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ADDS ID OF WOMAN - Actress Nicolle Rochelle, who appeared on several episodes of "The Cosby Show," is detained as Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Monday, April 9, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. Rochelle of Little Falls, N.J., was charged with disorderly conduct. (AP Photo/Corey Perrine)
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A screenshot for HealthCare.gov during 2018 open enrollment is shown here. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**
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Pills. File photo via Shutterstock.
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"We're taking this action to protect the health and financial security of millions of people in our country, as well as billions of dollars of federal funds that go to our states to make sure that we can afford the health care that our families need," California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said. (Associated Press)
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Monday, April 9, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Corey Perrine)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is joined by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., to discuss the unfinished work of Congress and the struggle for Republican and Democratic budget negotiators to reach a compromise, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Politicians love trying to use the tax code to highlight their goals to voters. This year, it’s a battlefield between Hillary Clinton, who wants to boost levies on the rich to pay for expanding social programs and Donald Trump, who says cutting taxes would gird the economy. The clash has consequences for the rich, poor and those in the middle. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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"Without a Bill of Rights, our nation is not what it is," said South Carolina state Rep. Mike Pitts, the bill's chief sponsor. "I see a lot of stuff where people even talk about totally repealing the Second Amendment, which separates us from the entire rest of the world."
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In this combination photo, Fox News personality Laura Ingraham speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 20, 2016, left, and David Hogg, a student survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks at a rally for common sense gun legislation in Livingston, N.J. on Feb. 25, 2018. Ingraham is expected back at work on Monday, April 9, 2018 following a backlash by advertisers upset over her tweet mocking a the Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, left, and Rich Schultz)
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event in New York, Monday, April 2, 2018. Cuomo was touting the funds in the new state budget to help fix decrepit public housing in New York City. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Screen capture from the U.S. Geological Survey
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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, morning rush hour traffic makes its way along US 101 near downtown Los Angeles. Car insurance for immigrants who lack legal papers has been tough to get, but a growing number of states now issue drivers licenses despite immigration status. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
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Milton A. Williams (left), pastor of Pennsylvania Avenue AME Zion Church in Baltimore, Ruth LaToison Ifill, of AME Zion Church, with Stephen Marencic and Aaron Ward of the District, attended the rally to end racism Wednesday on the Mall. (Associated Press photographs)
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Photos by Julia Airey / The Washington Times Alice Davis, 60 (far left), dances to a gospel rendition of "This Little Light of Mine" with fellow church-member LaNella Smith (center) and North Carolina Wake County District superintendent Randy Innes (back left). The group traveled to the District on a bus from North Carolina to attend the Rally to End Racism together with their United Methodist Church on April 4th, 2018. (Photo by Julia Airey)
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Don Rosenberg, father of Drew Rosenberg who was killed by an illegal immigrant is arrested after disrupting a Senate Judiciary hearing to examine the Administration's immigration enforcement policies, in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
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Don Rosenberg, father of Drew Rosenberg who was killed by an illegal immigrant, is arrested after disrupting a Senate Judiciary hearing to examine the Administration's immigration enforcement policies, in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) ** FILE **
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In this June 25, 2014, photo, a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. The epicenter of the recent surge in illegal immigration is a 5-mile slice of deep South Texas that has become a hot spot for migrants, human smugglers and drug cartels. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **
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Austria Immigration Door Locked Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Pro-life activists converge in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**
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Central American migrants from Honduras sing their national anthem during the annual Migrant Stations of the Cross caravan or "Via crucis," organized by the "Pueblo Sin Fronteras" activist group, as the group makes a few-days stop in Matias Romero, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Monday, April 2, 2018. While a group of about a couple of hundred men in the march broke off and hopped a freight train north on Sunday, the rest seem unlikely to move until Wednesday or Thursday, and are probably going to take buses to the last scheduled stop for the caravan, a migrant rights symposium in central Puebla state. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
