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Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding served time for hindering a police investigation (of an attack on Nancy Kerrigan), multiple DUI's and domestic violence. (AP Photo/John Gaps III)
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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was sentenced to serve three months in jail and fined $2,500 in connection with a domestic violence incident. Mayweather pleaded guilty to a charge of battery and two counts of harassment. He was arrested in September 2010, after he punched the mother of his children at his home. (AP Photo/Eric Jamison)
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Maywood Fire Chief Craig Bronaugh had issued a mandate for the removal of patriotic stickers from helmets and lockers, citing a culture of racism within the department, but said Wednesday that now he will be mandating department-issued flags on every locker and in every locker room. (NBC Chicago)
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Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes speaks in Louisville, Ky., in this Aug. 20, 2014, file photo. Grimes will face Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the general election for U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)
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Virginia’s “Don’t Tread On Me” license plates that advocate for limited government have been soaring in popularity since their release in 2012. (Virginia DMV)
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Michael Moore took to Facebook Monday morning to celebrate the Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage and blast white conservatives as ignorant and hateful. (The Hollywood Reporter) ** FILE **
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Artist Gilbert Baker, designer of the Rainbow Flag, holds a "Boycott Homophobia" banner before the start of the St. Patrick's Day parade in March. Three Irish gay groups are applying to be in the parade after a gay broadcast-employees group was approved. (Associated Press)
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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has backed off earlier pledges he would unilaterally expand Medicaid to uninsured Virginians, a plan scuttled by recent setbacks. (associated press)
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In this June 26, 2013 file photo, gay rights advocate Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Setting it aside: President Obama's delay of executive action on immigration likely will help a few Senate Democrats running for re-election but will hurt tens of thousands who face deportation. (Associated Press)
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National Edition News cover for September 8, 2014 - Obama’s delay to send 60,000 away: Demonstrators are arrested outside the White House in Washington on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 during a rally calling for President Barack Obama to stop deportations of migrants in the country illegally and to make a decision on how to provide relief for immigrant families. U.S. Park Police said 145 people were arrested. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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President Obama has been called "Deporter in Chief" by a Hispanic advocacy group critical of his immigration policy. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
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Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said President Obama must come to Congress to authorize strikes in Syria. (Associated Press)
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Texas Department of Safety Troopers patrol on the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, in Mission, Texas. Since illegal immigration spiked in the Rio Grande Valley this summer, the Border Patrol has dispatched more agents, the Texas Department of Public Safety has sent more troopers and Texas Gov. Rick Perry deployed as many as 1,000 guardsmen to the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A Texas teenager faces state and federal charges after leading U.S. Border Patrol and sheriff's deputies on a 119-mile overnight pursuit while carrying 14 illegal immigrants in her truck. (KSAT)
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FILE - In this June 30, 2014, file photo President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, pauses while making an announcement about immigration reform in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Then the president said he was done waiting for House Republicans to act on immigration, and that he planned to act on his own via executive action. According to White House officials Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections. The two officials said Obama decided Friday as he returned to Washington from a NATO summit in Wales that circumventing Congress with executive actions on immigration during the midterm campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul of the immigration system. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FILE – In this April 9, 2013 file photo Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, talks with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. on Capitol Hill in Washington. After investigating the IRS for more than a year, two key senators, a Democrat, Levin, and a Republican, McCain, disagree on whether the tax agency treated conservative groups worse than their liberal counterparts when they applied for tax-exempt status. The Senate’s subcommittee on investigations released competing reports Friday on how the IRS handled applications from political groups during the 2010 and 2012 elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Burger King's deal to buy Tim Hortons and move its headquarters will allow the fast-food giant to reap the benefits of lower corporate tax rates in Canada. The accelerating pace of tax inversion deals is sending a signal that the U.S. needs to overhaul its corporate tax code. (associated press)
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In this June 20, 2014, file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. The immigrants entered the country through an area referred to as zone nine. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **
