Social Issues

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**FILE** Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida chairs the Democratic National Committee. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, accuses the Obama administration of having "cooked the books" for two years regarding U.S. border security facts.

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Syrian men carry bread loaves during a protest against President Bashar Assad's regime in the coastal town of Banias, Syria, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in this image taken by a citizen journalist with a cellphone camera. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** William Melchert-Dinkel (center) leaves the Rice County Courthouse in Faribault, Minn., with his attorney, Terry Watkins (right), and his wife, Joyce Melchert-Dinkel, on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, after waiving his right to a jury trial on charges of aiding two suicides. (AP Photo/Robb Long, File)

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** FILE ** William Melchert-Dinkel (center) leaves the Rice County Courthouse in Faribault, Minn., with his attorney, Terry Watkins (right), and his wife, Joyce Melchert-Dinkel, on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, after waiving his right to a jury trial on charges of aiding two suicides. (AP Photo/Robb Long, File)

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SCAVENGERS: Pakistani youngsters collect pieces thought to be from a U.S. helicopter in a wheat field outside Osama bin Laden's hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday. The U.S. said the strike team disabled the helicopter after the raid. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, gather Tuesday outside the house where where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed two days earlier. They showed off small parts of what appeared to be parts from U.S. helicopter that Washington said malfunctioned and was disabled by the American commando strike team as they retreated.

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., at a House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, said he has read the Utah immigration law — unlike Arizona's, where he first criticized the law, only later acknowledging he hadn't read it. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, is preparing a fiscal plan that calls for a complete overhaul of the tax code but would leave Social Security untouched.

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Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, has proposed cutting $6.2 trillion in government spending over the next decade as a start to dealing with the national debt. The plan relies on repealing the year-old health care law and deep cuts in Medicaid. (AP Photo)

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer a year ago became the face of anti-Washington sentiment when she signed the toughest state immigration law. (Associated Press)

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NBC VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg suggested Sunday that illegal immigrants could earn citizenship by working in Detroit.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Detroit Mayor Dave Bing saw his city lose 25 percent of its resident since the last census. Mr. Bing's spokesman said Detroit is open to New York's mayor's suggestion that the federal government allow illegal immigrants to move to the Motor City.

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES More than two years after anti-littering legislation passed in the District, police have begun enforcing the law. "Residents are tired of all of this litter and trash throughout the city," D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown said.

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Associated Press Philip Congdon resigned from his state job in Maine after comments that offended rural residents, blacks and American Indians - all in one day.

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Activist Anna Hazare, 73, stages a hunger strike against corruption in New Delhi. He has called for a panel to investigate corruption.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman has been on the disabled list since April 12 with an abdominal strain. There is no timetable for his return.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman has been on the disabled list since April 12. He will undergo surgery on a torn abdominal muscle and will miss at least the next six weeks.

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BARBARA SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Camryn Swain, 5, of the District, relaxes in the "ZOO" sign at the National Zoo on Monday. Hundreds of people came out to the zoo on Easter Monday in celebration of African-American Family Day. An altercation led to a stabbing during the event and zoo officials say security will be reviewed.

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Displaced Cambodian villagers wait for assistance from government at a shelter in Oddar Meanchey province. A border clash between Cambodia and Thailand marks an escalation of a dispute over a holy site claimed by both. (Associated Press)