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President Obama met with Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald at the Phoenix VA Medical Center on March 15. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this March 10, 2015, photo, University of Oklahoma President David Boren talks with the media before the start of a Board of Regents meeting in Oklahoma City. Many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities after their reputations are sullied by race-tainted incidents. Even with a school’s sometimes swift and hard action, episodes such as the racist chants by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma still surface. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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The Conservative Blueprint for Protecting the Constitutional Rights of Inventors cover (March 16, 2015)
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President Barack Obama speaks next to new VA Secretary Robert McDonald during a meeting on veterans issues at the Phoenix VA Medical Center on March 13, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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The Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) building is seen in Washington on April 13, 2014. Unscrupulous tax preparers are using President Obama's health care law as a ploy to pocket bogus fines from unsuspecting taxpayers, including some immigrants not bound by the law's requirements, the IRS warned March 13, 2015. (Associated Press)
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Conservatives were hoping official LGBT gatherings would be scaled back at the Pentagon in favor of more talk about combat readiness, not constant social change within the ranks. (Associated Press/File)
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In this Feb. 5, 2015 photo, Mary Magee-Huth teaches a fitness class at the Inwood Athletic Club in Joliet Ill. After the birth of her first daughter, Magee-Huth, who was 21 at the time, had a stroke. Then at 39, six years after the birth of her second daughter, she was on A dialysis, disability and a transplant list. These were just some of the consequences of the Type 1 diabetes she had battled since her diagnosis in 1970, at age 11. Fifteen years ago she underwent had a kidney-pancreas transplant. (AP Photo/The Herald-News, Lathan Goumas) CHICAGO TRIBUNE OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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People leave federal court to board a bus carrying Boston Marathon bombing survivors, family and friends after attending the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston, Thursday, March 12, 2015. Tsarnaev is charged with conspiring with his brother to place two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three and injured more than 260 people in April 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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In this courtroom sketch, Dun Meng, far right, testifies with a translator at his side during the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston, Thursday, March 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)
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The University of Oklahoma football team and coaches walk into practice wearing all black in protest of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma on Monday, March. 9, 2015. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has been banned from campus after f several members of the fraternity took part in a racist chant caught on video. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Nick Oxfor ) ONLINE OUT; KOTV OUT; KJRH OUT; KTUL OUT; KOKI OUT; KQCW OUT; KDOR OUT; TULSA OUT; TULSA ONLINE OUT
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President Obama's November 2014 amnesty policy, which has been put on hold by a federal court, would apply to as many as 4 million illegal immigrants. They would be granted three years of tentative legal status and be given work permits and Social Security numbers. (Associated Press)
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Melissa Kay Lynn Poole and Jeremy Daniel Dishner were charged with misdemeanor child abuse in Statesville, N.C. Their five children were found living in filth along with their dead grandfather. (Iredell County Sheriff's Office)
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Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution
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Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., argued Saturday that what President Obama failed to mention during his Selma speech is that more than 55 million people have been denied their right to vote because of abortion. (Fox News via CNS News)
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Howard Dixon, a black chef who worked for 15 years at Oklahoma University's Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, may now be out of a job, but online donations have started pouring in for his support after the fraternity was booted from campus over a video showing members participating in a racist chant. (CBS News)
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Parents helped students move their furniture out of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house at the University of Oklahoma on Monday, March. 9, 2015, in Norman, Okla. President David Boren of the University of Oklahoma severed the school's ties with a national fraternity on Monday and ordered that its on-campus house be shuttered after several members took part in a racist chant caught in an online video. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)
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In this March 3, 2015 photo, a person arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is electronically fingerprinted, at their headquarters, in New York, after a series of early-morning raids. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement say an increasing number of cities and counties across the United States are limiting cooperation with the agency and putting its officers in dangerous situations as they track down foreign-born criminals. Instead, more of its force is out on the streets, eating up resources and conducting investigations because cities like New York and states like California have passed legislation that limits many of the detention requests issued by immigration authorities. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) **FILE**
