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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2014 file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen, in Portland, Ore. Sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law doesn’t start for another couple of months, but the next few days are crucial for hundreds of thousands of customers who risk losing financial aid when they renew for 2016. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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Migrants line up for food rations at a camp in northern France. Refugees in the New Jungle have made a community of sorts as they wait for an opportunity to cross to Britain. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., talks about his future and the agenda of the Democrats who are now in the minority, during an interview in Washington, in this March 4, 2015, file photo. Reid said in a news release on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, that he's throwing his full support behind President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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National Edition News cover for August 24, 2015 - Refugees reach Calais, stopped at Channel Tunnel: FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015 file photo, migrants run a long the train track after crossing a fence as they attempt to access the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France. A gallery of images recounting the lives of some of the estimated 3,000 migrants who have gathered in the northern French port city of Calais, most feeding on the hope of sneaking across the English Channel to settle in Britain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
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Migrants build a temporary shelter at the migrant camp known as the New Jungle in Calais, northern France, on Aug. 20. Britain and France are fortifying control of the Channel Tunnel and boosting intelligence efforts against traffickers as they try to dissuade thousands of migrants trying to make the illegal and sometimes deadly undersea journey to British shores. (Associated Press)
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Migrants run along the train track after crossing a fence as they attempt to access the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France. Most are feeding on the hope of sneaking across the English Channel to settle in Britain. (Associated Press)
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Pro-life activists demonstrate near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia in this July 28, 2015, file photo. The protestors called for an end to government funding for the nonprofit reproductive services organization. (Associated Press)
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This March 4, 2015, file photo shows Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. talking about his future and the agenda of the Democrats who are now in the minority, during an interview in Washington. Reid says he's throwing his full support behind President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran. In a message on his Twitter account, the Nevada senator said Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, he strongly supports "the historic agreement with Iran and will do everything in my power to ensure that it stands." Reid was wearing special glasses as part of his recovery from injuries suffered in a violent exercise accident in January. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Illustration on Democrats’ attitude toward women by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Cristian, a 6-year-old immigrant who entered the United States illegally with his mother from Guatemala, eats breakfast at a respite house, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **
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National Edition News cover for August 23, 2015 - Judge orders illegal immigrant families quickly released: Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio, in this July 7, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Afghan security forces and British soldiers inspect the site of a suicide attack in the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. The suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy traveling through a crowded neighborhood in Afghanistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 10 people, including three foreign contractors, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini
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Hundreds of union workers and their supporters demonstrated and marched in downtown Columbus, Ohio, Friday Aug. 21, 2015, to protest the politics of billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and their flagship conservative organization, Americans for Prosperity. (AP Photo/Julie Smyth)
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Donald Trump's six-page illegal immigration crackdown plan included calls to build more fencing, require illegal immigrants to go home before being readmitted with legal status and to end the policy granting automatic citizenship to almost everyone born in the U.S., including to illegal immigrant mothers. (Associated Press)
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Subway has scrapped an online children's game called "Jared's Pants Dance," after former pitchman Jared Fogle agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to child pornography charges and to crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors. (Twitter/@BerkowitzBT)