Social Issues

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Pro-life activists take part Sunday in the 20th annual Life Chain, a nationwide anti-abortion protest, in New Bern, N.C. The protest was one of hundreds held across the country. The state's "Woman's Right to Know" law goes into effect Oct. 26. (Associated Press)

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Mothers arrive to pick up their children from Flowers School in Montgomery, Ala., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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The Obama administration is seeking to extend federal protections to hundreds of animals, including the Texas kangaroo rat. (Associated Press)

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The 1611 King James Bible is the subject of "Manifold Greatness," a new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Seen here are the Genealogies of the Scriptures. Translation began in 1604 at the order of England's King James I. (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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** FILE ** Job seekers stand in line during U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler's "Getting Southwest Washington Back to Work Job Fair" on Sept. 28, 2011, in Vancouver, Wash. (Associated Press)

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Ashley Hendricks, a University of Alabama student from Huntsville, Ala., holds a sign and chants while protesting the state's immigration bill on Sept. 28, 2011. Hendricks was among approximately 40 students who gathered for a protest of the immigration bill on the school's campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Associated Press/Tuscaloosa News)

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A protesting taxi driver carries a Greek national flag in front of the transport ministry during a protest in Athens on Sept 28, 2011. About 2,000 striking taxi drivers gathered to protest against government plans to open up their licensed profession to more competition. (Associated Press)

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George Wright is pictured while in custody in 1963 for the murder of a gas station owner in Wall, N.J., the year before. (Associated Press/New Jersey Department of Corrections)

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Retired CIA disguise specialist Jonna Mendez takes on a different look. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, seen earlier this month with President Nicolas Sarkozy, says her pregnancy is a nonstory to the people of France. "There isn't much to say," Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy said. "So many women are expecting children and giving birth, and it's so uninteresting for French people." (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A Saudi woman drives a car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the nation's capital, as part of a campaign to defy a ban on women driving, in an image made from video released on Friday, June 17, 2011, by Change.org. (AP Photo/Change.org)

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'HAVE A HEART': Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential hopeful, is taking some heat from conservatives over his position on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)

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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican, called the waiver approach to overhauling the No Child Left Behind law "a dangerous precedent." (Associated Press)

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Samia Tahir, a U.S. citizen from Illinois who lived in Tawarga, Libya, holds her daughter while waiting to be rescued along with other internally displaced Libyans outside Sirte, the hometown of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (right), Nevada Democrat, accompanied by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, speaks Sept. 23, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the continuing resolution to keep the government open. (Associated Press)

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"Assistance at a time of a natural disaster should not be a controversial issue. It hasn't been before. We're not going to balance the budget on the backs of people who have already been hit by a disaster," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. (Associated Press)

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A new logo for the Washington Nationals features Stephen Strasburg. (Provided by the Washington Nationals)

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A new logo for the Washington Nationals features Stephen Strasburg. (Provided by the Washington Nationals)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing Goldlink Go-Abroad Consulting Co., whose office is pictured here, has seen a growing number of wealthy Chinese seeking help to emigrate, especially to Canada and the United States, in the 15 years since the company was founded. A recent report verifies the trend.

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Minister Lynn Hopkins (left) comforts her partner Carolyn Bond in Jackson, Ga., on Sept. 21, 2011, after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute plea of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. Davis, who was convicted of killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail in 1989, was executed later that night. (Associated Press)