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Gabriel Carvajal of Cali, Colombia, dips his head into a sprinkler while 4-year-old Emmanuel Contreas of Boston rubs his head in Washington on Wednesday. "The heat is never as bad as this where I live in Colombia," Mr. Carvajal said. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Photographs by Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times Ronald Wallen, of Indio, Calif., displays a photo of his deceased partner at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. Mr. Wallen testified that he was denied federal benefits after his partner's death because of the Defense of Marriage Act.

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** FILE ** Two men illegally cross the border fence separating Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, on July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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Abdulhakim Muhammad is escorted from a courtroom at the Pulaski County Courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., on Monday, July 18, 2011, during a break in jury selection for his trial in the 2009 shooting death of an Army recruiter and the wounding of another soldier. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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An American Airlines plane is parked at the terminal at O'Hare International airport in Chicago on July 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Robin Garber (left), of Staten Island, N.Y., goes through the box of legal documents that she and her wife of five years, Kathleen Cumiskey (right) say they must carry with them everywhere. The box includes their will, medical documents, marriage certificate, civil union certificate and more. (Associated Press)

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Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai lives in this house in Fairfax. He is charged with participating in a long-term conspiracy to secretly act as an agent of the Pakistani government in the U.S. without disclosing that affiliation, as required by the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act. He is executive director of the Kashmiri American Council. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Ming Linsley (left) and Kate Baker discuss their discrimination lawsuit in Montpelier, Vt., on Tuesday. They say a Vermont resort refused to host their wedding reception because of the owners' personal views on homosexuals. (Associated Press)

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A protester wearing a Rupert Murdoch mask makes his point outside Parliament in London on Tuesday. Mr. Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., and his son James, also a company executive, were questioned for three hours by a parliamentary committee about the ongoing phone-hacking scandal in Britain. (Associated Press)

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Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread phone hacking by the News of the World, was found dead on Monday, July 18, 2011. (AP Photo/News International)

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Former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare was found dead Monday in Watford, northwest of London. (Associated Press)

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Gen. David H. Petraeus leaves command of U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan to Gen. John Allen during Monday's change-of-command ceremony in Kabul. Gen. Allen assumes responsibility for drawing up exit plans for U.S. and allied forces from the nearly 10-year war zone. (Associated Press)

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"There will be tough days ahead. I have no illusions about the challenges," Gen. Allen said of his new duties. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Searching for clues as part in the "Murder at the Met" scavenger hunt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this month are (from left) Matthew Meche, Dana Zolli and Noga Pnueli. Watson Adventures hosts hunts in 27 museums in seven U.S. cities.