Social Issues

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** FILE ** In this July 26, 2012, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

** FILE ** In this April 13, 2011, file photo, Republican Vice Presidential candidate, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes questions in reaction to President Obama's speech on a federal spending plan, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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** FILE ** People form a circle Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in front of Jonesboro, Ark., City Hall during a march to protest the shooting death of Chavis Carter, 21, of Southaven, Miss. Carter died July 28 while sitting handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. The protest was coordinated by the Commission on Religion and Racism. (AP Photo/The Jonesboro Sun, Keith Inman)

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** FILE ** In this April 17, 2007 file photo, Randy Falco is seen in New York. Just a month after Forbes Magazine recognized the Hispanic television market as "the next media jackpot," some are complaining that Hispanic media aren't getting a fair share of attention from the political realm. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Demonstrators raise glasses and jugs of raw milk in a toast Nov. 1, 2011, during a protest in front of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. The FDA has banned interstate transportation of raw milk. The milk used during the demonstration was picked up in Pennsylvania and transported to Maryland. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Photograph provided by Roger LIn The Passive House in South Arlington features a modular scheme the uses shallow square trays of plants.

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Jonathan Marrero of Silver Spring (right) talks Wednesday with Juan NaVarrete, citizenship coordinator for Casa de Maryland, at the organization’s Hyattsville office. He was among hundreds of young immigrants there asking about work permits. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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“That means seniors would no longer have the guarantee of Medicare,” President Obama said in Dubuque, Iowa, on Wednesday. “They’d get a voucher to buy ... insurance, and ... the plan offered by ... Ryan, would force seniors to pay an extra $6,300 a year, and I assume they don’t have that.” (Associated Press)

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Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, seen here in happier times in August 2011, were married for 72 days when she filed for divorce. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Members of the group Casa de Maryland rally June 15, 2012, outside the White House in Washington to support President Obama's announcement that the U.S. government will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. (Associated Press)