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Police officers participate in early morning prayers inside a mosque at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Michael Johnson, director of youth protection for the Boy Scouts, called Thursday’s symposium on sex abuse a “ground-breaking opportunity.” (Boy Scouts of America via Associated Press)

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Associated Press South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (left) and Mark Keel, chief of the state’s Law Enforcement Division, on Monday discuss a cyberattack that saw about 3.6 million tax returns hacked. The vulnerable returns included millions of Social Security numbers.

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Skye Gill (left), 6, and her cousin Taylor Kearney (right), 6, both of Washington, play while waiting in line for balloons as they and others arrive for Halloween festivities at Eastern Market in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (The Washington Times)

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Decorated pumpkins sit on the steps of a home on North Carolina Avenue SE in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Guinean drug enforcement agency is one of several in Africa confiscating an increasing amount of cocaine and other illegal drugs. The Oct. 23 arrest in Cameroon of a Nigerian charged with carrying heroin highlights what officials say is a growing problem of drug trafficking in Central Africa. The neighboring region of West Africa has already become established as a stepping stone to Europe for South American traffickers, according to a July Interpol report. (Associated Press)

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Shawn Petty was recruited to Maryland as a linebacker, but injuries have thrust him into the starting job at quarterback, a position he played in high school. (Maryland Athletics)

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A patient is taken to a waiting medical transport vehicle outside Bellevue Hospital in New York Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Bellevue Hospital is evacuating 500 patients due to storm damage. Bloomberg said Wednesday that officials are in the process of finding beds for the patients. Workers have been pumping about 17 million gallons of water out of the basement. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

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A car is partially buried by sand that was washed ashore by superstorm Sandy in Atlantic City, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Convicted killer Donald Moeller makes a court appearance in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/KELO-TV)

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The porch of Clyde Forbes’ house on Rhode Island Avenue Northwest, an area of the District known for severe flooding, is visited by a ghoul with a sign that reads “Die Sandy Die!” hours before the storm hit. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Kenneth Melson, in a private deposition to congressional investigators, suggested the Obama administration’s Justice Department knew as early as March 2011 that its Operation Fast and Furious gun-running story was wrong and could have corrected the facts months earlier than it did. (Associated Press)

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One man found dead in his home last night after a tree fell onto his house and went though his living room, Pasadena, Md., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)