Social Issues

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared on ABC's "This Week" on June 25, 2017, and said calls for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to step down are a case of trying to "blame the leader" for the party's struggles. (ABC "This Week" screenshot)

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Nina Zagat and her husband Tim Zagat are the founders and publishers of Zagat Restaurant Surveys. They met at Yale Law School and were both practicing attorneys when they founded Zagat Surveys, both at age 51

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the 20th Century. Ford was 45 when he introduced the Model T automobile which revolutionized transportation and American industry. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to control the company permanently

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A Christian women's activist group shows support as the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 for Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, that churches have the same right as other charitable groups to seek state money for playground surfaces and other nonreligious needs. (Associated Press)

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Essex County College has fired adjunct professor Lisa Durden after she defended a blacks-only event during a heated interview on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight." (Fox News)

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Brittni Rogers (right) stands with her partner Brittani Henry, as Rogers holds a birth certificate for their daughter that has both of their names on it in Cincinnati on Aug. 6, 2014. The couple are plaintiffs in the Ohio gay marriage case heard Wednesday in Cincinnati. A three judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in six gay marriage fights from four states, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips cracks eggs into a cake batter mixer inside his store in Lakewood, Colo. The Supreme Court is taking on a new clash between gay rights and religion in a case about a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado. The justices said Monday, June 26, 2017, they will consider whether a baker who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds can refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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FILE - In this Friday, June 26, 2015 file photo, people gather in Washington's Lafayette Park to see the White House lit up in rainbow colors on the day the Supreme Court ruled to legalize same-sex marriage. In the two years since same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, support for it has surged even among groups that recently were broadly opposed, according to a new national survey released on Monday, June 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Sen. Dean Heller, Nevada Republican, announced Friday that he would vote no on his party leadership's health care bill unless changes are made. He said his state could not absorb Medicaid cuts in the plan. (Associated Press)

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Randy Burns, co-founder of Gay American Indians, walks during the Pride parade in San Francisco, Sunday, June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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ADVANCE FOR JUNE 24-25 AND THEREAFTER - In a Monday, June 12, 2017 photo, Dr. Yeng Her, a Hmong-American who has received a MD-PhD, reflects on a life journey which took him from the refugee camps of Thailand as a child to a doctoral degree in medicine from the Mayo Clinic, during an interview at his home in Madison, Wis. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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Whitney Householder dances during the gay pride parade in St. Petersburg, Fla., Saturday, June 24, 2017. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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A reveler holds his dog as he takes part in Mexico City's gay pride parade, Saturday, June 24, 2017. Thousands marched down Paseo de la Reforma for one of the largest gay pride events in Latin America. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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FILE – In this March 6, 2012, file photo, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, left, with his wife Elizabeth Kucinich, right, addresses supporters on primary election night at Rubin's Restaurant and Deli in Cleveland. A political mapmaking process controlled by Ohio Republicans resulted in the party winning nearly two more U.S. House seats and five more Ohio House seats in the last election than would have been expected in neutral circumstances, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Kucinich, who saw his Cleveland district eliminated after the 2010 Census, said there's "no question" districts are unfair, though he holds both parties culpable. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)

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FILE- In this March 8, 2017, file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks to media after his election victory in Los Angeles. More than 250 mayors are meeting at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami Beach, some warning President Donald Trump that toughening immigration enforcement meddles with U.S. cities’ affairs. “Some of us are proud to be places of sanctuary, to protect immigrants, but this idea that we’re in violation of something, I think is a big charade,” said Garcetti. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

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ACLU Legal and Policy director Rebecca Robertson talks during a news conference held by opponents of a "bathroom bill" at the Texas State Capitol, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The Texas House is considering a bill that's different than one that sparked outcry when it cleared the state Senate last month. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, June 23, 2017. European Union leaders met in Brussels on the final day of their two-day summit to focus on ways to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean and how to uphold free trade while preventing dumping on Europe's markets. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUNE 24-25, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this June 12, 2017 photo, Carol Bruce of the Gastineau Genealogical Society, looks through photos that were anonymously donated to the Friends of the Juneau Public Library in Juneau, Alaska. Some of the photos date back to the 19th Century, and the GGS is trying to find their rightful owners. (Alex McCarthy/Juneau Empire via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUNE 24-25, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this June 12, 2017 photo, generations-old photos lie on the table at the Gastineau Genealogical Society's Family History Center in Juneau, Alaska. Some of the photos date back to the 19th Century, and the GGS is trying to find their rightful owners. (Alex McCarthy/Juneau Empire via AP)

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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2016, file photo, Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Homer Bailey throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks during a baseball game in Phoenix. Bailey returns from elbow surgery to make his season debut when the Reds face the Washington Nationals. Bailey will be activated from the 60-day disabled list, where he’s languished since the first day of spring training after having bone chips removed from his elbow in February. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso)