Social Issues

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Rep. Frank Lucas, Oklahoma Republican, is chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. (Associated Press)

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Microsoft is paying $300 million for a minority stake in the digital reader business of Barnes & Noble, which sells the Nook e-book. The pairing could boost Barnes & Noble in its quest to take on Amazon's Kindle. (Barnes & Noble via Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This undated image provided by the ASPCA shows animal behaviorists testing a dog for food aggression by using a fake hand to assess the dog's response in Joplin, Mo. Many pets who end up in rehab are victims of abusive owners who have been arrested for dogfighting, hoarding or puppy mill violations. (AP Photo/ASPCA, Mike Bizelli)

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In this undated photo provided by the family, Aileen Dannelley holds her baby, Savannah, at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill. The one-month-old baby is being treated with methadone for withdrawal while she and her mother both fight addiction to powerful prescription painkillers. (Associated Press)

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Mail sent to Ms. Wilson's father lies on a table in his Washington state home. "These scammers are very persistent and in some cases verbally abusive, threatening to harm victims if they do not send money," said Maj. Bill King of Maine's York County Sheriff's Office. (Associated Press)

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A woman leaves a banner after an April 29, 2012, demonstration against education and health care spending cuts in Madrid. (Associated Press)

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Migrants from Central America wait for a free meal of rice, beans and carrots at the San Juan Diego shelter in Tultitlan, Mexico, one stop on a journey that they hope will end with an illegal crossing into the U.S. Before that, they face a gantlet of life-or-death risks, including extortion, kidnapping, rape and killing by crooked police and criminal gangs. (Keith Dannemiller/Special to The Washington Times)

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Men from Honduras migrating through Mexico on their way to the United States, wait for a northbound train. When one comes, they will run with the train until they can grab onto something and swing up onto one of the moving railcars. The men face dangers more perilous than hopping onto a moving train; abductions of more than 11,300 migrants, mostly likely by Mexico's violent drug gangs, were reported in a six-month period in 2010. (Keith Dannemiller/Special to The Washington Times)

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Honduran women wait for breakfast after spending the night at the migrant shelter in Tultitlan, Mexico, before resuming their journey by freight train to the U.S.

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Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng (left) meets with fellow activist Hu Jia at an undisclosed location in late April. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Hu Jia)

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** FILE ** In this April 25, 2012, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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FILE - In this April 25, 2012 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Expanding the prostitution investigation, the Secret Service acknowledges it is checking whether its employees consorted with strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama's visit last year to El Salvador. The disclosure comes not long after the Homeland Security secretary assured skeptical senators that the prostitution scandal in Colombia appeared to be an isolated incident. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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** FILE ** In this April 12, 2012, file photo, Detroit Tigers' Delmon Young bats against the Tampa Bay Rays during a baseball game in Detroit. Young has been arrested on a hate crime assault charge after police say he attacked a group of men and yelled anti-Semitic epithets in New York. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson, File)

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Tea party activist Jamie Radtke, of Chesterfield County, Va., is among four Republicans vying for the party's U.S. Senate nomination. (The Washington Times)