Social Issues

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Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is charging that the Obama administration has “falsified” deportation records to artificially boost numbers by adding Border Patrol apprehensions to the total. (Associated Press)

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A wooden bridge crosses over the Kok River in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai province, where minority hill tribes live in villages where their culture is not undiscovered but also is not corrupted by tourism. (Associated Press)

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Chinese activist Henry Wong Fahman (center) greets supporters in Hong Kong last month. The activists were part of a group that evaded the Japanese Coast Guard. (Associated Press)

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Bree Coleman (right) wears a self-made t-shirt with a picture imprinted on of Chavis Carter, in Jonesboro, Ark., as Sakhiya Bell, 4, runs past on Aug. 21, 2012. About 20 people marched in protest of the July 28 death of Carter that was ruled a suicide in the back of a Jonesboro Police Department car. (Associated Press)

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Buyers of the Andover model can choose to have a knee wall and column between the dining room and family room.

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A judge on Wednesday named TJ Jackson, Michael Jackson’s nephew, as the co-guardian for (from left) Prince Jackson, Prince Michael II “Blanket”Jackson and Paris Jackson. He will share responsibility for raising the siblings, who range in age from 10 to 15, with family matriarch Katherine Jackson, Michael’s mother. (Associated Press)

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In a Dec. 12, 1999 photo, Nebraska's Charlie Rogers (33), guards Creighton's Corey Sweeney (22) during a women's basketball match in Lincoln, Neb. Rogers, who told police she was the victim of a vicious hate crime in July, 2012, was charged with making a false report Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 and pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Rogers Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Lincoln Journal Star, William Lauer)

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In this Wednesday, May 30, 2012 photo, U.S. Army Sgt. Josh Olson is photographed on the shooting range after practice at Fort Benning, Ga. Olson was on a routine patrol in Tal Afar, Iraq, when a grenade that was lobbed at his Humvee exploded. He lost his right leg in the attack, and would end up spending 18 months at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. It was during that time that he took a trip to a shooting range, and impressed officials from the U.S. Army with his marksmanship, becoming the first athlete with a physical disability to be nominated to the Army's World Class Athlete Program. Now, Olson is setting his sights on a gold medal at the Paralympic Games in London. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Sgt. 1st Class Josh Olson receives rehab at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of the Olson family)

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Police escort protesters from the room Aug. 17, 2012, after disrupting Kris Kobach, Secretary of State from Kansas, as he addressed the Commission at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Immigration Briefing in Birmingham, Ala. (Associated Press/Southern Poverty Law Center, Butch Dill)