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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)
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In an op-ed piece, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer called for "major, direct federal investment in infrastructure." He is skeptical about President Trump's plan. (Associated Press)
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Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania broke party lines to vote for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, as he did in 2015. He is up for re-election. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., joined at right by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., emerge from the Senate chamber just after a procedural vote aimed at reopening the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Manchin, a centrist Democrat from a heavily Republican state, later met with President Donald Trump to discuss immigration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**
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While President Trump delivers his address inside the Capitol, immigration rights activists will be protesting outside. (Associated Press/File)
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Social compromise via phishing graphic
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Oppressing the Hand of Charity Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Salute to Veterans 300 ad
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Joseph Roman, 38, of Chicago, claims he is "a 9-year-old trapped in an adult's body." The Chicago man has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault pertaining attack on three girls. (Image: Cook County sheriff's office)
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Volunteers from Veterans Affairs and the D.C. mayor’s office team up to search Franklin Park for anyone sleeping outside Wednesday night as part of a plan to quantify homelessness in the District. (Julia Airey/The Washington Times).
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Hector Lugo, right, and Kevin Morton, left, kneel by a bus stop as they survey a homeless man Wednesday night for the annual Point-In-Time census of homelessness in the District. (Julia Airey/The Washington Times). **FILE**
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Advocates of illegal immigrants have been protesting President Trump's official policies for a year, ever since he issued his first two major executive orders. (Associated Press/File)
