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FILE - In this April 11, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as his nominee to become Human Services secretary, current Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Burwell appears Thursday, May 8 before the Senate Health Committee, the first of two Senate committees that will hold hearings on her nomination. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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In this April 4, 2014, photo, homeless youths hang clothes on a metal bar running over a trash-strewn sewer canal where they live, by a busy road in Jamaica’s capital of Kingston. They are part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT
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In this, April 25, 2014, photo, gay rights activist James Burton, center, of the Color Pink Group, chats with a group of young homosexual men about HIV and health issues at a shopping mall in Kingston, Jamaica. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. But this normally wary group is welcoming a recent outreach as a volunteer reaches out to tthem with health advice. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT
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In this April 4, 2014, photo, a young transgender Jamaican checks her wig in a mirror at the entrance of a sewer pipe along a trash-strewn canal where she lives beneath a busy road in Kingston, Jamaica. She is part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT
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In this Friday, April 4, 2014, photo, a young gay man hangs out at the entrance of a sewer pipe along a trash-strewn canal where he lives beneath a busy road in Kingston, Jamaica. He is part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. Roughly 33 percent of men who have sex with men are believed to be infected on Jamaica. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT
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In this, April 4, 2014, photo, homeless youths hang out at the entrance of a sewer pipe along a trash-strewn canal where they live beneath a busy road in Kingston, Jamaica. They are part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. In much of the world, giving out condoms and guidance to gay, bisexual and transgender sex workers is routine. But reaching out to men who have sex with men is practically revolutionary in parts of the English-speaking Caribbean, where homophobia and laws criminalizing gay sex have long driven people underground. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT
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FILE - In this April 11, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as his nominee to become Human Services secretary, current Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Burwell appears Thursday, May 8 before the Senate Health Committee, the first of two Senate committees that will hold hearings on her nomination. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, listens to discussion on a bill he sponsored which would allow marijuana dispensaries to form financial co-operatives, at the Colorado Legislature, in Denver, Wednesday May 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **
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"By the department's own count, the deaths of at least 23 veterans throughout the country have been linked to delays in VA medical care," said Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, who is calling for an overhaul. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said in an interview Tuesday that the primary reason he left the Republican Party is because of its "intolerable" racism. (Fusion)
