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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 5, 2022 - - Terrell Simon, right, leaves flowers at a makeshift memorial across the street a day after a fiery multi-car crash that left six dead, including a pregnant woman, and injured others in Windsor Hills in Los Angeles on August 5, 2022. Nana Shmuliver, LaVonna Morrow, Pastor Eddie Justice Jones, Jr., Brent Davis and Vera Jones mourn at the memorial. "I drive past here every day," said Simon, "It could have happened to any of us. It's a real tragedy," he said.(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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FILE - Law enforcement personnel escort the Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, center, as he departs court, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in New York. Former President Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief is expected to plead guilty as soon as Thursday, Aug. 18 in a tax evasion case that is the only criminal prosecution to arise from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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LOS ANGELES, December 2, 2019: The Warehouse Worker Resource Center and community members and organizations held a rally outside the Amazon facility in San Bernardino on December 2, 2019. (Allison Zaucha / For The Times)

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FILE - Sacheen Littlefeather appears at the Academy Awards ceremony to announce that Marlon Brando was declining his Oscar as best actor for his role in "The Godfather," on March 27, 1973. The move was meant to protest Hollywood's treatment of American Indians. Nearly 50 years later, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has apologized to Littlefeather for the abuse she endured. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Monday said that it will host Littlefeather, now 75, for an evening of “conversation, healing and celebration” on Sept. 17. (AP Photo, File)

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PARIS, FRANCE -- OCTOBER 15, 2021: Mina Rezaie, 32, evacuated from Afghanistan with a simple ceramic mug, from her business, OCafe Simple.O She is photographed here with the cup, at a park in Paris, France, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. OIn Afghanistan, it is a real struggle to establish yourself, to establish your own business. And the women who had their business in Afghanistan, they struggled a lot. They struggled against family. Because Afghanistsan is a male dominated society. I proved myself. I proved them wrong that yes, women can.O (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

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