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Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, will seek a fourth term. "I'm looking forward to coming back and bringing a strong, powerful voice to Washington, D.C.," she said Wednesday, less than a month after ending her presidential bid. (Associated Press)

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Boeing hopes to ramp up production of its 787 Dreamliner model this year. The Chicago-based company posted its best year ever in 2011. (Associated Press)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke takes part in a news conference at the William McChesney Martin Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, following the January Federal Open Market Committee meeting. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the opening session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)

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Brian T. Moynihan, chief executive officer of the Bank of America, speaks during a panel session on the first day of the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)

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"Look, in my lifetime the single thing that hurt people most was the financial crisis," Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray tells the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "I think we can help head that off in the future." (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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ON RECORD: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski attended a meeting of interest to investigators of the bankrupt Open Range, which had been awarded a federal loan. (Associated Press)

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a GOP presidential hopeful, holds a discussion on housing and foreclosure in Tampa, Fla., on Monday. Mr. Romney slammed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for his work with Freddie Mac and called on him to release records from an ethics investigation. (Associated Press)

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In this May 16, 2011 photo, earth-moving machinery builds up a berm around a Chesapeake Energy storage tank, near Dilley, Texas. The Oklahoma City-based company has signed a deal with a Chinese company giving them a 33 percent stake in the 600,000 acres Chesapeake has leased to extract oil and gas from Texasí tightly locked Eagle Ford shale formation. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

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Megaupload.com founder, former CEO and current chief innovation officer of Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom (also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor) appears Jan. 20, 2012, in North Shore District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Sen. Mark Kirk, Illinois Republican, talks to the media Dec. 16, 2010, on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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This undated photo provided by Research in Motion shows Thorsten Heins, who on Jan. 22, 2012, was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Research In Motion. Heins succeeds co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who announced they are stepping down. (Associated Press/Research In Motion via The Canadian Press)

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Greek yogurt now accounts for a quarter of the total yogurt market after a growth spurt in recent years. (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters holding banners that read "Leave" or "Come out of your houses if you care" climb on statues in front of a theater in downtown Bucharest, Romania, last Monday. They gathered as the prime minister warned that violent protests could jeopardize stability and economic growth. (Associated Press)

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Police officers arrest an Occupy protester who was blocking Wells Fargo's corporate headquarters on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in San Francisco. Anti-Wall Street demonstrators across the U.S. planned rallies Friday in front of banks and courthouses. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Haydee Ibarra looks at her 14-week-old daughter, Melinda Star Guido, at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. At birth, Melinda Star Guido tipped the scales at only 9 1/2 ounces, less than a can of soda. After spending her early months in the neonatal intensive care unit, a team of doctors and nurses will gather Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, to see her off as she heads home. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws. An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated content. (Associated Press)

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Brazil's state-controlled oil company expects to pump 4.9 million barrels of oil a day by 2020, and much of it will go to China. President Dilma Rousseff in November celebrated the delivery of one of four Brazilian-built oil-transport ships. (Associated Press)

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Kodachrome slides are an apt metaphor for one-time photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. The 132-year-old Rochester, N.Y.-based Kodak, which has seen its stock price slide over the past 15 years from $94 a share in 1997 to 37 cents earlier this month, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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With the Washington Monument as his backdrop, Philanthropist David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, speaks to reporters on The National Mall, to announce his donation of $7.5 million dollars to help with the repair of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., Thursday, January 19, 2012. The gift matches federal funds approved by Congress in December and completes the funding necessary for the overall repair. Rubenstein's donation will be made through the Trust for the National Mall, the National Park Service's philanthropic partner whose Campaign for The National Mall will raise $350 million over five to seven years towards the $650 million needed to restore The National Mall. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)