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In this March 4, 2014 photo, Illinois state Sen. Julie Morrison, D-Deerfield, talks with lawmakers on the Senate floor in Springfield, Ill. Morrison, along with state Rep. Greg Harris, say that the recent resignation of Arthur Bishop, the state’s child-welfare chief, compounded by anticipated budget cuts spell out a “horrendous challenge” ahead for the already troubled Department of Children and Family Services. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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In this March 3, 2014 photo sows at Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind., are kept in large group pens with computer-controlled feeding systems. Animal rights activists have been pushing hog farmers to move pregnant pigs into group pens from individual gestation stalls often too narrow for the animals to turn around. (AP Photo/M.L.Johnson)
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Demonstrators hold Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags during a protest in support of Crimean Tatars in Kiev's Independence Square, Ukraine, Saturday, March 8, 2014. As Crimea's parliament proceeds with plans for a referendum on the peninsula's future, the area's largest ethnic minority, the Tatars, feel increasingly threatened. (AP Photo/David Azia)
