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Bill Clinton was the strictest president in modern political times when it comes to immigration, signing bills cracking down on both legal and illegal immigrants — but it's unlikely that record will infect his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has promised a more lenient approach as she makes a push for Hispanic voters in her presidential bid. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Democrat, said in a report that spouses of service members and civilian women who live or work near military facilities are especially vulnerable to sexual assault and wants them to be counted with military victims. (Associated Press)
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entering the fray: Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (left) is expected to join new contenders for the 2016 GOP nomination Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson. The latter two, despite being what pollsters claim as long shot candidates, are bucking how outsiders describe the Republicans as the party of "old white men." (Associated Press photographs)
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The Rutgers University Student Assembly has passed a bill that seeks to diversify the school's Caucasian "Scarlet Knight" mascot by adding black, Latino and third-gender mascot friends. (NJ.com screenshot)
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Only 14 women currently sit in Mali's 147-member parliament, three women belong to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's Cabinet of 33 ministers, and men claim the vast bulk of civil service positions. (Associated Press)
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National Edition Opinion cover for May 4, 2015 - Resisting the death movement (Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times)
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Police in riot gear line up to enforce a curfew imposed in the aftermath of rioting following Monday's funeral for Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, Friday, May 1, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Police in riot gear fall back after arresting a protester for violating a curfew imposed in the aftermath of rioting following Monday's funeral for Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, Friday, May 1, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A man in a mask tapes protest signs to a statue of George Washington during a May Day rally in Union Square, Friday, May 1, 2015, in New York. Saying "no one is above the law," Baltimore's top prosecutor announced charges Friday for six officers who were involved in the arrest of a black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody, a decision that comes amid outrage around the country over police brutality against African-Americans. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter pauses while speaking at the Pentagon during a news conference, Friday, May 1, 2015, to discuss the Defense Department's annual report on sexual assault in the military. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In this April 29, 2015 photo, Zella Jackson Price poses for a photo at her attorney’s office in Clayton, Mo. Eighteen black women who were told decades ago that their babies had died soon after birth at a St. Louis hospital now wonder if the infants were taken away by hospital officials to be raised by other families. The suspicions arose from the story of Price, who was 26 in 1965 when she gave birth at Homer G. Phillips Hospital and was told hours later that her daughter had died. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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In this April 29, 2015 photo, Zella Jackson Price poses for a photo at her attorney’s office in Clayton, Mo. Eighteen black women who were told decades ago that their babies had died soon after birth at a St. Louis hospital now wonder if the infants were taken away by hospital officials to be raised by other families. The suspicions arose from the story of Price, who was 26 in 1965 when she gave birth at Homer G. Phillips Hospital and was told hours later that her daughter had died. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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An internal United Nations report accuses French soldiers of sexually abusing children in the Central African Republic. (Image: CNN screenshot)
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Baltimore Pastor Jamal Bryant said Thursday, April 30, 2015, during an interview with Fox's Megyn Kelly that President Obama's "thug" remark about Baltimore rioters constitutes "black-on-black crime." (Image: Fox News screenshot)
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Helena, a transgender person, stands next to her Serbian army uniform put on display in her friend's apartment Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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Police in riot gear push back on media and a crowd gathering in the street after a 10 p.m. curfew went into effect Thursday, April 30, 2015, in Baltimore. The curfew was imposed after unrest in the city over the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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David Manigault chants while marching toward City Hall to protest the police-custody death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Police say they have turned over their criminal investigation to a prosecutor who will decide whether charges are warranted. (Associated Press)
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Daniel H. Smith demonstrates outside City Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday. The event in Philadelphia follows days of unrest in Baltimore amid Freddie Gray's police-custody death. (Associated Press)
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Alejandro Mayorkas, the deputy secretary whose previous tenure as the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is under scrutiny, said when he did intervene in visa cases, it was to make sure his agency was following the law, not to give special treatment. (Associated Press)
