Social Issues

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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, Wyoming Republican, hopes to put an end to the last-minute deadline showdowns that have plagued Capitol Hill by forcing the Senate to debate spending bills soon after the annual budget is finished. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on transgender mental health in the military by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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We're protesting against you ... (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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Columbia Fire Department Capt. Jimmy Morris was terminated Monday for threatening on social media to "run over" Black Lives Matter protesters. (WIS-TV)

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Image via NBC Connecticut, accessed July 12, 2016. [http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Yale-University-to-Keep-Slavery-Supporters-Name--377393921.html]

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FILE - In this July 9, 2016 file photo, marchers block part of Interstate 94 in St. Paul, Minn., during a protest sparked by the recent police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana. The killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop last week tore open wounds that hadn't yet healed in Minnesota's black community from a previous officer-involved death last year. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, File)

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Even as protesters continue to march in Dallas, Black Lives Matter leaders have denounced the bloodshed there Thursday. They said in a post after the massacre of five police officers and the woundings of others that "[b]lack activists have raised the call for an end to violence, not an escalation of it." (Associated Press)

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A craw in the ongoing abortion debate centers on the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds from paying directly for abortions. The Democratic Party aims to strip the Hyde language from its 2016 platform. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Bill Armstrong The Washington Times

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Illustration on racial harmony by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. (U.S. Army via AP File)

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At least 3000 displaced women, men and children gather to seek shelter in Juba, South Sudan at the U.N. compound in Tomping area, Monday, July 11, 2016. (Beatrice Mategwa/UNMISS via AP) ** FILE **

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Kalyn Chapman James, the first black woman to hold the title of Miss Alabama, posted a tearful message Sunday calling Dallas cop killer Micah Xavier Johnson a "martyr." (Facebook/@Kalyn Chapman James)

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Black Lives Matter protesters march July 10 in Dallas. (Associated Press/File)

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Francys Johnson state president of the Georgia NAACP chants in Centennial Olympic Park during a march through downtown Atlanta to protest the shootings of two black men by police officers, Friday, July 8, 2016. Thousands of people marched along the streets of downtown Atlanta to protest the recent police shootings of African-Americans. Atlanta Police Chief George Turner and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said earlier in the day that people have the right to protest this weekend but urged them to cooperate with law enforcement. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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Dallas Police shield bystanders after shots were fired Thursday, July 7, 2016, during a protest over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

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Young Buck released a new song titled "Riot" Thursday and urged fans to "shoot back" at "crooked" police officers, while snipers gunned down five police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas. (Twitter/@YoungBuck)

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Michael Strickland, a conservative blogger who says he feared for his life during a Black Lives Matter protest Thursday night in Portland, Oregon, has been arrested after he briefly displayed a handgun. (KPTV)

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Christina Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, on December 18, 1980, to Shelly Loraine, a musician, and Fausto Xavier Aguilera, a United States Army soldier. Her family moved frequently because of her father's military service, and lived in places including New Jersey, Texas, New York, and Japan. Aguilera and her mother alleged that her father was physically and emotionally abusive, claims which he denied; Aguilera used music as a form of escape from her turbulent household. Following her parents' divorce when she was six years old, Aguilera, her younger sister Rachel, and her mother (who later remarried) moved into her grandmother's home in the Pittsburgh suburb of Rochester, Pennsylvania. After several years of being estranged, Aguilera expressed interest in reconciling with her father in 2012. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)