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Confederate flag sets off debate in GOP 2016 class

This March 15, 2013 file photo shows former Massachusetts Gov., and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor,...

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Clinton calls for ‘common-sense’ gun control, decries racism

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Thursday, June 18, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)...

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‘Amazing Grace’…Obama delivers passionate race lecture at eulogy

Sen. Clementa Pinckney’s wife Jennifer Pinckney, right, and daughters Eliana, left, and Malana walk in for his funeral service, Friday, June 26, 2015, in Charleston, S.C.  (AP Photo/David Goldman)...

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Confederate heritage group loses its Southern influence

Sons of Confederate Veterans member Dickie Phalen speaks to reporters at the South Carolina Statehouse after a rally to support the Confederate flag on Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP...

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Black woman removes Confederate flag in front of SC statehouse

Bree Newsome of Charlotte, N.C., right, is taken into custody after she removed the Confederate battle flag from a monument in front of the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday,...

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California law decried after Black woman’s`lynching’ arrest

In this April 29, 2015, photo, Maile Hampton leads a group in a chant as they protest the death of Freddie Gray in Sacramento, Calif. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)...

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Obama draws sharp contrasts with ‘mean’ Republicans

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, in La Crosse, Wis., Thursday, July 2, 2015, about the economy and to promote a proposed Labor Department rule that would make...

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Haley says church shooting will forever change her outlook

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, speaking in Conway, S.C. on Friday, May 30, 2014.  (AP Photo/The Sun News, Charles Slate) COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ For five years, Gov. Nikki Haley, South Carolina’s first...

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After years of declining crime, a spike in city violence

In this July 6, 2015, file photo, Antonio Brown, father of Amari Brown, speaks near a sign honoring his son, in Chicago. Seven-year-old Amari was among three people who were shot and killed overnight...

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Iran deal sets 2016 clash between Clinton and GOP hopefuls

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton walks with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Clinton is attending meetings on...

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Pennsylvania top prosecutor says charges tied to porn emails

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane arrives for a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) _ Pennsylvania’s...

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Julian Bond, former NAACP chairman and activist, dies at 75

In this July 8, 2007, file photo shows NAACP Chairman Julian Bond addresses the civil rights organization’s annual convention in Detroit. Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of...

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Bond remembered for civil rights work after his death at 75

Julian Bond, then a state representative from Georgia, on the streets of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn on September 15,1968. (AP Photo) ATLANTA (AP) — Through the tough struggles of the...

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Fired reporter kills 2 former co-workers on live TV

This undated photograph made available by WDBJ-TV shows reporter Alison Parker, left, and cameraman Adam Ward. (Courtesy of WDBJ-TV via AP) MONETA, Va. (AP) — He planned it all so carefully — a...

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On-air gunman became increasingly volatile before killings

This undated photo provided by WDBJ-TV, shows Vester Lee Flanagan II, who killed WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward in Moneta, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.  (WDBJ-TV via AP) MONETA,...

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Nevada’s legal brothels are the state’s not-so-secret vice

FILE – In this July 31, 2009, file photo, Los Angeles Lakers’ Lamar Odom speaks to the media during a news conference after the Lakers signed Odom to a multi-year NBA basketball contract, in El...

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Pennsylvania Porn scandal: Top prosecutor keeps releasing raunchy emails

FILE – In this Aug. 8, 2015, file photo, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane arrives to be arraigned on charges she leaked secret grand jury material and then lied about it under oath at the...

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Ferguson protests influence actions at U. of Missouri

Members of Concerned Student 1950 embrace after the announcement that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe would resign Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, in Columbia, Mo.  (Halee Rock/Missourian via...

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Kentucky’s new lieutenant governor, 1st Black statewide officeholder touts...

Kentucky Lieutenant Gov.-elect, Republican Jenean Hampton, the first African-American person to hold a statewide office, talks about her plans once she takes office Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, at the...

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Grocery chains leave food deserts barren, AP analysis finds

In this Wednesday, July 15, 2015 photo, The Fresh Stop, a mobile market stops at the Taft Community Center in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) EATONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — As part of Michelle Obama’s...

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