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Jesus Lopez, who was deported from the U.S. last year, holds up his Illinois driver's license and a family snapshot, at his home in Zapopan, Jalisco state, Thursday, May 13, 2021. “I want to go back because I belong there, that's where I have my friends, my family,” said the 25-year-old, once a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that gives protections to immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. (AP Photo/Refugio Ruiz)

[Photo] AP: Advocates in US push new efforts to bring back deportees

CLAUDIA TORRENS and GISELA SALOMON, Associated Press June 2, 2021

Jesus Lopez, who was deported from the U.S. last year, holds up his Illinois driver's license and a family snapshot, at his home in Zapopan, Jalisco state, Thursday, May 13, 2021. “I want to go back...

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump greets Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as he arrives at West Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. Now that the pandemic appears to be waning and DeSantis is heading into his reelection campaign next year, he has emerged from the political uncertainty as one of the most prominent Republican governors and an early White House front-runner in 2024 among Donald Trump's acolytes, if the former president doesn't run again. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

[Photo] AP: As pandemic wanes, Florida’s DeSantis seizes national stage

BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, Associated Press June 1, 2021

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump greets Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as he arrives at West Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. Now that the pandemic appears...

This May 22, 2021 photo made available by NASA shows the surface of Mars from a height of 33 feet (10 meters), captured by the Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

[Photo] AP: Navigation error sends NASA’s Mars helicopter on wild ride

MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press May 28, 2021

This May 22, 2021 photo made available by NASA shows the surface of Mars from a height of 33 feet (10 meters), captured by the Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leaves the site of an appearance, Thursday, May 6, 2021, in West Palm Beach, Fla.  DeSantis has signed a sweeping elections bill into law that he and other Republicans said would place guardrails against fraud, even though there were no signs of voter irregularities in the November presidential election.  (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

[Photo] UNF professor explains Florida’s new voting law

Nathan Turoff, Features Editor May 26, 2021

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leaves the site of an appearance, Thursday, May 6, 2021, in West Palm Beach, Fla. DeSantis has signed a sweeping elections bill into law that he and other Republicans said would...

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2021, file photo, a person wearing face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks near a sign advertising a rapid COVID-19 testing site in Philadelphia. U.S. healthy officials say that most fully vaccinated Americans can skip testing for COVID-19, even if they were exposed to someone infected.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

[Photo] AP: COVID testing’s value shrinks as vaccines beat back virus

MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press May 26, 2021

FILE - In this April 1, 2021, file photo, person stands with a sign related to COVID-19 testing as Chicago Cubs fans pass by outside of Wrigley Field on the opening day baseball game in Chicago. U.S. healthy...

Artist Dennis Owes, 31, from Ghana gives the last touch to his portrait of George Floyd during a rally on Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Brooklyn borough of New York. George Floyd, whose May 25, 2020 death in Minneapolis was captured on video, plead for air as he was pinned under the knee of former officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder and manslaughter in April 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

[Photo] AP: Families urge legal changes to prevent more police killings

MOHAMED IBRAHIM, Associated Press May 25, 2021

Artist Dennis Owes, 31, from Ghana gives the last touch to his portrait of George Floyd during a rally on Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Brooklyn borough of New York. George Floyd, whose May 25, 2020 death in...

This August 2020 photo provided by Peyton Crest shows her with her dog at home in Minnetonka, Minn. The 18-year-old ays she developed anorexia before the pandemic but has relapsed twice since it began. ‘’It was my junior year, I was about to apply for college,’’ Crest says. Suddenly deprived of friends and classmates, her support system, she’d spend all day alone in her room and became preoccupied with thoughts of food and anorexic behavior. (Courtesy Peyton Crest via AP)

[Photo] AP: Pandemic has fueled eating disorder surge in teens, adults

LINDSEY TANNER, Associated Press May 24, 2021

This August 2020 photo provided by Peyton Crest shows her with her dog at home in Minnetonka, Minn. The 18-year-old ays she developed anorexia before the pandemic but has relapsed twice since it began....

In this Monday, May 17, 2021, photo,  Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly tours a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students aged 12 through 15 set up in a gym at Topeka High School in Topeka, Kan. The Democratic governor is under increasing pressure to end an extra $300 a week in benefits for unemployed workers, with critics of the aid arguing that businesses are having problems hiring enough workers because of it. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

[Photo] AP: US jobless claims fall again as some states end federal aid

CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press May 21, 2021

Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos describes a GOP-authored bill that would end a $300 unemployment supplemental payment as the measure's co-sponsor, Sen. Howard Marklein, listens during a...

Police tape marks a line outside Rigby Middle School following a shooting there earlier Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Rigby, Idaho. Authorities said that two students and a custodian were injured, and a female student has been taken into custody. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring)

[Photo] AP: Teacher disarmed school shooter, hugged her until help came

May 20, 2021

Police tape marks a line outside Rigby Middle School following a shooting there earlier Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Rigby, Idaho. Authorities said that two students and a custodian were injured, and a female...

This artist rendering shows Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jennifer Herrington, left, and Roger Handberg during a hearing for Joel Greenberg in federal court in Orlando, Fla., on Monday, May 17, 2021. Greenberg emerged as a central figure in the Justice Department's sex trafficking investigation into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Bridges)

[Photo] AP: Gaetz associate pleads guilty to sex trafficking charges

MICHAEL BALSAMO and MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press May 19, 2021

A small plane circles the federal courthouse with a banner reading 'Tick Tock Matt Gaetz' during a hearing for Joel Greenberg Monday, May 17, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Greenberg has agreed to cooperate with...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, puts his face mask back on during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine an update from Federal officials on efforts to combat COVID-19, Tuesday, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP)

[Photo] AP: The Latest: Fauci: Reasonable for businesses to keep masks

The Associated Press May 18, 2021

Long COVID patient Gary Miller, left, receives treatment from physiotherapist Joan Del Arco at the Long COVID Clinic at King George Hospital in Ilford, London, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. The clinic has been...

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, speaks during an event in Wilmington, Del.  The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is defending the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in guidelines.  Walensky told FOX News Sunday, May 16, 2021,  that she delivered the science as soon as it was available.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

[Photo] AP: CDC director says mask turnaround based solely on science

KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press May 17, 2021

Visitors walk on a busy sidewalk, Saturday, May 15, 2021, in Bar Harbor, Maine. Gov. Janet Mills is is eliminating most outdoor distancing requirements imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic as the tourism...

FILE - This April 30, 2019, file photo, shows a McDonald's restaurant on the Northside of Pittsburgh. U.S. restaurants and stores are rapidly raising pay in an urgent effort to attract more applicants and keep up with a flood of customers as the pandemic eases. McDonald's, Sheetz and Chipotle are just some of the latest companies to follow Amazon, Walmart and Costco in boosting wages, in some cases to $15 an hour or higher. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

[Photo] AP: Desperate for workers, US restaurants and stores raise pay

CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press May 14, 2021

FILE - This April 30, 2019, file photo, shows a McDonald's restaurant on the Northside of Pittsburgh. U.S. restaurants and stores are rapidly raising pay in an urgent effort to attract more applicants...

Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Weary Palestinians are somberly marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as Hamas and Israel traded more rockets and airstrikes and Jewish-Arab violence raged across Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

[Photo] AP: Hamas, Israel fighting escalates even amid truce efforts

FARES AKRAM and JOSEPH KRAUSS, Associated Press May 13, 2021

Muslims take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Eid al-Fitr, festival of breaking of the fast,...

A hiring sign offers a $500 bonus outside a McDonalds restaurant, in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pa., Wednesday, May 5, 2021.  U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, starkly illustrating the desperation of businesses to hire more people as the economy expands. Yet total job gains increased only modestly that month, according to a Labor Department report issued Tuesday, May 11. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

[Photo] AP: US job openings soar to highest level on record

CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press May 12, 2021

A hiring sign offers a $500 bonus outside a McDonalds restaurant, in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pa., Wednesday, May 5, 2021. U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, starkly...

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, Monday, May. 10, 2021. Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Monday, including a barrage that set off air raid sirens as far away as Jerusalem, after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli police at a flashpoint religious site in the contested holy city. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

[Photo] AP: Gaza militants, Israel trade new rocket fire and airstrikes

JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM, Associated Press May 11, 2021

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, Monday, May. 10, 2021. Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Monday, including a barrage that set off air raid sirens as far away...

Surrounded by lawmakers, Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis speaks at the end of a legislative session, Friday, April 30, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

[Photo] AP: Florida gov signs GOP voting law critics call ‘un-American’

BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press May 7, 2021

Surrounded by lawmakers, Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis speaks at the end of a legislative session, Friday, April 30, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, a "No Olympics" banner is placed by protesters in Tokyo during a demonstration against the going ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled has gained ten of thousands of signatures since being launched in Japan just a few days ago. The rollout comes with Tokyo, Osaka and several other areas under a state of emergency with coronavirus infections rising — particularly new variants. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

[Photo] AP: Anti-Olympic petition gains tens of thousands of signatures

YURI KAGEYAMA and STEPHEN WADE, Associated Press May 6, 2021

FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, a "No Olympics" banner is placed by protesters in Tokyo during a demonstration against the going ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. An online...

Residents of the Crescent at Lakeshore apartment complex are rescued by Homewood Fire and Rescue as severe weather produced torrential rainfall flooding several apartment buildings Tuesday, May 4, 2021 in Homewood, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

[Photo] AP: Flood threats persist as storms continue to drench the South

May 5, 2021

Residents of the Crescent at Lakeshore apartment complex are rescued by Homewood Fire and Rescue as severe weather produced torrential rainfall flooding several apartment buildings Tuesday, May 4, 2021...

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 20, 2021, file photo, a man wearing a cannabis costume hands out marijuana cigarettes in New York during a "Joints for Jabs" event, where adults who showed their COVID-19 vaccination cards received a free joint. Free beer, pot and doughnuts. Savings bonds. A raffle ticket for a snowmobile. Places around the U.S. are offering incentives to try to energize the nation’s slowing vaccination drive and get reluctant Americans to roll up their sleeves.  (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

[Photo] AP: Free rides and beer: Incentives are added to vaccine drive

CARLA K. JOHNSON and MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press May 4, 2021

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 20, 2021, file photo, a man wearing a cannabis costume hands out marijuana cigarettes in New York during a "Joints for Jabs" event, where adults who showed their COVID-19...

FILE - In this March 1, 2021, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington. The Biden administration says four families who were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency would be reunited in the United States during the first week of May, the first of what Mayorkas calls “just the beginning” of a broader effort. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

[Photo] AP: US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border

ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press May 3, 2021

FILE - In this March 1, 2021, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington. The Biden administration says four families who...

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, a county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas. The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election. And 7 out of 10 who voted did so by mail or at a polling place before Election Day. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

[Photo] AP: Census Bureau: 70% of voters cast ballots early or by mail

NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press April 30, 2021

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, a county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas. The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds...

FILE - This combo of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows from left, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges against the three men Wednesday, April 28,2021,  in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year. All three are charged with one count of interference with civil rights and attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels are also charged with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.(Glynn County Detention Center via AP)

[Photo] AP: US indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery

MICHAEL BALSAMO and RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press April 29, 2021

FILE - This combo of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows from left, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. The Justice Department...

FILE - This May 4, 2020, photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows SEAL candidates participating in "surf immersion" during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Center in Coronado, Calif. U.S. Navy SEALs are undergoing a major transition to improve leadership and expand their commando capabilities. (MC1 Anthony Walker/U.S. Navy via AP)

[Photo] AP: Navy SEALs to shift from counterterrorism to global threats

LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press April 28, 2021

FILE - This May 4, 2020, photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows SEAL candidates participating in "surf immersion" during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at the Naval Special Warfare (NSW)...

FILE - In this April 21, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations at the White House, in Washington. Biden spent his first 100 days encouraging Americans to mask up and stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19. His task for the next 100 will be to encourage the opposite behavior and manage the nation’s transition back to normalcy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

[Photo] AP: In fight against virus, Biden looks for path back to normal

ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press April 27, 2021

FILE - In this April 21, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations at the White House, in Washington. Biden spent his first 100 days encouraging Americans to mask up and...

Daniel Kaluuya, winner of the award for best actor in a supporting role for "Judas and the Black Messiah," poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, Pool)

[Photo] AP: Oscar moments: History, glamour … and what a weird ending

JOCELYN NOVECK, Associated Press April 26, 2021

Chloe Zhao, winner of the awards for best picture and director for "Nomadland," poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello,...

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2021, file photo, a resident of Harmony Court Assisted Living receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Jackson, Miss. Demand for the coronavirus vaccine has fallen off in some places around the United States to the point where some counties are turning down new shipments of doses. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

[Photo] AP: US drop in vaccine demand has some places turning down doses

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2021, file photo, a resident of Harmony Court Assisted Living receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Jackson, Miss. Demand for the coronavirus vaccine has fallen off in...

A health worker takes a mouth swab sample of a man to test for COVID-19 as others wait their turn to get tested at a hospital in Hyderabad, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. New infections are rising faster in India than any other place in the world, stunning authorities and capsizing its fragile health system. Overall, India has more than 15.6 million cases, the second-highest after the United States, with 182,553 deaths.(AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

[Photo] AP: EXPLAINER: Why India is shattering global infection records

ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and KRUTIKA PATHI, Associated Press April 22, 2021

People wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus stand in queues to board trains at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, April 14, 2021.New infections are rising faster in India...

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the White House in Washington, after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

[Photo] AP: Biden to America after Floyd verdict: ‘We can’t stop here’

JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press April 21, 2021

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the White House in Washington, after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of...

In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin listens as his defense attorney Eric Nelson gives closing arguments as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill preside Monday, April 19, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd.  (Court TV via AP, Pool)

[Photo] AP: Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd case

AMY FORLITI, STEPHEN GROVES and TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press April 20, 2021

In this image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill reads instructions to the jury before closing arguments, Monday, April 19, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin...

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A federal judge has ordered Biggs and Nordean, two leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group, to be arrested and jailed while awaiting trial on charges they planned and coordinated an attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory. The two had been free since their March 10 indictment, but U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly concluded April 19, that the two men are dangerous and won't abide by release conditions. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

[Photo] AP: Leaders of Proud Boys ordered jailed on Capitol riot charges

MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press April 20, 2021

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A federal judge has ordered Biggs and...

Photo retrieved from Indiewire / (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

[Photo] The effect of COVID-19 on theatres

David Eckstein-Schoemann, Reporter April 19, 2021

Photo retrieved from Indiewire / (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FILE - In this March 5, 2021, file photo protesters supporting former President Donald Trump march down Fifth Avenue on their way towards Times Square in New York. Trump ended his presidency with such a firm grip on Republican voters that party leaders fretted he would freeze the field of potential 2024 candidates, delaying preparations as he teased another run. Instead, many Republicans with national ambitions are openly laying the groundwork for campaigns as Trump continues to mull his own plans. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

[Photo] AP: GOP White House hopefuls move forward as Trump considers run

JILL COLVIN, Associated Press April 19, 2021

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a news conference Sunday, April 4, 2021, at the Manatee County Emergency Management office in Palmetto, Fla. DeSantis has received a single-dose coronavirus vaccine....

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, listens as Noah Valenstein, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, right, speaks during a news conference at the Piney Point reservoir, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Palmetto, Fla. The governor said that Florida will permanently close the leaky Piney Point reservoir that poured millions of gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay while threatening to burst open and flood nearby homes and businesses. (Ryan Callihan/The Bradenton Herald via AP)

[Photo] AP: Florida to close wastewater reservoir with leak history

CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press April 14, 2021

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, listens as Noah Valenstein, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, right, speaks during a news conference at the Piney Point reservoir, Tuesday,...

Knoxville police work the scene of a shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School Monday, April 12, 2021, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

[Photo] AP: Student fires at officers at Tennessee school, is killed

TRAVIS LOLLER and ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press April 13, 2021

Police work in the area of Austin-East Magnet High School after a reported shooting Monday, April 12, 2021. Authorities say multiple people including a police officer have been shot at the school. (Brianna...

Kent State University student Marz Anderson gets his Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination from Kent State nurse Beth Krul in Kent, Ohio, Thursday, April 8, 2021. U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

[Photo] AP: US colleges divided over requiring student vaccinations

COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press April 12, 2021

Kent State University Students get their COVID-19 vaccinations in Kent, Ohio, Thursday, April 8, 2021. U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging...

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2020, file photo, Minnesota's Shane Wiskus competes during an NCAA gymnastics meet in Chicago. Wiskus is an Olympic hopeful who moved to the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs after his college program, Minnesota, announced it would be shutting down its program. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynsk, File)

[Photo] AP: Olympic gold: Colleges, Team USA search for new ways to win

EDDIE PELLS, Associated Press April 8, 2021

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2020, file photo, Minnesota's Shane Wiskus competes during an NCAA gymnastics meet in Chicago. Wiskus is an Olympic hopeful who moved to the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado...

Acting Manatee County Administrator Dr. Scott Hopes speaks during a news conference Sunday, April 4, 2021, at the Manatee County Emergency Management office in Palmetto, Fla. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday after a leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted water. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

[Photo] AP: Florida dismisses 2nd breach risk at phosphate reservoir

CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press April 6, 2021

This aerial photo taken from an airplane shows a reservoir near the old Piney Point phosphate mine, Saturday, April 3, 2021 in Bradenton, Fla. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday...

FILE - In this undated photo, provided by NY Governor's Press Office on Saturday March 27, 2021, is the new "Excelsior Pass" app, a digital pass that people can download to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices. (NY Governor's Press Office via AP, File)

[Photo] AP: Vaccine passports are latest flash point in COVID politics

MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press April 5, 2021

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 17, 2021, file photo, travelers walk through the Salt Lake City International Airport, in Salt Lake City. Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization...

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