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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., votes at an early voting site Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in Las Vegas. When Sen. Harry Reid cast the last vote hell make as a U.S. Senator, he did it in a Las Vegas Strip early voting site surrounded by casino workers in the Culinary Union. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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FILE - In this March 19, 2015, file photo, Korean adoptee Adam Crapser, left, poses with daughters, Christal, 1, Christina, 5, and his wife, Anh Nguyen, in the family's living room in Vancouver, Wash. After struggling with joblessness because of his lack of immigration papers, homelessness and crime, Crapser, a South Korean man who was flown to the U.S. 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3 has been ordered deported back to a country that is completely alien to him, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka, File)
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Students gather on the west mall to confront the Young Conservatives of Texas student organization over a controversial bake sale Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, on The University of Texas campus in Austin. The Young Conservatives of Texas chapter at the University of Texas-Austin sparked the protest with an affirmative action bake sale. The club encouraged students to “to buy a cookie from us and talk about the disastrous policy that is affirmative action.” (Joshua Guerra/The Daily Texan via AP)
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MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber told CNN on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, that Obamacare is working "as designed." His commentary comes just days after the Obama administration announced premium health care premium hikes up to 25 percent in 2017. (CNN screenshot)
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This undated photo provided by the Dane County Sheriff's Office in Madison, Wis., shows Alec Cook, a University of Wisconsin student charged with sexually assaulting and choking a woman on Oct. 12, 2016. Prosecutors say Cook is expected to face additional charges after investigators were contacted by dozens of other women. (Dane County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In this July 25, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta arrive for a news conference at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, where President Obama nudged African nations to treat gays and lesbians equally under the law, a position that remains unpopular through much of the continent. The U.S. has deployed its diplomats and tens of millions of dollars to try to block anti-gay laws, punish countries that enacted them, and tie U.S. assistance to respect for LGBT rights, animated in part by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s declaration that “gay rights are human rights.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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President Obama signs executive orders to protect LGBT employees from federal workplace discrimination in the East Room of the White House on July 21, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A woman wipes her eyes outside of Union Middle School in Sandy, Utah, after a shooting involving an argument between two juveniles took place outside of the school, on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. The victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital. His condition was not immediately known. The suspected shooter is in police custody. (Kristin Murphy/Deseret News via AP)
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People unload food and water boated in from the "Mission of Hope" charity after Hurricane Matthew swept through Jeremie, Haiti, on Oct. 8. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on non-voters by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Trees in the Sequoia National Forest in California were charred along the path of a 29,000-acre blaze caused by an illegal immigrant with a long criminal record. (Associated Press)
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Trees in the Sequoia National Forest in California were charred along the path of a 29,000-acre blaze caused by an illegal immigrant with a long criminal record. (Associated Press)
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FILE - An undated portrait shows Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi, Aug. 31, 1955, after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center, in glendora, Miss., dedicated to the memory Emmett Till, has raised over $20,000 to replace a bullet-riddled sign commemorating the 1955 Mississippi killing that helped propel the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/File)
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Michael Rectenwald, a clinical assistant professor of liberal studies at New York University, created an undercover Twitter account so he could blast political correctness and campus "safe space" culture without fear of reprisal from students or "social justice warriors." (Twitter/@antipcnyuprof)
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FILE - In this March 4, 2015, file photo, Elder L. Tom Perry, left, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Quorum of the Twelve Apostles shakes hands with Equality Utah executive director Troy Williams after Utah lawmakers introduced a landmark anti-discrimination bill during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders are telling gay and lesbian church members that attraction to people of the same sex is not a sin or a measure of their faithfulness. But they are reminding those members that acting on those feelings by having sex violates fundamental doctrinal beliefs that won't change. The message is part of the Mormon church's "Mormon and Gay" website launched Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, with dozens of articles, teachings, videos and stories from Mormons who identify themselves as gay. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2015, file photo, Sandy Newcomb poses for a photograph with a rainbow flag as Mormons gather for a mass resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders are telling gay and lesbian church members that attraction to people of the same sex is not a sin or a measure of their faithfulness. But they are reminding those members that acting on those feelings by having sex violates fundamental doctrinal beliefs that won't change. The message is part of the Mormon church's "Mormon and Gay" website launched Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, with dozens of articles, teachings, videos and stories from Mormons who identify themselves as gay. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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CW's "Supergirl" uses an immigration allegory for its "Welcome to Earth" episode to criticize "America's xenophobic right." (The CW Television Network)
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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2016 file picture a police officer, second right, and border guard, right, of Poland patrol with Hungarian policemen along the temporary border fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary has started building a new fence on its southern border with Serbia, part of its efforts to keep migrants and refugees from freely entering the country. Hungarian state television said Tuesday Oct. 25, 2016 two kinds of barriers were being tested along a short stretch of the border before construction begins in earnest. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in August that the new fence was needed in case of a new surge of people moving toward Western Europe. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP,file)
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The reign of Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio, billed as "America's Toughest Sheriff" for his approach to illegal immigration, is in jeopardy as Arizona's voters are increasingly Hispanic. Sheriff Arpaio's support of Donald Trump may also prove a liability. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on human trafficking and open borders by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times