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Susan Mosier, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, speaks to the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, responding to a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that Kansas' Medicaid program is "substantively out of compliance" with U.S. law. (Thad Allton/Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)
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Pro-life demonstrators are lining up for the annual March for Life on Friday, yet many pro-life organizations and supporters are doubtful the media will give the march the kind of coverage that attended the Women's March on Washington over the weekend to protest the policies of newly installed President Trump. (Associated Press)
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Rue Landau, executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, discusses a report on racism in the city's Gayborhood on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, at City Hall in Philadelphia. Women, minorities and transgender people have felt unwelcome and unsafe in Philadelphia's gay neighborhood for decades, according to a city report issued Monday. (AP Photo/Errin Haines Whack)
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In this June 17, 2016, file photo, people walk across a rainbow crosswalk painted in support of the LGBT community in the Gayborhood, a gay-friendly section of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations recommended Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, that bars and nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia's gay neighborhood undergo training for racial bias and hire more diverse staff, after a new city report found women, minorities and transgender people have felt unwelcome and unsafe in the Gayborhood for decades. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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This June 13, 2007, file photo shows a street sign in the Gayborhood, a gay-friendly section of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations recommended Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, that bars and nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia's gay neighborhood undergo training for racial bias and hire more diverse staff, after a new city report found women, minorities and transgender people have felt unwelcome and unsafe in the Gayborhood for decades. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney discusses a report on racism in the city's Gayborhood on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, at City Hall in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations recommended Monday that bars and nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia's gay neighborhood undergo training for racial bias and hire more diverse staff, after a new city report found women, minorities and transgender people have felt unwelcome and unsafe in the Gayborhood for decades. (AP Photo/Errin Haines Whack)
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State Representatives and Senators stand with organizers of a protest against Roe v. Wade on the steps of the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., as hundreds converged on the Kansas Statehouse to mark the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide,Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Abortion opponents expressed optimism Monday that Donald Trump's early months in office would advance their cause. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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This Dec. 23, 2016 photo shows an arch welcoming visitors to Molcaxac, Puebla state, Mexico. Folks here say so many working-age residents have migrated to the U.S., the town is mostly populated by the elderly and the very young. The first wave of migration started in 1942 with the bracero program, which allowed Mexicans to temporarily, and legally, work in the United States. After the program ended in 1964, people continued to go north illegally. (AP Photo/Peter Orsi)
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Rep. Bruce Chandler, R-granger, speaks on the House floor, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. The House passed a bill Monday that delays a deadline for a reduction in the amount of money school districts can collect through local property tax levies, and it now heads to the Republican-controlled Senate. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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A few of the advertisements to sell marijuana online are seen on a Denver Craigslist page, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Legal marijuana is widely for sale in Colorado, but a bill moving through the state Legislature aims to crack down on those who sell weed illegally using online ads such as Craigslist. A bill approved unanimously by the state Senate on Monday, Jan. 23, would make it a crime to advertise pot if the person doesn't have a license to sell the drug. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, accompanied by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, to announce the Patient Freedom Act of 2017, a possible GOP replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act. President Donald Trump's congressional agenda has made a priority of repealing and replacing President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2013, file photo, Jonathan Turley, attorney for Kody Brown and his four wives, the stars of the reality show "Sister Wives," leaves the Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse, in Salt Lake City. The Supreme Court said Monday, Jan 23, 2017, it won't hear an appeal from the family on TV's "Sister Wives" challenging Utah's law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family's long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah's law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this July 10, 2013, file photo, Kody Brown poses with his wives at one of their homes in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court said Monday, Jan 24, 2017, it won't hear an appeal from the family on TV's "Sister Wives" challenging Utah's law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family's long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah's law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution. (Jerry Henkel/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via AP, File)
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This Jan. 13, 2017 photo show inmates who cook for the Interno restaurant in the kitchen at the San Diego prison, in Cartagena, Colombia. Convicts have been serving up gourmet meals at the Interno in the all-women prison since December, in a novel experiment intended to promote the inmates’ rehabilitation and confront the Colombian public’s neglect of the country’s exploding prison population. (AP Photo/Alba Tobella)
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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, inmates work in the dining room of the Interno restaurant at the San Diego prison, in Cartagena, Colombia. Convicts have been serving up gourmet meals at the Interno in the all-women prison since December, in a novel experiment intended to promote the inmates’ rehabilitation and confront the Colombian public’s neglect of the country’s exploding prison population. (AP Photo/Alba Tobella)
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FILE - In this March 29, 2016 file photo, Nebraska state Sen. Bill Kintner of Papillion, speaks during debate in Lincoln, Neb. Kintner, who had cybersex with a woman on a state computer, is facing criticism again for a retweet Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, suggesting that demonstrators at a women's march weren't attractive enough to be sexually assaulted. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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Kazakhstan's officials prepare working space for delegations at a hotel lobby where Russia, Iran and Turkey will hold talks on Syrian peace, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. The talks are the latest attempt to forge a political settlement to end a war that has by most estimates killed more than 400,000 people since March 2011 and displaced more than half the country's population. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Nobel Prize Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Prince Kirkland, 1, of Hattiesburg takes a nap at the Forrest County Storm Shelter, in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Kirkland and his family were displaced after a deadly tornado swept through the Hub City in the early hours of Saturday morning. (Ryan Moore/WDAM-TV, via AP)
