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Pro-immigration demonstrators stand on the steps of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. The county will consider allocating $3 million to provide lawyers to immigrants following fears of increased deportations under President-elect Donald Trump. The money would form part of a $10 million fund comprised of city, county and private foundation resources. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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A long-term study by the Food and Drug Administration on MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD patients is nearing completion. Phrase 3 trials started in November 2016. (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
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Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester speaks out against a proposed food tax in New Mexico at the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in Albuquerque, N.M., Dec. 20, 2016. A proposal to reinstate a food tax in New Mexico is drawing strong opposition from the Roman Catholic church and anti-poverty groups over concerns such a plan would raise grocery prices largely on the state's poor. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester speaks out against a proposed food tax in New Mexico at the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. A proposal to reinstate a food tax in New Mexico is drawing strong opposition from the Roman Catholic church and anti-poverty groups over concerns such a plan would raise grocery prices largely on the state's poor. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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A scene from the movie Birth of a Nation (1915). Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, a black man portrayed in blackface by actor Walter Long. (Photo: wikipedia/public domain)
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FILE - This May 2, 2015 file photo shows T. I. performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans. Motivated by the deaths of two young black men in Minnesota and Louisiana, Tip released the EP "Us or Else" which focuses on the issues of social justice and police brutality. (Photo by John Davisson/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - This July 30, 2016, file image made from a video provided by Washington State Patrol via The Daily Herald shows Allen Ivanov in the back of a patrol car in a police camera video shortly after his arrest on Interstate 5 in Lewis County, Wash. Ivanov, who shot and killed three people at a house party in July near Seattle, pleaded guilty Monday, Dec. 19, one day before a prosecutor was to announce his decision on whether to seek the death penalty. (Washington State Patrol via The Herald via AP, File)
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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo shows pills of the painkiller hydrocodone at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
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After a divisive election, it's little wonder that Congress is enjoying historically low ratings of its members' honesty in a new survey. (image courtesy of Architect of the Capitol)
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Protesters against Donald Trump march outside the Ohio statehouse before the Electoral College members vote in Columbus, Ohio, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. All 18 of Ohio's Electoral College members voted Monday for Republican Donald Trump despite opposition by protesters outside the state capitol building. (Kyle Robertson/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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FILE - This Sept. 6, 2016 file photo released by the Greene County Sheriff's Office, shows Brock Turner at the Greene County Sheriff's Office in Xenia, Ohio, where he officially registered as a sex offender. A California agency that oversees judicial discipline in the state ruled Monday, Dec. 19, that Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky committed no misconduct when he sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a young woman on campus. (Greene County Sheriff's Office via AP, file)
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FILE - This June 27, 2011 file photo shows Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, who drew criticism for sentencing former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to only six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. A California agency that oversees judicial discipline in the state ruled Monday, Dec. 19, that Persky committed no misconduct when he sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a young woman on campus. (Jason Doiy/The Recorder via AP, File)
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Davina Foti of Exeter, N.H., attends a protest against President-elect Donald Trump Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Maine's electoral college voters split their vote with 3 ballots for Hillary Clinton and one for Trump. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Protesters against President-elect Donald Trump hold signs outside the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Six electors of the Electoral College will cast their votes inside the Senate chambers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER-In this Sept. 8, 2015 photo provided by the White County, Ind., Sheriff's Department, a bus lies twisted and bent after running off Indiana 16 near Monon, Ind., with 20 migrant workers aboard. Officials say the Florida company that owns the bus had not properly insured it and did not have authority to transport workers. (AP Photo/White County Sheriff's Department)
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ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER-This Aug. 23, 2015 photo provided by his family via the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project shows Enrique Cabriales. Tired of watching his mother struggle with untreated diabetes and high blood pressure, Cabriales resolved to do something. And so, at 27, he did what so many of his compatriots before him have done: He signed on to do farm labor in the United States. On Nov. 6, 2016, he, Jose Rangel Chavez, and four others were killed on their way back to Mexico when their bus hit a concrete support on Interstate 40 in North Little Rock. When the crash investigations began, a pattern of alleged safety violations by Vasquez Citrus & Hauling of Lake Placid, Fla., emerged. (Family Photo/Migrant Farmworker Justice Project via AP)
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An Iraqi boy waits with his father and grandfather to be transferred to a camp near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Hundreds of Iraqis were waiting to undergo a screening by the military outside Mosul on Monday before getting sent to displaced-people’s camps. The civilians, who had just arrived from Mosul, had their identity documents checked against a military database before loaded onto waiting trucks and sent to IDP camps east of the city. Thousands of people try to leave the city each day and the number of displaced now tops 120,000, according to the Iraqi ministry of migration and displacement.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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Displaced Iraqis are reflected in a puddle near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Hundreds of Iraqis were waiting to undergo a screening by the military outside Mosul on Monday before getting sent to displaced-people’s camps. The civilians, who had just arrived from Mosul, had their identity documents checked against a military database before loaded onto waiting trucks and sent to IDP camps east of the city. Thousands of people try to leave the city each day and the number of displaced now tops 120,000, according to the Iraqi ministry of migration and displacement.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
