Social Issues

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Security was beefed up Wednesday at the Georgia prison where death-row inmate Troy Davis was scheduled to be executed Wednesday night. Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, has been on death row since 1991. The crowd outside the prison swelled to more than 500 as night fell. (Associated Press)

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Anti-death penalty protesters Wednesday chant "Let Troy Go" for Davis in Jackson, Ga. Davis, 42, was convicted in the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer in Savannah. His last-minute offer to take a polygraph test was rejected. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Uzbek emergency workers and volunteers pass traditional flat bread to ethnic Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk on June 14, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Supporters of death-row inmate Troy Davis gather outside the Atlanta building Monday where the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles is holding a hearing on whether to change his death sentence for the 1989 slaying of a Savannah, Ga., police officer. (Associated Press)

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"We're not opposed to more revenue. The way you get more revenue is get the economy going," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican.

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Former President Bill Clinton said of President Obama's current low poll ratings, "When you are out there running against yourself and people feel miserable, it's hard to see your numbers go up." (Associated Press)

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Demonstrators sit and hold a sign of protest as workmen put up fencing at the Dale Farm site occupied by Irish Travelers east of London. On Monday, more than 200 people are to be evicted from the site. (Associated Press)

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Vivien Slattery is one of several children of Irish Travelers living at the Dale Fram site near London. The newborn baby is among at least 200 people to be evicted Monday. They are the losers in a decade-long legal battle between local officials and the community of Irish Travelers. (Associated Press)

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Mississippi stereotypes persist in "A Time to Kill," starring Samuel L. Jackson. (Photograph provided by Warner Bros. Pictures)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (center), flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) and Budget Director Jacob Lew, arrives at the White House for the start of a cabinet meeting on plans to cut government waste, fraud and abuse on Sept. 14, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters wave Bahraini flags during a peaceful march Friday in Muqsha, Bahrain. Bahrain's “Arab Spring” crisis is moving into its eighth month. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Members of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) — (from left) Barbara Blaine, Winfried Fesselmann, Emmanuel Henckens and Peter Isely — attend a press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, in Voorburg, Netherlands, near The Hague, where a rights group has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy. (AP Photo/Rob Keeris)

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THE 'EXPERT': Former massage parlor owner Chuvit Kamolvisit, elected to parliament in July, is fighting the kind of crime he used to promote. He speculates that "100 percent" of Thailand's illegal casinos pay bribes to the police. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press photographs High school student demonstrator Eliza Ramos (left) hangs on to mother Betty Pena after anti-riot police fired tear gas to disperse a student protest against budget cuts in front of the Capitol building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in June 2010. The police force in Puerto Rico has unnecessarily injured hundreds of people and killed numerous others, the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said in a 116-page report released Thursday.

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Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the charging of 91 people with participating in Medicare fraud schemes "a powerful warning to those who would try to defraud taxpayers and Medicare beneficiaries." (Associated Press)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California listens Tuesday as fellow Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland discusses job creation. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Palestinians of means shop at the new al-Andulusia mall in Gaza City. A flurry of construction is allowing a tiny middle class to flaunt its wealth in the impoverished Gaza Strip, fueling perhaps the most acrimonious grass-roots resentment yet toward the ruling Hamas movement.

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Smoke from a wildfire hangs in the sky on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in Bastrop, Texas. Officials hope calmer winds will help firefighters battling the fires, which have destroyed nearly a thousand homes in the state in the past week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Actress Daryl Hannah is arrested Tuesday by U.S. Park Police near the White House during a protest against the proposed Keystone XL multistate oil pipeline. The pipeline would have a minimal environmental impact, the administration says. (Associated Press)

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"I'm glad to have him back. He had a good average and he is good for the team. They'd been struggling without him and it's good to see him back on the roster list." Nathan Young, Northwest, disability non-profit