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“Accidental Racist," from Brad Paisley's new album "Wheelhouse" (shown here), is a controversial song about racially charged symbols and cultural preconceptions that has drawn ire from both the country and urban music worlds. (AP Photo/Sony Nashville/Arista)
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Life Flight personnel rush a victim wounded in a stabbing attack on the Lone Star community college system's Cypress, Texas campus into Memorial Hermann Hospital Tuesday, April 9, 2013, in Houston. The Harris County Sheriff's department confirmed at least 11 people wounded and that authorities have one suspect in custody. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)
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President Obama greets the family of teacher Victoria Soto, who was killed in the Newtown school shooting, including her mother, Donna Soto (right), and brother Carlos Soto (center), after his speech at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn., on Monday, April 8, 2013. Mr. Obama said that lawmakers have an obligation to the children killed and other victims of gun violence to act on his proposals. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed birth control policy at a forum Monday at the Harvard School of Public Health. (Associated Press)
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President Obama comforts Nicole Hockley on Monday at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Mrs. Hockley and her husband, Ian, lost their son, Dylan, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. Mr. Obama is pushing Congress to hold votes on the gun controls he has proposed. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A beggar asks for donations in a street in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 7, 2013. There are fears in Serbia that the troubled Balkan nation's economic recovery may slow down because of global financial crisis and rising poverty. (Associated Press)
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“When a youth’s confidential information is made public, our agency’s rehabilitative efforts are severely undermined,” wrote DYRS Director Neil Stanley. (The Washington Times)
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Matthew Warren, the youngest child of the Rev. Rick Warren of the Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., committed suicide, the church said in a statement on Saturday, April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Saddleback Valley Community Church)
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Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy (center) signs legislation at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday, April 4, 2013, to place new restrictions on weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Neil Heslin (behind left), father of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis; Nicole Hockley (right), mother of Sandy Hook School shooting victim Dylan Hockley; and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman (left) look on. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
