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A black woman named Yaya M. has launched a crowdfunding campaign online that asks donators to help offset her "lack of white privilege." (GoFundMe.com)

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Immigrants who have been caught crossing the border illegally are housed inside the McAllen Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas where they are processed on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. More than 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the southwestern border since October, more than twice the total this time last year, many through the Rio Grande Valley. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Rick Loomis, Pool)

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Rep. Sean Duffy, Wisconsin Republican, says that Operation Choke Point seems to target business because the Department of Justice suspect they are fraudulent, not because of any actual evidence of wrongdoing. (Associated Press Photographs)

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Bright was the mood of the day at the prison's annual family reunion. Volunteers with the Awana Lifeline ministry wore gray and lime-green T-shirts, and the inmates wore red, blue, yellow and dark green shirts.

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Staff and prisoners credit an emphasis on faith, family and redemption — even for lifers and inmates on death row — that Warden Burl Cain brought to Angola. The inmates were reuniting with their families. Volunteers with the Awana Lifeline ministry wore gray and lime-green T-shirts, and the inmates wore red, blue, yellow and dark green shirts.

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Rep. Tom Graves, Georgia Republican, proposed an amendment as a police rider on a $30.2 billion spending bill for natural resources agencies that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from garnishing wages to collect fines from Americans without a court order. Some Republican senators have demanded the EPA immediately withdraw the rule.

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Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court on June 30, 2014, the day of the Hobby Lobby decision relieving businesses with religious objections of their obligation to pay for women's contraceptives. (Associated Press) **FILE**