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Initiative 77 would have eventually done away with D.C.'s two-tiered wage system and put tipped workers in the District on track to getting standard minimum wage by 2026. (Thinkstock)

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FILE - Liberty University's football stadium is empty as students were welcomed back to the university's campus, March 24, 2020, in Lynchburg, Va. A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit twelve women brought last summer against Liberty University, according to court documents filed, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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Authorities recovered five pit-bull-type dogs from a residence in Arnold, Maryland, on Sept. 6, 2023. (via court documents)

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FILE - In this image taken from a Windsor, Va., Police video, a police officer uses a spray agent on Caron Nazario, an Army lieutenant who is Black and Latino, on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. The traffic stop from December 2020 was captured on video and viewed by millions of people after it became public in April 2021. Nazario can proceed to trial with claims in a lawsuit of false imprisonment, assault and battery under state law, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (Windsor Police via AP, File)

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