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Two people leave objects at a memorial for Anthony Alvarez, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago, near the place where a Chicago police officer shot and killed the 22-year-old during a foot chase in the early morning hours of March 31. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune via AP)

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Rapper Kodak Black appears in court at the Florence County, South Carolina, courthouse in a Florence, S.C. Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to probation for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room. (Matthew Christian/The Morning News via AP)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by Taylor family attorney Sam Aguiar shows Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. Taylor, a 26-year-old Louisville, Ky., emergency medical worker studying to become a nurse, was shot several times in her hallway after three plainclothes narcotics detectives busted down the door of her apartment in the middle of the night in March 2020. A grand jury brought no charges against officers in her death, although one was indicted for shooting into a neighboring home that had people inside. (Courtesy of Taylor Family attorney Sam Aguiar via AP, File)

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A California man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme to bilk the Afghanistan government out of more than $100 million with a phony bid to build an electric grid, authorities said.

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FILE - In this June 17, 2020, file photo, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Scott is the only Black Republican senator. He's often happy to dart past Capitol Hill reporters without saying much. But he and the spotlight have found each other. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Wanda Cooper-Jones kneels before the grave of her son, Ahmaud Arbery, at the New Springfield Baptist Church in Waynesboro, Ga., to mark the one year anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery's death in Brunswick, Ga. The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the death of Arbery, who was killed while out for a run.(AP Photo/Lewis M. Levine, file)

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