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Payton Gendron talks with his attorney during his arraignment in Buffalo City Court, Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Gendron was arraigned on first-degree murder charges and ordered detained without bail. Police officials said the 18-year-old was wearing body armor and military-style clothing when he pulled up and opened fire at people at a Tops Friendly Market. (Mark Mulville/The Buffalo News via AP) NYBUE107 NYBUE107

Buffalo gunman’s racist manifesto outlined plan to kill Black people

The 18-year-old who police say shot 13 people at a Buffalo store had posted a hate-filled manifesto that included an explanation of his motives, according to a federal law enforcement official.

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FILE – This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service and Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office in April 2022 shows inmate Casey White, left, and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White. The former Alabama jail official on the run with the murder suspect she was accused of helping escape shot and killed herself Monday, May 9, as authorities caught up with the pair after more than a week of searching, officials said. The man she fled with surrendered. (U.S. Marshals Service, Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File) NY550 NY550
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A jailer ran off with a murder suspect. Her death deepened the mystery.

On July 11, 2019, this great white shark was seen in False Bay, South Africa. More recently, another great white has been tracked along the U.S. Atlantic coast. (Imago/Zuma Press/TNS) * North and South America Rights Only * 47614347W 47614347W
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1,000-pound shark is making a big splash along East Coast

Lights illuminate the Christmas market in Strasbourg, eastern France, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. France has launched a plan to give COVID-19 booster shots to all adults, as it opted against a further lockdown or curfew to help combat a worrying uptick in infections in the country at Christmas season. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias) MEU108
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A diver removes a sunken tree from the wreck of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, near Mobile, Ala., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. A crew spent days assessing remains of the ship, which was scuttled after arriving on the Gulf Coast more than 160 years ago. (AP Photo/Daniel Fiore, Alabama Historical Commission) ALDF101 ALDF101
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Alabama shipwreck holds key for kin of enslaved Africans VIEW

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Community members, religious leaders and activists march through a neighborhood on Sunday near the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., where 10 people were killed a day earlier, May 15, 2022. Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre, has been embraced by some right-wing politicians and commentators. (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times) XNYT155 XNYT155

EXPLAINER: White ‘replacement theory’ fuels racist attacks

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FILE – Traffic flows along Interstate 90 highway as a Metra suburban commuter train moves along an elevated track in Chicago on March 31, 2021. With upcoming data showing traffic deaths soaring, the Biden administration is steering $5 billion in federal aid to cities and localities to address the growing crisis by slowing down cars, carving out bike paths and wider sidewalks, and nudging commuters to public transit. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar, File) NYCD201 NYCD201

Buttigieg sends $5B to cities for safety as road deaths soar

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FILE – The oldest of Moscow’s McDonald’s outlets, which was opened on Jan. 31, 1990, is closed on Aug. 21, 2014. McDonald’s says it’s started the process of selling its Russian business, which includes 850 restaurants that employ 62,000 people. The fast food giant pointed to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, saying holding on to its business in Russia “is no longer tenable, nor is it consistent with McDonald’s values.” The Chicago-based company had temporarily closed its stores in Russia but was still paying employees. (AP Photo/FILE) ALP101 ALP101

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Infant formula is stacked on a table during a baby formula drive to help with the shortage Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Houston. Parents seeking baby formula are running into bare supermarket and pharmacy shelves in part because of ongoing supply disruptions and a recent safety recall. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) TXDP105 TXDP105

US reaches deal to reopen shuttered baby formula plant

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University of Michigan civil and environmental engineering professor Krista Wigginton applies human urine derived fertilizer to beds of peonies at Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor on Monday, May 9, 2022. The “pee-cycling” effort is part of University of Michigan research that promotes human urine-based fertilizer as beneficial to the plants and to the environment. (Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering via AP) CER503 CER503

Michigan profs push ‘pee for peonies’ urine diversion plan