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Animal rights activist chant slogans in support of the ivory crush, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in New York's Central Park. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation destroyed illegal ivory confiscated through state enforcement efforts over the last two years. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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CNN's Ana Navarro took part in a heated immigration debate on "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday that prompted her to tell panelist Jeffrey Lord, "It must be so nice to be a white male." (Image: CNN screenshot)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, to unveil "A Better Deal On Trade and Jobs," to put American workers first and fight back against companies that outsource jobs and countries that manipulate trade laws. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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FILE - This is a Tuesday, April 10, 2001, file of thousands of protesters as they demonstrate outside Dutch government buildings at The Hague, Netherlands, as the Upper House of Parliament voted to legalize euthanasia. Dying by euthanasia has become “common practice” in the Netherlands since its legalization a dozen years ago and doctors are now reporting increasing rates of people seeking the practice who aren’t terminally ill, a new review says. (AP Photo/Serge Ligtenberg, File)
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In this July 20, 2017 photo, midwife Ana Choque braids her hair after getting home from a prenatal care visit at a patient's home in El Alto, Bolivia. Choque, who began learning midwifery at age 15 from her grandmother, is one of 22 midwives who passed an exam to get qualified by the health ministry as part of a midwifery program within the public health system. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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In this June 20, 2017 photo, midwife Ana Choque massages the feet of Mariana Limachi two weeks after delivering Limachi's first child at her home in El Alto, Bolivia. Maternal deaths in Bolivia are concentrated among poor, rural indigenous women. Critics say Bolivia's public health centers and hospitals in rural areas often lack beds, doctors and medicines. "An equally important factor is the fact that indigenous women who have managed to get to clinics have often been treated as second-class citizens, scorned because of their gender, their ethnicity and their traditions," the U.N. body said in a 2009 report. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Pittsburgh Pirates' Gregory Polanco gets a sign during a fifth inning at-bat against Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Robert Stephenson in a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Polanco drew a walk. It was Polanco's first game back off the disabled list. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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NSA Spying on the Entire Population of the U.S.A. Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Buzz Osborne of The Melvins. (Dave Kapp)
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In this October 2013 photo, Audemio Orozco-Ramirez speaks during an interview in Helena, Mont., about a sexual assault he says he experienced at the Jefferson County jail in Boulder, Mont. U.S. immigration authorities arrested Orozco-Ramirez on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, and plan to deport him to Mexico just months after he settled claims that he was raped in a Montana jail while previously awaiting deportation proceedings, the man's attorney said. (John S. Adams/The Great Falls Tribune via AP)
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Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, said the administration's tariffs are "like shooting ourselves in both feet" because they raise prices for consumers while reducing revenue, profits, wages and jobs. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017 file photo, American League's Cleveland Indians pitcher Andrew Miller throws a pitch, during the MLB baseball All-Star Game in Miami. The Cleveland Indians have placed All-Star reliever Andrew Miller on the disabled list with right knee tendinitis. Miller is one of baseball's best late-innings pitchers and he's one of the most important players for the defending AL champions. He has been uncharacteristically wild of late, walking 10 batters in the past 21 innings. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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In this April 29, 2014, photo provided by the Bryan, Texas, Fire Department, firefighters transport an injured worker in a stretcher to the ambulance. An explosion at the Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant left Earle Robinson, 60, dead and two others injured. Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics. (Bryan, Texas Fire Department via AP)
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"This legislation demonstrates our compassion for struggling American families who deserve an immigration system that puts their needs first and that puts America first," President Trump said. (Associated Press/File)
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President Donald Trump listens in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, during an event to unveil legislation that would place new limits on legal immigration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Trump embraced a Republican-sponsored bill last week that would trim the broad range of family relationships that qualify for immigration and inject a government screen for needed skills and English proficiency into employer immigration. (Associated Press/File)
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CORRECTS CITY TO HERAT - A wounded man rests on a vehicle after a suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. An Afghan hospital official says an explosion inside a minority Shiite mosque in western Herat, on the border with Iran, has killed at least 20 people.(AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)
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CORRECTS CITY TO HERAT - Relatives mourn after a suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. An Afghan hospital official says an explosion inside a minority Shiite mosque in western Herat, on the border with Iran, has killed at least 20 people.(AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)
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CORRECTS CITY TO HERAT - Relatives assist a wounded man in a hospital after a suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. An Afghan hospital official says an explosion inside a minority Shiite mosque in western Herat, on the border with Iran, has killed at least 20 people.(AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)
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In this May 24, 2017, file photo, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., presides over a House Budget Committee meeting in Washington. Black announced on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that she is joining the Tennessee governor's race. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
