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An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter soars over Destin, Fla., before landing at its new home at Eglin Air Force Base. Purchasing more of the fighters would be off the table in 2014 if automatic federal spending cuts go into effect. (Associated Press)

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A remix featuring Auto-Tuned clips from "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" commissioned by PBS Digital Studios has become a viral sensation. (Associated Press)

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Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos gestures during a news conference at the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in Madrid on Saturday, June 9, 2012. Spain will ask for a bailout for banks felled by bad real estate loans, in an about-face that European officials welcomed Saturday and said could cost up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion). A rescue for Spain will be Europe's fourth since the single currency bloc's debt crisis erupted two years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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**FILE** A cargo ship owned by German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd crosses New York Harbor on Feb. 4, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Federal Reserve chief Ben S. Bernanke sketched a hopeful outlook in two hours of testimony to a congressional panel Thursday, offering no sign that the Fed is preparing imminent action to aid the nation's economy. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures June 7, 2012, during a campaign stop at Production Products in St. Louis, Mo. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** The entrance to the Sears Holdings Corp. Prairie Stone campus area in Hoffman Estates, Ill., is seen here May 4, 2011. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has made use of a corporate tax break program over the past 18 months to cut high-profile deals with companies such as Sears Holdings Corp., CME Group Inc. and CBOE Holdings Inc., that threatened to leave Illinois. (Associated Press/Daily Herald)

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**FILE** Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies June 7, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Joint Economic Committee about the health of nation's economy, the slumping recovery, and the European debt crisis. (Associated Press)

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D.C Council member Mary Cheh (right), Ward 3 Democrat, will take over as council chairman with the resignation Wednesday evening of Kwame R. Brown. The council will meet next Wednesday to appoint one of the four at-large members as interim chairman. Mr. Brown was charged earlier in the day in federal court with one count of felony bank fraud involving a home-equity loan. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown's staff members carry food into the chairman's offices at the Wilson Building after being charged with one felony count of bank fraud, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)