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A Somali soldier walks near destroyed buildings, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, after a suicide car bomb on Friday night in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) ** FILE **
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Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in ‘Alien’ (1979)
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Three black female students who gained national attention after claiming to be victims of a hate crime attack are accused of making the entire story up and have been charged with assaulting a white bus passenger.
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National Edition News cover for February 26, 2016 - Rubio confronts Trump on illegal immigrant hires: Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, pauses as Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., center and Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, greet at a break during a Republican presidential primary debate at The University of Houston, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Actress, dancer and honoree Debbie Allen, second left, and family Norman Nixon Jr., from left, Norm Nixon Sr., and Vivian Nixon attend the Essence 9th Annual Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)
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The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse from TWT staff. (Golden Hammer cropped logo)
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Marissa J. Johnson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Seattle, explained on Fox News recently why she and fellow activists believe the phrase "all lives matter" is a racial slur. "'All lives matter is a new racial slur," Marissa J. Johnson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Seattle, said on Bret Baier's "Voter Revolt" special. "White Americans have created the conditions that require a phrase like 'Black Lives Matter.'"
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FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 file photo, Diane Warren, left, and Lady Gaga arrive at the 88th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lady Gaga, a victim of sexual assault, says performing her song about assault at the the Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 28, will feel liberating and emancipating. Her song, “Till It Happens to You,” was written with Warren and is nominated for best original song. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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Cpl. Michael Schroeder, 35, a Marine, was brutally attacked and left to freeze to death in a Northwest D.C. neighborhood Feb. 12, the same night another Marine was also attacked and robbed in Chinatown. (Image: GoFundMe)
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"I think the disturbing thing is that Donald Trump as well as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have said if they were president, they would end women's access to family planning, to cancer screening, to basic affordable health care," Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said. "That's what's really at stake here." (Associated Press)
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Melania Trump says that other immigrants should seek to legally enter and stay in the United States, just as she herself did. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba by William Brown/ Tribune Content Agency
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Illustration on the political parties' overtures to voting women by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz informs the press during the western Balkans conference in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Austria wants not only to crimp the influx of migrants pouring into Europe but to fully stop it, its interior minister declared Wednesday as she convened a meeting of ministers from Western Balkan nations. Greece — which was not invited — blasted the gathering as "hostile." Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner's comments reflect Austria's defiance of EU criticism and concern about the thousands of asylum-seekers that have pushed daily against the country's southern border. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner informs the press during the western Balkans conference in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Austria wants not only to crimp the influx of migrants pouring into Europe but to fully stop it, its interior minister declared Wednesday as she convened a meeting of ministers from Western Balkan nations. Greece — which was not invited — blasted the gathering as "hostile." (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, before the House Appropriations Committee on Foreign Operations hearing on the State Department’s fiscal 2017 budget request. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In this Nov. 17, 2015, file photo, Dr. Robert Califf, President Obama's then-nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate confirmed Califf to be commissioner of the FDA. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Sen. Bernard Sanders, who is losing black voters to Hillary Clinton by a 3-1 margin, impugned her record championing minorities by linking her to welfare reforms that preceded a dramatic rise in poverty rates over the past two decades. (Associated Press)
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In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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A shopper inside the Apple store on Chicago's Magnificent Mile records the subduing of a protester during a continued protest against the police, mayor and state's attorney Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
