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Workers put the final touches on the Disabled Veterans Memorial on C Street and 2nd Street in Southwest, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 27, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Workers put the final touches on the Disabled Veterans Memorial on C Street and 2nd Street in Southwest, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 27, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Workers put the final touches on the Disabled Veterans Memorial on C Street and 2nd Street in Southwest, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 27, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Workers put the final touches on the Disabled Veterans Memorial on C Street and 2nd Street in Southwest, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 27, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2012 file photo, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana addresses activists from America's political right at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. Jindal planned to file a lawsuit Wednesday Aug. 27, 2014 against the Obama administration, accusing it of illegally manipulating federal grant money and regulations to force states to adopt the Common Core education standards. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - This photo taken April 28, 2014 shows the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. The Department of Veterans Affairs says investigators have found no proof that delays in care caused any deaths at a VA hospital in Phoenix, deflating an explosive allegation that helped expose a troubled health care system in which veterans waited months for appointments while employees falsified records to cover up the delays. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Pro-life groups are putting the pressure on vulnerable Democrats, like Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, to back a bill that would curb late-term abortion access. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama works at his computer aboard Air Force One during the flight to Toluca, Mexico, Feb. 19, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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The Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix is seen here on April 28, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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trailblazers: Prominent figures like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton haven't led to more women running for office. (Associated Press)
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who previously stated he was in favor of the death penalty, has been heard on an audiotape telling CNN journalists that he would consider granting "full clemency" to death row inmate Nathan Dunlap, who was convicted of multiple murders. (Associated Press)
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The Philadelphia Public Record posted an apology on its website Sunday after a racist photo caption in the paper's print edition named three Asian Americans "Me Too, Chinky Winky and Dinky Doo." (Philadelphia Public Record via Philadelphia magazine)
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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, an Amish family rides along Route 812 in Heuvelton, N.Y., near the command center of the investigation into the abduction and return of two young Amish girls at the Heuvelton Volunteer Fire Department. Members of an extended Amish family plan to hold a “garage raising” for the couple who returned the two kidnapped Amish girls to their home, according to the the Watertown Daily Times. (AP Photo/Watertown Daily Times, Jason Hunter, File) SYRACUSE OUT **FILE**
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(FILE - AP Photo/Aberdeen American News, Kevin Bennett)
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A Virginia state Senate panel on Wednesday advanced a modified version of a bill that would prevent people convicted of domestic abuse crimes from possessing or transporting a gun. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry's lawyers are claiming that his vetoing of funds for the state's public corruption unit falls under First Amendment protections. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Sheba Velasco, a Mayan interpreter (the Ixil language, which has about 70,000 speakers in Guatemala) who's seen her business grow with the surge of illegal immigrants from Central America., Alexandria, Va., Friday, August 22, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Sheba Velasco, a Mayan interpreter (the Ixil language, which has about 70,000 speakers in Guatemala) who's seen her business grow with the surge of illegal immigrants from Central America., Alexandria, Va., Friday, August 22, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Sheba Velasco, a Mayan interpreter (the Ixil language, which has about 70,000 speakers in Guatemala) who's seen her business grow with the surge of illegal immigrants from Central America., Alexandria, Va., Friday, August 22, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
