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Boeing employees work in the 787 Dreamliners Aft Body Assembly building in June in Charleston, S.C. Boeing and the International Association Machinists reached a deal on a new contract last week. The union had accused Boeing of illegally shifting work to the Charleston plant in retaliation for past strikes in Washington state. (Jeremy Lock/Special to The Washington Times)

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Investigators inspect the scene of a fatal shooting on Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles after a gunman who fired at cars and shouted, "Kill me" and "I'm gonna die!" was shot to death by police. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks with an girl who was wounded in Tuesday's suicide bomb attack against Shiites as he visits the victims at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/S. Sabawoon, Pool)

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A police car (second from right) believed to be carrying former Panamanian military strongman Manuel Noriega arrives at Orly Airport, south of Paris, after leaving La Sante Prison on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Protesters light flares during a mass rally against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections in Moscow on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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** FILE ** This July 23, 2007, file photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows Joshua Komisarjevsky, charged in a deadly 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. A jury has condemned Komisarjevsky to death for killing a woman and her two daughters in the attack. (AP Photo/Connecticut State Police, File)

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano faces a deadline set by the House Judiciary Committee to provide a list of illegal and criminal immigrants who have been flagged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents but have not been detained or placed in removal proceedings. A possible contempt citation hangs over the department.

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** FILE ** This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of the Guard, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh (left), listening to an unidentified colonel as he points to a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Tehran said its forces had downed earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)

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Police officials examine the body of a police officer shot to death in a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Blacksburg, Va. The school said a police officer pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed. The shooter ran toward a nearby parking lot, where a second person was found dead. It was the first gunfire on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The deaths came on the same day university officials were in Washington appealing a fine that federal officials gave them over the school's response five years ago. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder departs after appearing before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about "Fast and Furious" a federal gun sting which allowed weapons to go to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers, Thursday, December 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talks with a staff member before giving testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about "Fast and Furious" a federal gun sting which allowed weapons to go to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers, Thursday, December 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, left, appears before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about "Fast and Furious" a federal gun sting which allowed weapons to go to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers, Thursday, December 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder shows his frustration while giving testimony before the House Judiciary Committee concerning "Fast and Furious" a federal gun sting which allowed weapons to go to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers, Thursday, December 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder shows his frustration while giving testimony before the House Judiciary Committee concerning "Fast and Furious" a federal gun sting which allowed weapons to go to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers, Thursday, December 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, center, talks with staff members before testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about "Fast and Furious" a federal gun sting which allowed weapons to go to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers, Thursday, December 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appears before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about "Fast and Furious" a federal gun sting which allowed weapons to go to Mexican drug cartels through straw buyers, Thursday, December 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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A Pakistani woman walks near a bazaar in Peshawar that was attacked by suspected militants. The death toll from suicide attacks in Pakistan in the first 11 months of 2011 has dropped almost 40 percent from last year. (Associated Press)

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Erickson Dimas-Martinez was convicted of murder in 2010. The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out the conviction, finding misconduct among jurors who slept and tweeted during the court proceedings. (Associated Press)

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Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson has been a key member of the improved penalty kill under coach Dale Hunter. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about Operation Fast and Furious on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)