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Sgt. Margaret Bentzen of the Flagstaff, Ariz. police department, speaks during a news conference, Saturday, Dec. 27 2014 on Clay Avenue near where Flagstaff police officer Tyler Stewart was involved in a fatal shooting. According to the Flagstaff police department Robert W. Smith, 28, of Prescott, Ariz. opened fire on Stewart when he was responding to a domestic violence complaint before taking his own life. (AP Photo/The Arizona Daily Sun, Jake Bacon)
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Protesters gather near the Ferguson Police Department, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Missouri's governor ordered hundreds more state militia into Ferguson on Tuesday, after a night of protests and rioting over a grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a case that has inflamed racial tensions in the U.S. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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In this June 25, 2014, file photo, a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador, who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. The Homeland Security Department is experimenting with a new way to track immigrant families caught crossing into the U.S. illegally then released: GPS-enabled ankle bracelets. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Illustration on the deterioration of arts and culture in American society by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Gordon "Randy" Steidl, 57, spent more than 17 years in an Illinois prison, including 12 on death row, for a double murder he didn't commit. Presidents have arguably granted clemency requests too infrequently. (Associated Press/File)
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Italian riot police officers patrol a street as they protect a refugee center in Rome's outskirts in November. The working-class neighborhood of Tor Sapienza has seen several nights of clashes by residents blaming foreigners for crimes. (Associated Press)
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Blood is collected during a blood drive at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pa., on July 19, 2010. The Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 23, 2014, recommended an end to the nation's lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified. (Associated Press/Erie Times-News, Jack Hanrahan) **FILE**
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Sorrow: Martha Mark is the mother of Monica Mark, one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The girls are likely facing forced labor and sexual assault, according to some who managed to escape. (Associated Press)
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A coalition of women's groups stage a protest in Nigeria, demanding the release of the hundreds of schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram. More than 200 days later, the missing girls have faded from public attention. (Associated Press)
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President Nicolas Maduro — the hand-picked successor to the late socialist Hugo Chavez — faces mounting international criticism for jailing opposition figures after months of street protests. (Associated Press)
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Seven Bosnian girls ages 13 and 14 wound up pregnant after returning from a five-day school trip, sparking a nationwide discussion on sex education in the country's schools. (Wikimedia Commons/Michelle Tribe)
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"It is critically important to look at the demand for core prostitution and the demand that fuels sex trafficking," said Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of the New York-based Coalition Against the Trafficking in Women. "Prostitution is inherently violence against women. The majority of the people exploited in the sex trade are women." (Associated Press)
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Sex education teacher Shayna Knowles leads a class at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lake Worth, Fla., in this Sept. 10, 2010, file photo. A new study by Child Trends finds that all kinds of sex-education programs can be successful. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is depicted sitting in federal court in Boston Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, for a final hearing before his trial begins in January. Tsarnaev is charged with the April 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. He could face the death penalty if convicted. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins) ** FILE **
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ADDS BOTH OFFICERS KILLED - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaks during a news conference at Woodhull Medical Center, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in New York. An armed man walked up to two New York Police Department officers sitting inside a patrol car and opened fire Saturday afternoon, killing both officers before running into a nearby subway station and committing suicide, police said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Demonstrators filled the Mall of America rotunda and chanted "Black lives matter" to protest police brutality, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2014, in Bloomington, Minn. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Aaron Lavinsky) ** FILE **
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Investigators work at the scene where two NYPD officers were shot, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Police said an armed man walked up to two officers sitting inside the patrol car and opened fire before running into a nearby subway station and committing suicide. Both police officers were killed. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Demonstrators filled the Mall of America rotunda and chanted "Black lives matter" to protest police brutality, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2014, in Bloomington, Minn. The group Black Lives Matter Minneapolis had more than 3,000 people confirm on Facebook that they would attend. Attendance figures weren't immediately available. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Aaron Lavinsky)
