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In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 photo, Egyptians wait to leave a detention center for illegal immigrants east of the city of Misrata, Libya during their deportation back to Egypt. The deportation follows the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians by militants after they were abducted from Sirt(...)
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In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, JPS Health Network patient navigator Delaila Hernandez, center, helps Fred Cardenas with documents during a Affordable Care Act enrollment event at the Fort Worth Public Library in Fort Worth, Texas. With more than 1 million Texans enrolled for health insurance through the federal marketplace, Affordable Care Act assisters are turning their focus to educating Latinos and young childless adults ahead of the next enrollment period and getting out the message that hundreds of thousands of Texas children are eligible for Medicaid. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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In a 2013 Mayo Clinic study of willpower, the chance to win or lose $20 a month drove people to drop an average of 9 pounds, 4 times more weight than those offered no money. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Former NBA star Karl Malone says he's "sick and tired" of black communities "waiting on someone to come march on our behalf," and argued that blacks need to stop using race as an excuse for not taking responsibility for their own lives. (Huff Post Live)
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A small fire was set to the New Shiloh Christian Church in Melbourne, Florida, and the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar" was spray-painted on one of its walls early Monday morning in what church members are calling a possible hate crime. (WKMG Local 6)
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"Hundreds of thousands of enrollees lost their plans when co-ops in nine states collapsed, and these victims deserve clear and honest answers from the bureaucrats who oversaw the mess," said Sen. Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican. (Associated Press)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left) and House Speaker John A. Boehner lead the Republican-controlled Congress, but they have found themselves at a standstill over provisions attached to a Homeland Security spending bill aimed at blocking President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Republican strategists warn that the White House has a bigger "microphone." (Associated Press)
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald says the "I CARE" principles "focus our minds on our mission of caring and thereby guide our actions toward service to others." "I CARE" stands for integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect and excellence. (Associated Press)
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Houston fire officials now say an accelerant was used in a fire that broke out at the Quba Islamic Institute early Friday, prompting the Council on American-Islamic Relations for call on state and federal authorities to investigate a possible hate crime. (KTRK)
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Fox 5 San Diego briefly portrayed President Obama as a sex-assault suspect on its 10 o'clock news report Friday. (KSWB-TV/Times of San Diego)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, photo, a laptop shows the HealthCare.com web site during an Affordable Care Act enrollment event at the Fort Worth Public Library in Fort Worth, Texas. For the second year in a row, millions of Americans have signed up for subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's law. But as the 2015 sign-up season draws to a close Sunday, the future of the Affordable Care Act remains in doubt. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by House Democrats, calls on their GOP colleagues to pass a funding bill for the Homeland Security Department that does not contain provisions aimed at blocking President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington5. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this photo made Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, JPS Health Network patient navigator Delaila Hernandez, center, helps Fred Cardenas with documents during a Affordable Care Act enrollment event at the Fort Worth Public Library in Fort Worth, Texas. Enrollment drives are being held across the country to help people beat the deadline to sign up for health insurance through the federal marketplace. But in Texas and more than two dozen other states where millions of people fall into a so-called coverage gap, the outreach effort has involved more than just signups. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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The HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is seen on a laptop screen in Portland, Ore., in this Nov. 12, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2015, file photo, Randy Gardner of Salt Lake City, the older brother of Ronnie Lee Gardner, the last inmate to be killed by firing squad in Utah in 2010, protests with a group opposed to capital punishment plans over one lawmaker's plan to resurrect the use of firing squads, outside the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. A controversial proposal that resurrects Utah's use of firing squads to carry out executions has advanced in the state legislature by a handful of votes. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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In this May 12, 2014, photo, Kristin Beck, takes a tour inside the Washington Monument in Washington, after a ceremony to celebrate its re-opening. Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL, is planning a primary challenge to Maryland's longest-serving U.S. representative, Democrat Steny Hoyer. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
