Social Issues

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The House has shown it can strike bipartisan deals, and indeed, two of the biggest bills this year have been driven by House Speaker John A. Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: They personally signed off on the Medicare fix deal and backed the bipartisan coalition that wrote the bill stopping the National Security Agency's phone-snooping program. (Associated Press)

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"There's one way and one way only to get sanctuary cities to comply with federal law, and that's to withhold some of the federal funds they actually want," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, the California Republican who wrote the bill. "Plain and simple, if they want the federal money, then they need to comply with federal law." (Associated Press)

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Illustration on exposing government officials who contribute to government abuse and oppression by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Crystal Zimmer, left, and her wife, Lena Williams, hold hands after being married at Hamilton County Municipal Court in Cincinnati on June 26, 2015. Same-sex couples in Ohio can hold their weddings in the Statehouse, file their state taxes jointly and list their spouses on death certificates following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that legalized gay marriage across the country. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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Stopped: Illegal crossings along the Mexico border have slowed below the pace of the George W. Bush administration, but Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said overall numbers should be declining as a result. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for July 20, 2015 - Number of illegals levels off; fewer crossing Mexico border: A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, in Granjeno, Texas. At least six local, state and federal law enforcement agencies patrol the five mile zone which is illegal immigration’s busiest corridor. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Stopped: Illegal crossings along the Mexico border have slowed below the pace of the George W. Bush administration, but Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said overall numbers should be declining as a result. (Associated Press)

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The Republican Party is showing signs it wants Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York Republican, to continue to be a force within the party. (Associated Press)

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President Obama is scheduled to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Pittsburgh amid reports that veterans' wait times for doctors' appointments have increased in the past year, and with the VA revealing a nearly $3 billion budget shortfall that has Republican lawmakers fuming. (Associated Press)

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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, leaves the House Chamber at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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FILE - In this July 9, 2015 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Department of Veterans Affairs faces a serious numbers problem _ multiple in fact. It can't count how many veterans died while waiting to sign up for health care. It says some VA hospitals may have to close if the agency can't get $2.5 billion. And a year after scandal rocked the department, congressional Republicans want to know why the number of employees fired is so low. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

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Transgender reporter Zoey Tur threatened Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro on Thursday's Broadcast of "Dr. Drew on Call," saying she would send him home "in an ambulance." (Image: HLN screenshot, Dr. Drew on Call) ** FILE **

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(Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Friday that the wave of sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby "is just sickening" and that the disgraced comedian should be prosecuted if the law allows it. (YouTube/CNN)

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In this May 21, 2015 file photo, Russell Simmons arrives at The17th Annual CAST From Slavery to Freedom Gala in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP, File)

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In this Tuesday, July 7, 2015, photo, Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight, left, sits with his attorney Thomas Mesereau, in Los Angeles Superior Court, during a hearing in a murder case filed against the Death Row Records co-founder. The former rap music mogul Knight returns to court on Friday, July 17, to ask that a judge reduce his bail on murder and attempted murder charges from $10 million. (Patrick T. Fallon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 9, 2015. (Associated Press)

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President Obama was greeted in Oklahoma City Wednesday night by people waving Confederate flags in a protest organized by Andrew Duncomb, a local black resident who insists the flag doesn't symbolize racism. (KFOR)

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Hollywood director Peter Berg shared an image of a disabled military veteran juxtaposed next to Caitlyn Jenner to criticize ESPN's decision to give her its 2015 Arthur Ashe Courage Award. (Image: Instagram, Peter Berg) ** FILE **

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Protesters rallied outside a federal court in 2013 to protest Chevron's "racketeering lawsuit against the Ecuadorean rainforest villagers," according to Amazon Watch. The group said the lawsuit was "retaliatory," but its claims have been found to be dubious. (Associated Press)