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** FILE ** This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. U.S. officials say the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is in U.S. custody. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)
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President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 30, 2014, following his meeting with Veterans Affairs Secretary Shinseki. The president said that Shinseki is resigning amid widespread troubles with veterans' health care. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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William Venes, 55, of Cleveland, transforms into the Wicked Witch of the West before the performance of "The Wizard of Oz" at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, Ohio. Venes was convicted of pandering child pornography and is serving a 24-year sentence at the Ross Correctional Institution. The production is the idea of Darwin Secrest, a corrections officer with 20 years of experience Secrest wrote down the idea, put it in his pocket and eventually passed it on to the administration. The warden said go ahead and try. Secrest needed guys to try out. He needed to get them to read the original book, then watch the movie and then create a play that worked inside a prison. Only then would there be rehearsals and set-building and costume-sewing. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Carrie Cochran) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES
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FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2013 file photo, photojournalists, with black bands around their mouth, participate in a protest against the gang rape of a female photojournalist in Mumbai, in Gauhati, India. The World Health Organization has declared violence against women an epidemic, calculating that one in three women worldwide will experience sexual or physical violence, most often from their husband or male partner. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2013 file photo, women with fake bruises painted on their faces protest to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women outside the government palace in Quito, Ecuador. "People are beginning to make the connection between the violence and how women are treated on a day to day basis," said Liesl Gerntholtz, director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)
