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In this image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill discusses motions before the court Monday, April 12, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek 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)

Judge refuses to sequester jury in George Floyd murder case

Judge refuses to sequester jury in George Floyd murder case
In this image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill discusses motions before the court Monday, April 12, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek 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)
Asian markets push higher despite tech sell-off on Wall St
A currency trader passes by screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, center, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Shares advanced in Asia on Thursday after a broad decline on Wall Street led by selling of tech heavyweights like Facebook and Apple. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
New Mexico governor set to sign recreational marijuana bill
Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks following the end of New Mexico's annual legislative session on Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
Outdoor enthusiasts to get cash, free passes to move to WVa
FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012 file photo whitewater rafters are shown rafting the lower New River Gorge, near Fayetteville, W.Va. A program launched Monday, April 12, 2021, will try to lure outdoor enthusiasts to live and work in West Virginia with enticements of $12,000 cash and free passes for a year for recreation destinations such as whitewater rafting and golf. (Lawrence Pierce/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)
Charles Booker forms exploratory committee for US Senate run
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020, file photo, state Rep. Charles Booker advocates for the passage of Kentucky HB-12 on the floor of the House of Representatives in the State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. Democrat Booker, whose unabashedly progressive campaign in Kentucky came up just short in last year's Senate primary, said Monday, April 12, 2021, he's forming an exploratory committee as he weighs a follow-up Senate race in 2022 against Republican incumbent Rand Paul. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston, File)

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In this image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill discusses motions before the court Monday, April 12, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek 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)
Judge refuses to sequester jury in George Floyd murder case
This Planet Labs Inc. satellite photo shows the moments following an eruption of La Soufriere volcano in the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, Friday, April 9, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc via AP)
'Huge' explosion rocks St. Vincent as volcano keeps erupting
People run as police attempt to disperse the crowd at the Brooklyn Center Police Department, late 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. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)
Daunte Wright death in Minnesota traffic stop sparks unrest
This satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Iran's Natanz nuclear site suffered a problem Sunday, April 11, involving its electrical distribution grid just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges that more quickly enrich uranium, state TV reported. It was the latest incident to strike one of Tehran's most-secured sites amid negotiations over the tattered atomic accord with world powers. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)
Iran blames Israel for sabotage at Natanz nuclear site
Georgia sheriff: 3 officers wounded, 1 suspect dead, 1 held
Law enforcement work the scene scene following a police chase Monday, April 12, 2021, in Carroll County, Ga. Georgia authorities say multiple officers were injured when the passenger of a car shot them during a police chase that ended with one suspect killed and the other arrested. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Daunte Wright death in Minnesota traffic stop sparks unrest
People run as police attempt to disperse the crowd at the Brooklyn Center Police Department, late 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. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)
Will Smith film departs Georgia over voting restrictions
Will Smith attends the premiere of
Sidelined last year, the Met Gala is returning - twice
FILE - Lady Gaga attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala on May 6, 2019, in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that the annual high-wattage celebration of both fashion and celebrity -- held virtually in 2020 because of the pandemic -- will return in person, first in September, then again on its usual date on the first Monday in May. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
US, Philippine forces stage scaled down drills amid pandemic
Costume Designers Guild to honor Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
FILE - Producers Shonda Rhimes, left, and Betsy Beers attend the
Sheriff: 3 Georgia officers wounded, 1 suspect dead, 1 suspect in custody after police chase
Democrat says registration key to ousting SC's Tim Scott
FILE - In this March 3, 2021 file photo, State Rep. Krystle Matthews, D-Ladson, speaks to fellow lawmakers in Columbia, S.C. Matthews is mounting a bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott. State Rep. Krystle Matthews told The Associated Press that she will try to register 150,000 new voters across South Carolina to tighten the margin Democrats have struggled to close in statewide election. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File)
Prince Philip vs Philip of 'The Crown': Fact and fiction
In this image released by Netflix, Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II, right, and Matt Smith as Prince Philip in a scene from
US colleges divided over requiring student vaccinations
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)
For Chauvin's trial attorney, it's all about raising doubt
In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson questions Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner, as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Friday, April 9, 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)
Officer accused of force in stop of Black Army officer fired
In this image made from Windsor, (Va.) Police video, A police officer uses a spray agent on Caron Nazario on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which he says the officers drew their guns and pointed them at him as he was dressed in uniform. Caron Nazario says his constitutional rights were violated by the traffic stop in the town of Windsor in December. (Windsor Police via AP)
Mom arrested in death of her 3 kids was in custody dispute
This undated image released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows Liliana Carrillo. Los Angeles police have arrested Carrillo, a mother whose three children were found slain Saturday April , 10, 2021. Police Lt. Raul Jovel said the children's grandmother went inside an apartment in the Reseda neighborhood and found their bodies Saturday morning. All the children were under the age of 5. (Los Angeles Police Department via AP)
Vigil honoring S. Carolina shooting victims draws hundreds
People participate in a memorial service and prayer vigil for the Lesslie family at Fountain Park, Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Rock Hill, S.C. Dr. Robert Lesslie and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, their grandchildren Adah Lesslie and Noah Lesslie, and two men working at the Lesslie home, Robert Shook and James Lewis, were fatally shot last week by former NFL player Phillip Adams. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
Ex-Boston officer stayed on force despite abuse allegation
Prosecutors seek 5-year term for ex-leader of neo-Nazi group
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office shows John Cameron Denton, founder and former leader of a neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division. Federal prosecutors in Virginia are seeking a five-year prison sentence for Denton, who pleaded guilty to conspiring with other far-right extremists to threaten dozens of targets, including a predominantly African American church, a sitting U.S. Cabinet member and journalists. U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady is scheduled to sentence Denton on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
Reports: Man kills self after standoff at Honolulu hotel
Members of the Honolulu Police Specialized Services Division respond to a barricade situation with an armed man at the Kahala Hotel in Honolulu on Saturday, April 10, 2021. The armed man barricaded himself inside a hotel room at the resort in Honolulu and fired shots through the door, a police official said. (Cindy Ellen Russell/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP)
Deputy loses eye after shootout outside Salt Lake jail
Nevada GOP censures elections official who defended results
FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2016, file photo, Nevada's Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske speaks during a news conference in Las Vegas. Nevada's Republican Party voted to censure the secretary of state, accusing her of failing to fully investigate allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. She says there was no fraud and that her own party is attacking her for refusing to
Alabama senators want Confederate tax to fund Black history
Man charged with murder in Missouri convenience store attack
Average US price of gas holds steady at $2.94 per gallon
Las Vegas pushes to become first to ban ornamental grass
Sprinklers water grass near a street corner Friday, April 9, 2021, in the Summerlin neighborhood of northwest Las Vegas. A desert city built on a reputation for excess wants to become a model for restraint with a first-in-the-nation policy limiting water use by banning grass that nobody walks on. Las Vegas area water officials are asking the state Legislature to pass a law banning
Some GOP-led states target abortions done through medication
FILE - This Sept. 22, 2010 file photo shows bottles of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2021, about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication - rather than surgery - and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Hit-and-run crash in Florida kills New York federal judge
This photo provided by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office shows Nastasia Snape. A Florida woman who claimed she is Harry Potter fatally struck a federal judge visiting from New York and seriously injured a 6-year-old boy after swerving her car onto a sidewalk, officials said. Nastasia Snape, 23, is charged with vehicular homicide and other felonies for Friday's, April 9, 2021, crash that killed District Judge Sandra Feuerstein, 75, who served in the Eastern District of New York since 2003. The boy, Anthony Ovchinnikov, was taken to the hospital, but his condition Sunday, April 11 could not be determined. (Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Chloe Zhao becomes 1st woman of color to win top DGA honor
FILE - Chloe Zhao poses for a portrait to promote her film
Las Vegas family awarded $29.5M in allergic reaction case
Women fighting fires in Florida: Colleagues' support crucial
In this Sept. 19, 2020, photo provided by Palm Beach Gardens Fire and Rescue, firefighters Lt. Krystyna Krakowski, Lt. Kelsey Krzywada, fire medic Julie Dudley, lieutenant and acting Capt. Monica Marzullo and driver engineer Sandi Ladewskipose at their station in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (Kodi Cabral/Courtesy of Palm Beach Gardens Fire and Rescue via AP)

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