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Feather Alcott of San Ildefonso Pueblo in N.M., awaits the arrival of first lady Michelle Obama and the start of her high school graduation ceremony at the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, N.M., Thursday, May 26, 2016, The first lady's visit to Santa Fe marks the second of three commencement addresses she is giving this spring. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz)
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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg pauses during his speech during Harvard University commencement exercises, Thursday, May 26, 2016, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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In this May 17, 2016, file photo, a new sticker is placed on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, Baylor head coach Art Briles watches during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Baylor University's board of regents says it will fire Briles and re-assign university President Kenneth Starr in response to questions about its handling of sexual assault complaints against players. The university said in a statement Thursday, May 26, 2016, that it had suspended Briles "with intent to terminate." Starr will leave the position of president on May 31, but the school says he will serve as chancellor. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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FILE - In this April 29, 2016 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama speaks to high school students from across the Washington D.C. area in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, as part of the International Jazz Day celebration. Michelle Obama plans to address Native American high school graduates during a commencement speech that comes as she attempts to spotlight tribal youth in the final months of her husband’s presidency. The first lady’s commencement address Thursday, May 26, 2016, at the Santa Fe Indian School is part of an Obama initiative aimed at removing “barriers to success” for Native American youth, who the White House says make up the nation’s “most vulnerable population.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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The Bethany Community Church in Seattle has been forced to stop giving away free pizza at lunch time, after a union representing the school district's cafeteria workers complained that it hurt business. (KOMO News)
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Former New York Yankee outfielder Bernie Williams graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in mid-May and is now in the next stage of his musical life. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2015, file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to a conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Warren and fellow Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Markey sent a letter Monday, May 24, 2016, to Harvard President Drew Faust, urging Harvard University to let graduate students who work as research and teaching assistants form collective bargaining units. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Austin Petersen is running for president as a pro-life Libertarian. (Austin Petersen 2016)
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A young woman talks on a cellular telephone as she stands on the steps of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity dorm on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., on March 30, 2007. A freshman died after excessive drinking at the fraternity house on the university's campus. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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An Illinois high school is facing backlash after refusing to let Marine Corps Pvt. Megan Howerton walk at her graduation last week because she was wearing her dress blues. The controversy has spurred a wave a backlash against the school and a #LetMeganWalk social media campaign.
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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School May 17 in Seattle. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Alyssa Leader, a recent Harvard graduate, listens while flanked by her attorneys Alex Zalkin, left, and Irwin Zalkin at a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, in Cambridge, Mass., about the filing of a Title IX civil lawsuit on her behalf alleging the university failed to adequately protect her and investigate complaints of sexual assault, harassment and retaliation. Leader says she was sexually assaulted between March 2013 and March 2014 on campus while she was a student at Harvard. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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"I mean, I view myself as a person that, like everyone else is, fighting for survival," Donald Trump said, adding that he believes his hair-trigger reactions are part of why he's come out on top in a field that began with 17 major Republican candidates. (Associated Press)
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Milwaukee’s public schools requested $471,073 to fund "Black Lives Matter"-inspired curriculum. (Milwaukee Public Schools)
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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama's directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district's 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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A new sticker designates a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama’s directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district’s 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
