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Argenis Ramos, 34, wipes a tear while answering questions for a field research survey by Mercy Corps staffers Alexa Swift (center) and Jill Morehead. Ramos' wife, Karian Batista, looks on.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, listens to comments during a panel discussion in Richmond, Va. in Oct. 2016.
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The state of New York is putting e-cigarettes into the same category as regular tobacco cigarettes, under new restrictions signed into law this week. Here, a man uses a vape device in London last summer, next to a No Smoking sign.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has helped pitch the idea that the Republican tax overhaul plan would generate a "raise" for the average American family, though that is disputed.
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Lines like this one at a health insurance enrollment fair at the Ambrose Community Center in Bay Point, Calif., in 2014 may be longer this winter.
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Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly paid $32 million to a colleague to settle sexual harassment allegations.
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Megyn Kelly (shown on the set of her new show, Megyn Kelly Today) says Bill O'Reilly is wrong and that she had personally complained to network heads about his behavior.
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The redesigned U.S. $100 bills that went into circulation in 2013 incorporate technology that features several visual illusions, all designed to foil counterfeiters.
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who was re-elected to a third term Sunday night in St. Louis, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 2017.
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The Portland video store Movie Madness has drawn customers from all over the metro area for 27 years, but now its future depends on transforming into a nonprofit.
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Puerto Rican chef Jose Sanchez inside his restaurant Pera Maraya. "Everything was going perfect," says Sanchez, 28. "Then the storm hit."
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