Social Issues

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Syrian refugees arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Women place a sign outside Dr. Walter James Palmer's dental office in Bloomington, Minn., on July 29, 2015. Mr. Palmer reportedly paid $50,000 to track and kill Cecil, a black-maned lion, just outside Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, has said he would use any and all means available to Congress to gut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, raising talk of another government shutdown — something Republican leaders are hoping to avoid. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Hungary relents and allows a swarm of migrants and refugees without visas to use public transportation to travel to Austria and Germany. Story, A8. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the financial burden of unions on workers by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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A father carries his child as they arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived in various trains to get first registration as asylum seekers in Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Refugees receive new clothes as they arrive at the Hauptbahnhof station in Salzburg, Austria, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015 on their way from Hungary via Vienna to Germany. (AP Photo/ Kerstin Joensson)

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Migrants arrive at the Hungarian-Austrian border in Nickelsdorf, Austria, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015, where they came from Budapest as Austria in the early-morning hours said it and Germany would let them in. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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Rowan County deputy clerk Brian Mason, left, shakes hands with James Yates and his partner William Smith Jr. after issuing their their marriage license at the Rowan County Judicial Center in Morehead, Ky., Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. After four attempts, Yates and Smith were the first gay couple to receive their marriage license, hours after the county's defiant clerk was hauled to jail for refusing to license same-sex marriages. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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Illustration critical of Saudi Arabia's human rights record by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Rep. Elijah E. Cummings asked his colleagues in the GOP to suspend their investigations into Planned Parenthood in the wake of the recent videos released by an anti-abortion group, saying that the group's tactics may not be telling the entire story and rather backing an agenda. (Associated Press)

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Rowan County (Ky.) Clerk Kim Davis objects to same-sex marriage for religious reasons and stopped issuing all marriage licenses in June after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. (Associated Press)

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In this Aug. 28, 2015 file photo, Deborah Cox attends the 2015 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cox and Kathleen Turner will star in the world premiere of an off-Broadway play about transgender identity. 22Q Entertainment said Thursday, Sept. 3, that both women have signed on to John S. Anastasi‘s “Would You Still Love Me ...” (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, File)

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In this June 17, 2015 file photo, actress Kathleen Turner attends the premiere of "A Little Chaos" in New York. Turner and Deborah Cox will star in the world premiere of an off-Broadway play about transgender identity. 22Q Entertainment said Thursday, Sept. 3, that both women have signed on to John S. Anastasi‘s “Would You Still Love Me ...” (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks before signing executive orders to protect LGBT employees from federal workplace discrimination in the East Room of the White House in Washington, in this July 21, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of an unidentified migrant child, lifting it from the sea shore, near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, Turkey, early Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. A number of migrants are known to have died and some are still reported missing, after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized. (AP Photo/DHA)

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Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco in this July 7, 2015, file photo. The parents of Kathryn Steinle filed a wrongful death claim Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, alleging that the San Francisco Sheriff's Department is to blame for releasing an illegal immigrant from jail despite a federal "detainer" request to keep in custody for possible deportation proceedings. A claim is usually a precursor to a lawsuit. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)