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Activists are calling for a federal civil rights investigation after the Islamic School of Rhode Island in West Warwick was defaced Saturday with anti-Islamic graffiti. (Islamic School of Rhode Island via NBC News)

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An unidentified woman kneels near a makeshift memorial for Kayla Mueller, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Prescott, Ariz. Mueller, a 26-year-old American woman held by Islamic State militants, was confirmed dead, her parents and the Obama administration said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff)

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This police handout shows suspect Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein from an earlier occasion, where he stabbed a person in a train on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. The slain gunman suspected in the deadly Copenhagen attacks was a 22-year-old with a history of violence and may have been inspired by Islamic terrorists — and possibly the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, Danish authorities said Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Police Handout)

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Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, in this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, file photo. The mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians by militants in Libya linked to the Islamic State group have thrown a spotlight on the threat the extremists pose beyond their heartland in Syria and Iraq, where they have established a self-declared proto-state. (AP Photo, File)

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Denver Police Union President Nick Rogers is calling for Police Chief Robert White to resign after he allegedly gave officers the order to stand down as anti-police protesters desecrated a memorial for fallen officers. (CBS4)

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In this file image made from a video released Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. The mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians by militants in Libya linked to the Islamic State group have thrown a spotlight on the threat the extremists pose beyond their heartland in Syria and Iraq, where they have established a self-declared proto-state. (AP Photo, File)

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Men mourn over the Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, at the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Egyptian Coptic men mourn for 21 Coptic Egyptian men seized by Islamic State militants in the central city of Sirte, Libya, more than a month ago, at the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday in swift retribution for the extremists' beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages on a beach, shown in a grisly online video released hours earlier. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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An Ukrainian soldier walks past trenches near the road between the towns of Debaltseve and Artemivsk, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The Ukrainian government and Russia-backed rebels accused each other Monday of violating a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, a day before the parties are due to start withdrawing heavy weaponry under a recently brokered deal. The cease-fire, which went into effect on Sunday, had raised cautious hopes for an end to the 10-month-old conflict, which has already claimed more than 5,300 lives. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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National Edition News cover for February 16, 2015 - Ukrainian junction a hot spot in cease-fire: Russian-backed separatists cover their ears as they fire a mortar towards Ukrainian troops outside the village of Sanzharivka, northeast of Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine flew to the Belarus capital for crucial peace talks Wednesday as fighting still raged in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Maximilian Clarke)

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, last week kept up his attack on the Air Force plans to shelve the A-10, calling them a "folly," after a USA Today report implied the plane is dangerous to friendly troops and civillians. The Air Force argues the deactivating the A-10s would save $4.2 billion. (Associated Press)

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Ukrainian government soldiers were resting Sunday between the towns of Debaltseve and Artemivsk during a reprieve from a conflict that has claimed more than 5,300 lives. (Associated Press)

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President Obama has been ordering airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq for more than six months, citing under authorizations from 2001 and 2002 to fight al Qaeda and send troops to Iraq. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on Obama's ambivalence on fighting Islamic terrorists by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. A new trial for Morsi opened Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, in Cairo, with prosecutors accusing him of espionage and leaking confidential information to Qatar while in office. Morsi, overthrown in July 2013 following mass protests demanding his resignation, does not recognize the court, and insists Egypt's current leadership came to power in a coup d'etat and is thus illegitimate. (AP Photo/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)

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U.S. army soldiers load equipments onto an aircraft, not seen, as they prepare to make the journey home at al-Asad airbase west of Baghdad, Iraq, on Nov. 1 , 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) **FILE**

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"Congress has already given the president the authority to order these military actions," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters. (Associated Press)