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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper faces a declining approval rating following a legislative session described as the most liberal in state history. Mr. Hickenlooper made a much-criticized decision to grant an indefinite reprieve of execution to death row inmate Nathan Dunlap. (Associated Press)
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Paul Soros, a successful port engineer and older brother of billionaire financier George Soros, has died in New York City. He was 87. (AP Photo/Peter Soros)
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Pakistani volunteers carry the lifeless body of a victim of a bomb blast from the wreckage of a bus, in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, June 15, 2013. A bomb tore through a bus of female university students in southwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing several, officials said. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Charla Nash sits before a hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., to determine whether she may sue the state for $150 million in claimed damages, Aug. 10, 2012. Nash was mauled in a 2009 chimpanzee attack. On Friday, June 14, 2013, state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., denied permission for Nash to sue the state because at the time of the attack, the law allowed private ownership of the animals. (Associated Press)
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Eric Glatt, a Georgetown law student, poses for a photograph on their campus, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Washington. Unpaid internships have long been a path of opportunity for students and recent grads looking to get a foot in the door in the entertainment, publishing and other prominent industries, even if it takes a generous subsidy from Mom and Dad. But those days of working for free could be numbered after a federal judge in New York ruled this week that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated minimum wage and overtime laws by not paying interns who worked on production of the 2010 movie "Black Swan." Glatt was one of the interns. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Patents awarded to Myriad Genetics Inc., a Utah firm that isolated the location and sequence of what's known as the BRCA gene, were thrown out Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled that human genes are "a product of nature." (Associated Press)
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Pat Robertson, the founder of the 700 Club, Regent University and the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), talks to reporters Thursday, July 17, 2003 in Virginia Beach, Va. Robertson says he was not talking about any particular liberal justices when he asked his national TV audience to pray for the removal of three justices. He says the departure of any three liberal justices would be fine. (AP Photo/Gary C. Knapp)