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Ethan Quinn, 4, watches a YouTube video while eating dinner with help from his mother, I-Ting, in Concord, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. A year before Quinn's son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her husband had the option to enroll him in “transitional kindergarten” — a program offered for free by California elementary schools for some 4-year-olds. Instead, they kept Ethan in a private daycare center in Concord at a cost of $400 a week. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Cloud 9 Cannabis CEO and co-owner Sam Ward Jr. shows a scar on his hand where he was shot during a drug deal gone wrong in 2006, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Arlington, Wash. Cloud 9 is one of the first dispensaries to open under the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board's social equity program, established in efforts to remedy some of the disproportionate effects marijuana prohibition had on communities of color. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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FILE - Brian Steven Smith watches proceedings during the opening day of his double murder trial, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska. Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Smith, a South Africa man convicted of killing two Alaska Native women for allegedly lying on his naturalization application for saying he had neither killed nor hurt anyone. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

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