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LOS ANGELES — Three members of a now-defunct white supremacist group that was based in Southern California have been sentenced to prison for their roles in provoking violence at a deadly far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.

Benjamin Daley, a founder of the now-defunct Rise Above Movement, was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison. Thomas Gillen was sentenced to 33 months, and Michael Miselis, a member who worked as an aerospace engineer for Northrop Grumman, was sentenced to 27 months. A fourth defendant, Cole White, will be sentenced later.

All four previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to riot.

“These defendants, motivated by hateful ideology, incited and committed acts of violence in Charlottesville, as well at other purported political rallies in California,” Thomas Cullen, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, said in a statement.

Some of the deadliest cancers — such as colorectal, ovarian and lung cancers — receive the lowest amounts of nonprofit funding, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.Researchers found that breast cancer, leukemia, pediatric cancers and lymphoma were the best funded, in terms of annual revenue generated by nonprofit organizations dedicated to cancer awareness, support and research. Meanwhile, colorectal, pancreatic, ovarian, cervical, endometrial, brain and lung cancer were all poorly funded, considering how frequently they occur and/or how many people they kill.The study’s authors found little connection between how common a cancer is and how much nonprofit funding is dedicated to it. They found no connection between the number of deaths a cancer causes and its funding levels.

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