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A Pakistani police officer stands guard in June at a police station damaged by suicide bombers in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. The bombing, which killed nine officers, was in retaliation for the deaths of four Black Night Taliban killed by police 10 days earlier after a brazen daylight bank robbery. (Associated Press)

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Job seekers interact with prospective employers during a job fair in San Mateo, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Two Amtrak locomotives rest against each other after colliding at an Oakland, Calif., station on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Albert Florence of New Jersey, here with his attorney, Susan Chana Lask, has a case before the U.S. Supreme Court about being strip-searched in two county jails, possibly violating his constitutional right of privacy. (Associated Press)

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Investigators stand near the site where six people were killed and three were wounded in a shooting at a hair salon in Seal Beach, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. The deaths were confirmed and the other three victims were taken to a hospital in critical condition, police Sgt. Steve Bowles told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Tom Dart addresses a press conference in Chicago on Wednesday about the renewed effort to identify eight long-unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. (Associated Press)

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This booking photo released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police shows state Rep. Curry Todd, Collierville Republican, who was arrested Oct. 11, 2011, on charges of drunken driving and possession of a gun while under the influence. (Associated Press/Metropolitan Nashville Police)

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Dr. Conrad Murray listens Oct. 12, 2011, as Dr. Alon Steinberg speaks from the witness stand during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (Associated Press)

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This 2004 photo provided by the Williamson County Jail shows Manssor Arbabsiar, a U.S. citizen charged in a New York federal court on Oct. 11, 2011, with conspiring to kill Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. (Associated Press/Williamson County Jail via Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

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Dr. Conrad Murray listens in court Oct. 11, 2011, during his involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (Associated Press)

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This undated image provided by the Nueces County, Texas, Sheriff's Office shows Manssor Arbabsiar. (AP Photo/Nueces County Sheriff's Office)

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This undated photo provided by the Cook County Sheriff's Department shows victims remains of serial killer John Wayne Gacy being exhumed by authorities. The Cook County Sheriff's Department last spring secretly exhumed the bones of the 8 victims who were never identified in the hopes that scientific tests that were not around between 1972 and 1978 when Gacy killed his 33 victims will make identification possible. (Associated Press/Cook County Sheriff's Department)

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Female prisoners leave Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, after they were released in an amnesty by Myanmar President Thein Sein. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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Albert Florence (right), pictured at his home in Bordentown, N.J., on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, with lawyer Susan Chana Lask, claims that strip searches in two county jails violated his constitutional rights. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has been accused of a "lack of trustworthiness" in telling what he knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Fast and Furious" probe involving straw purchases of guns that were then "walked" into Mexico and given to drug smugglers. (Associated Press)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was deputy attorney general when President Bill Clinton (shown here) pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich, but Mr. Holder's depiction of his involvement has been questioned. (Associated Press)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was deputy attorney general when President Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich (shown here), but Mr. Holder's depiction of his involvement has been questioned. (Associated Press)

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (U.S. Marshals Service via Associated Press)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), accompanied by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, announces on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in Washington that two men have been charged in an alleged plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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** FILE ** Israeli Defense Forces Sgt. Gilad Schalit has been held by Hamas since 2006. (AP Photo, File)