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Girl died during confrontation because of a heart problem  

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In this photo taken Thursday, May 12, 2016, signage is seen outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C. North Carolina is in a legal battle over a state law that requires transgender people to use the public restroom matching the sex on their birth certificate. The ADA-compliant bathroom signs were designed by artist Peregrine Honig. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) 

Politicians in Texas, Arkansas and elsewhere have vowed to defy the Obama administration guidance on transgender bathroom usage  

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Dr. Randal Pinkett, the first African American winner of The Apprentice, has stepped up to voice his opposition to a Trump presidency. 

First African American winner of the show says Trump is 'dangerous for the world'

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In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. A federal judge has ruled that the Obama administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the president's health care law. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) 

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer sides with House Republicans against health care law 

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Judy Scott, the mother of Walter Scott who was shot and killed while fleeing a traffic stop in April of 2015, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging white former police officer Michael Slager with three federal counts in the death of Scott. Slager already faces a murder charge in state court. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith) 

Michael Slager, 34, is charged in connection with shooting of Walter Scott  

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rom left, Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero, and attorney Jason Silverstein, walk to Courthouse East before hearing on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 in Baltimore. A judge will rule on several motions ahead of the trial for Nero, one of the police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. Nero faces assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. Gray died April 19, 2015, a week after suffering a critical spinal injury in the back of a police van. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun via AP)  

Officer Edward Nero, charged in the Freddie Gray case, chose Tuesday to stand trial before a judge rather than a jury  

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Photos: the president was awarded an honorary degree by Vernon Jordan    

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Video: watch bus driver's son who rose to be London's first Muslim mayor                     

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Community activist Margaret Prescod, from left, Porter Alexander Jr. and his wife Mary, in red, whose daughter Alicia, 18, was shot and strangled, meet reporters in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Lonnie Franklin Jr., a former Los Angeles trash collector, was convicted Thursday of 10 counts of murder in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings, including Alicia, that targeted poor, young black women over two decades. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) 

A former Los Angeles trash collector was convicted Thursday of 10 counts of murder in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings  

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In this April 21, 2016, photo, Candelario Jimon Alonzo, 16, stands in the yard of his uncle's home in Memphis, Tenn. Local school officials have kept Jimon out of the classroom since he tried to enroll in January. Attorneys say Jimon and at least a dozen other Central American unaccompanied youths have been blocked from going to high school in Memphis because officials said the teens lacked transcripts or were too old to graduate on time. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht) 

AP investigation finds local officials have kept Central American youth out of public schools in multiple jurisdictions

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