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Washington Nationals' Michael Morse reacts after striking out against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the eighth inning of an MLB baseball game on Saturday, June 4, 2011, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 2-0. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)
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Casey Anthony is shown in court during her trial at the Orange County Courthouse, Friday, June 3, 2011, in Orlando, Fla. Anthony, 25, is charged with killing her daughter Caylee in the summer of 2008. (AP Photo/Red Huber, Pool)
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A young boy holds a weapon given to him by a rebel fighter as he poses for a portrait after Friday prayers in Benghazi, Libya, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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** FILE ** In this Dec. 3, 1990, file photo, Dr. Jack Kevorkian sits in his lawyer's office in Southfield, Mich., after Oakland County Prosecutor Richard Thompson announced that he would be charged with murder in the death of a woman who committed suicide by using a device of the doctor's. (AP Photo, File)
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Former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic removes his hat in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)
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Nikki Araguz, the transgendered "widow" of Wharton, Texas, Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Thomas Araguz III, who was killed in the line of duty in 2010, said she was "completely devastated" by a judge's ruling she is not entitled to surviving-spouse benefits because their marriage was not legal. (Associated Press)
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Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson, commander of the 8th Army in South Korea, talks with investigators while technicians conduct the search at Camp Carroll. (Associated Press)
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MARYLAND ATHLETICS Christy Winters-Scott described herself as a high-post and short-corner shooter with 3-point range during her playing career at Maryland. She graduated in 1990.
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A mass rape victim comforts her son in the town of Fizi, Congo. She was among nearly 50 women who were raped during a campaign by Congolese soldiers on the night of Jan. 1.A mass rape victim comforts her son in the town of Fizi, Congo. She was among nearly 50 women who were raped during a campaign by Congolese soldiers on the night of Jan. 1.AUBREY GRAHAM/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Mama Lubero is one of the many women raped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She sits through an interview about her ordeal at HEAL Africa, an aid organization in Goma trying to help some of the thousands of victims every year.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Soldiers accused of rape and crimes against humanity sit through a military tribunal in the town of Baraka, Congo. A Congolese court sentenced an army colonel to 20 years in prison in the highest-profile sexual violence case ever tried in this nation, where thousands are brutally raped each year. The February trial held in a torridly hot makeshift courtroom marks the first time a commanding officer has been tried for such a crime.
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The Mexican government is seeking to have Chinese-born Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon, seen here in May 2007, extradited from the U.S. to face organized crime, drug and other charges. (Associated Press)
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Rabbi Saul Kassin, 89, arrives for sentencing Tuesday in Trenton, N.J. He was among the rabbis and 46 total defendants arrested in 2009 in a massive federal probe into money laundering and corruption in New Jersey. (Associated Press)
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Egyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar waits to be arraigned at Manhattan criminal court on May 31, 2011, in New York. Omar, the former chairman of one of Egypt's major banks, was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a maid at a Manhattan hotel. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O'Malley's $150,000 salary in 2009. (Associated Press)
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This image taken from Associated Press Television News shows the aircraft believed to be carrying war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic as it lands at Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands after a flight from Belgrade, Serbia, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. (AP Photo/APTN)
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A member of the Serb Gendarmerie guards the entrance of the Special Court in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 31, 2011. As he awaited extradition to a U.N. tribunal, jailed war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic was allowed to visit the grave of his daughter, who committed suicide during Bosnia's war. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A Nov. 27, 1968, photo shows the exterior of the Pierre Hotel in New York. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria and currently an executive with El-Mex Salines Co., was arrested on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, on charges of sexually abusing a maid at the hotel. (AP Photo)
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My Morning Jacket “Circuital,” the new album from Southern rockers My Morning Jacket, is set for release Tuesday.
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Smoke from flares engulf demonstrators during a rally in support of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, seen on the flag at left, in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday, May 29, 2011. Mr. Mladic was arrested on Thursday after 16 years on the run. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
