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A portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is carried past mourners during his funeral procession through the streets of Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Democrats have targeted GOP Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, a 10-term incumbent accused of losing touch with voters in his Western Maryland district. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich (top) said Wednesday that a staffer collecting signatures “committed fraud” in a failed effort to get him on the March 6 primary ballot in Virginia. Meanwhile, rival Rick Perry (above) filed suit Wednesday in federal court in Richmond in his ballot-access bid. (Associated Press)

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Cars parked along Constitution Avenue Northwest this summer were among the more than 1.6 million that received tickets issued by the District in fiscal 2011. "There's no mercy," said AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesman John B. Townsend II. "It's the No. 1 complaint of people who live, shop, dine and work in Washington." (The Washington Times)

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Mourners cry during the funeral procession for late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak chants slogans in front of a courthouse in Cairo on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, as Mr. Mubarak's trial resumes after a three-months break. He is charged with complicity in the deaths of nearly 840 protesters in the crackdown against last year's popular uprising. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali)

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Suzanne Sullivan holds a photo and dog tag of her son Christopher Sullivan, an Army soldier, at her home in San Bernardino, Calif. Mr. Sullivan, who survived a suicide bombing last December while serving in Afghanistan, is now in critical condition after a gunman shot him during his homecoming party in San Bernardino on Friday. Police arrested Ruben Ray Jurado on Monday in connection with the shooting that critically wounded Mr. Sullivan. (Associated Press)

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Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis (right) said Cyprus "cannot accept the 200 or 300 thousand settlers who have come illegally to the occupied areas during the last 37 years." (Associated Press)

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Wild horses roam around the Bureau of Land Management National Wild Horse & Burro Adoption Center in Palomino Valley, Nev. The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the state is appealing to all agency employees for reports any abuse of mustangs. "Regardless of title, whether you are a contractor or law enforcement or public affairs, that's everyone's responsibility," Amy Lueders said. (Associated Press)

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Grapevine, Texas, police investigate the scene of a shooting rampage that left seven people dead Sunday. Four women and three men who police think were related were found fatally shot. Police said they think the shooter is among the dead. (Dallas Morning News via Associated Press)

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The FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, is a hostile work environment, according to a class-action lawsuit that claims gender discrimination and sexual harassment. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Grapevine police investigate the scene where they found seven people dead outside Fort Worth in Grapevine, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth)

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Suzanne Sullivan holds a photo of her son, Army Spec. Christopher Sullivan, outside her home in San Bernardino, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/The San Bernardino Sun, Gabriel Luis Acosta)

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Protesters shout slogans during a protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections on Sakharov avenue in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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FILE - In this April 8, 2005, file photo, New York Islanders general manager Mike Milbury leaves after an NHL hockey general managers meeting at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich. A spokesman for former Boston Bruins player and coach Milbury said on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, that his client won't face criminal charges for a confrontation he had with a 12-year-old boy after a youth hockey game. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

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Washington Wizards forward Rashard Lewis has seven points and seven rebounds this preseason. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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In this Jan. 9, 2010, courtroom sketch, defense attorney Robert Gottlieb, left, is seated next to his client, defendant Adis Medunjanin, at the federal courthouse in New York City. When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens College, but missed a member’s growing anti-Americanism. Those two men and friends _ Najibullah Zazi at the mosque and Medunjanin at the school _ would go on to be accused of plotting a subway bombing that officials have called the most serious terrorist threat to the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

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Washington Wizards' JaVale McGee goes for a score against the Philadelphia 76ers in the second half of a preseason game Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. The 76ers won 101-94. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr )

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Former Syracuse ball boy Bobby Davis, center, addresses the media as former ball boy Mike Lang, right, and attorney Gloria Allred, look on during a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, in New York. The two men say they were molested by assistant Syracuse basketball coach Bernie Fine and have sued the school and men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim for defamation. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)