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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson arrives at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. At left is his lawyer Billy Martin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson arrives at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. At left is his lawyer Billy Martin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, arm and arm with his lawyer Billy Martin, leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson heads to his car after leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. At right is his lawyer Billy Martin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson speaks to the media outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson speaks to the media outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, left, and lawyer Billy Martin, speak to the media outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson heads to his car after leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. At right is his lawyer Billy Martin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson arrives at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. At left is his lawyer Billy Martin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Shukri Ghanem, Libyan oil minister and head of the state-run National Oil Corp., addresses a news conference in Tripoli, Libya, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned on Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid at a New York hotel near Times Square on Saturday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Newt Gingrich, as a declared Republican candidate for president, is advocating more research to find a cure for Alzeimer's disease. But his spending proposal to save taxpayer's money on medical costs in the long run apparently isn't what his conservative audience wants to hear.
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, is among GOP leaders insisting on binding changes in the short term to discretionary spending and in the long term to entitlement spending. The federal government hit its debt limit on May 16. (AP Photo)
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Rick Welts, 58, president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, is the first high-ranking executive in a men's major team sport to publicly disclose his homosexuality.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of rape, sex abuse and other counts after a maid at a Times Square hotel said she was attacked in his penthouse suite.
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In this photo released by ABC, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is interviewed Sunday in ABC's "This Week" in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (second from right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is led from a New York police station where he was being held on Sunday, May 15, 2011, on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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A trader laughs as he works May 12 with colleagues on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A loss of momentum on Wall Street, dropping commodity prices and worries over Europe's debt problems caused world stock markets to sag Monday. (Associated Press)
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CBS NEWS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican Speaker of the House John A. Boehner answers questions about solving fiscal problems during a prerecorded Sunday interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" with host Harry Smith. Mr. Boehner said everything should be on the table except raising taxes because that would hurt the economy and the ability to create jobs at home.
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** FILE ** Dominique Strauss-Kahn (right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, arrives for a meeting with Tharman Shanmugaratnam (center), International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) chairman, and John Lipsky (left), IMF first deputy managing director, in Washington on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
