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Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., right, and Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., center, join immigration reform supporters as they block a street on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, during a rally protesting against immigration policies and the House GOP’s inability to pass a bill that contains a pathway to citizenship. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., waits for the arrival of the University of Louisville men's basketball team being honored for their 2013 NCAA championship, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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D. Bruce Hanes, clerk of the Orphans' Court of Montgomery County, Pa., near Philadelphia, began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples when he "decided to come down on the right side of history." Same-sex marriages are still illegal in Pennsylvania. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators in support of fast food workers protest outside a McDonald's as they demand higher wages and the right to form a union without retaliation Monday, July 29, 2013, in New York's Union Square. Activists say hundreds of workers have walked off their jobs. They are demanding a minimum wage increase and calling for better benefits. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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**FILE** An Afghan security force member stands guard near the entrance gate of a NATO compound following a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 2, 2013. Militants blew up a suicide car bomb at the gate to the compound and attacked guards with small-arms fire, killing four guards and two civilians, police said. All four suicide attackers were also killed. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, on Sunday won an early straw poll for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But Mr. Cruz isn't discussing White House aspirations yet. "At this point, 100 percent of my focus is on the U.S. Senate," he said. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama gets a high five from a youngster after speaking about the economy, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Mo. Seeking to focus public attention on the problem he was sent to the White House to solve, Obama is making a renewed push for policies to expand the middle class, helping people he says are still treading water years after the financial meltdown. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
