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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Robert Moreno Ramos. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from Ramos, on Texas death row for the slayings of his wife and two children at their Rio Grande Valley home more than 25 years ago. The high court issued no comment Monday, May 15, 2017, in the case of 62-year-old Ramos. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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Wes Bellamy speaks in support of removal of confederate monuments during a counter-protest against those on Saturday evening gathered to call on officials to halt the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, May 14, 2017. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)
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People in support of removal of confederate monuments hold candles during a counter-protest against those on Saturday evening gathered to call on officials to halt the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, May 14, 2017. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)
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Two federal immigration officers asking about a student at P.S. 58 in New York City were reportedly turned away at the door under the mayor's new directive barring law enforcement from entering schools without a warrant. (NY1)
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In this May 4, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by GOP House members, cheer for Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., after the House pushed through a health care bill, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Members of Congress looking to rewrite former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act have a unique perspective, since many of them are signed up for the health care it created. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Mr. Gillespie says if he wins Virginia's governorship, he will enlist state and local police to help enforce immigration laws. He says he would require businesses to use the E-Verify program.
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Protesters against a speech appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos march on the University of California, Berkeley campus Feb. 1. (Associated Press)
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In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. Health insurance tax credits, mandates, taxation of employer coverage, essential benefits. Mind-numbing health care jargon is flying around again as Republicans move to repeal and replace the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Its time to start paying attention. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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FILE - In this July 22, 2011 file photo, a man stands on a tent's roof at a refugee camp, once a golf course, set up for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The number of Haitians displaced by the earthquake has dropped since February, according to the International Organization for Migration. They say the drop marks the steepest decline in the camp population since early last year. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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In this Oct. 24, 2016, photo, journalism instructor Alan Montgomery poses questions to the crowd about bullying during an anti-bullying rally held at Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, Kan. The temporary seizure of newspapers at the community college last week shone a media spotlight on a long-running dispute between administrators and student journalists. Hutchinson Community College's board of trustees is expected Tuesday to wade into the controversy. The administration earlier this month suspended Montgomery and cancelled his classes before the end of the semester. (Lindsey Bauman/The Hutchinson News via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, April 13, 2017, file photo, New York Yankees relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman (54) delivers a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays in New York. The New York Yankees have placed closer Chapman on the 10-day disabled list with rotator cuff inflammation in his left shoulder. The Yankees announced the move Sunday, May 14, before the first game of a day-night doubleheader against the Houston Astros. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, May 8, 2017, file photo, New York Yankees relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman sits in the dugout in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati. The New York Yankees have placed closer Chapman on the 10-day disabled list with rotator cuff inflammation in his left shoulder. The Yankees announced the move Sunday, May 14, before the first game of a day-night doubleheader against the Houston Astros. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson on Monday approved the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance plan, which broadens the scope of the Mexico City Policy. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - In this April 18, 2016 file photo, supporters of fair immigration reform gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Supreme Court decisions in a half-dozen cases dealing with immigration over the next two months could reveal how the justices might evaluate Trump administration actions on immigration, especially stepped up deportations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - In this July 21, 2015 photo, Jeanette Williams places a bouquet of roses at a memorial for Sandra Bland near Prairie View A&M University, in Prairie View, Texas. The sister of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational traffic stop with a white state trooper, says it is "gut-wrenching" that lawmakers stripped police reforms from a bill named after her sibling and are now pushing a weakened compromise that "painfully misses the mark." (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
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Pope Francis hugs Lucas Baptista during a mass at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima Saturday, May 13, 2017, in Fatima, Portugal. Lucas, whose medically inexplicable healing was the "miracle" needed for the Marto siblings to be declared saints. The boy, aged 5 at the time, had fallen 6.5 meters (21 feet) from a window in 2013 and suffered such severe head trauma that his doctors said he would be severely mentally disabled or in a vegetative state if he even survived. The boy not only survived but has no signs of any after-effects. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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FILE - In this April 14, 2015 file photo, Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, asks questions in the House Appropriations Committee in Baton Rouge, La. Moreno spent years working on a series of bills that eventually resulted in getting naloxone, the opiate antidote, available as an over-the-counter drug. Now, she’s focused on preventing people from getting addicted to painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin in the first place. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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Amy Murdoch, left, and Mia LameBull study for finals Monday, May 8, 2017, on the campus of Montana State University Northern in Havre, Mont. The women have been critical of the university's handling of racist comments made by a fellow student. (Holly Michels/The Billings Gazette via AP)
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“Texas corn, Texas wheat, Texas water, Texas aging climate, and our proprietary Texas yeast strain,” says co-founder Leonard Firestone about TX Straight Bourbon. (Photograph courtesy Firestone & Robertson Distilling Co.)
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FILE -- In this May 20, 2015 file photo, Bentley, a 3-year-old Labrador retriever, rests his head on an inmate who he detected of having been in contact with an illegal drug at California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville, Calif. California's $15 million bid to thwart prison drug smuggling has brought mixed results, researches found. Drug use in the three prisons with the most extensive programs dropped by nearly a quarter after corrections officials increased the use of airport-style scanners, surveillance cameras, urine tests and drug-sniffing dogs, but there was little effect at eight other prisons where the safeguards were used less frequently. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
