Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola, left, talks to Fu Bao Hartle, a disability rights advocate, during a campaign rally in Juneau, Alaska, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. (Mark Sabbatini /Juneau Independent via AP)
The Olowalu Reef in Maui, Hawaii, on Oct. 18, 2024. (Nathan Eagle/Honolulu Civil Beat via AP)
New Bedford City Council Member Shawn Oliver stands in front of City Hall in 2015 in New Bedford, Mass. (Jack Spillane/The New Bedford Light via AP)
Wyoming Game and Fish Department small carnivore biologist Andy Gygli handles a captured ferret in the Shirley Basin near Medicine Bow, Wyo., Sept. 30, 2025. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile via AP)
Kris Williams Carroll, director of the Caretta Research Project, holds three loggerhead hatchlings found during the excavation of a nest on Wassaw Island, Ga., July 18, 2026. (Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America via AP)
A loggerhead hatchling races toward the surf after emerging from its nest on Wassaw Island, Ga., July 18, 2026. (Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America via AP)
Biologists and volunteers with the Caretta Research Project measure a loggerhead sea turtle as it lays eggs on Wassaw Island, Ga., July 19, 2026.(Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America via AP)
A team of biologists and volunteers with the Caretta Research Project excavates a recently hatched loggerhead sea turtle nest on Wassaw Island, Ga., July 18, 2026. (Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America via AP)
Biologists and volunteers with the Caretta Research Project excavate a recently hatched loggerhead sea turtle nest on Wassaw Island, Ga., July 18, 2026. (Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America via AP)
Community members fill the Livingston City Commission meeting and spill out into the hallway Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, in Livingston, Mont. (Lauren Miller/Montana Free Press/CatchLight Local/Report for America via AP)