Michael Balsamo | Associated Press
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The U.S. Justice Department has told relatives of Emmett Till that it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager. A person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday about the closure of the investigation.
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President Joe Biden is nominating nine lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, including Dena King in the Western District of North Carolina and Sandra Hairston in the Middle District. Both women would become the first Black women to hold those positions.
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The man who claimed he had a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol last month, prompting evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.