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Kennedy Park, 4, is in her second year of pre-K in Camden. All 3- and 4-year-old kids qualify for two years of preschool in New Jersey's lowest-income cities.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch tours a factory where inmates work at the Talladega Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala. on April 29, 2016.
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Tom Berry, executive producer of the play Voices From the Long War, stands by the war memorial in Woolsey Hall at Yale University.
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Efforts aimed at teen drinking and driving help reduce deaths, but so do broader alcohol control efforts.
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After sweeping five states Tuesday, Donald Trump suggested Hillary Clinton is ahead because she's playing the "woman's card."
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Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, briefs reporters on the release of the investigation into the U.S. airstrikes on the Doctors With Borders trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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