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The abortion bill the House takes up Wednesday, written by Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican, also includes language designed to head off repeats of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who ran an abortion clinic in Philadelphia and is now serving a life term for killing three babies born alive at his practice, as well as an adult patient. Wednesday's vote is timed to coincide with the second anniversary of Gosnell's conviction. (Associated Press)
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A veteran drove to the Phoenix VA headquarters and shot himself in the parking lot Sunday night in what police are calling a suicide. (KSAZ)
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President Obama points to the audience as he departs after speaking at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Gaston Hall at Georgetown University in Washington on May 12, 2015. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama points to the audience as he departs after speaking at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Gaston Hall at Georgetown University in Washington, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. The president said that "it's a mistake" to think efforts to stamp out poverty have failed and the government is powerless to address it. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University in Washington, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama speaks at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University in Washington, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. The president said that "it's a mistake" to think efforts to stamp out poverty have failed and the government is powerless to address it. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Mati Weiderpass (right), the gay hotelier whose New York City hotel has faced an LGBT boycott since he and his business partner hosted an event for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, issued an op-ed Sunday blasting "gay extremists" for being "small and intolerant." (Facebook/Boycott Fire Island Pines Establishments & Out NYC Hotel)
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **
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Joe Wooten, special agent in charge with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, speaks to reporters on Tuesday, May 12 about a case involving a black man found hanging from a tree. Police do not suspect foul play at this point in time. (Image: CNN screenshot)
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The Guggenheim Museum is being accused of discrimination after it banned a Brooklyn high school for life because a handful of students behaved badly during a class outing. (Wikipedia)
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Nancy Gordeuk, founder and director of TNT Academy in Stone Mountain, Georgia, has apologized after a video circulating on social media showed her scolding "all the black people" who left during the valedictorian's speech at a graduation ceremony. (CNN/@Iamkris24)
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National Edition Opinion cover for May 11, 2015 - Troubles for Obama’s Arab summit (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)
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Kosovo, a country of 1.8 million, suffers from an unemployment rate of 40 percent, according to the World Bank. Stagnation has taken hold as the young nation experiences what some describe as the worst political and economic crisis since independence, prompting the largest mass exodus since the refugee crisis during the 1998-99 war. (Valerie Plesch/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
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In Baltimore's Eastern district, more than 10 percent of black men are murdered before the age of 35, according to an analysis of crime and census data from 2003 to 2006. Few, if any, of those deaths received a fraction of the attention accorded the Gray case and other police-caused deaths. (Associated Press)
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An estimated 16,000 buildings are vacant or abandoned in Baltimore, one of many cities where the Census Bureau estimates as much as 20 percent of children are impoverished. In 2014 there were 211 murders in Baltimore and, of those, 173 victims were black men. (Associated PRess)
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After Hillary Rodham Clinton said she'd use executive authority to go further than President Obama on halting deportations for illegal immigrants, the White House immediately downplayed her comments, suggesting she legally could not do more than the president already has done. (Associated Press)
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A memorial balloon with a personal message floats at a makeshift memorial in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sunday, May 10, 2015. Two officers were shot to death during an evening traffic stop turned violent, a state law enforcement spokesman said Sunday. Three suspects were in custody, including two who are charged with capital murder. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Incoming Boston University assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies, Saida Grundy, says white males are a "problem population." (Image: Twitter, Saida Grundy)
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WDIV anchor Carmen Harlan is facing backlash after she appeared to make a connection between Michigan's large Arab community and claims that the Islamic State is operating in several states in the U.S. (WDIV)
