Social Issues

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A pro-Kremlin lawmaker is seeking to introduce official standards in Russia that would limit a person's shoe height, essentially banning women from wearing sky-high heels. (Wikimedia Commons)

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A pro-Kremlin lawmaker is seeking to introduce official standards in Russia that would limit a person's shoe height, essentially banning women from wearing sky-high heels. (Wikimedia Commons)

The mother of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who has been jailed in Mexico since March 31, says she has not heard from the Obama administration since her son's imprisonment. (Fox News/Washington Free Beacon)

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A woman dressed as President Barack Obama who calls herself Catholic Carol, left, who is against gay marriage, debates with Niqk White [cq] of Richmond, Va., center, who joins others in a counter protest near a rally on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building a march to the U.S. Supreme Court for the second annual March for Marriage, Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 19, 2014. The group is returning to the supreme court for a second year in a row after their first march last year on the day the Court heard oral arguments in the case Hollingsorth v. Perry that argued the legality of California's Proposition 8. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A woman dressed as President Barack Obama who calls herself Catholic Carol, left, who is against gay marriage, debates with Niqk White [cq] of Richmond, Va., who joins others in a counter protest near a rally on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building a march to the U.S. Supreme Court for the second annual March for Marriage, Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 19, 2014. The group is returning to the supreme court for a second year in a row after their first march last year on the day the Court heard oral arguments in the case Hollingsorth v. Perry that argued the legality of California's Proposition 8. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Vice President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks to media during a meeting with representatives of student groups, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington, as part of the Campus Sexual Assault Task Force. At right is Jessica Bennett from University of Maryland in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)