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Milo Yiannopoulos holds a sign as he speaks at the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
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Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus in the Mathematics building at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
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A protester is arrested at the Mathematics building during the Milo Yiannopoulos speech at the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
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Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus in the Mathematics building on the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
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Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus in the Mathematics building at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, that he is ordering a “major investigation” into voter fraud, which tough laws requiring photo identification at the ballot box are designed to prevent. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, cotton farmer Teofilo "Junior" Flores drives his truck along the U.S.-Mexico border fence that passes through his property in Brownsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Clothing and a backpack lay on the tracks of the railroad used by migrants jumping trains traveling northbound, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten U.S. immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities." (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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“In 2016, young voters ages 18 to 29 were the only age group to report increased turnout compared to 2012, with a reported turnout increase of 1.1 percent,” the Census Bureau said in its analysis of the voting data. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on statistics and the women's vote in 2016 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Terry Edwards. Edwards, 43, is set for lethal injection on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. Attorneys for the Edwards say he didn’t do the 2002 shootings and that he had poor legal help at his trial and in earlier appeals. They want a federal court to stop his lethal injection. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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Protesters of President Trump's immigration policies defend San Francisco's sanctuary status. (Associated Press/File)
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Karim Wasfi, the former conductor of the Baghdad Symphony, plays his cello is Lafayette Park near a protest about President Donald Trump's immigration policies, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 in Washington. The half-Iraqi, half-Egyptian cellist and founder of an organization called Peace Through Arts played serene classical tunes. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, workers raise a taller fence along the Mexico-US border between the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, where for almost two decades a Mass has been celebrated on Day of the Dead to remember migrants who have died trying to cross the fence. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to force Mexico to pay for a wall along the nearly 2,000-mile (3,145-kilometer) border. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)
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Gina Alexis, mother of 14-year-old Nakia Venant, who livestreamed her suicide on Facebook over the weekend, weeps as she answers a question during a news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, shows a in Plantation, Fla. Nakia Venant's suicide is at least the third to be livestreamed nationally in the last month. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Spicer answered questions about immigration, homeland security and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, Terri Bruce, left, walks toward the South Dakota state Capitol in Pierre. The bill drew national condemnation and is included in the AP top news stories in South Dakota this year. Two South Dakota lawmakers introduced a bill, introduced Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, that would require public school students to use the locker rooms, shower rooms and changing facilities that match their sex at birth. Bruce, a 53-year-old transgender man, fought against the bill last year. (AP Photo/James Nord, File)
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Ariana Marsh, center, and Katie Davis, right, participate in a pro-life candle light vigil organized by Students for Life at UGA held to protest Roe v. Wade at the University of Georgia Arch in Athens, Ga., in this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, file photo. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP) ** FILE **
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ADDS THAT MADONNA HAS DENIED THAT SHE IS SEEKING TO ADOPT TWO MORE CHILDREN - FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2016, file photo, musician Madonna poses for photographers upon arrival at the world premiere of the film "The Beatles, Eight Days a Week" in London. A government spokesman in Malawi said the pop star appeared before a High Court judge on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, to file for the adoption of two more children from the impoverished country. Madonna, however, later denied the report. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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Alexa Fraser, right, whose father shot himself to death in 2014 in response to advancing Parkinson's disease, speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, in Annapolis, Md., in favor of legislation to allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives by self-ingesting drugs prescribed by a doctor. Supporters hope a neutral position adopted on the issue by the Maryland State Medical Society this fall will help boost support for the bill this year. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
