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FILE - This Jan. 29, 2015 file photo shows New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas talking during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Just a few months after announcing a task force to overhaul campaign finance practices in New Mexico, state officials are still not clear on how many violations are being investigated. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, file)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., gets a campaign assist from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., left, at the Warren County Regional Airport in Paul's hometown, Bowling Green, Ky., on Nov. 3, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Htin Linn, the head of the Myanmar delegation, points while speaking at the "Special Meeting on Irregular Migration in the Indian Ocean" regarding the Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrant crisis at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 29, 2015. A regional meeting called to address the swelling tide of boat people in Southeast Asia began Friday with a defensive Myanmar official criticizing those who blame his country for causing the crisis, saying "finger pointing" would not help. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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National Edition News cover for May 29, 2015 - Promises made, but problems persist at Phoenix VA hospital: The Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix is seen Wednesday May 28, 2014. About 1,700 veterans in need of care were "at risk of being lost or forgotten" after being kept off the official waiting list at the Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
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As fresh doubts emerged about the Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix, Republicans renewed criticism of President Obama and VA Secretary Robert McDonald for failing to improve benefits for veterans. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the move to remove Andrew Jackson from the twenty dollar bill by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Several former top Iowa GOP officials said privately that if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker walks on the state's Aug. 8 straw poll, it's "dead." (Associated Press)
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Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a "draw Muhammad" contest Friday sponsored by ex-Marine Jon Ritzheimer in Phoenix, but there were no arrests or violence. (12 News)
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Demi Lovato arrives at the Roc Nation Pre-Grammy Brunch at RocNation Offices in Beverly Hills, Calif., in this Feb. 7, 2015, file photo. Lovato is sharing her personal story and encouraging others to do the same through "Be Vocal: Speak Up For Mental Health," an initiative launched Thursday, May 28, 2015, by a pharmaceutical company, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and other mental-health advocacy groups. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP, File)
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Police pick up a pair of shoes after a double shooting in Baltimore in this May 24, 2015, file photo. (Colin Campbell/The Baltimore Sun via AP, File)
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Americans are waiting for a Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Obama's health care overhaul that could halt insurance premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the marketplaces. (Associated Press)
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Neb. state Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha speaks in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, May 27, 2015, during debate on overriding Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a death penalty repeal bill, in a vote that would make it the first traditionally conservative state to abolish capital punishment in more than four decades. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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National Edition News cover for May 27, 2015 - Obama’s amnesty trips in court: President Barack Obama speaking at the Copernicus Community Center in Chicago to discuss immigration reform, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Displaced Iraqi civilians from Ramadi stand in a refugee camp west of Baghdad. The Islamic State's rout of Ramadi exposed more than the Iraqi army's lack of will to fight. After months of U.S. and coalition airstrikes on Islamic State targets, U.S. surveillance and intelligence collection, and with senior American officers advising Iraqis at a joint command center, the battlefield outcome still was no better than the rout of Mosul. (Associated Press)
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Then-New York Gov. George Pataki (right) is now poised to enter the GOP race for 2016, saying the party needs to veer away from social issues and concentrate more on fiscal responsibility and conservative principles. (Associated Press)
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Derek Martinez, second from left, and Jason Victoria, second from right, watch as their fathers, Alex Martinez and Melvin Victoria place their certificates of citizenship in mounting folders after a ceremony at the Bronx Zoo, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in New York. Twenty five children, whose immigrant parents were naturalized recently, participated in a ceremony to receive the certificates from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Byron Allen, comedian and founder of Entertainment Studios, blasted President Obama on Saturday night, calling him a "white president in blackface" for not doing more to help black people. (TMZ)
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Malaysian police forensic team members inspect a freshly exhumed human body from an unmarked grave in Wang Burma at the Malaysia-Thailand border outside Wang Kelian, Malaysia Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Malaysian authorities have found one corpse as they started digging for bodies at an abandoned jungle camp used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand. The discovery came as forensics teams began the grim task of exhuming nearly 140 suspected graves in the mountainous area where trafficking syndicates were known to hold migrants for ransom. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
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Assault weapons and handguns are seen for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply in Springfield, Illinois. Residents of Arlington, Virginia, are trying to bully Marine Corps veteran James Gates, 28, from opening a gun shop in their neighborhood. (Associated Press)
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Angel Nevins, center and her friend and classmate Jade Smith, left, wait for their signal to ring their hand bell as children from the Anderson Grove Head Start program in Caledonia, Miss., ring their hand bells to accompany several patriotic songs, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., at the conclusion of a rally by early childhood education supporters, childcare providers and supporters who called for support of the Mississippi Pre K Collaborative Act before this year's legislature. The groups lobbied their lawmakers to support the legislation that provides funding for local partnerships between public, parochial and private schools and licensed child care programs in some parts of the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
