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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, before testifying before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the arms-trafficking investigation of "Operation Fast and Furious." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Ari Zivotofsky accompanies his son, Menachem, outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday. The Supreme Court seemed unlikely to rule in favor of the 9-year-old, who was born in Jerusalem and whose parents want his United States passport to list his place of birth as Israel. (Associated Press)

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Tracey Richter is consoled at Webster County District Court in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Monday after a jury convicted her of murder in the 2001 death of her 20-year-old neighbor. Richter faces life in prison at her Dec. 5 sentencing. (Associated Press)

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Dr. Conrad Murray, convicted of involuntary manslaughter, now tells his own story about the tragic death of pop star Michael Jackson. (Associated Press/File)

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An airplane lies crashed on the hood of a car that was used by police to prevent the plane from escaping after pilots unloaded drugs into several cars in San Esteban, Honduras, in 2003. "Honduras is the No. 1 offload point for traffickers to take cocaine through Mexico to the U.S.," said a U.S. law enforcement official. (Associated Press)

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A police forensic team examines the bodies of three people said to be gang members and killed by unidentified assailants in the village of Los Hornos, Honduras. Honduras has become a main transit route for South American cocaine, a trend that has helped drive the country's homicide rate to the highest level in the world and left many villages dependent on the cocaine trade. (Associated Press)

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Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky (center) is placed in a police car in Bellefonte, Pa., to be taken to the office of a Centre County Magisterial District judge on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Commonwealth Media Services)

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FILE - In this Aug. 6, 1999 file photo, Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, right, poses with his defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky during Penn State Media Day at State College, Pa. Pennsylvania state prosecutors said Sandusky, 67, was arrested Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, on charges that he sexually abused eight young men. Also, Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Penn State vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, are expected to turn themselves in on Monday in Harrisburg, Pa., on charges of perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania’s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into the abuse allegations against Sandusky. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)

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Parents who go online to buy lollipops licked by children with chickenpox - to build up their own children's immunity - isn't just a bad idea, it's against the law, U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin warns last week in Nashville, Tenn. (Associated Press)

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime accusations, but may take his protracted fight to Britain's highest court.

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Long-time Penn State coach Joe Paterno is not a suspect in the sexual-abuse case against his former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky. Tim Curley, Penn State’s athletic director, and Gary Schultz, vice president for finance and business, are being charged with perjury. (Associated Press)

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Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually assaulting eight boys over 15 years. (Associated Press)

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Charlie Day poses for a portrait in New York, Saturday, June 25, 2011. In the new comedy "Horrible Bosses," Day stars alongside Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis as a trio of friends who plot to murder their variously oppressive managers. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

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An Afghan girl who was wounded in a suicide bombing lies in a hospital bed in Baghlan, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jawed Basharat)

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Andy Rooney tapes his last regular appearance for the CBS program “60 Minutes” in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The network says Mr. Rooney died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at age 92. (AP Photo/CBS)

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Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley is expected to turn himself in on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa., as he has been charged with perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania’s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into allegations former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young men, the state attorney general’s office said Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Little, File)

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In this photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, center, is escorted in handcuffs to a waiting police car, in Boalsburg, Pa., to be taken to the office of Centre County Magisterial District Judge Leslie A. Dutchcot on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight young men. Also, Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and Penn State vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, 62, are expected to turn themselves in on Monday in Harrisburg, Pa., on charges of perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania’s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into the abuse allegations against Sandusky. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General via Commonwealth Media Services)

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Joel Bennett, an attorney for a woman who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment while both worked at the National Restaurant Association, speaks during a news conference outside his office in Washington on Nov. 4, 2011. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Inmates pass the time in cramped conditions at California State Prison in Los Angeles. (California Department of Corrections via Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Dr. Conrad Murray listens to the defense's closing arguments during his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of singer Michael Jackson at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)