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In this file photo taken Wednesday, June 18, 2014, a group of high school girls work at completing an exercise during a Girls Who Code class at Adobe Systems in San Jose, Calif. Google is partnering with Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization that aims to inspire, educate and equip young women for futures in the computing-related fields. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) **FILE**
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In the wings: Matt Schlapp, who has broad experience and connections in politics, is expected to be chairman of the American Conservative Union. (Gage Skidmore)
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Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who publicly believes in global warming, referenced the scientific consensus in a recent speech at Boston College.
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Jamie Roberts, an assistant basketball coach at Catholic University and former St. Mary's College multi-sport athlete, was killed June 13, 2014 in Kentucky while bicycling across the country in a fundraiser supporting cancer research. (via 4K for Cancer website)
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Richard Burton works with his second-grade class on telling the difference between imagined and real stories at George Buck Elementary School in Indianapolis. Indiana was one of the first states to adopt the Common Core education standards and also the first to abandon the benchmarks. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was upset in the Virginia Republican primary Tuesday, supported the three-pronged approach of traditional public schooling, public charter schooling and vouchers for nonpublic schools. (associated press)
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Jonah Hill, left, and Channing Tatum return as a comic pair of undercover cops, Schmidt and Jenko, posing as college students in "22 Jump Street." (Sony Pictures via Associated Press)