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egress: Long a destination for North African emigres, Spain's failing economy has turned immigration on its head, with both migrants and native-born Spaniards leaving the country in droves. (Associated Press)
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Eric Garner's widow, Esaw, said Sunday that she believes her husband was "murdered unjustly" by New York police, but she doesn't think race was a contributing factor in his death. (NBC News)
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Eric Garner's widow, Esaw, said Sunday that she believes her husband was "murdered unjustly" by New York police, but she doesn't think race was a contributing factor in his death. (NBC News)
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A New Jersey legislative committee advanced four bills Monday that could expand hunting opportunities and anger animal-rights activists. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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National Edition News cover for December 7, 2014 - Feinstein readies release of damning report on CIA terror programs: Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, said the NFL's domestic violence scandal has gone on "too long." (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, File)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the bill an insult to her constituents, and while she said her Democratic colleagues were free to vote however they wanted, she would oppose it and urged them to do the same. (Associated Press)
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In this Dec. 4, 2014 file photo, protestors in Boston hold up signs while chanting "Black Lives Matter" during a demonstration against the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, file) ** FILE **
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President Barack Obama speaks about the recent police issues before talking about education at the Summit on College Opportunity, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington. On Wednesday, a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of a black man. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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GARY COLEMAN - The Diff'rent Strokes star was charged with assault after punching a bus driver in 1998. He was arrested on a domestic violence assault warrant in Utah and spent a night behind bars in 2010. Coleman died later that year after suffering a brain hemorrhage at the age of 42.
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National Edition News cover for December 4, 2014 - Obama amnesty faces lawsuit: Texas Attorney General and Gov.-elect Greg Abbott speaks against President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration at the Price Daniel Building in Austin, Texas, on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Abbott is again vowing to sue the Obama administration for lifting the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
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National Edition Opinion cover for December 4, 2014 - The unspoken goal of Obama’s amnesty (Illustration by Paul Tong for Tribune Content Agency)
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FILE - In this April 23, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama, left, fist bumps with Dr. Eric Whitaker on a golf course at Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C. Federal prosecutors are putting pressure on Whitaker, the former Illinois public health director, and friend of President Obama, to cooperate in an ongoing investigation of a state grant scandal. Whitaker is not accused of any wrongdoing, but prosecutors declared him a "hostile" witness in the case, rejecting his claims to be fully cooperating with a probe into others, including a former employee. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi and other state officials are reviewing the decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow gay marriage to go forward in Florida. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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This is a screen shot of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) webpage. Pregnant and worried about your medication? The FDA is revamping confusing labels on prescription drugs to make it easier to understand which are safe to use. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding often agonize over whether a drug needed for their own health might hurt their baby, or even if the woman's changing body requires a higher or lower dose. (AP Photo/FDA)
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A policeman observes the scene as immigrants who arrived aboard a cargo ship from Turkey line up for meals while others sit on bedding in a basketball arena, where they have been given temporary shelter. Many refugees, often soaked from the sea crossing, spend days sleeping outdoors or squashed into tiny cells before being moved. (Associated Press)
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In this Nov. 6, 2013, file photo, comedian Bill Cosby performs at the Stand Up for Heroes event at Madison Square Garden in New York. Three women who claim they were victimized by Cosby are scheduled to appear at a news conference called by attorney Gloria Allred, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. (John Minchillo/Invision/AP, File) ** FILE **
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President Obama's unilateral immigration action, announced Nov. 20, would grant tentative status and work permits to nearly 5 million illegal immigrants, and would remove many others from any danger of deportation — though they would not have the same legal status as those officially granted the amnesty. (Associated Press)
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In May 2010, the Phoenix Suns wore "Los Suns" jerseys during Game 2 of their NBA second-round playoff basketball series, a move owner Robert Sarver said was "to honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation" after Arizona passed restrictive laws targeting illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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In a show of support for her transgender son, Yolanda Bogert, of Jimboomba, Australia, has taken out a newspaper ad to correct and retract a 19-year-old birth announcement that labeled her son a girl. (Twitter/Lisa Dart)
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Protesters chanted "no justice, no peace" with fists raised on Monday, interrupting a speech in Atlanta by Attorney General Eric Holder who was announcing his plan "to help end racial profiling, once and for all." (CNN)
