Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood are returning to court to be sentenced for their federal hate crime convictions. A U.S. District Court judge in the port city of Brunswick scheduled back-to-back hearings for each defendant Monday. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, face possible life sentences after a jury convicted them in February, concluding they targeted Arbery as he ran through their neighborhood in 2020 because he was Black. The trio's punishments in federal court will be largely symbolic, as the McMichaels and Bryan have already received life sentences in a Georgia state court for Arbery's murder.

Democratic hopefuls in Wisconsin see abortion as the issue that will carry them to election wins in November, but efforts to reach Black voters on the topic are sparse. Several organizing groups said it's a complicated issue in the Black community, with a legacy of views long handed down from the more prominent and conservative denominations in the Black church. Polling data shows that abortion is a slightly more potent issue for white voters in the Democratic coalition than for Black voters. Most of the groups organizing in the Milwaukee area, a critical area for Democrats to win statewide races, are steering away from messaging solely on the issue.

Marcus Eliason, a journalist whose insightful reporting, sparkling prose and skillful editing graced Associated Press news wires for almost a half-century, has died. He was 75. Starting with Israel and the 1967 Six-Day War, he covered some of the most noteworthy news events of the 20th century's final decades. He chronicled apartheid-era South Africa and Afghan battlegrounds, bloody Belfast, the Iron Curtain’s fall, the handover of Hong Kong and countless other datelines and stories. Later, he became an editor of some of the AP's top global journalism and inspired and mentored a generation of international correspondents.

The federal government has filed civil rights charges against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor. She was a Black woman whose fatal shooting in Kentucky helped fuel the racial justice protests that rocked the nation in 2020. Most of the charges stem from the faulty drug warrant used to search her home. The charges include unlawful conspiracy, use of force and obstruction of justice. Only one officer charged Thursday was on the scene the night of the killing. Taylor’s mother said she has waited years for police to be held accountable.