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ORLANDO, Fla. - The wife of Trayvon Martin's shooter was charged with perjury Tuesday, accused of lying when she told a judge that the couple had limited funds during a hearing that resulted in her husband being released on $150,000 bond.

SANFORD, Fla. - The central Florida police chief who was strongly criticized for his agency's initial investigation of Trayvon Martin's slaying was fired Wednesday, city officials said.

Neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman re-enacted the fight he had with Trayvon Martin in police video released Thursday, giving his most detailed account yet of what led him to fatally shoot the unarmed black teenager. Zimmerman claims in the video that Martin said "you're going to die" and reached for Zimmerman's gun just before the shooting.

SANFORD, Fla. - The U.S. neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin will remain in jail after the judge said Friday he would not immediately rule on bond in a case that set off national protests over race and self-defence laws.

Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for the killing of two men during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year and is facing charges of reckless and intentional homicides.

SANFORD, Fla. - Defence attorneys are asking a judge to end the 24-hour GPS monitoring of George Zimmerman while he is out on bond in the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

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SANFORD, Fla. - The attorney for the family of a black teenager fatally shot by a neighbourhood watch captain said Tuesday that the boy was talking to his girlfriend on his cellphone when the confrontation began. She heard an exchange of words, what sounded like a scuffle but not the shooting.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Twentieth Century Fox has pulled early promotional materials for its comedy "Neighborhood Watch" in light of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida.

WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich's White House aspirations have been on life support for weeks, but the struggling Republican haughtily defended his decision to remain in his party's presidential race on Wednesday despite dismal primary results, a serious debt problem and a dramatic cut in staff.

WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich's White House aspirations have been on life support for weeks, but the struggling Republican haughtily defended his decision to remain in his party's presidential race on Wednesday despite dismal primary results, a serious debt problem and a dramatic cut in staff.

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A look at key events in the Trayvon Martin shooting case.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Fox News Channel commentator Geraldo Rivera says he's sorry for suggesting a hoodie worn by unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was as much responsible for his death as the neighbourhood watch captain who shot him.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama spoke in unusually personal terms Friday about the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, a case that has roiled civil rights activists and a suburban Orlando community. "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said, vowing to "get to the bottom of what happened."

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors gave head coach Dwane Casey the toughness he's been looking for and in the process cooled off the red-hot Knicks.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Russell Westbrook scored 45 points, Kevin Durant added 40 points and a season-high 17 rebounds and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a career-high 51 points from Minnesota All-Star Kevin Love to beat the Timberwolves 149-140 in double overtime Friday night.

In the blink of an eye, BLM has gone from social media hashtag to an immensely influential movement and an organization with millions of dollars at its disposal to push messaging around defunding police departments as a way of addressing systemic racism.

The Feb. 23 shooting in coastal Georgia is drawing comparisons to a much darker period of U.S. history — when extrajudicial killings of black people, almost exclusively at the hands of white male vigilantes, inflicted racial terror on African Americans.