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ASSOCIATED PRESS People walk outside the United States embassy, a concrete-and-glass building by modernist architect Eero Saarinen, in central London. The U.S. government said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its vast embassy building to a Qatari government-owned company.
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A crowd rallies Wednesday during a “Don't Mess With Texas”-themed “tea party” in Austin, Texas. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Battalion walk through the sand inside Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province on June 8, 2009. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Pigeons fly as the Taj Mahal Palace hotel continued to burn in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, police said. (AP Photo)
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Beach Boys chief songwriter Brian Wilson. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** President Obama shows off his golf form. He took advantage of a canceled trip to Poland to play on In April 2010 at Andrews Air Force Base. (Associated Press)
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Scott Veley of Kensington, Conn., holds a Gadsden flag during a tea party protest at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., on April 15, 2010. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Who says the tea-party movement is divisive and limited to far-right-leaning activists? A new "tea" shirt from manufacturer Authentic GOP challenges that claim.
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The 2.3 million-square-foot Walter E. Washington Convention Center covers the area between Seventh and Ninth streets and Mount Vernon Place and N Street in Northwest — three entire city blocks. Since it was built in 2003, the thriving neighborhoods around it have grown exponentially. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, is questioned by reporters about an incident involving "tea party" demonstrators as he leaves a speech by President Obama to House Democrats on Saturday on Capitol Hill.
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Young people fill South Street in Philadelphia on Saturday night during a "flash mob" incident that involved up to 2,000 teens and closed the street to traffic from Front Street to Broad. Mayor Michael Nutter is weighing earlier curfews to end the "stupidity." (Associated Press)
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Pointed arches, narrow columns and soft lighting set a solemn but inviting mood at the permanent gallery of Islamic art in the Detroit Institute of the Arts. (Associated Press)
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This photo, also from the Imperial War Museum in London, shows a "defiant garden" that was planted in a crater in front of Westminster Cathedral in London during World War II. (Associated Press)
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In March 2009, spring breakers dump their drinks on people below while watching a Kenny Chesney concert from the upper floors of a Panama City Beach condominium. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** President Obama gets a round of golf in with hospital executive Eric Whitaker during the president's vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Oak Bluffs, Mass., in August. Mr. Whitaker, whom he met years ago at Harvard, is one of the president's best friends. (Associated Press)
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A Red Line train passes through the Farragut North Metro station in Washington. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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The sun rises over Nantucket Sound as seen from Popponesset Beach in Mashpee, Mass. The sacred rituals of the Wampanoag Indians require an unblocked view of it. They object to the construction of the Cape Wind project, which would obstruct the view. The National Park Service has decided the sound is eligible for protection in the National Register of Historic Places. (Associated Press)
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Customers eat in the dining area upstairs, at the Good Stuff Eatery in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times ) ** FILE **