Social Issues

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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said he does want to end up supporting Mr. Trump, though the billionaire businessman will have to convince Republicans that he accepts their philosophy of limited government and must prove he will tone down the bullying and insults that characterized the Trump campaign during the primaries. (Associated Press)

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"What is far more important than the arbitrary number of 10,000 is whether these refugees can be properly screened. If the answer is no, which is obviously the case given testimony by the FBI director and homeland security secretary, then we should not let a single one into the country," said Rep. Vern Buchanan, Florida Republican. (Associated Press)

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Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq have fled to Europe in search of asylum. President Obama wants the U.S. to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year, but officials are not screening all social media accounts. (Associated Press)

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I know, let's change the twenty dollar bill! (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)

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Protesters head into the Legislative building for a sit-in against House Bill 2 in Raleigh, N.C., Monday, April 25, 2016. While demonstrations circled North Carolina's statehouse on Monday, for and against a Republican-backed law curtailing protections for LGBT people and limiting public bathroom access for transgender people, House Democrats filed a repeal bill that stands little chance of passing. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California declared Zika is far too imminent a threat to public health to quibble over funding sources, and called out Republicans for saying the money can only come from budget cuts elsewhere. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had some of his most strident critics come to his defense after the GOP front-runner last week came out against North Carolina's transgender "bathroom bill." (pennlive.com via the associated press)

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The National Democratic Party organized a demonstration against Germany's asylum law after the U.N. refugee agency reported that more than 158,450 people, including over 50,000 in July alone, had arrived on the shores of Greece last year in hopes of migrating within Europe. (Associated Press)

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The first National Cannabis Festival attracted thousands of marijuana activists, criminal justice reform advocates and stoners alike held at the grounds outside RFK Stadium. (Photographs by Ryan McDermott/The Washington Times)

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Two protesters hold up signs against passage of legislation in North Carolina, which limits the bathroom options for transgender people, during a rally in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, March 31, 2016. The rally drew around 100 people at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. (AP Photos/Skip Foreman)

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Tim Constantine compares American values to our European counterparts.

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Tim Constantine on the issue of transgender bathroom laws. Is it about rights or about rules?

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In this Friday, April 15, 2016, file photo, Egyptians shout slogans against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during a protest against the decision to hand over control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in front of the Press Syndicate, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

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In this April 12, 2016 photo, Victor Garcia, of Miami, from left, Maria Hernandez and Miriam Dominguez, protest against Carnival Corporation as they hold a rally in Doral, Fla. Two Cuban-American men are asking a Miami federal judge to guarantee they and other Cuban exiles will not suffer discrimination on upcoming Carnival Corp. cruises to Cuba. A hearing was held in Miami, Thursday, April 21, 2016. (Carl Juste/The Miami Herald via AP, File) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

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In this Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016 file photo, Israeli women put on Tefillin also known as Phylacteries, a small leather box containing religious text usually worn by Jewish men, at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's Old City. Israel's attorney general has banned Jewish women's prayer group called Women of the Wall from holding an all-female "priestly blessing" next week and it is an unrecognized custom that has never been held at the Western Wall. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)