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Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river

By JASON DEAREN - Associated Press
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In 2015, three Ku Klux Klan members hatched a plot to murder a Black man who had been recently released from a state prison. But the FBI eventually got wind of the scheme. A confidential informant had infiltrated the group, and his recordings provide a rare, detailed look at the inner workings of a modern klan cell and a domestic terrorism probe. The Associated Press has reconstructed the story of the failed murder plot by klansmen who also worked as Florida prison guards using one and a half hours of the FBI informant’s secret recordings, thousands of pages of public records, field reporting and interviews.

The Latest: Chinese city lists more cases in local outbreak

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BEIJING — The major eastern Chinese city of Nanjing recorded another 31 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, as authorities announced more than 1.5 billion doses of vaccine have been administered around the country. The new cases bring Nanjing’s total to more than 106 over recent days. The virus circulating in the city has been identified as the delta variant,…