Social Issues

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Bill Maher is being criticized on social media after he appeared to grope a sleeping Bob Saget in a photo mocking disgraced former Sen. Al Franken. (Twitter/@billmaher)

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Planned Parenthood is expanding into alternative care as fewer women undergo abortions and patients seek health care services elsewhere. (Associated Press/File)

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Iranian women have become symbolic leaders of the protests over the country's ailing economy. Americans preparing for the Women's March against President Trump have been mostly silent about their plight. (Associated Press)

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A man holds the ANPI (Italian Partisans Association) flag during a demonstration staged by the Democratic party, in Como, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Italys governing Democrats have led a rally to warn about fascisms making a comeback in the nation, which had suffered under fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.vSeveral thousand people turned out in Como, northern Italy, where recently right-wing extremists interrupted an NGO meeting about migrants housing. Earlier this week, a neo-fascist party attacked the Rome office of a liberal newspaper. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Gun-rights activists chalk up the rise in prosecutions to new Justice Department policies issued by Attorney General Jeff Sessions highlighted by a March memo. (Associated Press)

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Opponents of President Trump say it is beyond the power of any president to pardon a public official who violated the Constitution and accuses him of bullying. (Associated Press)

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Ben Roethlisberger’s sexual misconduct - Big Ben was accused multiple times of sexual assault. While there were no charges filed after women in Utah and Georgia each accused him of sex crimes, the NFL issued him a six-game suspension, later reduced to four games, in 2010.

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A whopping 98 percent of black women, who made up 17 percent of voters in the Alabama special election race, backed Democratic nominee Doug Jones over Roy Moore. (Associated Press)

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A activist derailed a December 2017 show at Disney World by screaming at an robotic likeness of President Trump. (Image: CNN) ** FILE **

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Voters in Arizona will be casting ballots in a marquee U.S. Senate race and several crucial House contests next year, but the state's numbers show that neither party is doing particularly well in winning them over. (Associated Press/File)

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The HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington on Dec. 15, 2017. A burst of sign-ups is punctuating the end of a tumultuous year for former President Barack Obamas health care law. Strong consumer interest around Fridays enrollment deadline for 2018 was seen as validation for the programs subsidized individual health insurance. But the Affordable Care Acts troubles arent over. Even if full repeal now seems off the table, actions by the Republican-led Congress and the Trump administration could undermine the ACAs insurance markets. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick