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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus asked a group of five respected Republican Party leaders to examine how the party can better talk with voters, raise money from donors and learn from Democrats’ tactics. (Associated Press)

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Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel housekeeper who had contended she was sexually assaulted by then-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, agreed to a settlement Monday in court in New York. The amount of the settlement was kept confidential. Mr. Strauss-Kahn did not attend the hearing. (Associated Press)

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Arizona Lottery Director of Budget, Products and Communications Karen Bach (left) and Executive Director Jeff Hatch-Miller displayed an enlargement of the winning $587.5 million Powerball ticket at a news conference Friday in Scottsdale. Two people with the winning numbers have come forward. (Associated Press)

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Nafissatou Diallo, who claimes she was sexually assaulted by former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrives at a courthouse in the Bronx borough of New York on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi votes over a crucial euro70 billion ($99 billion) austerity package aimed at convincing investors that the eurozone's third-largest economy won't be swept into the debt crisis, at the lower house of parliament, in Rome (Foto vom 15.07.11)

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**FILE** Trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Dec. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A man checks a monitor with stock exchange data as a flower seller approaches him in Milan, Italy, on Dec. 10, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks Dec. 7, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss the pending "fiscal cliff." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, pauses Dec. 7, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss the pending "fiscal cliff." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks Dec. 7, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss the pending "fiscal cliff." (Associated Press)

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Barbara B. Lang, President and CEO, D.C. Chamber of Commerce talks about the future of the D.C. Council in the halls of the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 7, 2012, a day after D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown resigned after federal prosecutors accused him of lying on a loan application. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 16, 2012, photo, President Obama acknowledges House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio while speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Admnistration officials say Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner met Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at the White House to discuss the ongoing negotiations over the impeding "fiscal cliff." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)