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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 03: Worshipers carry a statue of Jesus Christ during the Via Crusis, or 'Way of the Cross,' to mark Good Friday April 3, 2015 in Washington, DC. About 250 Catholics from the Archdiocese of Washington 'walked in the footsteps of Christ' and carried wooden crosses and statues through the DuPont Circle neighborhood to the Cathedral of St. Matthew.
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CLEVELAND, OH - AUGUST 06: Audience members are reflected in a window as Republican presidential candidates (L-R) New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Carson, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and John Kasich participate in the first prime-time presidential debate hosted by FOX News and Facebook at the Quicken Loans Arena August 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio. The top-ten GOP candidates were selected to participate in the debate based on their rank in an average of the five most recent national political polls.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 01: London Mayor Boris Johnson shares a laugh while visiting a seafood shop with Simon Marcus, Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, May 1, 2015 in London, United Kingdom. With less than a week to go before the UK general elections, Johnson filled a busy day of campaigning with stops at technical schools, a mosque and numerous restaurants and shops.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 25: U.S. first lady Michelle Obama straightens U.S. President Barack Obama's tie while they wait on the North Portico for the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Madame Peng Liyuan ahead of a state dinner at the White House September 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. Obama and Xi announced an agreement on curbing climate change and an understanding on cyber security.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 17: An impression is left where a person laid down in the snow in Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House February 17, 2015 in Washington, DC. The nation's capital area received 4-6 inches of snow overnight as Winter Storm Octavia effected public transportation and shut down the Federal Government.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 09: With the Houses of Parliament and the Westminster Bridge in the background, a worker uses climbing rope to scale and repair a wall inside the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel May 9, 2015 in London, United Kingdom. The next five years in the Houses of Parliament will be dominated by the Conservative Party, which won a majority in this week's general election and erased any need of a coalition government or hung parliament.
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: The Rev. Sidney Davis (C) leads people in prayer as they hold hands in a Circle of Atonement" during a community prayer service at Second Presbyterian Church for the nine victims of the shooting at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Authorities arrested Dylann Storm Roof, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina, after he allegedly attended a prayer meeting at the church for an hour before opening fire and killing three men and six women. Among the dead is the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator and a pastor at the church, the oldest black congregation in America south of Baltimore, according to the National Park Service.
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SUMMARY: POSITIVE AND POOR, LIVING WITH HIV IN DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley contracted the disease from her husband, a drug addict that discovered his diagnosis at the same time she did, 8 years ago. With her husband in prison, Shana has passed in and out of hospitals and hospices, but continues to work to live in her family's home, which she is fighting to keep out of foreclosure. HIV has destroyed the insides of her bones, shutting down her immune system, keeping her wracked with pain and preventing her from working. The HIV infection rate among heterosexual African American women in the poorest neighborhoods of the District of Columbia nearly doubled from 2010 to 2012, from 6.3 percent to 12.1 percent. Shana is one of the women struggling to survive in our nation's capital. WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley rests in bed after having her mediport replaced during outpatient surgery the day before August 27, 2014 in Washington, DC. Shana's mediport became clogged while she was undergoing treatment for a lung and urinary tract infection at Johns Hopkins University earlier this month. A mediport is a tube that sits under the skin and allows doctors to pump medication directly into Shana's heart.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley visits her internal medicine doctor, Dr. Nathan Samras at the Georgetown University Hospital August 14, 2013 in Washington, DC. Shana's case is frustrating for her caregivers. While her CD4 (white blood cells that fights infection) count is increasing and her viral load is decreasing, the damage that HIV has wreaked on her body continues to progress. Her body is not repairing itself the way it should and the necrosis continues in the bones throughout her body, including in the marrow.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Shana Reynolds-Fairley sleeps at the dinner table after a farewell party organized by staff, volunteers and residents at Joseph's House May 30, 2014 in Washington, DC. After 16 months of in-patient care at the hospice, Shana has 'graduated' from the program and will now live on her own again.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley keeps medical supplies in a hole in a wall inside her dilapidated home August 20, 2014 in Washington, DC. After 'graduating' from hospice at the end of May 2014, Shana has been living on her own at home. After running a fever due to a urinary tract infection, she proceeded through a series of hospitals from Georgetown to Sibley and finally Johns Hopkins.
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Shana Reynolds-Fairley works on giving her home health aide Ronnie hair extensions in her room at Joseph's House July 29, 2013 in Washington, DC.
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Shana Reynolds-Farley, 34, zips up her jacket against the cold as she is wheeled through the kitchen at Josephs House, a hospice that provides nursing and support services to homeless men and women dying of AIDS and cancer, May 14, 2013 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley arrives home after getting a ride from her father, Festus Reynolds, after being in the hospital for almost a month August 20, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley joins her family to help send her niece Imani off to prom at her grandmother's home in Northwest May 31, 2014 in Washington, DC. After 16 months of in-patient care at a hospice for poor and homeless people, Shana has 'graduated' from the program and will now live on her own again.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley sits in her wheelchair in the middle of her neighborhood convenience store, attempting to call her bank after being told she had insufficient funds to buy cleaning supplies February 28, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley greets her husband Charles Fairley outside of Hope Village, a halfway house, the day he was released from prison in North Carolina February 19, 2015 in Washington, DC. This was the first time Shana had seen her husband since he went to prison more than three years ago.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HIV-positive Shana Reynolds-Fairley arrives home after being in the hospital for almost a month August 20, 2014 in Washington, DC. After 'graduating' from hospice at the end of May 2014, Shana has been living on her own at home. After running a fever due to a urinary tract infection, she proceeded through a series of hospitals from Georgetown to Sibley and finally Johns Hopkins.
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SUMMARY: CUBA ON THE CUSP -- When Presidents Obama and Castro announced a huge step forward in normalizing the frosty relationship between the two Cold War enemies, the future of the island nation became full of possibilities and challenges. Plagued with decades of state control and intense poverty, the people of Cuba are ready for change but how much and how fast is still a mystery. WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 20: Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez (2nd R) applauds as the Cuban flag is raised in front of their country's embassy for the first time in 54 years July 20, 2015 in Washington, DC. The embassy was closed in 1961 when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower severed diplomatic ties with the island after Fidel Castro took power in a Communist revolution.
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HAVANA, CUBA - AUGUST 14: U.S. Embassy employees hang the seal of the United States on the outside of the building a few hours before the ceremonial flag-raising August 14, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visited Havana Friday and raised the American flag at the reopened U.S. embassy, a symbolic act after the the two former Cold War enemies reestablished diplomatic relations in July. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 23: Tightly packed residential buildings in varying states of repair and disrepair stand in the Vedado neighborhood near the historic Malecon oceanfront drive January 23, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. As the United States and Cuba have entered talks to reestablish diplomatic relations, the administration of President Barack Obama has eased restrictions for building materials to be exported to Cuba, with the intent of making it easier for Cubans to repair and update their homes and small businesses.
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 26: Seen through taxi's torn window tinting, a motorcyclists drives past El Capitolio in the Habana Vieja district January 26, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. As diplomats work to reestablish diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States, Cuban face a new reality that could mean easier access to telecommunications technology, building materials and American food products. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 23: Men hold a board up with their knees while playing a game of dominoes in Centro Habana, the most densely populated neighborhood in the city, January 23, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. Diplomats from the United States and Cuba held historic talks Thursday that could restore diplomatic ties and mark the end of more than 50 years of of Cold War-era hostility between the two countries.
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 21: Using the most rudimentary tools, a mechanic works to replace a bearing on a bicycle taxi on the street in the Habana Central neighborhood January 21, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. The mechanic eventually gave up after a spacer would not grab the thread on the wheel shaft. Last week the Obama administration began to permit commercial shipments of building supplies and tools in hopes of reducing the cost for Cubans. The United States hopes that historic normalization talks this week with the Cuban government will open doors to more small-scale construction and repair in the island nation.
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 21: Reflected in a motorcycle mirror, independent vegetable vendors pull their cart into a busy intersection in Centro Habana, the neighborhood with the highest population density in the capital city, January 21, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. The United States hopes that historic normalization talks this week with the Cuban government will help reestablish a positive working relationship with the island nation and encourage small business people.
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 21: Evis Leyva Carballo uses crutches to move around on one leg inside the abandoned building he calls home along the Malecon oceanfront drive January 21, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. Evis, who sleeps on a mat in the basement of this building, sells nuts on the street and relies on the kindness of friends, neighbors and tourists. Cuba and the United States are holding historic talks this week to try and restore diplomatic ties and mark the end of more than 50 years of of Cold War-era hostility between the two countries.
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HAVANA, CUBA - AUGUST 14: A lone Cuban flag flys inside the 'Wall of Flags' across the street from the newly reopened U.S. Embassy August 14, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban government planted 138 flag poles in February 2006 in an attempt to obscure an electronic message ticker on the outside of the U.S. Interests Section building. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the reopened embassy, the first time an American secretary of state has visited Cuba since 1945, a symbolic act after the the two former Cold War enemies reestablished diplomatic relations in July.
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 27: Young Cuban students walk arm-in-arm during the March of the Torches from the University of Havana through the Vedado districts and to the Malecon oceanfront January 27, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. The march commemorates the birth of Cuban national hero, poet, journalist and political activist Jose Marti, who was killed in the Battle of Dos Rios in 1895 during a suicide charge against the Spanish army during the Cuban war of independence.
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HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 21: A man poses for a photograph in the beam of a floodlight placed by NBC News along the Malecon oceanfront underneath a fingernail moon January 21, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. The American news channel set up floodlights all along the oceanfront drive to light the normally-dim area during their broadcast. The United States hopes that historic normalization talks this week with the Cuban government will help reestablish a positive working relationship with the island nation and encourage small business people.
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SUMMARY: BALTIMORE BURNS -- On April 27, 2015, the day Freddie Gray was buried, hostility between some residents of Baltimore and the police boiled over and riots raged all day and night across the west side of the city. Freddie Gray, 25, who was arrested for possessing a switch blade knife April 12 outside the Gilmor Homes housing project on Baltimore's west side, . According to his attorney, Gray died a week later in the hospital from a severe spinal cord injury he received while in police custody. BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: Baltimore Police form a parimeter around a CVS that was looted and burned near the corner of Pennsylvania and North avenues during violent protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: Demonstrators climb on a destroyed Baltimore Police car in the street near the corner of Pennsylvania and North avenues during violent protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: Friends and relatives say their last goodbyes to Freddie Gray as his casket is lowered into his grave at the Woodland Cemetery April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: A woman screams, 'Kill me!' at the Baltimore Police during violent protests at the corner of Pennsylvania and North avenues following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 22: Demonstrators and police officers wrestle over a metal barricade during a protest against police brutality and the death of Freddie Gray outside the Baltimore Police Western District station in the Sandtown neighborhood April 22, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: Young people cover their faces to protect against pepper spray and tear gas during violent protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: A Baltimore Police officer aims his taser at a violent demonstrator outside the Mondawmin Mall following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: A woman faces down a line of Baltimore Police officers in riot gear during violent protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: Police fire tear gas canisters as violent protest move along Pennsylvania Avenue following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 27: A mixture of milk and water rolls down a man's face and chest in an attempt to soothe the burning affects of Baltimore Police pepper spray during violent protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray April 27, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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