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Stephen Close was arrested, jailed and expelled from of the British army in 1983 for having sex with a fellow squad mate. Thirty years later, police in the English city of Manchester tracked him down and demanded that he give a sample of his DNA. Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says Mr. Close is one of three gay men convicted under Britain’s now-defunct indecency law who have been ordered to supply their genetic material to police. (AP Photo)
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President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joseph R. Biden (left), hugs 8-year-old letter writer Grant Fritz during a news conference on proposals to reduce gun violence on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex in Washington. Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden were joined by law enforcement officials, lawmakers and children who wrote the president about gun violence following the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Timothy W. Cannon faces a maximum of five years in prison after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court to negotiating employment with a company that had a multimillion-dollar contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (Courtesy of Federal Emergency Management Agency)
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NAACP President Benjamin Jealous (right) speaks Tuesday in support of repealing Maryland’s death penalty. Though repeal is backed by Gov. Martin O’Malley, the legislation faces detractors who see capital punishment as a tool in the judicial process. (Associated Press)
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Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (center), speaking at a rally Tuesday in Annapolis in support of repealing the state’s death penalty, said, “I don’t fear the judgment of the people of Maryland,” when asked about the possibility of a referendum. He said he would throw his support behind legislation to end capital punishment this year. He backed two earlier unsuccessful attempts during his first term as governor. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday led the joint reading of the U.S. Constitution by about 75 members of Congress. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders applaud after Cuomo signed New York's Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act into law during a ceremony in the Red Room at the Capitol on Jan. 15, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. From left are Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein, Bronx Democrat, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Manhattan Democrat, Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy (behind Cuomo) and Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Yonkers Democrat. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A couple descend an escalator while shopping at an H&M store in Atlanta on Dec. 12, 2012. (Associated Press)
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We have as much chance of fixing our debt with a trillion $ coin as with ... (Illustration by Walt Handelsman of Newsday)
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Virginia Delegate G. Manoli Loupassi (left), Richmond Republican, stands with Richmond General District Court Judge Tracy Thorne-Beglan during the latter's testimony before a judicial review meeting of joint House and Senate Courts of Justice committee members at the General Assembly Building in Richmond on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)
