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A man balances a child and umbrella on his bike as it rains during the approach of Hurricane Sandy in Manzanillo, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has been asked by the state’s Board of Elections to investigate potential violations of election laws after a man was charged last week. (The Washington Times)

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“We afforded a man who sought to do us the greatest harm the full due process of the law,” U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan (approaching left) told reporters after Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam was sentenced to 37 years in prison on Wednesday for plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in December 1999. A trunk full of explosives was found when his car was searched after a customs agent thought he appeared suspicious after he drove off a ferry onto U.S. soil from Canada. (The Associated Press)

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Rajat Gupta (center) leaves federal court in New York on Wednesday after the former Goldman Sachs board member was sentenced to two years in prison for feeding inside information to his friend. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Michael Skakel looks up while listening to a statement from John Moxley, brother of victim Martha Moxley, in court in Middletown, Conn., on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, Pool)

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Christy Ivie holds her daughter, Raigan, 3, as she stands by the casket of her husband, Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie, during funeral services at Spanish Fork City Cemetery in Spanish Fork, Utah, on Oct. 11, 2012. Ivie, a Provo, Utah, native, was killed Oct. 2 in a shooting at the Arizona-Mexico border. (Associated Press/The Salt Lake Tribune)

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Border patrol agents carry the casket of agent Nicholas Ivie during his funeral at the UCCU Center at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Oct. 11, 2012. Ivie, a Provo, Utah, native, was killed Oct. 2 in a shooting at the Arizona-Mexico border. (Associated Press/The Salt Lake Tribune)

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This undated photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows Border Patrol agent Nicolas Ivie, who was shot to death Oct. 2, 2012, in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since 2010. (Associated Press/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

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**FILE** Hours after a U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot, killing one, agents stand Oct. 2, 2012, beside an agency vehicle in front of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station in Bisbee, Ariz. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Border Patrol agents patrol the border fence in Naco, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, near where Agent Nicholas Ivie was shot and killed and one other was shot and injured. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Aides bearing armfuls of papers arrive Oct. 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill with witnesses from the State Department for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Sept. 11 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Two women hold each other Sept. 19, 2012, as they watch the hearse of former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty leave the Church of St. Eulalia in Winchester, Mass., after his funeral. Doherty, 42, and three others, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, died in a Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. (Associated Press)