Social Issues

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Portland attorney Kelly Clark examines Oct., 16, 2012, in his office in Portland, Ore., some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were released two days later, despite The Boy Scouts of America's fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus briefs reporters in an evening news conference in Brookfield, Wis., on Oct. 21, 2012, after a man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself. (Associated Press)

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Challenger Elizabeth Warren and incumbent Sen. Scott Brown promised to donate to charity if any outside groups advertised on their behalf. Direct mail, phone banks and canvassing efforts are allowed. (Associated Press)

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Kelly Clark looks some of 14,500 pages of documents the Boy Scouts of America created about child sexual abuse within Scouting from 1959 to 1985. Mr. Clark’s law firm got permission from the Oregon Supreme Court to release the files online. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A protester holds a replica of a fetus to make her point. Catholic and Protestant abortion opponents have come together to oppose the clinic’s opening. (Associated Press)

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Protesters opposed to abortion hold placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast on Thursday. The center plans to offer the abortion pill to women less than nine weeks pregnant if they’re at risk of death or long-term health damage from the pregnancy. (Associated Press)

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A Syrian looks at a damaged car at the site of a car bomb attack in the Bab Touma neighborhood, a popular shopping district largely inhabited by Syria's Christian minority, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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ABC News' Chris Cuomo (left) sits with Aaron Fisher, 18, during an interview airing Oct. 19, 2012, on the ABC news magazine show "20/20." Fisher is victim of former Penn State assistant football coach and Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted of child sexual abuse. (Associated Press/ABC News)

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Brigitte Van Nice, deputy clerk of court of Grundy County, Iowa, was arrested and charged with two counts of forgery and one count of perjury, all felonies, for filing false documents to obtain a marriage certificate for a same-sex couple from Florida who tried to take advantage of Iowa’s gay marriage law without traveling to the state. (AP Photo/Grundy County Jail)

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The Washington Monument is barricaded with police tape in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Anti-crime programs in the District are heavy on government bureaucracy and short on human interaction, according to a new coalition of neighborhood leaders who see mentoring and directly intervening with troubled teens and young people as more effective. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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In a photo from Oct. 16, 2012, Oakland University women's basketball coach Beckie Francis looks over her team's practice in Rochester, Mich. Francis tells The Associated Press she was sexually assaulted by her dad, who is now deceased, from the age of 4 until she was in the seventh grade. The 47-year-old coach has decided to speak out against the problem in part because of the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)