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Indian police officials detain a student activist Amulya, second left, after she raised pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens India's secular identity in Bangalore, India, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. The new citizenship law fast-tracks naturalization for non-Muslim migrants from neighboring Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who are living in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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An Indian activist holds a placard during a protest against the visit of U.S. President Donald Trump, in Gauhati, India, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis Hindu nationalist government is pulling out all the stops, at an expense of more than $14 million, to woo the president and first lady Melania Trump. But experts have said that very little of substance will be achieved for either side beyond the pageantry and symbolism. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

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President Trump has some strong support. A poll finds that devout Catholics take his side, including devout Hispanic Catholics. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement officer makes an arrest. (Associated Press file photo)

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“The goal is to make sure that people who are granted long-term status, legal permanent residence status, can stand on their own two feet. And get back to that American tradition that has been in law for over 140 years," Acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli said. (Associated Press photograph)

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Vicktoryia Seliuzhytskaya, looks down as her daughter Magdlene, 2, eats a snack during a rally to protest proposed changes to sex education guidance for teachers, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. The California State Board of Education is set to vote Wednesday on new guidance for teaching sex education in public schools. The guidance is not mandatory but it gives teachers ideas about how to teach a wide range of health topic including speaking to children about gender identity. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) **FILE**

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"We are going to defeat the radical socialists Democrats. We are going to win Arizona in a landslide," President Trump said in a rally in Phoenix. (Associated Press)

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Now that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has made three new appointments to the state's Supreme Court, lawmakers are trying again to pass legislation for a 72-hour abortion waiting period. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Illustration on veterans and suicide by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Screen capture from an anti-Joe Biden campaign ad by the pro-Trump group Committee to Defend the President. This ad, airing in Nevada in February ahead of the Democratic caucuses there, seeks to put the former vice president on the defensive among Spanish-speaking voters for the Obama/Biden administration's handling of immigration, particularly as regarded the detention of underage illegal immigrants. (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvl-Ej7JKIA)

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Illustration on the U.N. Human Rights Council by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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In 2004, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry was determined to connect with the NASCAR demographic that he went goose hunting. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Illustration on Medicare by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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The Kingdom of Jesus Christ church case is the latest immigration fraud to involve bogus visa requests, sham marriages and people brought to the U.S. for forced labor. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on post birth abortion criteria by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Sen. Bernard Sanders talks about his political campaign and the "socialist" label, Feb. 14, 2020. (Image: CBS This Morning video screenshot)

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, inmates walk through the exercise yard at California State Prison Sacramento, near Folsom, Calif. California arrest rates have dropped nearly 60 percent since 1989, yet blacks are three times more likely to be arrested than whites, according to a report released by the Public Institute of California, Monday Dec. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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The University of Virginia has specified that its new diversity-focused centers are open to everyone after a now-viral video showed a black woman complaining about "too many white people" being in the Multicultural Student Center. (@YAF Twitter screengrab)

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In this Feb. 11, 2017, file photo, pro-choice counterprotesters hold signs supporting a woman's right to choose abortion, as nearby anti-abortion activists held a rally in front of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in Denver. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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Illustration on domestic spying by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency