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Jury selection for the trial of ex House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, seen here on Capitol Hill in April 2006, starts Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Miami Heat's LeBron James goes up for a shot during the third quarter of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Atlanta won 98-89. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Executive Director from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, Yury Fedotov speaks with actor and UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Nicolas Cage, from left, at the conference from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, on transnational organized crime at the UN headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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In this photo taken Sept. 29, 2010, a job seeker waits, with resumes in hand, to speak to recruiters while attending a Global Recruiting Solutions job fair in Livonia, Mich. Unemployment fell in 23 states and Washington, D.C., rose in 11 states and was unchanged in 16 during September, the Labor Department said Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke advised Congress earlier this year to avoid big spending cuts now and rein in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare over the next five to 10 years. (Associated Press)

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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is waging a quiet war against al Qaeda in Yemen. (Associated Press)

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Yemeni policemen patrol the area near the courthouse during the trial session of Saleh al-Shawish in San'a, Yemen, on Monday. A court in Yemen has sentenced the al Qaeda militant to death after convicting him of involvement in terror attacks and manufacturing explosives. After hearing Monday's verdict, al-Shawish vowed that al Qaeda will exact revenge on Yemen's government. (Associated Press)

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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is a defendant in an injunction request to stop enforcing expansion of a new obscenity law. (Associated Press)

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District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, here in 2002, is at the center of the debate on gays in the military with her ruling to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. (Associated Press)

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Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta said regarding the lawsuit against the former agent who wrote a revealing book: "CIA officers are duty-bound to observe the terms of their secrecy agreement with the agency. This lawsuit clearly reinforces that message." (Associated Press)

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Carlos Barrios, whose wife and mistress both went to the mine after the collapse, leaves the Copiapo hospital with an unidentified woman on Friday. (Associated Press)

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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft argues he should be shielded from lawsuits concerning his official duties. (Associated Press)

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James Cromitie, seen here in May 2009 in New York after being arrested in a plot to bomb synagogues and shoot down military aircraft, was among four defendants convicted Monday. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan is pictured at the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas, in April 2010. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department)

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** FILE ** Kevin Ring testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in June 2005. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Associate Justice Samuel Alito is seen during the group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** The front window of the DC9 nightclub in Washington, is covered on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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FILE - Actor Sean Connery attends the 8th annual Dressed To Kilt charity fashion show in New York, in this April 5, 2010 file photo. A Spanish court official says Sean Connery won't be appearing in court as requested by a judge investigating an allegedly shady real estate deal known in Spain as the "Goldfinger Case." The official says the 72-year-old actor sent the judge a letter explaining he cannot travel to Spain because of his age and unspecified health issues. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

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US principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, John W Henry, gestures as he leaves a law firm in London, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. Liverpool's board of directors won the latest court battle in the drawn-out attempt to sell the club to the owners of the Boston Red Sox on Thursday, leaving the current American owners with slim hopes of using the Texas legal system to block the deal. On a second successive day of legal wrangling on both sides of the Atlantic, a British High Court judge granted an injunction against co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr., ordering them to withdraw their legal action in a Dallas district court. (AP Photo Dominic Lipinski/PA)