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Comedian George Lopez told his 1.2 million fans on Instagram that President Trump has an "anchor baby" problem that should be looked at by immigration officials. Mr. Trump, however, has not had children with illegal immigrants. (Image: Instagram, George Lopez)
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Tayhlor Coleman, the DCCC’s first ever Director of the Cycle of Engagement, deleted thousands of tweets after a history of anti-LGBT rhetoric was highlighted by The Washington Free Beacon. (Image: Twitter, Tayhlor Coleman)
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Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton got hitched in 2000 after a whirlwind courtship. The marriage lasted for only three years.
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Tayhlor Coleman, the DCCC’s first ever Director of the Cycle of Engagement, deleted numerous anti-LGBT tweets after being promoted to the position. (Image: Twitter, Tayhlor Coleman)
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San Francisco's Washington High School will send anywhere from $375,000 to $825,000 to mollify citizens who are upset over a George Washington mural. Some locals say the mural is "racist." (Image: Fox 2, KTVU video screenshot)
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The U.S. is ranked fourth on a list of the most generous nations in a 2018 survey by the Charities Aid Foundation.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)
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Actress Whoopi Goldberg defended former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on "The View." She said Mr. Biden's longtime association with former President Barack Obama demonstrated that Mr. Biden wasn't a racist. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **
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An agent from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency keeps watch at the side of a house while other agents from ICE are inside in search of a suspect during a sweep to capture illegal aliens with a criminal record in the Boston area, Tuesday, June 13, 2006, in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. More than 2,100 illegal immigrants have been arrested since the nationwide raid began May 26. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Bloomfield High School transgender athletes Terry Miller (second from left) and Andraya Yearwood (left) are identifield in a complaint with the Department of Education by three Connecticut girls who say their Title IX rights of equal opportunity are violated. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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"Slavery is the original sin. Slavery has never received an apology," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat (right). She is sponsoring House Resolution 40, the reparations-study legislation. (Associated Press photographs)
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Joy Behar of ABC's "The View" wonders if President Trump and his supporters mutually hate "black people" and "immigrants" during a heated segment, June 19, 2019. (Image: ABC, "The View" screenshot)
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47. New Hampshire, gun ownership rate: 14.4 percent 46. Connecticut, gun ownership rate: 16.6 percent Gun owners rally to promote the right to bear arms in front of the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. Thursday Jan. 31, 2013. Speakers criticized Democrats in Washington for favoring new gun control laws following the Connecticut school shooting that left 26 dead last month. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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21. Colorado, gun ownership rate: 34.3 percent 20. Wisconsin, gun ownership rate: 34.7 percent Gun safety and suicide prevention brochures are on display next to guns for sale at a local retail gun store in Montrose Colo. The Democrat-controlled Colorado Legislature sent a "red flag" bill Monday, April 1, 2019, to the governor that calls for taking firearms from people who police say pose a threat to themselves or others. Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, has pledged to sign the measure that would place the state among 13 others that have passed such legislation. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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41. Massachusetts (tie), gun ownership rate: 22.6 percent 40. Maine (tie), gun ownership rate: 22.6 percent Joe Dobbins of Hartford, Maine, wears a cut-out of an AR-10 tactical rifle while attending a gun rights rally, Saturday, April 14, 2018, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Gun rights supporters rallied across the United States to counter a recent wave of student-led protests against gun violence. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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From left, transgender military members Navy Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, Army Capt. Alivia Stehlik, Army Capt. Jennifer Peace and Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King, listen to an emotional committee member Rep. Debra Haaland, D-N.M. relate to the witnesses about her daughter who is gay during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. This is the first ever hearing that transgender military members openly testified in Congress. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Health care specialists are warning parents of the risks of exposing their children to measles at summer camps. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 1,044 measles infections in 28 states as of last week, the most since 1992. FILE — In this March 27, 2019 file photo, a woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., north of New York City. On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, federal health officials updated the U.S. measles case count, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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This Saturday, April 15, 2017, photograph shows the entrance to the GEO Group's immigrant detention facility in Aurora, Colo. People once held in a privately run Colorado immigration detention center are challenging the system used to keep it clean and maintained, arguing it borders on slavery. They have won the right to sue GEO Group on behalf of an estimated 60,000 people held at its detention center near Denver over a decade. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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In this Nov. 25, 2018, file photo, a migrant woman helps carry a handmade U.S. flag up the riverbank at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, as a group of migrants tries to reach the U.S. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
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Tupac Shakur (June 16, 1971 September 13, 1996) was a rapper and actor. He is considered by many one of the greatest and most important rappers of all time. Much of Shakur's work has been noted for addressing contemporary social issues that plagued inner cities, and he is considered a symbol of resistance and activism against inequality. On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur was in Las Vegas to celebrate his business partner Tracy Danielle Robinson's birthday and attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Suge Knight at the MGM Grand. After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates spotted Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, an alleged Crips gang member from Compton, California, in the MGM Grand lobby. Earlier that year, Anderson and a group of Crips had robbed a member of Death Row's entourage in a Foot Locker store. Knight's associate told Shakur, who attacked Anderson, assisted by his and Knight's entourage. The fight was captured on the hotel's video surveillance. After the brawl, Shakur went with Knight to Death Rowowned Club 662. Shakur rode in Knight's 1996 black BMW 750iL sedan as part of a larger convoy. At 11:15 p.m. (PDT), when they were at a stop light, a white, four-door, late-model Cadillac with unknown occupants pulled up to the right side of Shakur's sedan. Someone inside rapidly fired gunshots at Shakur. He was hit four times, twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the thigh. One of the bullets went into Shakur's right lung. Knight was hit in the head by fragmentation. At the hospital, Shakur was heavily sedated, placed on life-support machines, and ultimately was put under a barbiturate-induced coma to keep him in the bed. While in the intensive-care unit, on the afternoon of September 13, 1996, Shakur died from internal bleeding. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m.. The offici
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Copies of President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 federal budget are staged for display by Eric Euland, Republican staff director for Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**
