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Mexican federal police and army soldiers guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by gunmen on a highway between Mexico City and Monterrey in February. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. Many of Zetas' targets have been Mexican military and police personnel, but in recent years, U.S. law enforcement authorities also have come under attack. (Associated Press)
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The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns after the April 20, 2010, explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 men. (Associated Press)
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Egyptians chant slogans as they protest the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II is hoping the Supreme Court will fast-track his health care law appeal. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new series, "Veep" on HBO, will be shot in Baltimore, where its pilot was filmed as the District's stand-in. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, here testifying on Capitol Hill in 2004, is considering a run for the U.S. Senate from Texas.
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A victim of a narco-crime is found along a road on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico. There are a half-dozen words for drug cartel informants and double that for drug war dead, but Mexicans worry that developing a kind of offhand jargon anesthetizes people by making violence seem routine. (Associated Press)
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Police examine a "narco-manta," a warning message painted on a banner left near the site where five dismembered bodies were found on the sidewalk next to a car in Acapulco. (Associated Press)
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Annina Purdy, who was inside the Lowe's hardware store in Sanford, N.C., on Saturday, April 16, 2011, when a tornado destroyed the building, returned to the store's parking lot Sunday to reclaim personal belongings from her car. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson)
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Niko Amato, shown in goal, measures his lacrosse career against that of Brian Dougherty, a two-time national goalie of the year with Maryland during the 1990s. (Maryland Athletics)
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Detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's likeness is sprayed on a Hong Kong sidewalk with the words, "Who's afraid of Ai Weiwei?" The social activist was taken into police custody April 3 and is being investigated for allegedly evading his taxes, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi presides at a hearing on Friday, April 1, 2011, in Madison, Wis., on whether to block the state's collective bargaining law from taking effect. (AP Photo/Michael P. King, Pool)
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FILE- In this file photo taken Dec. 28, 2009, Lil Wayne performs in New Orleans. Two security guards face charges of impersonating police officers after they escorted rapper Lil Wayne to an Indiana nightclub on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)
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In an image taken on a cellphone camera by a citizen journalist and acquired by the Associated Press, Syrian women hold an anti-government demonstration in Banias, Syria, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt was charged with DUI at an Army post Friday morning. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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After Bethlehem Ayele testified for the government against members of a drug gang in 2004, she lived part of her dream and ran the Ohio Restaurant on H Street Northeast. But when the former drug dealer and federal witness was slain in 2006, it closed and has been boarded up ever since. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Egyptian Abdallah Hassan, 7, demonstrates Wednesday with his family (holding the national flag) in front of the Sharm-el-Sheikh hospital where ex-President Hosni Mubarak is being detained as criminal charges against him are investigated. (Associated Press)
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Thousands of Syrian women and children holding white flags and olive branches blocked a main coastal highway in Banias, Syria, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, to demand that authorities release those detained in a crackdown on opponents of the Assad regime, witnesses said. (AP Photo)
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A woman drove a minivan carrying three of her four children down this boat ramp into the Hudson River in Newburgh, N.Y., on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. All the occupants of the minivan, which was found in 10 feet of water about 25 yards offshore, died, the city fire chief said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Policemen on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, guard a convoy carrying Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, sons of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, outside the courthouse in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where they were questioned by prosecutors. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
