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Claire Dufford cleans up one of her Jersey cows at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, Md. Dufford will show her cow in the fair Tuesday night. August 13, 2002 ( Jessica Tefft / The Washington Times )

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**FILE** A pedestrian using his cell phone stops outside a electronics shop in London on July 19, 2011, by television screens showing Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch during a select committee on the phone hacking scandal. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Acting Internal Revenue Service chief Danny Werfel. (Associated Press)

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Items unearthed in Lower Manhattan are on display during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Ron Paul will launch the Ron Paul Channel on Monday with original programming either live or on demand, available by subscription for $9.95 a month.

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**FILE** DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg attends the premiere of "Turbo" at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York on July 9, 2013. (Evan Agostini/Invision/Associated Press)

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Lori Bainum, a veteran newspaper sales executive and business strategist, has joined The Washington Times.

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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, discusses a plan July 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill to move mail to cluster box and curbside delivery in a move to cut costs at the cash-strapped Postal Service by up to $4.5 billion a year. With the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, the tradition of mail delivery to the door could be virtually phased out by 2022 under a proposal in Congress. At left is the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. (Associated Press)

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was all smiles when the company went public in May 2012 with an opening bid of $38 per share. But the company's stock price promptly spiraled downward, hitting a low of $17.55 in September. On Wednesday, Facebook finally matched its much-hyped initial public offering price. (Associated Press)