Social Issues

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A worker directs traffic through potholes along Florida Avenue in Northwest. The D.C. Department of Transportation classifies 38 percent of locally funded roadways as being in "poor," "very poor," or "failed" condition. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A woman is helped from one boxcar to another, as Central American migrants wait atop the train they were riding north, hours after it suffered a minor derailment in a remote wooded area outside Reforma de Pineda, Chiapas state, Mexico, on June 20, 2014. Many migrants who say they are fleeing criminal violence generally are not eligible for political asylum, which is reserved for groups persecuted for their beliefs or identities. U.N. officials say there is no way of forcing the U.S. and Mexico to accept Central Americans as refugees, but a broad-based change in terminology could bring pressure on the two countries to do more. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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A nurse from the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany, New York, alleged Monday that dying veterans who were supposed to receive morphine treatment to alleviate pain were given mixtures of saline and water instead. ** FILE ** (Associated Press)

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Connecticut State line up before a ceremony honoring responders to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jared Ramsdell) ** FILE **

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**FILE** Joshua Montano (left) and Deborah Robles protest in front of the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Aug. 16, 2012, the day after Gov. Jan Brewer, in an executive order, reaffirmed Arizona state law denying young illegal immigrants driver's licenses and other public benefits in Phoenix. (Associated Press)

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The Nebraska Democratic Party is calling a Fourth of July parade float that poked fun at President Obama the "worst shows of racism and disrespect for the office of the presidency that Nebraska has ever seen." (Omaha World-Herald)

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Demonstrators on opposing sides of the immigration debate are separated by police officers Friday outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, California. The town was the latest flashpoint for standoffs over the transport of illegal minor immigrants. (Associated Press)

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Demonstrators on opposing sides of the immigration debate are separated by police officers Friday outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, California. The town was the latest flashpoint for standoffs over the transport of illegal minor immigrants. (Associated Press)