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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)
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GOP White House hopefuls move forward as Trump considers run

Many Republicans acknowledge Trump would would be the front-runner if he chooses to run again in 2024

FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is held by pharmacist Madeline Acquilano at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. U.S. health officials are weighing next steps as they investigate unusual blood clots in a small number of people given the vaccine -- a one-dose shot that many countries hoped would help speed protection against the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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Half of US adults now have received at least 1 COVID shot

Nearly one-third of adults are fully vaccinated

President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about Russia in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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After outcry, WH says Biden will lift refugee cap in May

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden is expected to increase the refugee cap by May 15

An Oscar statue is seen as preparations are made for the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. The Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 22. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
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The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

Academy Awards show producer Steven Soderbergh hopes the Oscars will be cathartic, and a shot in the arm for Hollywood

Police stand near the scene where multiple people were shot at the FedEx Ground facility early Friday morning, April 16, 2021, in Indianapolis. A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings in the United States after a relative lull during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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FedEx: Mass shooter was a former employee of the company

Police have not yet uncovered a motive for Thursday's shooting

In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin address Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill during motions before the court Thursday, April 15, 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. Chauvin told the judge he will not testify on his own behalf. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
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Defense rests without Chauvin testimony at murder trial

Closing statements in Chauvin murder trial will begin Monday

This image from Chicago Police Department body cam video shows the moment before Chicago Police officer Eric Stillman fatally shot Adam Toledo, 13, on March 29, 2021, in Chicago. (Chicago Police Department via AP)
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Video: Chicago boy wasn't holding gun when shot by officer

Chicago mayor: “As a mom, this is not something you want children to see"

FILE - This photo provided by Ben Crump Law, PLLC. shows Daunte Wright and his son, Daunte Jr., at his first birthday party. Wright, 20, was killed during a traffic stop by a white suburban Minneapolis police officer on Sunday, April 11, 2021. (Ben Crump Law, PLLC. via AP)
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Daunte Wright: Doting dad, ballplayer, slain by police

"He had a 2-year-old son that's not going to be able to play basketball with him. He had sisters and brothers that he loved so much."

This photo provided by Ross Hall, shows a cream doughnut shaped coffin for the funeral of Phil McLean outside a church in Tauranga, New Zealand on Feb 17, 2021. Auckland company Dying Art makes unique custom caskets which reflect the people who will eventually lay inside them, whether it's a love for fire engines, a cream doughnut or Lego. (Ross Hall via AP)
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Colorful coffins lighten mood at New Zealand funerals

Other creations include a sailboat, a firetruck, a chocolate bar and Lego blocks

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at the Sapidar Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw all American troops from the country and end America's longest-running war. (Sapidar Palace via AP)
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Blinken in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal

In his announcement in Washington on Tuesday, President Biden said it was "time to end America's longest war."

In this image from video, Dr. David Fowler, a retired forensic pathologist and former chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
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Defense expert blames George Floyd's death on heart trouble

Dr. David Fowler testified Wednesday that Derek Chauvin's knee on George Floyd was "nowhere close to his airway" and attributed Floyd's death to heart trouble

FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, pharmacist Madeline Acquilano draws a syringe of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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J&J vaccine to remain in limbo while officials seek evidence

While reports of blood clots are rare, the U.S. government has paused J&J vaccines from being administered until more data is gathered in hopes of understanding the size of the risk

People gather in protest, Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. The family of Daunte Wright, 20, told a crowd that he was shot by police Sunday before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing the vehicle several blocks away. The family said Wright was later pronounced dead. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)
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Minnesota cop will be charged in Daunte Wright shooting

The mobile phone icon for the Coinbase app is shown in this photo, in New York, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Coinbase is going public at a time when chatter about cryptocurrencies is everywhere, even at the United States Federal Reserve. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Coinbase is here: A digital currency exchange goes public

'The Coinbase IPO is potentially a watershed event for the crypto industry'

FILE - In this March 11, 2021, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting via video conference with officials and government cabinet members in Moscow, Russia. Airing myriad complaints, the Biden administration took an extraordinarily tough line with China and Russia last week. Public spats between the countries erupted as Biden criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for being “a killer” and his top national security aides excoriated China for a litany of issues. Moscow and Beijing both fired back, setting the stage for months, if not more. of escalating tensions. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Briefs: Russia's Putin receives 2nd vaccine shot

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President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Friday, Feb. 5. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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US to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11

In this image from video, Barry Brodd, a use of force expert testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
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Expert says cop was justified in pinning down George Floyd

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)
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Resource officer shot at Tennessee high school recovering

Knoxville Police Officer Adam Willson was recovering from surgery after being shot in the upper leg at Austin-East Magnet High School on Monday

A demonstrator heckles authorities who advanced into a gas station after issuing orders for crowds to disperse during a protest against the police shooting of Daunte Wright, late Monday, April 12, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Minnesota cop resigns after fatally shooting Daunte Wright

'We're going to do everything we can to ensure that justice is done and our communities are made whole'

In this image from video, Seth Stoughton, testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over court Monday, April 12, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
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Expert: Derek Chauvin did not take actions of 'reasonable officer'

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Student fires at officers at Tennessee school, is killed

President Joe Biden recovers after stumbling while boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, March 19, 2021. Biden is en route to Georgia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion proposal

People gather in protest, Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. The family of Daunte Wright, 20, told a crowd that he was shot by police Sunday before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing the vehicle several blocks away. The family said Wright was later pronounced dead. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)
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Police: Minnesota officer meant to draw Taser, not handgun

(Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)
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Briefs: White House issuing reports on states' infrastructure needs

News summary: The administration is banking that the data will confirm everyday experiences

A man rides his bicycle past fields covered with volcanic ash a day after the La Soufriere volcano erupted, in Kingstown, on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, Saturday, April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Lucanus Ollivierre)
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More volcanic eruptions on Caribbean island of St. Vincent

In this Monday, Oct. 23, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a joint statement with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Former President Donald Trump plans to affirm his commitment to the Republican Party — and raise the possibility that someone else will be the GOP's next presidential nominee — in a closed-door speech to donors Saturday night, April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Trump goes after Pence, McConnell in speech to party donors

Police hold off Trump supporters who tried to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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'Clear the Capitol,' Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows

New details from the deadly riot are disclosed in a Pentagon document recently obtained by the Associated Press

This image released by MSNBC shows Correspondent Shaquille Brewster, right, on location covering the the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday April 7, 2021. Chauvin is charged with murder in the death of George Floyd during an arrest last May in Minneapolis. (MSNBC via AP)
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For Black journalists, working Chauvin trial drains emotions

The journalists not only watch videos of Floyd's death during the trial, they've had to study them

Production personnel perform a visual inspection of filled vaccine vials inside the Incepta plant on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh Saturday Feb. 13, 2021. In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. Yet the factory is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)
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No region spared as virus cases, deaths surge

DMX performs during the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta on Oct. 1, 2011. The family of rapper DMX says he has died at age 50 after a career in which he delivered iconic hip-hop songs such as “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem." A statement from the family says the Grammy-nominated rapper died at a hospital in White Plains, New York, "with his family by his side after being placed on life support for the past few days. He was rushed to a New York hospital from his home April 2. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Rapper-actor DMX dead at 50

U.S. Capitol Building (Photo by Mark Trahant, Indian Country Today)
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Briefs: Private gun sales obstacle to Senate action

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FILE - In this June 19, 1962 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip travel by open carriage around the track prior to the race program, at Ascot, England. Prince Philip was the longest serving royal consort in British history. In Britain, the husband or wife of the monarch is known as consort, a position that carries immense prestige but has no constitutional role. (AP Photo/File)
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Consorts, past and future, in Britain's changing monarchy

Here are some of the other royal consorts, past and future

FILE - In this Wednesday Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, Britain's Prince Philip, in his role as Captain General of the Royal Marines, attends a Parade on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, in central London. Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 99. (Hannah McKay/Pool via AP, File)
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Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 99

'His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle'

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Expert: Lack of oxygen killed George Floyd, not drugs

This March 2, 2019, file photo, shows a Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. A North Dakota construction company favored by President Donald Trump has received the largest contract to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Army Corp of Engineers also said there was no set date to start or complete construction, which will take place near Nogales, Arizona and Sasabe, Arizona. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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EXPLAINER: Is the US border in crisis?

President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Joe Biden tightens some gun controls, says much more needed

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Expert: Derek Chauvin never took knee off Floyd's neck area

An employee gets a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Monday, March 22, 2021 at a special vaccination site Bashas’ set up for its employees. More than 2.8 million vaccine doses had been distributed in Arizona to 1.8 million people as of Monday, according to state data. (Photo by Travis Robertson, Cronkite News)
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Big new push to vaccinate older citizens

President-elect Joe Biden announces his climate and energy team nominees and appointees at The Queen Theater in Wilmington Del., Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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No timetable for withdrawal of troops after US, Iraq talks

Pictured: Cherokee Nation is hosting a public drive-through COVID-19 vaccine event at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 27. Cherokee Nation Health Services will administer 1,000 vaccines on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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'Let me be deadly earnest with you: We aren't at the finish line. We still have a lot of work to do.'

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Nearly half of new virus infections are in these states

File-This Feb. 17, 2021, file photo shows Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo addressing the media on preparations for the upcoming Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. The trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd's death is expected to turn toward the officer's training on Monday after a first week that was dominated by emotional testimony from eyewitnesses and a devastating video of Floyd's arrest.(Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
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Police: Derek Chauvin trained to avoid neck pressure

FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, pharmacist Madeline Acquilano draws a syringe of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist

President Joe Biden recovers after stumbling while boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, March 19, 2021. Biden is en route to Georgia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Joe Biden boosted by Senate rules

File-This Feb. 17, 2021, file photo shows Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo addressing the media on preparations for the upcoming Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. The trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd's death is expected to turn toward the officer's training on Monday after a first week that was dominated by emotional testimony from eyewitnesses and a devastating video of Floyd's arrest.(Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
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Minneapolis chief has sought to reform department

EXPLAINER: Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, the city's first Black chief, has spent the months since George Floyd's death trying to transform a police department

Philonise Floyd, center is comforted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, left, and attorney Benjamin Crump, right at a news conference during a public visitation for his brother George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston, Monday, June 8, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Police chief: Kneeling on Floyd's neck violated policy

Continuing to kneel on Floyd's neck once he was handcuffed behind his back and lying on his stomach was "in no way, shape or form" part of department policy or training

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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After new law, McConnell warns CEOs: 'Stay out of politics'

Mitch McConnell particularly slammed President Joe Biden's criticism that the Georgia bill was restrictive

FILE - In this April 6, 2020, file photo, Carla Brown, executive director for the Charles A. Walburg Multi-Service Organization, arrives to pick up meals from a caterer in the Queens borough of New York. The coronavirus pandemic has kept loved ones apart, with younger family members fearful of bringing the disease to older relatives who may be so much more susceptible. That's driven Brown even more to assure those elderly are receiving the care they need through her meals-on-wheels program. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted, File)
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Briefs: For 7 New Yorkers, a pandemic year's fight for the future

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Emerson Dignan, a University of Iowa senior and first-time elections volunteer, sanitizes voting booths between voters during the 2020 Presidential election at the University of Iowa Campus Recreation and Wellness Center in Iowa City on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Liz Martin/The Gazette via AP)
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What does Georgia's new GOP election law do?

EXPLAINER: Republican supporters say the law is needed to restore confidence in Georgia's elections

Pope Francis celebrates Easter Mass at St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican Sunday, April 4, 2021, during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Filippo Monteforte/Pool photo via AP)
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Hymns through masks: Christians mark another pandemic Easter

A look at Easter celebrations from around the world