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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum gives a speech on immigration policy, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **
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A Macedonian police officer blocks migrants in no-man's land between Greece and Macedonia near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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The Riviera Beach City Council in South Florida voted Wednesday to rename Old Dixie Highway after President Obama, following residents' concerns that "Old Dixie" represents America's racist past. (WPTV)
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Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle leaves the Federal Courthouse in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 following a hearing on child-pornography charges. Fogle agreed to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child pornography in a case that destroyed his career at the sandwich-shop chain and could send him to prison for more than a decade. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle leaves the Federal Courthouse in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 following a hearing on child-pornography charges. Fogle agreed to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child pornography in a case that destroyed his career at the sandwich-shop chain and could send him to prison for more than a decade. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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A legal immigrant reads a guide of the conditions needed to apply for the so-called "Dreamers" program, formally known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights offices in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)
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A legal immigrant reads a guide of the conditions needed to apply for the so-called "Dreamers" program, formally known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights offices in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this July 7, 2015, file photo, Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle walks to a waiting car as he leaves his home in Zionsville, Ind. Fox 59 television station reported Tuesday, Aug. 18 that the Subway pitchman is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges, citing sources it did not identify. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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In this June 22, 2015, photo, a tablet of flibanserin sits on a brochure for Sprout Pharmaceuticals in the company's Raleigh, N.C., headquarters. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, a milestone long sought by a pharmaceutical industry eager to replicate the blockbuster success of impotence drugs for men. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed/File)
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A tablet of flibanserin sits on a brochure for Sprout Pharmaceuticals in the company's Raleigh, N.C., headquarters. Sprout has succeeded where many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have failed: in winning Food and Drug Administration approval for flibanserin, dubbed Addyi, the first drug to boost women's sexual desire. (Associated Press)
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Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesman, will plead guilty to child pornography charges. (Associated Press)
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Illustration recommending alternatives to changing Social Security by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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George Zimmerman gained national notoriety — and a life of death threats and hiding — when he shot Trayvon Martin in an altercation when he was a Neighborhood Watch captain. Although Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges, Martin's death began a wave of protests over the shooting deaths of blacks at law-enforcement hands. (Associated Press)
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Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer David Denson became the first openly gay active player on a team affiliated with Major League Baseball. (Associated Press)
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Erica Canaut, center, cheers as she and other anti-abortion activists rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol to condemn the use in medical research of tissue samples obtained from aborted fetuses, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **
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FILE- In this April 10, 2014, file photo, social activist Julian Bond hugs Luci Baines Johnson, the younger daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson after singing "We Shall Overcome" during the Civil Rights Summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act in Austin, Texas. Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster File)
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In this March 16, 2015 photo, retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Marshall Powell drinks coffee in his kitchen in Crescent, Okla., while discussing his condition known as "moral injury" after serving as a military nurse in Iraq and Afghanistan. Psychiatrists who have treated moral injury say it has contributed to the suicide rate among veterans, who account for 1 out of every 5 suicides in the U.S. They describe a danger in ignoring it because its treatment is distinct from that of PTSD. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Illegal immigrants' rights are being violated at a detention facility in California, according to a complaint filed Tuesday. (Associated Press/File)
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Former Army Pvt. Bradley "Chelsea" Manning would be more welcome at the transgender-only VA clinic in Cleveland than others who have served their country. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)
