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In just President Trump's first year, district judges issued nationwide injunctions on his travel ban, refugee policy, phaseout of the Obama-era DACA amnesty, efforts to speed up deportations of Iraqis, stripping of federal grants from sanctuary cities, attempts to change Obamacare's contraceptive coverage and moves to reinstate a ban on transgender troops. (Associated Press)
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Sanders was asked about the strength of the U.S. dollar, the recent school shootings and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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California state Senate leader and U.S. Senate candidate Kevin de Leon says he's part of a new crop of progressive leaders fighting for single-payer health care, full protections for illegal immigrants and stiffer efforts to stem climate change.
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Illustration on censorship and social media by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Nick Rondoletto, left, and Doug Thorogood, a couple from San Francisco, wave a rainbow flag and hold a sign against a proposed ban of transgendered people in the military at a protest in the Castro District, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in San Francisco. Demonstrators flocked to a plaza named for San Francisco gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to protest President Donald Trumps abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military. (AP Photo/Olga R. Rodriguez)
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Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. Cosby's retrial will be delayed as his new legal team gets up to speed on the case. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow was killed during the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting, chastised Fox News' Chris Wallace and other media Sunday for spending too much time focusing on gun control instead of trying to come up with solutions to making schools safer. (Fox News)
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DraintheNRA.com is one of several new activist groups which support a "boycott" of the National Rifle Association. Several have websites, too. (DraintheNRA.com)
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This Dec. 13, 2017 photo shows L. Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, during an interview in his office in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday. In this December interview, Cissna said that he hoped to stem the growing backlog in asylum applications to prevent fraud and enable those truly fleeing persecution to settle here. On Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, the agency announced plans to start reviewing newer asylum applications first and pushing those already waiting years toward the back of the line. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Illustration on stopping school shootings by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Illustration on the fits and starts of economic recovery by William Brown/Tribune Content Agency
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In this May 14, 2016, file photo, award recipient Caitlyn Jenner speaks during the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this June 10, 2015 file photo, assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, R-New Hartford, speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, in Albany, N.Y. The Republican congresswoman from upstate New York says "many" people who commit mass murder are Democrats. U.S. Rep. Tenney made the comment Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, on Talk 1300 Radio during a discussion about calls for stricter gun control since last week's deadly Florida high school shooting. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, left, making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cruz is accused of opening fire Wednesday at the school killing more than a dozen people and injuring several. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
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Illustration on accusations of racism at Penn State by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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"MSNBC Live" host Katy Tur hosted Aaron Stark, a Colorado man who says he was "almost a school shooter" in 1996, to respond to the horrific mass school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida, that claimed 17 lives.
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Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway on Monday urged the National Rifle Association to move its upcoming annual convention elsewhere in light of last week's mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida. (WFAA)
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Cherri Elder, the owner of Elder's Antiques on Cherokee Antique Row in St. Louis, said she and others in the area are being harassed and even threatened for supporting law enforcement. (KMOV)
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