Social Issues

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks during a ceremony where she signed a bill into law, Thursday, July 9, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. The law enables the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds more than 50 years after the rebel banner was raised to protest the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during his executive budget presentation in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, Pool, File)

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A police officer stands as pensioners wait outside the main gate of the national bank of Greece to withdraw a maximum of 120 euros ($134) in central Athens, Thursday, July 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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A new MTV documentary titled "White People" follows five young white people from around the country and documents their experiences with racial identity. (MTV)

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Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., questions Michael Botticelli, deputy director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, during a subcommittee hearing on Capital Hill in Washington on Feb. 4, 2014. Six years ago, a proposal for Medicare to cover end-of-life counseling touched off a political uproar that threatened to stall President Barack Obama’s health care law in Congress. On Wednesday, July 8, 2015, when Medicare finally announced it will make the change, reaction was muted. The Oregon Democrat was the original sponsor of the idea. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

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Donald Trump was warned by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus that his rhetoric on illegal immigration was jeopardizing the party's efforts to woo Hispanic voters. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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In response to a voter's question at a New Hampshire forum, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush reiterated that "I honestly think we need to provide a path to legalized status, not citizenship, for illegal immigrants." Analysts say it is hard to pin down Mr. Bush on the immigration issue. (Associated Press)

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President Obama's first trip to his father's homeland later this month will confront many of the challenges of his presidency back home, from Islamist terrorism to economic competition from China to his fight for gay rights. (Associated Press)

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, right, speaks as Police Chief Charlie Beck listens at left at a news conference to discuss mid year crime statistics in Los Angeles Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Crime has increased 13 percent in Los Angeles in the first six months of the year, ending more than a decade of declines in the nation’s second-largest city, according to statistics released by the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday. Garcetti said “this is bad news” but that Los Angeles remains one of the safest large cities in the U.S. Beck partially attributed the crime spike to increases in homelessness, gang crime and domestic violence.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Facebook has made a subtle change to its "Friends" icon in support of gender equality, the company's design manager has revealed.

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FILE - In this June 29, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army soldiers walk in a line at a reenlistment ceremony for a comrade in Baqouba, Iraq. New research published Wednesday, July 8, 2015 in JAMA Psychiatry shows war-time suicide attempts in the Army are most common in early-career enlisted soldiers who have not been deployed, while officers are less likely to try to end their lives. The study looked at data on nearly 1,000 suicide attempts among almost 1 million active-duty Army members during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, from 2004 to 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin. left, and Jim Obergefell, named plaintiff in the historic U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case, cheer during a press conference held at the Texas Capitol to discuss the local effect of the marriage equality ruling on Monday, June 29, 2015 in Austin, Texas. (Jack Plunkett/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

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Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, wants to know why illegal immigrant felons are being released from police custody. (Associated Press)

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overdrawn: Greek pensioners enter a bank to withdraw a maximum of 120 euros — $134 — in Athens Tuesday as the country's financial situation remains precarious. (Associated Press photographs)

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A man holds a U.S. and a rainbow flag outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 26 after the court legalized gay marriage nationwide. (Associated Press)

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center is joined by U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, third from right, Abigail Gatewood, third from left, after signing a bill during a ceremony at New York University, Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Cuomo signed a bill into law Tuesday that requires New York state's private colleges and universities to have a new, affirmative sexual consent policy to combat campus sexual violence. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE**

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Kate Steinle was fatally shot on July 1, 2015, allegedly by illegal immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. The U.S. House on Thursday passed Kate's Law, a federal provision aimed at penalizing illegal immigrants who return to the United States after being deported. (Associated Press)