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Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus. The campus has one of the most-diverse student bodies in the country. Texas has maintained some use of affirmative action. It also has implemented a "top 10 percent" plan granting automatic admission to top high school students based on class rank and, as a result, its enrollment of minorities has risen overall since the late 1990s. (Associated Press)
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Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, wants the Justice Department to release information on gunrunning operations in Texas and the source of guns in the 2011 killing of a U.S. agent. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** An illegal immigrant is fingerprinted Aug. 9, 2012, as part of processing in order to create or update a file on that immigrant at Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** With Pennsylvania’s voter-ID law still under scrutiny in state courts, a sign at a Pennsylvania driver’s license center in Butler alerts voters, who can get a qualifying state ID at the center. The voter-ID law, one of the toughest in the country, has become a lightning rod for Democrats who hate it and Republicans who support it. (Associated Press)
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A woman walks past the Consolidated Forensics Laboratory in Washington, D.C., on Monday. The facility is a 351,000-square-foot building that consolidates public safety forensic science and public health efforts into one facility. Different divisions plan to move into the facility in waves. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) **FILE**
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, has been critical of campaign finance regulations as a violation of free speech and free press. (Associated Press)
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Protesters shield themselves from the rain with a banner as they demonstrate Thursday against proposed labor reforms in Mexico City. Supporters say, however, that the bill would support creation of the million jobs a year the country needs for its young people and migrants returning from the U.S. (Associated Press)
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A displaced Syrian woman and her grandson sit Sept. 30, 2012 in a refugee camp on the Turkey border, near Azaz village in Syria. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano says gay partners will be considered as family members when immigration agents are trying to decide deportation cases. (Associated Press)
