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FILE - In this combination of file photos are U.S. Senate candidates, from left: Shane Osborn, Nebraska; Matt Whitaker, Iowa, and Terri Lynn Land, Michigan. Having watched several promising campaigns collapse in 2012 after candidates made catastrophic mistakes, Osborn, Whitaker and Land are three contenders summoned by national Republican leaders to a first-of-a-kind training at the GOP’s Senate campaign headquarters in Washington, to learn in part, what not to say and how not to say it. (AP Photo/File)
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Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna, a Republican, speaks to reporters after he announced Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 at the Idaho Capitol that he won't run for a third term in 2014. (AP Photo/John Miller)
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Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams speaks during a news conference Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Philadelphia. Williams says first-term Democrat State Rep. Jose "J.P." Miranda of Philadelphia and his sister have been charged in a ghost-worker plot involving his district office. The felony charges include perjury, criminal conspiracy and conflict of interest. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams speaks during a news conference Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Philadelphia. Williams says first-term Democrat State Rep. Jose "J.P." Miranda of Philadelphia and his sister have been charged in a ghost-worker plot involving his district office. The felony charges include perjury, criminal conspiracy and conflict of interest. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams accompanied by investigators Marc Costanzo, left, and Frank Fina, walks awayafter a news conference Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Philadelphia. Williams says first-term Democrat State Rep. Jose "J.P." Miranda of Philadelphia and his sister have been charged in a ghost-worker plot involving his district office. The felony charges include perjury, criminal conspiracy and conflict of interest. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, center, accompanied by investigators Marc Costanzo, left, and Frank Fina, speaks during a news conference Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Philadelphia. Williams says first-term Democrat State Rep. Jose "J.P." Miranda of Philadelphia and his sister have been charged in a ghost-worker plot involving his district office. The felony charges include perjury, criminal conspiracy and conflict of interest. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wait for a question during a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. De Blasio is urging state lawmakers to support his proposed tax hike on wealthy city residents to pay for universal prekindergarten. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo leave a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. De Blasio is urging state lawmakers to support his proposed tax hike on wealthy city residents to pay for universal prekindergarten. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo call on a reporter during a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. De Blasio is urging state lawmakers to support his proposed tax hike on wealthy city residents to pay for universal prekindergarten. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, South Sudanese government soldiers wait to board trucks and pickups, to head to the frontlines to reinforce other government forces already fighting rebel forces near the town of Bor, as they prepare to leave from the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan's government and rebels fighting against it have signed Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 a cessation of hostilities agreement in Addis Ababa that should at the least put a pause to five weeks of warfare that has claimed thousands of lives and uprooted a half million people since fighting began Dec. 15 between the government and supporters of former Vice President Riek Machar. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin, File)
