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Former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank on Sunday called potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson "abysmally ignorant" for his views on homosexuality. (YouTube/CNN)
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FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2013, file photo, Debra Jean Milke listens to a judge during a hearing at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. A judge on Monday, March 23, 2015, dismissed the murder case against Milke, who spent more than 20 years on death row in the 1989 killing of her 4-year-old son. Judge Rosa Mroz ended the case after prosecutors lost their last appeal last week. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)
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An activist lawyer has claimed responsibility for placing stickers that read "exclusively for white people" on several East Austin businesses in a controversial effort to shed light on gentrification. (KVUE)
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Former Bob Jones University President Bob Jones III is apologizing after nearly 2,000 people signed a petition demanding he take responsibility for anti-gay statements he made more than three decades ago. (YouTube/Faith for the Family)
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FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 file photo, former grand slam tennis doubles champion Bob Hewitt walks outside a court in Johannesburg, South Africa. A South African judge on Monday, March 23, 2015 convicted former Grand Slam doubles tennis champion Bob Hewitt of rape and sexual assault decades after the alleged assaults. (AP Photo, File)
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In addition to announcing proactive legal status for 4 million illegal immigrants, President Obama in November also ordered immigration agents not to bother deporting most of the rest of the illegal immigrant population and to focus only on serious criminals. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas listen as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters during a news conference about a bill regarding military sexual assault cases on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana holds a Jan. 29, 2015, news conference in Phoenix on counterfeit ticket and merchandise at the upcoming Super Bowl XLIX. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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President Obama's budget plans have been largely irrelevant on Capitol Hill in the past few years. (Associated Press/File)
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Former NFL safety Darren Sharper appears in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles in this Feb. 20, 2014, file photo Rape charges have been filed on Friday, March 20, 2015, in Las Vegas against the former NFL safety, who already faces sexual assault charges in Los Angeles, New Orleans and the Phoenix area. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Bob Chamberlin, Pool)
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Claiborne County officials prepare to leave a home in Port Gibson, Miss., where authorities were investigating the hanging death of a black man in the neighboring woods, Thursday, March 19, 2015. The man has not been identified. (AP Photo/The Vicksburg Evening Post, Josh Edwards)
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Rep. Matt Salmon, Arizona Republican, said that a potential GOP failure to pass a budget "would be the granddaddy" of errors. (Associated Press)
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Off-the-books adoptions: This June 16, 2014, photo shows Diane Warner's birth certificate. Diane Warner of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is one of the 200 newborns in the 1950s and 60s that were relocated in off-the-books adoptions through Dr. Thomas Hicks' McCaysville clinic in far northern Georgia. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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Gloria Villatoro joins her children and community members in prayer at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Des Moines, Iowa. Max Villatoro was arrested by immigration officials and faces deportation under new administration rules. (Associated Press)
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Vocal: Immigration rights activists say a Mennonite pastor should qualify for exemption from the administration's deportation priorities, in part because he has nearly two decades of a clean criminal record. (Associated Press)
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House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during her weekly news conference in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio pauses during a news conference on Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2015. An uncharacteristic joint effort by Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, to resolve a gnawing problem about how Medicare pays doctors underscores the political victories each sees in finally sweeping the issue off the deck _ if they can. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2015. An uncharacteristic joint effort by Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, to resolve a gnawing problem about how Medicare pays doctors underscores the political victories each sees in finally sweeping the issue off the deck _ if they can. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., left, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 6, 2014, following a Senate vote on military sexual assaults. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) **FILE**
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Books of birth certificates are archived in Ohio Department of Health Vital Statistics building in Columbus. An Ohio law that has kept 32 years of adoption records sealed will sunset Friday, permitting some 400,000 adoptees to ask for their original birth certificates. (Associated Press)
