Social Issues

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Quality time with family was an important part of Gonzalez's youth growing up in Florida. (Gonzalez family)

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D.C. voters leave the Palisades Recreation Center in Washington after casting their ballots in the primary election on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2012. The only real contested race in this ward was for an at-large council seat. Voter turnout was not huge, but there was a steady stream of voters coming in. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Election officials wait at the table to assist arriving voters at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Syrians wave revolutionary flags and chant slogans April 2, 2012, at a night protest against President Bashar Assad in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press)

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Firefighters and Emergency Ministry officials examine the scene of a fire at a market on the outskirts of Moscow on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The blaze killed 17 migrant workers. (AP Photo/Maxim Dmitriyev)

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**FILE** Former General Services Administration chief Martha Johnson resigned after her agency spent lavishly at a training conference for federal workers in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas. (Associated Press)

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Police cover the bodies of shooting victims at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., after gunfire erupted at the school Monday morning. The suspect is an Asian male in his 40s who was taken into custody at a shopping center in the neighboring city of Alameda.

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**FILE** Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif., on March 30, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Police cover the bodies of shooting victims at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., after gunfire erupted at the school Monday morning. The suspect is an Asian male in his 40s who was taken into custody at a shopping center in the neighboring city of Alameda. (Associated Press)

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Injuries have taken their toll on the Washington Nationals, who have scored seven runs over their last five games, five losses. Ryan Zimmerman is on the disabled list and has missed nine straight games with a right shoulder injury. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody in Chula Vista, Calif., on Friday, March 30, 2012, as part of a nationwide immigration sweep. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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**FILE** Gerry Zimmermann, a police K-9 trainer with Working Dog World, leads his 10-year-old Belgian Mainois named Civa on March 12, 2012, as she searches for drugs along the lineup of inmates at the Daviess County Detention Center in Owensboro, Ky. (Associated Press/Messenger-Inquirer)

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Verla Morris, 99, goes through some of her family census data from the 19th and 20th centuries at her local residential senior center on March 30, 2012, in Chandler, Ariz. (Associated Press)

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has adopted a policy of rarely signing onto letters from his peers around the country supporting federal legislation. (The Washington Times)

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Afghan refugees gather on Thursday, March 8, 2012, outside the house in Haripur, Pakistan, that Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived in for nearly a year until he moved into the villa where he eventually was killed. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Some thousands of demonstrators march through the streets of Dublin, Ireland, Saturday March 31, 2012, during protests against Ireland's new property tax. Ireland faces a public revolt as more than 1 million of Ireland's 1.6 million households have failed to pay the new property tax. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)

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House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, speaks March 29, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill after Republicans pushed an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget through the House. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Christopher Astacio reads with his daughter Cristina, 2, who recently was diagnosed with a mild form of autism, in her bedroom on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. Autism cases are on the rise again, largely because of wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials say. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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**FILE** House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (right), Wisconsin Republican, with Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, holds a copy of their budget proposal during a news conference March 29, 2012, on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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"We keep passing the buck, and ultimately somebody's got to pay the bill. And I don't think it's fair to expect state employees, local employees and local governments to pay it," said Delegate Jennifer L. McClellan, Richmond Democrat, of the pension overhaul. (Associated Press)