Social Issues

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Sens. Susan Collins, left, and Joe Lieberman have a private conversation on the dais during a hearing by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in which United States Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan testified about the Secret Service scandal in Cartagena in which agents soliticted prostitutes. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Maryland House Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell says “this deal was cut” regarding a second special session for a Prince George's County casino proposal. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Tea party candidate Ted Cruz (left) responds in January to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst during a Republican primary debate in Austin. The former Texas solicitor general has repeatedly challenged Mr. Dewhurst's conservative credentials in the primary race for the U.S. Senate seat left open with the retirement of Kay Bailey Hutchison. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A man sleeps at Monastiraki Square in central Athens in May, 2012. Homelessness, the most visible sign of Greece's financial despair, has risen by around 25 percent, according to estimates by a state-funded relief agency. (Associated Press)

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A Lebanese Shiite Muslim blocks the street in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday to protest against the kidnapping of 12 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Syria's northern province of Aleppo by Syrian rebels. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, has appealed for calm. (Associated Press)