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Laura Janeth Garza's conviction Thursday comes more than a year after Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office helped prosecute another Mexican national also facing deportation for illegal voting. (Associated Press)
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A teacher at McNeil High School near Austin has been placed on paid leave after being accused of bullying a student because of his support for President Trump. (KVUE)
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Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg who was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., left, attempts to shake hands with President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, right, as he leaves for a lunch break while appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, to begin his confirmation to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh did not shake his hand. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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A massive new IPSOS poll surveyed people in 31 nations to reveal some surprising loneliness. (Courtesy of NASA)
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Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity interviews Roseanne Barr during a taping of his show, Thursday, July 26, 2018, in New York. Barr will appear on the Fox News show "Hannity" on Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT for the first time since she was fired from ABC and her namesake show was canceled. ABC canceled its successful reboot of "Roseanne" in May following the star's racist tweet likening former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a "Planet of the Apes" actor. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Staff and day program participants from Pittsburgh Mercy Intellectual Disabilities Services place flags on the graves of veterans at the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, May 23, 2018, for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid, the drug has been connected to nearly 30,000 overdose deaths in 2017.
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"This will be something my colleagues will be happy to vote on because fentanyl is in every state now," said Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio Republican. "And it is the No. 1 killer, if you look at statistics," he said. Mr. Portman's STOP Act is aimed at curbing the opioid crisis. (Associated Press photographs)
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The Community of Hope Conway Health and Resource Center in southeast Washington D.C. provides a number of medical and social services for one of the District's most neglected communities. The health center provides pre- and post-natal care in a neighborhood with no active maternity wards.
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The Community of Hope Conway Health and Resource Center in southeast D.C. boasts photos and paintings by local artists reflecting the community. The health center provides pre- and post-natal care in a neighborhood with no active maternity wards. Inset: : Dr. Carla Henke is the Chief Medical Officer of Community of Hope's Conway Health and Resource Center in southeast D.C. (Courtesy Community of Hope) (Laura Kelly) (Photographs by Laura Kelly/the Washington times)
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Women quickly responded to Rosie the Riveter, who convinced them that they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce. Some claim that she forever opened the work force for women, but others dispute that point, noting that many women were discharged after the war and their jobs were given to returning servicemen. These critics claim that when peace returned, few women returned to their wartime positions and instead resumed domestic vocations or transferred into sex-typed occupations such as clerical and service work.
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Nike sparked fierce backlash after its new ad campaign starring Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who led protests against racial injustice and police brutality by taking to one knee during the national anthem. Some football fans and President Donald Trump have railed against the protests.
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Ford "Tied Up" depicting women forcibly taken in the trunk of the car. The man in the front is supposed to be former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a man haunted by so many scandals. The Ford Figo was marketed to India, which was battling a wave of high-profile sexual assaults in 2013 when the ad was released.
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Anti-independence supporters take part during a protest against Catalan secession in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. A few thousand Spaniards are marching in Barcelona in favor of national unity and against the separatist movement in northeastern Catalonia. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, steward of the GOP tax bill, flanked by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., right, speaks after passing the Republican tax reform bill in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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David Hogg, center, a survivor of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, walks in a planned 50-mile march, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in Worcester, Mass. The march, held to call for gun law reforms, began Thursday, in Worcester, and is scheduled to end Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, in Springfield, Mass., at the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Journalism Problem Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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A protester against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is removed from his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Members of the Muslim Jewish Advisory Council are welcomed to the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. The national Muslim-Jewish alliance formed to fight hate crimes and forge better ties between them is branching out to build on its mission. (AP Photo/Jeff Karoub)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 15, 2018, file photo, U.S. Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., asks a question of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as she testifies to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Carper is defending his voting record during three terms in the Senate against challenger Kerri Lynn Harris, a political newcomer and progressive community activist waging a grassroots campaign to try to unseat him. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
