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Seattle City Council City President Bruce Harrell, left, speaks with council member Mike O'Brien before the council voted to approve a tax on large businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks to fight homelessness, Monday, May 14, 2018, in Seattle. The council on Monday unanimously backed a compromise tax plan that will charge large businesses about $275 per full-time worker a year. It's lower than the $500-per-worker tax initially proposed. The tax would begin in 2019 and raise about $48 million a year to pay for affordable housing and homeless services. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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"The Senate is saying loudly and in a bipartisan fashion that the president is dead wrong to back off on ZTE," said Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on "gay Christianity" by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, aerial file photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent looks out along the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border in Rio Grande City, Texas. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday, April 4, 2018, that President Donald Trump and border-state governors are working to immediately deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Illegal Aliens Warning Signs Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Jill Taylor, of Hamilton, Ohio, who lost her father Gary B. Shepherd taking his own life in 2011, steps up to a message board decorated with notes for loved ones during an Out of the Darkness Walk event organized by the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in Sawyer Point park, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, in Cincinnati. Hundreds of supporters gathered to draw attention to and raise funds for the prevention of suicide that ranks as the tenth leading cause of death in the United States overall according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks about the economy during her weekly press conference, June 7, 2018. (Image: Facebook, Nancy Pelosi, live-stream screenshot)
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"There's not incentive for insurance companies in any way to contain their cost increases," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday. He said Obamacare's problem is its design, since taxpayer subsidies chase rising premiums. (Associated Press)
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Texas to meet with families of the Santa Fe school shooting victims, and to attend Republican fundraisers, Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Illustration on ethanol legislation by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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ESPN's Stephen A. Smith talks about President Trump's leverage over the NFL regarding its national anthem protests. (Image: ESPN screenshot)
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Texas to meet with families of the Santa Fe school shooting victims, and to attend Republican fundraisers, Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Illustration on the price of drugs under Obamacare by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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More Americans feel optimistic about their ability "to get a job, work hard and succeed in America today," according to a new survey. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A man enters La Ilusion Supermercado in Carpentersville, Ill., on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. The community, about 40 miles from Chicago, has a large influx of immigrants from Mexico. But activists say attention to immigration reform has faded. They are organizing events to jump-start discussion before the 2008 presidential election. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
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Protesters arrested demonstrating against the detention of prominent immigration activist Ravi Ragbir shout slogans as police prepare to lead them to squad cars, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, in New York. According to his attorney, Ragbir, a citizen of Trinidad, was handcuffed and detained by the federal government during a scheduled immigration check-in in lower Manhattan Thursday. Ragbir has been fighting deportation for years. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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An Oklahoma City activist, speaks on stage to immigration advocates from the American Civil Liberties Union, Union We Dream, MoveOn and others during the announcement of a new campaign targeted at President Trump's immigration policies, in front of the White House in Washington, Sunday, March 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Illustration on the Irish abortion vote by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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A Starbucks employee takes outside seating umbrellas inside a store in Chicago's famed Loop Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in Chicago. Starbucks is closing more than 8,000 U.S. stores for a few hours Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training in the company's latest effort to deal with the fallout over the arrest of two black men at one of its shops in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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The Republican Party released a new ad on May 29, 2018, which lambasted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as an apologist for violent MS-13 members. (Image: Facebook, GOP screenshot)
