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In this Friday, June 14, 2019 photo, Chris Parks poses with a portrait of his brother Donovan Corey Parks in Powder Springs, Ga. Marion Wilson Jr. and Robert Earl Butts Jr. were convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the March 1996 killing of 24-year-old Donovan Corey Parks. Butts was executed in May 2018. Wilson, who’s 42, is set for execution Thursday, June 20. (AP Photo/Andrea Smith)

Slain man's brother frustrated by 23-year wait for justiceThe brother of a Georgia murder victim has waited more than two decades for justice to be served

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Boy, 5, dies after being shot and dropped off at hospitalAuthorities say a 5-year-old boy died of a gunshot wound after two adults abandoned him at a hospital in southeast Wisconsin

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Burning River Pepper Jam is displayed on a shelf at the Great Lakes Brewing Company gift shop, Monday, June 17, 2019, in Cleveland. The "burning river" in the jam's name is inspired by the Cuyahoga River’s most famous fire. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

'Burning river' loses sting in Cleveland 50 years after fireFifty years after a fire on a Cleveland river helped spawn the Environmental Protection Agency, artists and entrepreneurs have forged decades of embarrassment into a fiery brand of civic pride

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Police defend arrest of 12-year-old boy in western MichiganPolice in western Michigan are defending their actions in the arrest of a 12-year-old black boy following online criticism about the response of officers

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Trump says he'll talk trade with Xi next week in JapanPresident Donald Trump says he'll hold trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week at a summit of nations in Japan

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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2012 file photo, Robbie Parker, the father of six-year-old Emilie who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, fights back tears as he speaks during a press conference, in Newtown, Conn. Parker spent years trying to ignore the people who would take to the Internet to call him a crisis actor or claim his daughter never existed. He has now changed course, joining the families of other victims in taking legal action against deniers. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Newtown parents score a win in growing fight against hoaxersNewtown parents have scored a win in their growing battle against conspiracy theorists, as the father of a 6-year-old killed at Sandy Hook won a defamation suit against authors who claimed the school shooting never happened

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FILE - In this Thursday, May 30, 2019, file photo, U.S. Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, left, hugs his wife, Andrea Gallagher, after leaving a military courtroom on Naval Base San Diego, in San Diego. Edward Gallagher, who has been charged with allegedly killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care and attempted murder for the shootings of two Iraq civilians in 2017, is scheduled to go on trial Monday, June 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Julie Watson, File)

Jury to be seated in Navy SEAL's California murder trialCombat veterans who lost friends and comrades in battle are being questioned as potential jurors in the war crimes trial of a decorated Navy SEAL

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Trump protesters rally at gay bar blocks from arena speechOpponents of President Donald Trump's re-election announcement in Florida are launching their protests at a gay bar where a mariachi band and a drag queen will perform

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In this Monday, June 17, 2019, photo, Jacky Chan, 23, takes a vaping break from his job at a smoke shop in San Francisco. San Francisco supervisors are considering whether to move the city toward becoming the first in the United States to ban all sales of electronic cigarettes in an effort to crack down on youth vaping. The plan would ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes, as well as prohibit e-cigarette manufacturing on city property. (AP Photo/Samantha Maldonado)

San Francisco weighs 1st US city ban on e-cigarette salesSan Francisco supervisors are considering whether to move the city toward becoming the first in the United States to ban all sales of electronic cigarettes in an effort to crack down on youth vaping

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Heavily armed police officers exit the Costco following a shooting inside the wholesale warehouse in Corona, Calif., Friday, June 14, 2019. A gunman opened fire inside the store during an argument, killing a man, wounding two other people and sparking a stampede of terrified shoppers before he was taken into custody, police said. The man involved in the argument was killed and two other people were wounded, Corona police Lt. Jeff Edwards said. (Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG via AP)

Attorney: Officer attacked without warning in CostcoThe attorney for the off-duty officer who shot and killed a man inside a Southern California Costco last week was attacked without warning as he held his toddler son

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FILE - In this June 12, 2019, file photo, a truck moves around the Oregon state Capitol during a protest against climate bills that truckers say will put them out of business, in Salem, Ore. Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming. (AP Photo/Sarah Zimmerman, File)

Oregon Democrats rally behind cap-and-trade emissions planOregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program

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Shattered glass in the entry doors after shots were fired Monday, June 17, 2019 at the Earle Cabell federal courthouse in Dallas. A masked gunman opened fire Monday at the federal courthouse before being fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with federal officers, witnesses and authorities said. No officers or citizens were injured. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Masked gunman killed in shootout at Dallas courthouseAn Army veteran wearing a mask and carrying more than 150 rounds of ammunition for his high-powered rifle was shot dead after he opened fire outside a federal courthouse in downtown Dallas

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