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**FILE** Having labeled it "Debt on Arrival," Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions (left) of Alabama, the Senate Budget Committee's ranking member, and John Barrasso of Wyoming react to President Obama's fiscal 2013 federal budget on Feb. 13, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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Thomas Matson, resident engineer with the Michael Baker Corp., walks along phase one of the New York Avenue Bridge project. The reconstruction has not proved to be the traffic nightmare that skeptics predicted. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Trainer Doug O'Neill's I'll Have Another is bidding to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978. (Associated Press)

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Financier Carl Icahn wrote that the Chesapeake Energy board had failed its basic function of overseeing management in “dramatic fashion.” (Associated Press)

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A trustee's report says Jon Corzine led MF Global to trade in unsafe securities and take on far greater risk than comparable companies. (Associated Press)

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Rielle Hunter has written a memoir about her relationship with John Edwards titled "What Really Happened." (RMT PR Management via Associated Press)

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Traders John Panin (left) and Michael Smyth work June 4, 2012, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Associated Press)

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An oil rig in the distance starts exploratory drilling beneath the waters off Cuba's northern coast in January as fishermen work in Havana Bay. On May 18, Spanish company Repsol announced that the exploratory oil well had failed and will be capped and abandoned. (Associated Press)

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This illustration provided by Jorge R. Pinon, a former president of Amoco Oil Latin America who is now at the University of Texas at Austin, shows where different oil companies hold the rights to drill in various offshore blocks in Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico. An initial well drilled by Spanish oil giant Repsol came up dry, so the stakes for Cuba are high that oil be found soon.

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"We gave the keys to the largest economy in the world to a person that did not have any previous executive experience." - Eric Fehrnstrom, a Mitt Romney campaign adviser

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The bill that would end direct payments to farmers strengthens the subsidized crop insurance program and creates a program to compensate farmers for smaller, or "shallow," revenue losses, based on a five-year average, for acres actually planted. The Senate is expected to take up the bill this week. (Associated Press)