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The franchisee of a Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q in North Carolina has apologized after employees reportedly sang N.W.A. 1988 protest hit "F- tha Police" as police officers dined. (ABC 11)
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Illustration on Health care as a right by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2011, file photo, union workers block a train headed to a port grain terminal in Longview, Wash. Dockworkers were given the chance Friday, April 28, 2017, to vote on a new contract extension that could provide long-term labor peace at West Coast seaports, where in recent years work slowdowns and strikes have affected billions of dollars in cargo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)
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Laurel Smith, 56, of Medford, N.J., attends a protest outside the office of Rep. Tom MacArthur of R-NJ., in Marlton, N.J., Friday, April 28, 2017. She says she's concerned that repeal of the Affordable Care Act could affect health insurance coverage for her son, 26-year-old son, Jamieson Smith, who has a rare sickness called mitochondrial disease. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)
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FILE - In this Thursday, June 2, 2016, file photo, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz speaks during an interview in New York, while seated in the seating configuration of the carrier's new Polaris service. United Airlines says it will raise the limit to $10,000 on payments to customers who give up seats on oversold flights and will increase training for employees as it deals with fallout from the video of a passenger being violently dragged from his seat. Munoz said his response, in which he blamed the passenger and supported his employees, was "insensitive beyond belief." (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Linda Price, center, a supporters of single-payer health care measure before lawmakers, waits to enter the Capitol, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A bill, SB562, by Democratic State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins, would substantially remake the health care system of the nation's most populous state by eliminating insurance companies and guaranteeing coverage for everyone. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Supporters of single-payer health care march to the Capitol, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A bill, SB562, by Democratic State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins, would substantially remake the health care system of the nation's most populous state by eliminating insurance companies and guaranteeing coverage for everyone. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Supporters of single-payer health care march to the Capitol, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A bill, SB562, by Democratic State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins, would substantially remake the health care system of the nation's most populous state by eliminating insurance companies and guaranteeing coverage for everyone. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017 photo, Yale University graduate assistants, belonging to Local 33 Unite Here International Union, and their supporters march up Hillhouse Ave. in New Haven, Conn., towards Yale President Peter Salovey's House, during a demonstration calling for the university to start negotiating a contract with the Local 33 union. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP)
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Yale Graduate Teachers belonging to Local 33 Unite Here International Union and their supporters march up Hillhouse Ave. in New Haven, Connecticut and rally at Yale President Peter Salovey's House Tuesday evening, April 25, 2017, during a demonstration calling for Yale to start negotiating a contract with the Local 33 union. (Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register via AP)
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Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is greeted by workers outside a whirlpool home appliance factory in Amiens, France, Wednesday April 26, 2017. While her centrist presidential opponent Macron was meeting with union leaders from the Whirlpool plant in northern France, Le Pen popped up outside the factory itself, amid its workers and declared herself the candidate of France's workers.(AP Photo)
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FILE - In this April 27, 2016, file photo, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert who is is serving a 15-month prison term in a sexual abuse case departs the federal courthouse in Chicago. State officials are poised to consider the status of the pension Hastert receives for the time he served in the Illinois General Assembly Wednesday April 27, 2017 in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois General Assembly Retirement System's board of trustees are scheduled to consider Hastert's $28,000 annual pension. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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In this March 2, 2017, photo, Kathy LeCompte, owner of Brooks Tree Farm, shows an I-9 form of Employment Eligibility Verification at her farm near Salem, Ore. Her employees, most of them Latinos, must fill out the form. Farmers, nursery and winery owners and others who depend on immigrant labor are predicting a catastrophe as federal immigration agents focus on stepping up arrests of people who are in America illegally. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2014, file photo, protesters participate in a rally on Chicago's south side as labor organizers escalate their campaign raise the minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour. Amid a national push by unions and worker advocates for a $15 minimum wage, Illinois Democrats hope to pass an ambitious hike during the spring legislative session, despite a warning from Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner that he opposes an increase of any kind. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2014, file photo, protesters participate in a rally on Chicago's south side as labor organizers escalate their campaign raise the minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour. Amid a national push by unions and worker advocates for a $15 minimum wage, Illinois Democrats hope to pass an ambitious hike during the spring legislative session, despite a warning from Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner that he opposes an increase of any kind. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President at The Fortune Society, poses for a picture in New York. At the Fortune Society, the mission is proving the critics wrong by training former state prison and jail inmates on how to land and keep jobs. Part of the focus is on winning the trust of employers who risk hiring criminals trying to go straight, said Richards, an ex-con. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, Neftali Thomas Diaz talks with employment specialist Frederick Muldrow at The Fortune Society in New York. Diaz swears he’s done with Rikers Island. After the second of two recent stints at the notorious New York City jail, the grand larceny convict entered a private jobs program. Once he’s back on his feet with a paycheck, Diaz said, “I know I’m not ever going back there, ever.” (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, Neftali Thomas Diaz, left, talks with his case manager, David Rodriguez, at The Fortune Society in New York. New York City is betting that Diaz and other low-level offenders like him are right about the salvation in second-chance employment. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will spend $10 million a year on a “jails to jobs” initiative that will guarantee all Rikers inmates serving sentences of a year or less a chance at short-term employment once they do their time. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2007 file photo, Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor," in New York. O'Reilly has lost his job at Fox News Channel following reports that several women had been paid millions of dollars to keep quiet about harassment allegations. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)
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Laura Kelly / The Washington Times D.C. Council member David Grosso meets with AmeriHealth Caritas D.C. employees and interns on Wednesday at the Wilson Building.
