Social Issues

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Pedestrians pass the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, late on Thursday, April 19, 2012. U.S. Secret Service employees and military personnel were accused of misconduct in connection with a prostitution scandal at the hotel before President Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas. (AP Photo/Pedro Mendoza) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** A display of colored items is seen March 14, 2012, at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids, Mich. The museum says it has amassed the nation’s largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era, from Reconstruction until the civil rights movement, and beyond. (Associated Press)

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Smoke billows after purported shelling by government forces in the Khaldiyeh district of Homs on Wednesday. A witness said security agents fired at protesters and a rights group reported that eight were wounded. (Shaam News Network via Associated Press)

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Medicare deputy administrator Jonathan Blum (Associated Press/Department of Health and Human Services)

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Amanda Clayton won a $1 million lottery jackpot but continued to collect food stamps and public health insurance, leading to state welfare fraud charges. (Michigan Lottery via Detroit Free Press)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (left) chats with Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr., James City Republican, outside the Senate Republican Caucus room at the Capitol in Richmond on Tuesday. The governor addressed the caucus before the debate and vote on the budget. The Senate failed to pass the budget. (Associated Press)

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Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (center), Fairfax Democrat, talks with Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. (left), James City Republican, as Sen. Emmett Hanger (second from left), Augusta Republican, and Sen. Charles Colgen (second from right), Prince William Democrat, and Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Walter Stosch, Henrico Republican, listen prior to the debate on the budget conferees' report at the Capitol in Richmond on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Senate Finance Committee chairman, Sen. Walter Stosch, Henrico Republican, left, and Sen. Charles Colgan, Prince William Democrat, talk prior to a Senate budget briefing at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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A month after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake, Angelina Jolie visits at MSF Hospital in Port-au-Prince with a 10-year-old boy who lost a leg in the quake. The actress is a United Nations special envoy for refugees. (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees via Associated Press)

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Anti-regime activists in Syria cover their faces with scarves in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag last month as they prepare a protest banner that reads in Arabic, "How would a mother be happy in the Eid (mother's day) while in each home we have a martyr?" With 60 percent of the Arab world's population under 25, protesters say they are working not just for regime change but for the dreams of their generation, on hold for now. (Associated Press)

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Francois Hollande's pledge to create public-sector jobs and increase taxes on the rich has resonated among French voters and raised concerns abroad. (Associated Press)

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Jacob England, 19, (left) and Alvin Watts, 32, were arraigned Monday in an Easter weekend shooting spree that in Tulsa, Okla., that left three black men dead and two wounded. (Tulsa, Okla. Police Department via The Tulsa World)

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Caprice Casson offers cool water to Dana Treece, 10, a young drummer in the JC Nalle Elementary School band, as they make they way along Pennsylvania Avenue NW during the District of Columbia Emancipation Day 2012 parade in Washington, D.C., Monday, April 16, 2012., celebrating the150th anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Act. 150 ears ago, on April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)