Social Issues

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President Trump on Friday granted the first pardon of his term to Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was tough on immigration enforcement. Critics say the move sends a wrong message. (Associated Press/File)

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While a cholera outbreak rages in Yemen, half the country's health care facilities are out of service — including many that were bombed by the coalition. (Associated Press/File)

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Children with cerebral palsy practice walk with a robotic exoskeleton at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. (National Institutes of Health)

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Charleston, S.C. Police Department blocks the street during an active hostage situation in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

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Charleston, S.C. Police Department blocks the street during an active hostage situation in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

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Charleston, S.C. Police Department blocks the street during an active hostage situation in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

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Police gather near the scene of a reported shooting in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Aug.24, 2017. Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting was not an act of terrorism or racism. (Grace Beahm Alford /The Post And Courier via AP)

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In this March 30, 2017 file photo, Workers use a crane to lift a segment of a new fence into place on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, where Sunland Park, New Mexico, meets the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. A federal judge Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, again threw out Texas’ voter ID requirements that she previously compared to a “poll tax” on minorities, dealing another court setback to state Republican leaders over voting rights. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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A teacher at Rocklin Academy in Sacramento, California, reportedly used "I Am Jazz" as part of a kindergarten lesson on transgender identity, upsetting parents who were not made aware of the lesson plan in advance. (Amazon.com) **FILE**

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Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., listens as Democratic senators hold a hearing hosted by Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., about how the GOP health care bill could hurt rural Americans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Illustration on removing Confederate statues and monuments by Mark Weber/Tribune Content Agency

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Rep. Kevin Brady, Texas Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Former Google engineer James Damore told CNN Tech on Aug. 15, 2017, that critics are portraying him as a "Nazi" for writing "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber," the internal diversity memo that resulted in his firing. (CNN Tech screenshot)

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While both candidates for governor denounced white nationalists, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, (top center) went a step further and criticized President Trump. "This denouncement is too little, too late," he said of the president. Mr. Gillespie (center bottom) was optimistic about Virginia's ability to tackle hate groups. "We have stared down racism, and Nazism and white supremacy before, and we will stare it down again," Mr. Gillespie said. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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This April 24, 2017 photo shows the exterior of the state group home in Rome, N.Y., where severely disabled patient Steven Wenger was twice found to have been infested with maggots near his breathing tube. The Associated Press obtained a confidential report on the state investigation that determined the 2016 infestations at the group home were the result of neglect by caregivers. In most states, details of abuse and neglect investigations in state-regulated institutions for the disabled are almost never made public. (AP Photo/David Klepper)

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In this Wednesday, June 28, 2017, file photo, Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. The Vatican has said on Thursday, Aug. 10 that Pope Francis has ordered a Belgian Catholic charity to stop offering euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

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This Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, speaks to the Utah Senate, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)