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Illustration on attacks on Brett Kavanaugh and the changing sexual culture by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Only 14 percent of U.S. voters think President Trump is politically correct says a new Rasmussen reports survey. (AP Photo)
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Hillary Clinton stressed the importance of due process after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow compared the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the multiple allegations former President Bill Clinton faced while in office. (MSNBC)
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In this photo taken July 7, 2015, immigrants from El Salvador who entered the country illegally stand in line at a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. The Obama administration will soon expand efforts to help Central American families and children legally immigrate to the U.S. amid another surge of migrants caught crossing the border illegally. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Activists of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, fix a poster reading ' Federal Penitentiary service = GULAG', on the wall of the Federal Penitentiary building in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Pussy Riot are protesting against alleged torture in Russian prisons. (AP Photo/ Alexander Sofeev)
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, responds to reporters' questions on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid scrutiny of a woman's claim he sexually assaulted her at a party when they were in high school, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**
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Cranston, R.I., Mayor Allan Fung celebrates victory over R.I. House Minority Leader Patricia Morgan, in the Republican gubernatorial primary, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Cranston, R.I. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Illustration on attempts to bribe Senator Susan Collins by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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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.
