Social Issues

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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his first foreign policy speech on Feb. 20, 2013, in Old Cabel Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Obama warned about the dire consequences of failing to avert budget cuts Tuesday in front of 17 uniformed firefighters and law enforcement officers, who he said could lose their jobs. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks about strengthening the economy for the middle class and the nation's struggle with gun violence at an appearance at Hyde Park Academy on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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A doctor treats a Pakistani boy who was injured in a suicide bombing, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Feb. 1, 2013. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Passengers from the disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship arrive by bus at the Hilton Riverside Hotel in New Orleans on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. The ship had been idled for nearly a week in the Gulf of Mexico following an engine-room fire. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)