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Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is on the campaign trail tending to important races in his home state.

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A soup tureen is back home at the Waldorf Astoria, one of many “secretly checked out” items welcomed back by the 129-year-old hotel, many accompanied by fascinating stories. The fruits of the hotel’s amnesty program will be displayed in glass cases in the lobby. (Associated Press)

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A wine coaster is among the dozens of items returned to New York City’s Waldorf Astoria hotel as part of a no-questions-asked, amnesty program. (Associated Press)

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Brigid Brown returned three of the four teaspoons taken from New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel eight decades ago and passed down through her husband’s family. (Associated Press)

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In this Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, a sign at the Hamilton Street Cafe advises customers about their cell phone policy at the restaurant in Albany, N.Y. Cell phones may have morphed into ubiquitous appendages, but for nearly a generation now they've been an irritant in restaurants. But rather than let it eat away at them, some restauranteurs are getting strident about phone-free policies. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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Guards escort a Guantanamo detainee carrying a book at the Camp 4 detention facility's open-air common area at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **

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Seven-time Tour de France cycling champion Lance Armstrong of the United States is pictured during a stop on the third day of training with team Astana in Adelaide, Australia, on Jan. 14, 2009. UCI, cycling's governing body, agreed on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma, file)

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Riders wait at the starting gate at the Livestrong Challenge Austin bike ride on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Lance Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fundraiser and then retreated into privacy as cycling officials got set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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Bike riders begin their 100-mile ride in the Livestrong Challenge Austin charity event on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Cyclist Lance Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his charity's fundraiser and then retreated into privacy as cycling officials got set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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Cyclist Lance Armstrong speaks at the Livestrong Challenge Austin bike ride on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fundraiser, then retreated into privacy as cycling officials got set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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The entrance with the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) gate of the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz is seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney steps off his campaign plane at Palm Beach International Airport, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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Lance Armstrong speaks at the Livestrong Challenge Austin bike ride Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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Under a picture of Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, a Cuban schoolgirl raises her hand confirming a voter is casting his ballot properly during municipal elections in Havana Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. Cuban school children known as "pioneros" are in all polling stations during elections overseeing the process. A top executive of the Hotel Nacional told the AP Sunday 86-year-old Fidel Castro appeared in public for the first time in months at the hotel Saturday challenging persistent rumors that the aging revolutionary is near death. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shares a laugh with his vice presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., after greeting him at Daytona Beach International Airport for a joint campaign event on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)