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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, Kerry Kennedy leaves Westchester County courthouse in White Plains, N.Y. Deliberations are due to resume Friday, Feb. 28 in Kennedy’s drugged-driving trial. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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Unidentified armed man patrols a square in front of the airport in Simferopol, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Dozens of armed men in military uniforms without markings patroled the airport in the capital of Ukraine's strategic Crimea region on Friday as tensions in the country's Russian-speaking southeast escalated. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)
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FILE - This undated file aerial photo shows the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. Back-to-back accidents and a never-supposed-to-happen above-ground radiation release have shuttered the federal government’s only deep underground nuclear waste dump indefinitely, raising questions about a cornerstone of the Department of Energy’s $5 billion-a year-program for cleaning up legacy waste scattered across the country from decades of nuclear bomb making. Thirteen workers have tested positive for radiation exposure after a recent leak. (AP Photo/Carlsbad Current Argus, File)
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National Edition News cover for February 28, 2014 - Tea party throws 5-year birthday party: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks at the Tea Party Patriots 5th Anniversary Celebration at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Thursday, February 27, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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"I am hopeful. I am optimistic. I am filled with the promise that we are going to turn this country around because there is a grass-roots revolution going on," says tea party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
