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Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth has not publicly come out for Sen. John McCain after falling short in his challenge in the Senate primary in Arizona. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPH

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The Washington Times One-time drug kingpin Cornell Jones, seen here in July 2001, supports one of the two leading candidates for D.C. mayor - but depending on when he was asked, it's not clear which one.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Joe Miller (center) talks with supporters in Anchorage, Alaska. His defeat of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state's primary is partly attributed to "tea party" support.

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An Afghan army soldier and U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, prepare to exit an armored vehicle during a mission to Strongpoint Terminator, a jointly operated U.S.-Afghan base in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, last month. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, cautions Republicans that repealing the new health care law would be easier said than done, even if they retake control of Congress in November.

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A $165 million children's hospital in Basra has not opened because of problems connecting to the electricity grid. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Shining bright: Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, author of Arizona's immigration bill, has become a GOP kingmaker.

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1st Lt. Jay Park participates in pre-deployment cognitive testing at Fort Campbell, Ky., in June. Soldiers from the Army's 52nd Ordnance Group, based at Fort Campbell, have undergone hours of exhaustive cognitive testing in the military's first-of-its-kind study of mild traumatic brain injury. This focus on the soldiers who find and destroy the powerful and deadly weapons is part of a larger effort by the military this year to better track and treat mild brain injuries. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)

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Dr. Richard Edwards, left, is greeted by Dr. Joseph Kutz who shakes one of Edwards' new hands during a news conference at Jewish Hospital in Louisville Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The 55-year-old chiropractor from Edmond, Okla., had his hands severely burned in a fire in 2006. Edwards says he can wiggle fingers on both his new hands. He was the nation's third double hand transplant recipient. (AP Photo/The Courier Journal, Michael Hayman) No sales No mags No archives

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U.S. soldiers of the Fort Campbell based 1-75 Cavalry fire 122 mm mortars at a nearby Taliban position at Forward Operating Base Wilson in Kandahar Province, Southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/ Todd Pitman)

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Henry Ford

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In this Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 photo, Ayo Bello displays a box of Coartem malaria medication, packaged for the commercial market, at a pharmacy in Lagos, Nigeria. Millions of free malaria drugs are sent to Africa every year by international donors. New research is now providing evidence for what health workers have long suspected: some of the donated medication, readily identifiable by its different packaging, is being stolen and resold on commercial markets. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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** FILE ** Nurse practitioner Susan Brown prepares a flu vaccination for a patient on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (right) stands with Purple Heart recipient Spc. Shawn Mason of New Cumberland, Pa., as the secretary visits with troops from the 4th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, at Camp Ramadi in Iraq on Wednesday. Mr. Gates is in Iraq to meet with U.S. troops as they formally close down their combat mission. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama will meet Tuesday with soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas, hours before he delivers a prime-time speech from the Oval Office to mark the departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.

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Retired big-league pitching great Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington on Monday after pleading not guilty to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human-growth hormone. (Associated Press)

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ADVANCE FOR 12:01 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 30, and thereafter; Graphic shows the prevalence of PSTD in veterans and spending on the drug

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FILE - In this file photograph taken Nov. 15, 2007, health care products maker Johnson & Johnson's CEO William Weldon is seen in the company's world headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. With Johnson & Johnson's once-golden reputation tarnished by 11 recalls of medicines, contact lenses and hip implants in 11 months, its chief executive said Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, he knows the company let consumers down. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)