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A report by Sen. Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican, said Obamacare exchanges had nearly 6 percent fewer insurers competing on them in 2016. (Associated Press)
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Tom Duerst drives his tractor while planting winter wheat at his farm near Verona, Wisconsin. (Associated Press)
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Americans spent an unprecedented $13.5 billion on plastic surgery in 2015, says the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
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"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."
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"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."
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Raytheon's re-engineered Patriot radar prototype uses two key technologies - active electronically scanned array, which changes the way the radar searches the sky; and gallium nitride circuitry, which uses energy efficiently to amplify the radar's high-power radio frequencies (PRNewsFoto/Raytheon Company)
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The Mosul Dam The Washington Times
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Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks during a campaign stop at the Fuyao Glass America plant, Friday, March 11, 2016, in Moraine, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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National Edition News cover for March 12, 2016 - FDA gives preliminary approval to anti-Zika trial in Florida: FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. A field trial releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida would not harm humans or the environment, according to documents released Friday, March 11, 2016 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency's Center for Veterinary Medicine released a preliminary finding of no significant impact for the trial of a method that aims to reduce populations of the mosquito that spreads dengue, chikungunya and the Zika virus among humans. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
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We the People
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"Nothing will change for the Cuban people," Sen. Marco Rubio said. "Things are worse than they were before this opening. We're getting nothing in return." (Associated Press)
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Critical tea partyers and conservative activists say Gov. John Kasich himself has become the establishment in Ohio. (Associated Press)
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A couple exits the Veterans Affairs facility in El Paso, Texas, on June 9, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo, Thursday, March 10, 2016, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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Hillary Clinton said that she hoped to make incremental progress on a climate change agenda working with a Republican-run U.S. Senate. But she said the real bipartisan progress would come when Democrats win a majority in the upper chamber. (Associated Press)
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There are growing signs that the Republican Party is warming to the idea that Sen. Ted Cruz is the most viable alternative to Donald Trump. (Associated Press)
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Florida's very happening city of Miami has been the scene of intense political activity all week. (Wake Forest University)
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Miami, Florida has been a hotbed of political activity leading up to Democratic and GOP debates, and the primary election. (Image from Wake Forest University)