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Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in George Floyd's killing
Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin’s trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin's trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
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Rainbow Child Care on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in Bellevue. Child care programs are struggling to provide and survive during the pandemic. 213458
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Pharmacist Ahmed Ali, owner of the Othello Station Pharmacy and executive director of the Somali Health Board, talks with Abdihalin Mahamud before his COVID-19 vaccination in Rainier Valley Wednesday, March 10, 2020. “I’m so happy,” says Mahamud, who has been working during the pandemic as an essential worker. 216616
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Wed. March 31, 2021 Seattle City Light crew chiefs have requested traffic support by uniformed Seattle Police Officers due to speeding concerns and the roadway configuration (nearby curves and hills). at this construction site off Marine View Dr. S. W. 216762
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FILE – In this July 9, 2014 file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. The U.S. Department of Energy has confirmed that two underground structures at the decommissioned Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state have been stabilized after they were deemed at risk of collapsing and spreading radioactive contamination into the air. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) FX204 FX204
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FILE – In this Feb. 6, 2021, file photo, a woman walks past a “Now Hiring” sign displayed at a CD One Price Cleaners in Schaumburg, Ill. U.S. employers added a surprisingly robust 379,000 jobs in February in a sign the economy is strengthening as virus cases drop, vaccinations ramp up, Americans spend more and states ease business restrictions. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) NYAG301
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An alert from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is photographed on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited widely used networking devices to spy for months on dozens of high-value government, defense industry and financial sector targets in the U.S. and Europe, according to FireEye, a prominent cybersecurity firm. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) MDJE101 MDJE101

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House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., presides over a markup of pending bills, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Yesterday, the judge overseeing the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd says recent comments by Rep. Waters are “abhorrent” and says they could lead to a verdict being appealed and overturned. Rep. Waters had joined protesters on Saturday and called for protests to escalate if Derek Chauvin was not found guilty on murder charges. Chauvin’s defense attorney had motioned for a mistrial in light of Waters’ comments. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) DCSA106 DCSA106
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FILE – In this July 9, 2014 file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. The U.S. Department of Energy has confirmed that two underground structures at the decommissioned Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state have been stabilized after they were deemed at risk of collapsing and spreading radioactive contamination into the air. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) FX204 FX204

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Lisa Robinson of Washington, reacts on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Washington, as the guilty verdict in Minneapolis, in the murder trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was announced. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) DCAB306 DCAB306

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Takuji Yamashita earned his law degree from the University of Washington in 1902. He was awarded U.S. citizenship that year, and then had it stripped away by the Washington Supreme Court because of his Japanese birth. The ruling also denied him admittance to the bar, so Yamashita went into business and farming. He would later join a U.S. Supreme Court appeal to try to reverse the ban on citizenship for Asian immigrants. Credit: UW Magazine / Courtesy Imaizumi and Yamashita families

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At RoozenGaarde Display Gardens, Mount Vernon, ackrylic artist Kylie Fair Anderson, from Anacortes, has her easel posted at the edge of the 25-acre Tulip field. Mid April is the best time to view the Tulips. The Tulip farm is open seven days a week, 8am to 7pm. Admission is $15.00 per person, children 12 and under are free. LO LO LO 216934
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Emily Yang, left, and Leanne Xu, both 4, play in the sand and water during a spell of exceptionally warm weather at Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland Sunday April 18, 2021. 216931
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A Camellia’s prominent pollen-producing stamens venture out into the air at the Seattle Japanese Garden, one of countless extraordinary scenes often no bigger than a coin, as Spring unfolds around Seattle and viewed using a close-up lens Sunday, April 4, 2021. 216811
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Nikita Ares CQ, a Seattle-based painter, works Tuesday, March 30, 2021 to install her first exhibition at the newly-opened Museum of Museums CQ on First Hill. 216766
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