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Navy Capt. James Fanell, director of intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said during a conference in San Diego that the war games last fall by People's Liberation Army forces show that China is preparing for a short war with Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea. (U.S. Navy)
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Roger Other Medicine, left, shows a problematic boiler to Sen. John Walsh, top left, Sen. Jon Tester, center, and tribal chairman, Darrin Old Coyote, right, during a tour of the Head Start center on the Crow Indian Reservation in Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Tester is the new chairman of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee and says he'll use his new role as chairman to target wasteful spending, improve educational opportunities and promote job development on reservations. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, walks with President Barack Obama during the North American Leaders Summit in Toluca, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Obama is in Toluca for a one-day summit with Mexican and Canadian leaders, meeting on issues of trade and other neighbor-to-neighbor interests, even as Congress is pushing back against some of his top cross-border agenda items. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick )
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper listens as President Barack Obama speaks to North American business, civil society and education leaders in Toluca, Mexico Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, before the seventh trilateral North American Leaders Summit Meeting. This year's theme is “North American Competitiveness.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Former Republican state Rep. Owen Donohoe testifies in favor of a bill that would repeal the use of Common Core Standards in Kansas schools during the House Education Committee Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Topeka, Kan. The bill also would create a new advisory board to develop math and reading standards. (AP Photo/John Milburn)
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The Obama administration will make available billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees to support private construction efforts of new nuclear power plants. The $14 billion Vogtle nuclear plant (pictured) is being built by Southern Co. and several partners about 30 miles southeast of Augusta. (associated press photographs)
