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Shriya Jaddsu's contributions help raise money toward breast cancer research, treatment and education.
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"Blue Lives Matter" billboards honoring police have sprung up nationwide, but some Black Lives Matter supporters are arguing the campaign diminishes their cause. (Fox 17)
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Russian warplanes have been hitting rebel-controlled areas including Homs. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Illustration on the call for a better armed society by William Brown/Tribune Content Agency
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said only about 331,000 illegal immigrants were caught on the border in fiscal year 2015, which ended last week. That was the lowest number since 2011. When the numbers are finalized, they could dip to rates not seen since the early 1970s. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 6, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Tim Constantine reports on the search for yet more emails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department, and big changes coming for some drug offenders.
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A California mom says her son's Playmobil toy came with racist instructions for a dark-skinned, slave-like figurine, and the NAACP is demanding answers. (CBS13 Sacramento)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an equal-pay measure that lets female employees challenge pay discrimination based on the wages a company pays to other employees who do similar work. Equal Rights Advocates lauded the law as "the strongest equal-pay law in the country," while the California Political Review predicted the bill would usher in "government control of wages and work." (Associated Press)
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Senior health care Strapped by Obamacare Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on the mental illness root of mass murder by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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About 3,000 Romanian doctors emigrate every year to work abroad, where they get better salaries and working conditions. (Associated Press)
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Of course I'm the victim of a GOP and media conspiracy .... (Illustration by Paul Combs of the Tribune Media Services)
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Demi Lovato's new album "Confident" album cover.
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Proposition 1 allows voters to decide the fate of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, the hotly contested law pushed by Houston Mayor Annise Parker, a Democrat, and passed by the Houston City Council last year. The law was moved to the Nov. 3 ballot after a signature-gathering campaign that went to the Texas Supreme Court. (Associated Press)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton called for expanded and stricter background checks, including prohibiting domestic abusers and stalkers from buying firearms, a ban on military-style weapons and a repeal of a 2005 law that she said grants firearms manufacturers and dealers "immunity" from lawsuits by victims of gun violence. (Associated Press)
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A right-to-die bill was signed into law by California Gov. Jerry Brown, making that state the fifth to allow physician-assisted suicide. (Associated Press)
