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In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2016 photo, a Lebanese medical worker checks a Syrian refugee at a Doctors Without Borders clinic at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. In a report published Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said Lebanese residency laws are putting Syrian refugees in danger. The regulations, adopted a year ago, have forced refugees to either return to Syria, where they are at risk of persecution, torture or death, or to stay in Lebanon illegally, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Illustration on inspiring an internal change as a solution to ending poverty by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Virginia House Minority Leader David Toscano says there are opportunities for liberals and conservatives to work together in Richmond. (Associated Press)
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Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting helicopter at a federal hangar in Mexico City on Jan. 8, 2016. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. (Associated Press)
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A city employee removes wooden crosses that were placed in a plaza by organizations protesting against government inaction over the alarming murder rate in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Sept. 1, 2015. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, right speaks with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., left, at an economic forum, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in Columbia, S.C. Huckabee pitched his “fair tax,” a single-rate consumption tax to replace all other taxes on wages, investments on inheritance. “It’s a powerful unlocking of the economy,” Huckabee said, noting that he would allow something similar to the Earned Income Tax Credit to ease the tax burden on low-income households. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
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Ingrid Vaca, originally of Bolivia who now lives in Arlington, Va., rallies for immigration reform after marching from Arlington, Va. to the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, on the one-year anniversary of President Obama's announcement concerning Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DAPA). (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee during a series of early-morning raids on March 3, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Tim Constantine reports on problems with transparency in the State Department, and a lawsuit filed against the US government over the Keystone XL pipeline project.
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In this photo taken on March 17, 2015, the dome of the Capitol in Atlanta stands in the background as Stephen Saras, of Atlanta, holds a rainbow colored flag during a rally against a contentious "religious freedom" bill, which critics say could provide legal cover for discrimination against gays and transgender people in Atlanta. According to demographer Gary Gates of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, an estimated 3.4 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, while only one-tenth that many — about 700,000 — are transgender. (AP Photo/David Goldman/ File)
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FILE - 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. A major survey out Jan. 7, 2016, finds that progress has stalled on reducing the number of uninsured Americans under President Barack Obama’s health care law. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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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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Bodies of two dead migrants lie on a dock after a rescue operation of more than 100 people by the Libyan Coast Guard near Tripoli, Libya, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa) ** FILE **
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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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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., smiles as he departs the chamber just after the Repubican-controlled House of Representatives voted to eliminate key parts of President Barack Obama's health care law and to stop taxpayer funds from going to Planned Parenthood, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)