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Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez during a 2017 news conference in Crosby, Texas. President Biden has nominated Gonzalez to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of an attempt to overhaul the agency. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption

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Biden's Pick To Lead ICE Would Take Over An Agency In Turmoil

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Thousands of pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci's work emails from January to June 2020 have been released via Freedom of Information Act requests by news organizations. Fauci is seen here before he testifies in front of a Senate committee last June. Kevin Dietsch/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A Planned Parenthood of Utah facility in Salt Lake City. The Biden administration is moving to reverse a Trump-era family planning policy that critics describe as a domestic "gag rule" for reproductive healthcare providers. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption

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Biden Administration Moves To Undo Trump Abortion Rules For Title X

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Regina LaBelle is the acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. During a Thursday morning briefing, LaBelle said drug overdose deaths were up about 27% in the 12-month period ending in August 2020, compared with the previous year. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy hide caption

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Drug Overdose Deaths Spiked To 88,000 During The Pandemic, White House Says

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Chart: ICE Detention Population Decreasing Sharply Ruth Talbot/NPR hide caption

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Beyond The Border, Fewer Immigrants Being Locked Up But ICE Still Pays For Empty Beds

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Weeks before the 1980 census officially began, the Federation for American Immigration Reform launched its campaign to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that, according to the Constitution, must include the "whole number of persons in each state." Ernie Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption

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Immigration Hard-Liner Files Reveal 40-Year Bid Behind Trump's Census Obsession

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Union Station and the Kansas City skyline are lit on Feb. 01, 2021 in Kansas City, Mo. In June 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its plan to move two of its research agencies out of Washington, D.C., to the Kansas City area. Rather than move, most of the people working at the agencies quit, leaving gaping holes in critical divisions. Jamie Squire/Getty Images hide caption

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While waiting for a liver transplant in 2011, 21-year-old Matthew Rosiello (shown here getting catheter help from his mom while he was on the waitlist) was advised by his doctors to relocate from New York to Ohio — where the wait would be shorter. Indeed, in 2012 Rosiello received a liver transplant in Cleveland. AP Photo/Craig Ruttle hide caption

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President Trump contradicted an earlier White House statement saying that administration officials would get early access to a COVID-19 vaccine. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

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The Justice Department plans to execute five people in the coming weeks. The planned executions pose a challenge to Attorney General Bill Barr's adherence to Catholic teachings, which oppose the death penalty. Star Tribune via Getty Images/Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption

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Federal Executions Pit The Trump Administration Against The Catholic Church

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A proposed rule could cause headaches and extra work for the successor of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, seen with President Trump in November. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Nana (left) gets her birth control implant checked by Dr. Jean Rangomana during the Marie Stopes International mobile clinic in Besakoa, Madagascar, on April 9, 2018. Abortion is illegal under all circumstances in Madagascar, and Trump administration policies led to shortages of birth control there, health workers say. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption

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How Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Will Be Remembered

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"In the spring, we listened to public health experts, stomped the curve and saved thousands of lives together. Now, we must channel that same energy and join forces again to protect our families, frontline workers and small businesses," Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement. Michigan Office of the Governor via AP hide caption

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Iván and his mother, Hilda Ramirez, have taken refuge in a suburban church in Austin, Texas, for more than four and a half years. She says they fled his abusive grandfather in Guatemala five years ago, made it to the Texas border, and asked for asylum from the Obama administration. But she says their treatment under President Trump has been worse. John Burnett/NPR hide caption

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Sanctuary Immigrants Take Refuge In Texas Church, Watch Election Closely

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Health care activists rallied in front of the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2017, to protest Republican efforts that would have dismantled the Affordable Care Act and capped federal payments for Medicaid patients. The Republican congressional bills, part of the party's "repeal and replace" push in 2017, were eventually defeated. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption

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President Trump addresses a rally this week at Capital Region International Airport in Lansing, Mich. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Agencies, Contractors Suspend Diversity Training To Avoid Violating Trump Order

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The U.S. Agency for International Development is one of the largest official foreign aid organizations in the world. An executive order from the Trump administration said there would be consequences if its diversity training programs were to continue. Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption

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