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Redskins rookie receiver Jamison Crowder did not speak to the media after practice Tuesday regarding an accusation last week of domestic violence. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to put Cuban criminals on charter flights to their home country, but Havana has refused to take them back. Because of "Zadvydas cases," the federal government cannot detain immigrants indefinitely. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada walks to a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 9, 2015, following a Senate policy luncheon. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Tammy Duckworth – After receiving a Purple Heart, an Air Medal, and an Army Commendation Medal for her service in Iraq, Tammy Duckworth went on to become the Assistance Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2010, she was inducted into the U.S. Army Women's Foundation Hall of Fame.
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Cathay Williams – Not only was this soldier one of the first females to enlist in the United States Army, Cathay Williams was the very first African American woman to enlist in armed service. She served as one of the Buffalo Soldiers for three years in the 1800s.
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In this June 8, 2015, photo, a McKinney police officer stands near demonstrators during a protest in response to an incident at a community pool involving local police officers in McKinney, Texas. McKinney is an affluent Dallas suburb that is among the nation's fastest-growing cities, with highly regarded public schools and nationally recognized livability rankings. But a video showing a white police officer wrestling a black girl to the ground at a neighborhood pool party has renewed racial tensions in a city that only three years ago settled litigation alleging public housing segregation. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)
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FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2015 file photo, U.N. special envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, speaks during a press conference at the Palais des Congres of Skhirate, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Rabat, Morocco. Libya's parliament drops out of U.N.-brokered negotiations in protest against a draft plan for it to share power with its rivals, throwing doubt on what is seen as a last-chance effort to avert the further collapse of the North African nation. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)
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Thousands march Monday, June 8, 2015, toward a community pool during a protest in response to an incident at the pool involving McKinney police officers in McKinney, Texas. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)
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Kalief Browder, 22-year-old New Yorker who spent nearly three years at the infamous Rikers Island jail without being convicted of a crime, committed suicide Saturday, June 6, 2015, after a long battle with depression. (ABC 7)
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FILE - In this April 15, 2013 file photo, abortion opponent Corrie Zastrow, left, calls out to patients while clinic escorts secure signs on the front gates to prevent abortion opponents from visually confronting patients as they enter the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss. Abortions have declined in states where new laws make it harder to have them — but they've also waned in states where abortion rights are protected, an Associated Press survey finds. Nearly everywhere, in red states and blue, abortions are down since 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2013 file photo, Ellie Schilling, center, a lawyer representing Louisiana abortion clinics, speaks at a protest outside the Department of Health and Hospitals building in Baton Rouge, La. Abortions have declined in states where new laws make it harder to have them -but they’ve also waned in states where abortion rights are protected, an Associated Press survey finds. Nearly everywhere, in red states and blue, abortions are down since 2010. Schilling said the state could reduce abortions through expanded sex education and other efforts to reduce teen pregnancies. The rise in abortions "is absolutely not because access has increased," Schilling said. "There were fewer clinics and doctors in 2014 than 2010." (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)
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Cecile Richards, daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, greets abortion rights advocates as they leave the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas, on July 12, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A source told Fox News June 5, 2015 that the Obama administration tried to "flip" members of the "Taliban Five" while they were in U.S. custody. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said he could not speak on the matter due to intelligence reasons. (Image: Fox News screenshot) ** FILE **
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Residents living on "Bruce Jenner Lane" in Austin appear to be against the idea of changing the street name to follow the former Olympian's public transition to his female identity, Caitlyn Jenner. (KVUE)
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Actor Patrick Stewart is backing the Christian bakers in the "gay cake" debate and said he supports their right to refuse to write a message on a cake that violates their beliefs. (YouTube/BBC Newsnight)
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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada attends a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Tuesday, June 2, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, Malala Yousafzai, visits Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Pakistani police say that eight out of 10 militants charged with involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai were actually acquitted in April — not sentenced to life in prison as reported at the time. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)
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The panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers voted 18-6 in favor of Sprout Pharmaceutical's daily pill, flibanserin, on the condition that the company develops a plan to manage its risks. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken on May 9, 2014, Michael Fichera and Linda Scotto with their two daughters Emma, 11, and 6-year-old Kearly, pose with a photograph of their adopted Congolese daughter, Miriam, at their home in Doylestown, Pa. The adoption process by the couple was virtually completed by the fall of 2013 and they were getting ready to travel to Congo when a suspension was imposed. Miriam, has continued to live in an orphanage; she'll turn 9 in August. After nearly two years of frustration, several hundred American families now have reason to hope that children they are adopting from Congo may finally be allowed to travel to the United States. (Rick Kintzel/The Intelligencer via AP)
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National Edition News cover for June 4, 2015 - Illegals with records walked from detention: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrest a suspect during a pre-dawn raid in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. The week-long series of raids targeting five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area resulted in the arrest of 338 illegal immigrants at their homes, while another 423 were taken into ICE custody at county jails, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)
