Social Issues

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An displaced Afghan child stands at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. More than 2 million Afghans are at risk from cold, disease and malnutrition this winter as an international appeal for funds to help one of the world's poorest countries has fallen drastically short of its goal, the United Nations and several humanitarian agencies warned on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Incidents of violence against Afghan women remain largely underreported because of religious beliefs and a culture that has long allowed men to brutalize women, according to a U.N. report. (Associated Press)

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DHS and its Customs and Border Protection agency have deployed drones to assist local law enforcement and other federal agencies on several occasions.

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**FILE** Lance Armstrong pauses during an interview in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 15, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Demonstrators gather for a rally in the rotunda at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Dec. 11, 2012, to protest right-to-work legislation passed the previous week. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Tom Price, Georgia Republican, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 11, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (center), Kentucky Republican, steps off the Senate floor at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, before speaking with reporters following a GOP strategy luncheon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. addresses a filibuster rally on the steps of the Capitol , Wednesday, May 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (right), Kentucky Republican, gestures as he speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, following a GOP strategy luncheon. With him (from left) are Republican Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Thune of South Dakota. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, gestures as he takes a call in his office before the jobs bill cloture vote on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster with critical momentum provided by the Senate's newest Republican, Sen. Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., discusses the Senate's upcoming votes on judicial nominations during a news conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday, May 24, 2005. In the back ground are Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., center, and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

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**FILE** Former death row inmate Earl Washington Jr. smiles during a Feb. 12, 2001, news conference in Virginia Beach, Va., as Marie Deans, a member of his legal team, listens. Washington was released from prison thanks to DNA tests showing he was wrongly convicted in the 1982 rape and slaying of Rebecca Lynn Williams. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** This photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows the electric chair used in the July 20, 2006, execution of death row inmate Brandon Wayne Hedrick, who chose the electric chair as his method of execution rather than lethal injection. Hedrick was convicted of the 1997 abduction, robbery, rape and murder of Lisa Crider. (Associated Press/Virginia Department of Corrections)