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Imam Maan Al-Sahlani (left) speaks with Syed Raza and Javaid Hussain in the lobby of the Iman Al-Khoei Islamic Center in New York on Monday, a day after someone hurled a Molotov cocktail at the building's facade. Police are also investigating similar attacks on a nearby bodega and two houses as possible bias crimes. (Associated Press)
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An auto dealership in Springfield, Ill., has 2012 Chrysler Jeep Wranglers on its lot (below). (Associated Press)
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Mohammad Shafia (front left), son Hamed Shafia (background, second from left), and wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya (behind officer on right) arrive at the Frontenac County Courthouse in Kingston, Canada. Authorities accuse the three of killing the three daughters in the Afghan immigrant family because they dishonored it by adopting such habits as dating and wearing revealing clothes. (Canadian Press via Associated Press)
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A photo provided by Chris Willden shows a car in the Logan River in Utah on Dec. 31, 2011, after the car was flipped upright by rescuers who saved three children trapped inside. After the car plunged off an embankment into the river, Willden shot out the car's window with a handgun and cut a seat belt to help free the children. (Associated Press)
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Amber Wallenstein, a clerk at the Freedom Value Center convenience store and gas station in Sioux Falls, S.D., rings up a Powerball ticket for a customer. The price for the multistate Powerball tickets is set to double Jan. 15. "I don't think anybody knows about it yet," Ms. Wallenstein said of the price hike. "But they'll still pay for it." (Associated Press)
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The use of the "Made in America" label is under criticism, and Alan Uke – author of "Buying America Back" – is lobbying lawmakers for new standards. Pictured here: L.L. Bean's familiar leather and rubber duck boot is still American-made at factories in Maine. (Associated Press)
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A fire destroys the former Westclox Co. clock factory in Peru, Ill. The building, which the National Park Service in 2007 deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, caved in on itself Sunday morning. (Associated Press)
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A poster warns of the effects of the drug known as 'Spice' at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. The Navy has investigated more than 700 sailors and Marines this year for smoking the "synthetic" marijuana. (Associated Press)
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Poles sell used items on a street in Warsaw in mid-December. Poland still faces many economic problems despite strong growth since joining the European Union in 2004. People across Central and Eastern Europe are balking at requests that they help bailout the eurozone. (Associated Press)
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A woman sifts through garbage in Warsaw. Many Poles and citizens of other Eastern and Central European nations argue that they should not have to sacrifice to help people in the West, who enjoy a much higher standard of living even though their states are crushed by mountains of debt.
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Auburn's Garrett Harper (86) blocks a punt by Virginia's Jimmy Howell (8) in the first quarter of the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Jason Getz)
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Virginia Tech sophomore linebacker Jack Tyler has 35 tackles and one sack this season. (Virginia Tech Athletics)
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Revelers cheer at midnight in Times Square on New Years Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in New York. Some revelers, wearing party hats and "2012" glasses, began camping out Saturday morning, as workers readied bags stuffed with hundreds of balloons and technicians put colored filters on klieg lights. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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** FILE ** Texas Gov. Rick Perry looks at the crowd as he is introduced during a stop on his GOP presidential campaign in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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In this image from amateur video made available by the Ugarit News group and shot on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, protesters gather at an anti-Bashar Assad rally in Hama, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News Group via APTN)
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Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announces a drop in the number of homicides in the District of Columbia during a press conference on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** In this March 19, 2011 photo, Miss USA Rima Fakih arrives to the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York. A police report says Fakih was driving with a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when she was arrested for drunken driving in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park. Officers say a half-full wine bottle on the floorboard behind the driver’s seat. Authorities gave her a breath test that showed a 0.19 percent blood-alcohol level, and a test about an hour later at the police station was 0.20. Michigan law defines drunkenness a level of 0.08 percent. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
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Firefighters spray water on the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine in a dock at the Roslyakovo shipyard in the Murmansk region, Russia, on Dec. 30, 2011. A fire that erupted while the Yekaterinburg was in drydock left seven crewmembers injured. (Associated Press/Ru-RTR Russian state channel/Via APTN)
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Juancho Herrera's blend of traditional Venezuelan folk music, jazz, and electronica has been featured in commercials for Pepsi and Chrysler, and on Univision. Herrera brings his quartet to the Kennedy Center´s Millennium Stage on Jan. 3 for a show that will delight jazzheads and cultural tourists alike.
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Ron Barber plans to attend every event he can to remember the tragic day nearly a year ago when a gunman opened fire as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents. The congresswoman was shot in the head, and six people were killed. (Associated Press)
