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Rodney King is seen on April 30 speaking with fans in Los Angeles before an event promoting his autobiographical book "The Riot Within...My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption."
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, right, speaks to reporters before the public memorial service for Rodney King at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Rodney Glen King, the man who was at the center of a national debate on civil rights after he was brutally beaten by LAPD in 1991 is dead at the age of 47.
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A crowd in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle watches NASA's Super Guppy aircraft approach Boeing Field, carrying a key piece of a space shuttle mockup that will go on display at Seattle's Museum of Flight.
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NASA's Super Guppy and a chase plane fly above the mostly cloudy skies of Seattle.
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After its touchdown at Seattle's Boeing Field, the turboprop-powered Super Guppy taxis over to the Museum of Flight next door.
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The entire front of the Super Guppy swings open to reveal the cargo inside.
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The 65,000-pound Tunner 60K aircraft cargo loader and transporter rolls toward the Super Guppy.
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The cargo compartment for the Full Fuselage Trainer, wrapped in protective plastic, has been taken out of the Super Guppy for a short ride on the Tunner transporter to its new home in the Museum of Flight's Charles Simonyi Space Gallery.
Big changes are in store for Egypt now that Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, once banned in Egypt, has won Egypt's first democratic presidential election. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
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Workers on Feb. 26, 1993, rebuild the parking garage destroyed when a van containing explosives was detonated by terrorists in beneath the World Trade Center complex, resulting in the death of six and injuries of over 1,000 others.
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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
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Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, seen in 1993
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Family members react as the casket of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Steven P. Stevens is transferred at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
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Hailey Nagel waits for the remains return of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Steven P. Stevens.
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Marines salute the hearse carrying the casket of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Steven P. Stevens, who was killed in Afghanistan, at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Mich. on June 29, 2012.
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Authorities say Juan de los Rios made a 15-year-old girl take her clothes off when he saw her talking with a boy inside the back seat of a car.
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In this image taken from AP video, bus monitor Karen Klein speaks during an interview June 21.
The online campaign raising money to send a bullied New York school bus monitor on vacation has surpassed its goal – by more than half a million dollars. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
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Damage in the Mountain Shadow neighborhood, about 72 hours after wildfires swept through, waits to be cleaned in Colorado Springs, Colo. on June 29, 2012.
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A sprinkler waters burnt grass in the Mountain Shadow neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colo. on June 29, 2012.
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Burnt appliances sit abandoned in the Mountain Shadow neighborhood devastated by raging wildfires in Colorado Springs, Colo. On June 29, 2012.
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A home damaged by fire stands in the Mountain Shadow neighborhood in Colorado Springs on June 29, 2012.
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Walking tall: President Barack Obama welcomes Stephanie Decker, her husband Joe Decker, and children Reese and Dominic, to the Oval Office, June 29, 2012.
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David and Tina Long watch "Bully" director Lee Hirsch speak at the National Center for Learning Disabilities' 35th Annual Benefit Dinner at the Mandarin Hotel on April 18 in New York City.
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Former elementary school principal Maria Moultrhop was arrested after the school discovered she set up a fake account, funded by money from students and going on a personal shopping spree.
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Charles Bicht is congratulated by previous winners of the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest in Key West, Fla., on July 24, 2010.
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A car and tow truck collided in Lehigh County, Pa., killing five people. The passenger in the tow truck survived and was taken to the hospital.
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Britain's High Court on Thursday blocked a U.S. bid to extradite Shawn Sullivan to Minnesota, saying the state's restrictive treatment program for sex offenders was too draconian.
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Chimpanzees sit in an enclosure at the Chimp Eden rehabilitation center, near Nelspruit, South Africa in this Feb 2011 photo.
NBC's Meredith Vieira sits down with Charla Nash, who recently underwent a face transplant that's helped her regain the life she had before being brutally attacked by a chimp.