Social Issues

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Christina Condori joins a crowd of low-income fast food workers and their supporters in protest on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, while picketing outside of the McDonald's restaurant in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)

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Members of the Greek Communist Party march with flags, in front of the Parliament in Athens during an protest against any military action by the U.S. and its allies against Syria, on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

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Demonstrators hold a mock California state flag as students and others protest the California Supreme Court's upholding of Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriages, in a march and rally from the UCLA campus to the West Los Angeles Federal Building on May 26, 2009. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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**FILE** John Lewis (left) and Stuart Gaffney embrace outside San Francisco's City Hall shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California on June 26, 2013. The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits. The other was a technical legal ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. (Associated Press)

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Number 5 — Secret Service Director. If the public knows your name, something probably went wrong on your watch. Yes, Mark Sullivan, that includes agents cavorting with prostitutes while on assignment in Colombia.

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Although Syrian refugees are calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad, a growing number of jihadist organizations are fighting to take his place. (Associated Press)

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On Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of other civil rights activists marched along Constitution Avenue from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech. (Associated Press Photographs)

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The spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.' delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963 is marked at the Lincoln Memorial. Fifty years later, the nation's first black president will stand in the same place as the most high-profile example of the racial progress King espoused, delivering remarks at a nationwide commemoration of the 1963 demonstration for economic justice and racial equality. (Associated Press)