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Illustration on the mythological impact of federal assistance on poverty by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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National Edition News cover for May 16, 2015 - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing: In this photo provided by the Massachusetts State Police, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, bloody and disheveled with the red dot of a sniper's rifle laser sight on his head, emerges from a boat at the time of his capture by law enforcement authorities in Watertown, Mass., on April 19, 2013. (Associated Press/Massachusetts State Police, Sean Murphy) **FILE**
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D W Lurvey Construction workers continue making progress on Hurley Medical Center's new Pediatric Residency Clinic and Pediatric Specialty Clinic space on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, on the second floor of the Flint Farmers' Market in downtown Flint. (Sam Owens/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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D W Lurvey Construction workers continue making progress on Hurley Medical Center's new Pediatric Residency Clinic and Pediatric Specialty Clinic space on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, on the second floor of the Flint Farmers' Market in downtown Flint. (Sam Owens/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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D W Lurvey Construction workers continue making progress on Hurley Medical Center's new Pediatric Residency Clinic and Pediatric Specialty Clinic space on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, on the second floor of the Flint Farmers' Market in downtown Flint. (Sam Owens/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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D W Lurvey Construction workers continue making progress on Hurley Medical Center's new Pediatric Residency Clinic and Pediatric Specialty Clinic space on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, on the second floor of the Flint Farmers' Market in downtown Flint, Mich. (Sam Owens/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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Southwest Airlines is facing backlash after a Karen Momsen-Evers said flight attendants refused to let her make an emergency call to her husband before he committed suicide. (WTMJ)
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Newly arrived Bangladeshi migrants receive medical treatments at Kuala Langsa Port in Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia, Friday, May 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society is putting a gay-friendly sign into the Baltic Sea for Russian submariners. The "Welcome to Sweden: Gay since 1944" sign is accompanied by a "This way if you are gay" message in Morse code. (Image: Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society) ** FILE **
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Maryland transfer Rasheed Sulaimon said his dismissal from the Duke program had nothing to do with a sexual assault allegation against him. (Associated Press)
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White House press secretary Josh Earnest the House's 20-week abortion ban is "disgraceful." President Obama has vowed to veto the measure.
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Alexis Marroquin (center, with white T-shirt) was granted a stay to remain in the U.S. while his uncle was sent back to El Salvador. Immigration advocate Ralph Isenberg (back right), who is not an attorney, is taking on the family's crusade to reunite. (Joe De la Fuente)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., smiles as she speaks to the Associated Press in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **
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File - In this April 2, 2014 photo, a Pre-K student works papier mache at the South Education Center, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks to the Associated Press in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 13, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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This May 23, 2011 file photo shows, former Nevada Sen. John Lee, D-North Las Vegas, at work on the Senate floor at the Legislature in Carson City, Nev. Lee was elected mayor of the state’s fourth-largest city in 2013. North Las Vegas police are asking the FBI to reopen an investigation of how Mayor Lee obtained images that he suspected were child pornography on his computer. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)
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In this May 10, 2015 picture, children play with a basketball in front of a vacant home, left, and a restored home in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. From 2011 to 2013, Census figures show an additional 77 families with incomes above $200,000 settled in Baltimore’s 21217 ZIP code, which includes Reservoir Hill and the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood where Freddie Gray lived. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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In this Nov. 12, 2014, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, on a laptop screen, is seen in Portland, Ore. If the latest health overhaul case before the Supreme Court gets decided the way most Republicans want, it could have a politically painful unintended consequence for GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2014 file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, on a laptop screen, is seen in Portland, Ore. If the latest health overhaul case before the Supreme Court gets decided the way most Republicans want, it could have a politically painful unintended consequence for GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
