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Violent Eruptions in Azerbaijan Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris has provoked the right wing but has little incentive to heed calls for her resignation. (Associated Press)
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House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Robert Goodlatte of Virginia, approved the Email Privacy Act, would raise the legal hurdle for police investigators seeking access to email users' data. (Associated Presss)
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Washington Capitals' Braden Holtby in action during an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Devil's Ballot Box Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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This undated photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections, shows death row inmate Kenneth Fults. Georgia is preparing to execute Fults who shot a woman to death during a burglary in 1996 as his lawyers ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider arguments that a juror who imposed the sentence was motivated by racial bias. Kenneth Fults was scheduled to die by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Jackson. (Georgia Department of Corrections via AP)
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O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark (left) and crime author T. Jefferson Parker at the panel "Crime Fiction: The Long Arm of the Law" at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. (Ed Rampell)
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Video of a San Antonio school police officer slamming a 12-year-old girl to the pavement on March 29 went viral and ultimately cost the officer his job.
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Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was imprisoned for over a year in Mexico, was arrested in Indiana for drug possession. (Image: Dearborn County Sheriff's Office).
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Sacramento Kings guard Seth Curry (30) looks to pass as Phoenix Suns guard Ronnie Price defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Monday, April 11, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Judge Merrick Garland is scheduled to have breakfast Tuesday with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, who has said he won't hold hearings on the nominee. (Associated Press)
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Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman (sheriffbateman.com)
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the Senate Judiciary Committee that her department has discussed pursuing civil charges against the "climate denial scheme," as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, put it. (Associated Press)
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This Sunday, April 10, 2016, photo provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office shows Cardell Hayes. Police say Hayes has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith, who was shot and killed Saturday night. (Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 5, 2016 file photo, former Vanderbilt football player Cory Batey sits during a break on day two of his trial in Judge Monte Watkins' courtroom in the A.A. Birch building in Nashville, Tenn. The former Vanderbilt football player has been found guilty on Friday, April 8, of raping an unconscious student in a dorm . It took less than three hours for the jury of nine men and three women to find Batey guilty of aggravated rape, two counts of attempted aggravated rape, facilitation of aggravated rape and three counts of aggravated sexual battery. (Samuel M. Simpkins/The Tennessean via AP, File) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES
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In this Nov. 17, 2015, file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during an event at the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Va. (Mark Gormus/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
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Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Legal Director Ken Falk, left, and the organization’s president Betty Cockrum talk to reporters, Thursday, April 7, 2016, in the Planned Parenthood office in downtown Indianapolis. The organization filed a lawsuit against Indiana over a controversial abortion law recently signed by Gov. Mike Pence. (AP Photo/Aric Chokey) ** FILE **
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Malaysia's Penal Code 187 — which punishes homosexual conduct with whippings and up to 20 years in prison — did not stop PayPal from opening a global operations center there in 2011, which the company estimated would employ 500 workers by 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
