Social Issues

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**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, updates reporters on the pace of the immigration reform bill following a Democratic strategy session at the Capitol in Washington on June 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

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People wait under a tree after they were detained by Border Patrol agents Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at a field in Edinburg, Texas. Agents took into custody 69 people suspected of entering the country illegally. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)

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Plaintiffs and supporters for the California Proposition 8 case hail Supreme Court decisions that struck down a section of federal law denying benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way to resume same-sex marriage in California. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Missionary Ronald Brock lets his anti-gay marriage views be known Wednesday outside the Supreme Court. The vast majority of people on hand, however, supported gay rights. (Annie Z. Yu/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Kimberly McCarthy, who is on death row in Texas for the 1997 killing of a neighbor during a robbery. McCarthy is scheduled to be executed on June 26 and would be the 500th in Texas since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Gay rights advocate Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag at dawn in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. In two separate and significant victories for gay rights, the high court struck down a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** The FBI is recently pulled its "Faces of Global Terrorism" ad campaign over racism concerns. (KOMO News)

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**FILE** People wait under a tree after they were detained by Border Patrol agents on June 25, 2013, at a field in Edinburg, Texas. Agents took into custody 69 people suspected of entering the country illegally. (Associated Press/The Monitor)