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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Patricia Cummings, a 7th-grade teacher at Middle School 118 in the Bronx, is accused of singling out three black students in her class and making them lie on the floor as part of a U.S. history lesson on slavery. (NBC New York)
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People march in support of female empowerment and women's rights Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, in Portland, Ore. Participants in the #MeToo March gathered at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Associated Press photo
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Mayor Muriel Bowser (center), a Democrat unveils her "Fair Shot" program to guide more African American residents and businesses into the middle class during an event at Howard Theatre in Shaw on February 1st, 2018. The collection of D.C. governments resources is also a jump start to her re-election bid for the mayor's office. (Julia Airey / The Washington Times)
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Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha rejected human rights groups’ criticism and refused to commit to holding national elections this year as he originally promised. (Associated Press/File)
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Rep. Maxine Waters' rebuttal to President Trump's first State of the Union address called the president a "terrible role model" who deserves a parental advisory every time he appears on television. (BET)
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters as he leaves the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is moderating bipartisan negotiations on immigration, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. President Donald Trump has given Congress until March to come up with a plan to protect the nearly 700,000 young people who had been protected from deportation and given the right to work legally in the country under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Trump announced he was ending DACA last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Mayor Muriel Bowser (center), a Democrat, signs a bill written by D.C. council member Charles Allen (left), a Democrat representing Ward 6, preventing insurance companies from charging more for women's health services like cancer screenings or contraceptive costs. The two endorsed the bill together on Wednesday January 31st at Planned Parenthood's Carol Whitehill Moses Center in the Northeast of the city. (Julia Airey / The Washington Times)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., listen to the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**
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"People of the Mountain State, you deserve to know, when it came to cutting your taxes, Joe voted 'no,'" Vice President Mike Pence said. "Joe voted 'no' to give working families more of your hard-earned money. Joe voted 'no' on tax cuts for job creators. And on expanding the child tax credit, giving you your first $24,000 in income tax-free -- real breaks for families in West Virginia -- Joe voted 'no.'" (Associated Press)
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Raging Bull (1981) directed by Martin Scorsese. Actual winner: Ordinary People
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Apocalypse Now (1980) directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Actual winner: Kramer vs Kramer
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Health officials encourage people to get flu shots, even though the vaccine has been shown to be about only 30 percent effective against the H3N2 strain. Health experts are struggling to determine why flu-like illness in increasing among younger people. (Associated Press)
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there are aspects of a national online sales tax that the president "likes a lot." (Associated Press)
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House Budget Committee member Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif. questions Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, during the committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Illustration on Kentucky's Medicaid work requirements by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Earlier this week House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi got into a heated argument with Chris Cuomo on CNN about the four-page GOP memo about alleged illegal spying. (Associated Press)
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In this Aug. 11, 2017, photo, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents patrol for immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas. The election of President Donald Trump contributed to a dramatic downturn in migration, causing the number of arrests at the border to hit an all-time low in April. But since then, the number of immigrants caught at the southern border has been increasing monthly. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour tells a predominately black audience at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, April 21, 2015, that the state and nation would be better served with more racial diversity within the Democratic and Republican parties. Barbour, who was Republican National Committee chairman in the mid-1990s, says Mississippi does not need a white party and a black party. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
