Social Issues

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**FILE** Wendy Irving (center), a legal resident from Jamaica living in the Bronx borough of New York, shouts slogans during a rally against immigration reform held in front of New York's City Hall on April 10, 2006. (Associated Press)

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In a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, 35 percent of those surveyed viewed Gov. Bob McDonnell unfavorably. (associated press)

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**FILE** Voters wait in line on Nov. 6, 2012, at a polling place located inside a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, on Election Day. Attorney General Eric Holder says Texas is the first place that he will intervene to defend against what he calls attacks on the voting rights of minorities, but it is also the only state where the federal government has a clear opportunity to get involved, experts say. (Associated Press)

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Victor Villalpando-Saenz and Nico Villalpando-Saenz celebrate after being married at the Dona Ana County clerk's office in Las Cruces, N.M., on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. More than 40 same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses after the county clerk announced the county would be the first in New Mexico to marry gay couples. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)

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Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, said the National Security Agency "has knowingly acquired tens of thousands of wholly domestic communications even though this law was specifically written to prohibit the warrantless acquisition of wholly domestic communications." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican, that undercover investigations from pro-life groups like Live Action have collected video evidence showing "the actions and mentality of the Kermit Gosnell clinic are not limited to Pennsylvania." (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

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Kermit Gosnell was convicted this year of murdering three newborns and a woman patient at his Philadelphia abortion clinic.

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FILE - In this March 26, 2013 file photo, Maryland's Dez Wells shoots a free throw during the first half of an NIT tournament basketball game against Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Wells, a former Xavier University basketball player, is suing the school, alleging it damaged his reputation by expelling him for what he says was a false sexual assault accusation. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File

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Slogans that translate as "boycott Christians" are painted on walls in Assiut. The Coptic Orphans international adoption agency, active in Egypt since 1998, called the violence against Copts "unprecedented."

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Egyptian police soldiers stand outside of their vehicle in Cairo on Tuesday. Egypt on Tuesday announced the arrest of the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up its street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh crackdown. (Associated Press photographs)