Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: The sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus where U.S. Cyber Command is located in Fort Meade, Md., June 6, 2013. Tensions are soaring over Ukraine with Western officials warning about the danger of Russia launching major cyberattacks against its NATO allies. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) By Frank Bajak ASSOCIATED PRESS  BOSTON…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This undated photo provided by Louisiana National Guard shows Louisiana Army National Guard Warrant Officer Tatiana Julien in front of her National Guard helicopter. The Louisiana Army National Guard has commissioned its first Black female pilot. Warrant Officer Tatiana Julien of New Orleans pilots a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in B Company, 1-244th…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Amir Locke’s father Andre Locke speaks at the press conference, with Amir’s mother Karen Wells, on the left, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Minneapolis. Communities United Against Police Brutality held a press conference at City Hall to ask questions on police action related to the killing of Amir Locke. The Minneapolis mayor imposed…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP) By Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — When Ketanji Brown…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II holds Prince Charles’ hand as she gathers with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and other members of the British royal family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace to greet supporters, following her coronation at Westminster Abbey. London, June. 2, 1953. Princess Anne stands next to Charles and Queen Elizabeth,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, left, attends his sentencing hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, for the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, Jan. 18, 2019. The NAACP is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot Black…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A woman walks outside the Spelman campus Tuesday morning, Feb. 1, 2022 after two historically Black colleges in Georgia received bomb threats, a disturbing trend that many HBCUs across the country have been threatened with in recent weeks. Fort Valley State University and Spelman College were among several HBCUs nationwide that received threats,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Jeff Storms, attorney for George Floyd’s family, makes his way to the Warren E. Burger Federal Building as jury selection begins in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2021. Jury selection began Thursday in the federal trial of three Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing, with the judge stressing repeatedly that…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Members of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, train in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Dozens of civilians have been joining Ukraine’s army reserves in recent weeks amid fears about Russian invasion. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) By Robert Burns and Lorne Cook ASSOCIATED PRESS …

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ABOVE PHOTO: Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, right, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, are sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington….

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