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Horses leave the gate to begin the first horse race ahead of the 141st Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 21, 2016, in Baltimore. Homeboykris won the first race. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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Fortune hunter Nathan Drake comes out of retirement for one more explosive adventure in the video game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
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Caleb Andrew Bailey, a Maryland delegate for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been indicted on child pornography, explosives and firearm charges. (U.S. Attorney's Office)
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Caleb Andrew Bailey, a Maryland delegate for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been indicted on child pornography, explosives and firearm charges.
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Illustration on Trump's close campaign affinity with evangelicals on social issues by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Iker Velasquez, 4, who came from Honduras with his parents, holds a U.S. glad as he listens while Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., speaks to the media with children and families from Central America, to speak about the conditions for Central American immigrants who he describes as refugees from violence, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Amir (right) and Mohammed, refugees from Syria, play in front of a barbed-wire fence on the Macedonian border, in Idomeni, Greece, on May 19, 2016. Thousands of stranded refugees and migrants have camped in Idomeni for months after the border was closed. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Alabama pastor David Perry has come under fire from animal-rights groups after a video of him withholding food from his dog to teach obedience went viral.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signs a bill to expand and jump-start Louisiana's medical marijuana program, on Thursday, May 19, 2106, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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D.C. police have charged a security guard at a Giant supermarket with simple assault after Ebony Belcher, a transgender woman, pictured here, accused her of physically removing her from the women's bathroom. (NBC 4)
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Illustration on the removal of mandatory minimum sentencing for low-level drug convictions in Maryland by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams (12) argues a call during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Tuesday, April 12, 2016, in San Antonio. San Antonio won 102-98 in overtime. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Alyssa Leader, a recent Harvard graduate, listens while flanked by her attorneys Alex Zalkin, left, and Irwin Zalkin at a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, in Cambridge, Mass., about the filing of a Title IX civil lawsuit on her behalf alleging the university failed to adequately protect her and investigate complaints of sexual assault, harassment and retaliation. Leader says she was sexually assaulted between March 2013 and March 2014 on campus while she was a student at Harvard. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Roughly 5 million more U.S. workers will soon become eligible for overtime pay under new rules issued by the Obama administration. The policy changes would benefit many salaried employees in the fast food and retail industries who often work long hours, are called managers, but are paid just above the current $23,660 annual threshold that allows companies to deny overtime pay. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama's directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district's 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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An examination dish containing dead mosquitoes sits under a microscope on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Brownsville, Texas. The exhibit was part of a display of tools public health offficials use to capture and combat mosquitos. A panel of local experts and officials discussed the threat Zika brings and ways to minimize its spread in the Rio Grande Valley, a major thoroughfare of international trade and travel. (Jason Hoekema/The Brownsville Herald via AP)
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A new sticker designates a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama’s directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district’s 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama’s directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district’s 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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FILE - This Jan. 17, 2008 file photo, South bound vehicles leave El Paso, Texas and enter Juarez, Mexico at the Bridge of the Americas international port of entry. Immigrant advocates are complaining about U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers' actions toward residents along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso and New Mexico. A coalition of advocacy groups said Tuesday, May 17, 2016, that they filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security alleging at least 13 residents have experienced abuse, including being falsely accused of being prostitutes to having legal document seized for no reason. (Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times via AP, File) OUT EL PASO, EL DIARIO OUT, JUAREZ, MEXICO, EL DIARIO DE EL PASO OUT