Stanley said the mask creates a visual barrier to prevent animals from imprinting on humans.