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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2015 file photo, former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle arrives at the federal courthouse in Indianapolis. The family of a girl who accused Fogle in a child pornography case that led to the former Subway pitchman's imprisonment is dropping a lawsuit against him. A motion filed Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, in federal court in Indianapolis requested that the lawsuit be dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought back to court. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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This Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, photo shows Barbie Fashionistas, from Mattel, on display at the annual TTPM Holiday Showcase, in New York. Toy companies are offering products that are more inclusive, from Barbie dolls in all shapes, sizes and skin tones to baby dolls aimed at boys. Toy companies are also offering dolls that represent different disabilities. But still experts and parents say more work needs to be done. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Illustration on Trump's negative impact on the GOP by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - This Oct. 6, 2016 photo shows Lynn Potter in her home in Decatur, Ill., holding a portion of one of the love letters that was the basis of her new novel. Potter, writing under the name Mary Lynn, has just published the novel based on the discovery by her husband Duane of a 2-foot-by-2-foot cardboard box in their attic, filled with letters dated between 1915 and 1920. The book called, The Forgotten Life of Sarah Grady, has naughty sexual liaisons, deep passion, domestic violence, mystery and death. (Jim Bowling/Herald & Review via AP)
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Emory University’s Campus Life Department plans to regularly host events that where invites only extended to minorities. (Facebook, Emory University)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 23 - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 photo, fourth-grader Landon Gregory uses the Voice Dream Reader app on a desktop computer in the library at Kathryn Griffis Elementary in Caddo Mills, Texas. The text-to-speech app is a tool that helps print-disabled students listen to articles while reading books on any devices with the app installed. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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President Barack Obama speaks about the Affordable Care Act, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, at Miami Dade College in Miami. Obama is in Miami to encourage people to sign up for health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act during an upcoming enrollment period. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Steven Long. A federal appeals court has refused an appeal from Long, on death row for the 2005 slaying of an 11-year-old girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted, strangled and then stuffed into a trash bag that was hidden under a trailer home in her neighborhood. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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This undated booking photo provided by the Orange County District Attorney's Office shows Jeffrey Scott Jones, 56, of Huntington Beach. Jones, convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager pulled a razor blade and slashed his throat in an Orange County courtroom Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, moments after the verdict. (Orange County District Attorney's Office via AP)
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Dehumanizing Assisted Suicide Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on a shadow U.S. government by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sometimes appears as if he doesn't know his campaign's policy stances, once saying he would welcome more high-skilled foreign workers — contradicting his own immigration plan on his website. (Associated Press Photographs)
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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016 file photo, More than a thousand people gather at an encampment near North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The sprawling encampment thats a protest against the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining _ except a federal permit to be there. The camp near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers in North Dakota is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land. (AP Photo/James MacPherson) (Associated Press)
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Leslie Millwee, a former broadcast news reporter in Arkansas, has come forward to publicly accuse former President Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her several times in 1980. (Breitbart News)
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A teacher at Norman North High School in Oklahoma was recorded during a lecture saying "to be white is to be racist." (KFOR-4 NBC News Oklahoma screenshot)
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A young migrant holds a bag with a tag saying "Welcome to the UK" as he boards a mini-bus that left Lunar House, which houses the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration in Croydon, south London, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Fourteen children who have been living in a border refugee camp in northern France have arrived in Britain to be reunited with their families. Under pressure from charities, religious leaders and French authorities, Britain has agreed to accept scores of children from Calais. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016 refugee Firas Zakri from Syria, a tour guide of the so-called 'Refugee Tours' shows a photograph of his hometown Aleppo as he tours with a group of people through the district of Neukoelln in Berlin, Germany. Zakri is one of four refugee guides with “querstadtein,” or “cross-city,” a non-profit that initially started off offering tours of Berlin led by formerly homeless people. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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In this June 30, 2011, file photo is an exterior view of San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)