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U.S. athlete Carl Lewis raises his arms in victory as he wins the 100-meter final ahead of third-place Emmit King, left, at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in 1984. King, a former University of Alabama track star and Olympian, was killed Sunday in a shootout with another man, authorities say. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

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Actor Jussie Smollett looks back at his mother as they arrive with other family members Monday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse for jury selection at his trial in Chicago. Smollett is accused of lying to police when he reported he was the victim of a racist, anti-gay attack in downtown Chicago nearly three years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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This photo from the Blount County Sheriff's Office in Alabama shows some of the recovered packages discovered in a ravine.

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Negotiators in Vienna resumed talks Monday over reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with the United States taking part at arm’s length as in previous rounds since the Trump administration pulled out of the accord three years ago. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

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Wall Street steadied itself Monday after last week’s stock market slide caused by the newest coronavirus variant, with investors now waiting for more clues about just how much damage it may do to the economy. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, file)

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This photo shows "The Giving Tree," a Christmas tree display made out of cardboard at Asbury Park's Convention Hall that is delighting many in the seaside town but dismaying others who miss the fresh-cut natural tree that is usually on display there during the holidays. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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This photo combination shows Andrea Constand walking to the courtroom during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial on June 6, 2017, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and Cosby arriving for his sexual assault trial on June 16, 2017. Prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision that overturned Cosby’s conviction. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell sits at the defense table during final stages of jury selection Monday in New York. Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were “partners in crime” who made the sexual abuse of teenage girls since at least 1994 seem normal and casual, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the opening of Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

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Cooped-up tourists eager for a taste of Florida's sandy beaches, swaying palm trees and warmer climates are visiting the Sunshine State in droves, topping pre-pandemic levels in recent months. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

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In this Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, pedestrians pass a makeshift memorial for the slain and injured victims of a mass shooting that occurred in the Oregon District in Dayton, Ohio. The man who gunned down nine people in Dayton two years ago had fantasized about mass shootings, serial killings and murder-suicide for at least a decade before carrying out the Aug. 4, 2019, attack, the FBI said Monday as it announced the conclusion of its investigation. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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U.S. athlete Carl Lewis raises his arms in victory as he wins the 100-meter final ahead of third-place Emmit King, left, at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in 1984. King, a former University of Alabama track star and Olympian, was killed Sunday in a shootout with another man, authorities say. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

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This photo from the Blount County Sheriff's Office in Alabama shows some of the recovered packages discovered in a ravine.

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Cooped-up tourists eager for a taste of Florida's sandy beaches, swaying palm trees and warmer climates are visiting the Sunshine State in droves, topping pre-pandemic levels in recent months. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

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Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either reaffirm the constitutional right to an abortion or wipe it away altogether. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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