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5 things to know today - that aren't about the virus

Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news:

1. DON SHULA, WINNINGEST COACH IN NFL HISTORY, DIES Don Shula, who won the most games of any NFL coach and led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in league history in 1972, has died at age 90.

2. NEW BOOK AIMS TO PORTRAY THE 'œREAL'ť PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to tell their story in a book penned by sympathetic journalists. The couple recently announced they would no longer cooperate with several British tabloid newspapers.

3. MLK'S TRAFFIC STOP A CATALYST FOR CHANGE Martin Luther King Jr. was pulled over, with a white woman in the car, issued a citation and illegally sentenced to a chain gang. Georgia's segregationist politicians sought to silence King before he could mobilize great masses of people. But, it backfired.

4. EX-GREEN BERET CLAIMS HE LED FOILED VENEZUELA RAID Jordan Goudreau's comments capped a bizarre day that started with reports of a predawn amphibious raid near the South American country's heavily guarded capital aimed at overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

5. LAPD OFFICER CHARGED IN SHOOTING A Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of shooting and wounding a fellow officer while they were off-duty at a Southern California recreation area.

FILE - In this Thursday, March 5, 2020 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive at the annual Endeavour Fund Awards in London. Harper Collins U.K. announced Monday, May 4, 2020 that it will publish 'œFinding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family' in Britain and the Commonwealth on Aug. 11. The book will be published in the U.S. the same day by Dey Street Books. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file) The Associated Press
FILE - In this Oct. 19, 1960 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., right, looks out the window of a police car as he and Spelman College student Agnes Blondean Orbert, arrested with him at Rich's Department Store, are taken to jail, in Atlanta.. Driving the car is Atlanta Police Capt. R.E. Little. Following the publication of "An Appeal for Human Rights" on March 9, 1960, students at Atlanta's historically black colleges waged a nonviolent campaign of boycotts and sit-ins protesting segregation at restaurants, theaters, parks and government buildings. (AP Photo, File) The Associated Press
Security forces guard the shore area and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, May 3, 2020. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said on state television that security forces overcame before dawn Sunday an armed maritime incursion with speedboats from neighboring Colombia in which several attackers were killed and others detained. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) The Associated Press
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