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Friends and family view a bus outside the U.S. Detention and Deportation Center in Detroit, Sunday, June 11, 2017. A mass immigration and deportation sweep and arrest of dozens of Chaldeans in southeastern Michigan by U.S. immigration officials prompted the protest outside the detention center. Family members of the Catholics with Iraqi roots who were arrested indicate most had criminal records and were awaiting deportation. (Gus Burns/Mlive.com via AP)
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Friends and family view a bus outside the U.S. Detention and Deportation Center in Detroit, Sunday, June 11, 2017. A mass immigration and deportation sweep and arrest of dozens of Chaldeans in southeastern Michigan by U.S. immigration officials prompted the protest outside the detention center. Family members of the Catholics with Iraqi roots who were arrested indicate most had criminal records and were awaiting deportation. (Gus Burns/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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This book cover image released by Harper shows "Hunger," a memoir by Roxane Gay. (Harper via AP)
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial with his wife Camille Cosby at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial with his wife Camille Cosby, right, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial with his wife Camille Cosby, right, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Chef Cathal Armstrong. (My Irish Table)
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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Jameson Taillon sits in the dugout prior to a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 11, 2017. Taillon will start his first game since coming off the disabled list after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, Monday against the Colorado Rockies. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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In a Friday, June 9, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Jurors at Bill Cosby's suburban Philadelphia sexual-assault trial don’t know if they’ll hear from him in person when the defense starts presenting its case Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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L. Owen Taggart of Washington, center, with the Washington Gay Men's Chorus, celebrates after singing on the National Mall during the Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, Sunday, June 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Gregory Elfers with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus sings as he marches along Constitution Ave. NW., during the Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, Sunday, June 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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"Sister Sera Nade" with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, sings on the National Mall with the Capitol in the background during the Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, Sunday, June 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this May 31, 2017 photo, Dennis Kelsch, standing left, a long-time employee of Catholic Community Services, speaks with an unidentified security guard at St. Vincent de Paul dining hall in Salt Lake City. The retiring director of Catholic Community Services homeless services in Salt Lake City said the kind of people that need help has shifted from a population of mostly middle-aged men with alcohol problems to a group that is younger with more women, many addicted to drugs, the Deseret News reported. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP)
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FILE - This May 28, 2008, file photo shows Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, in Austin, Texas. Texas locks up more people who can't afford to pay tickets and fines than any other state, but that could change if Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signs off on bipartisan bills that would require judges to offer alternatives such as community service, payment plans or waivers. Zaffirini authored her chamber's version of the bill, and said it was "of extreme importance for low-income people" that the changes become law. "If a person can't pay, it spirals from a low-level to high-level problem," said Zaffirini, noting that people often lose their jobs during such jail stints. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)
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The graves of Richard and Mildred Loving are seen in a rural cemetery near their former home in Caroline County, Virginia, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Richard Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred, a black woman, challenged Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage and ultimately won their case at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. Monday, June 12, 2017 marks 50 years since the Supreme Court issued that opinion, which overturned laws against interracial marriage in 16 states. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)
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This Jan. 26, 1965 file photo shows Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P Loving. Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of facing discrimination, disapproval and sometimes outright hostility from their fellow Americans. (AP Photo)
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Shawn Sullivan, left, budget director for Gov. Sam Brownback, talks with lobbyist Matt Hickam, right, whose clients include health insurance companies that help the state run its Medicaid coverage for needy residents, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., on Saturday, June 10, 2017. Legislators are trying to wrap up work on budget legislation. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Kansas state Sen. Ed Berger, left, R-Hutchinson, confers with Sen. Rick Wilborn, R-McPherson, before a Senate debate on budget legislation, Saturday, June 10, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Lawmakers are moving to give pay raises to many state employees as they wrap up work on budget legislation (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Tapwrit, left, and Irish War Cry race to the finish during the 149th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Saturday, June 10, 2017, in Elmont, N.Y. Tapwrit won the race. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A crowd gathers after a man was fatally shot, Friday, June 9, 2017 in Tulsa, Okla. Law officers in Tulsa fatally shot a man while trying to pick him up for a mental health issue, triggering a street protest and a corresponding show of force by police in riot gear. (Cory Young/Tulsa World via AP)
