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Jim Greer, owner of Angus MacGregor's Trading Post, is moving his gun shop and model train store to Pennsylvania because of Maryland's gun legislation that takes effect next month. "Ninety percent of my store's sales are handguns," Mr. Greer said. "I can't survive for a month. A business needs its cash flow." (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Off the List: Lawrence H. Summers, a leading candidate for Federal Reserve chairman, would have faced a bruising battle. (Associated Press)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden is likely to run for the White House in 2016 if Hillary Rodham Clinton decides against a bid, those close to him say. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Tom Price, Georgia Republican, says a delay on implementing Obamacare should not be off the table as part of a spending deal as some parts have been put off already. "[I]t's only fair for the American people now to have that same delay," he said. (Associated Press)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's much ballyhooed New York Times op-ed condemning U.S. intervention in Syria and American "exceptionalism" was actually placed in the newspaper by a public relations giant that has been around for 90 years. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador cheer during a protest against the proposed energy reforms that would allow private companies to explore the country's oil and gas reserves. The proposal requires constitutional changes that strike at the heart of one of Mexico's proudest moments: President Lazaro Cardenas' nationalization of the oil company in 1938.
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An offshore oil installation is seen in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Campeche. The nation's top two presidential candidates are debating whether to turn outward and open oil to private investors, or inward by exporting less crude and giving Mexicans subsidized gasoline. (Associated Press photographs)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden emphasizes the importance of investing in infrastructure at the nation’s ports to enable manufacturers to ship products more efficiently around the world to help stimulate job growth, during a visit to Baltimore on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, Oklahoma State University president Burns Hargis speaks during a news conference in Stillwater, Okla. Chesapeake Energy Corp. shareholders showed their displeasure with the company's board by withholding support for two directors up for re-election at Friday's annual meeting. Both directors have tendered their resignation. Hargis is one of the two directors who resigned Friday. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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An investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Aug. 19, 2013 in Shanghai, China. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Marines with Battery N, 5th Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, fire an M777 A2 howitzer during a series of integrated firing exercises at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Centter Twentynine Palms' Quakenbush Training Area April 26, 2013. (credit: U.S. Marine Corps)
