Politics

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The FBI has identified Aaron Alexis, 34, as the gunman in the Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 shooting rampage at at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington that left thirteen dead, including himself. (AP Photo/Kristi Kinard Suthamtewakul)

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White House spokesman Jay Carney speaks during the daily White House press briefing on Sept. 17, 2013 in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Protesters exit the D.C. Council chambers after members failed to override the mayor's veto of the "living wage" bill. (Andrea Noble/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck arrives for the G20 finance Minister's summit at the Treasury in Westminster, London, on Sept. 5, 2009. (Associated Press)

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An overflow crowd of thousands watches as President Bush speaks on a screen in the campus football stadium following the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Bangladeshi activists shout slogans and celebrate the verdict against Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Abdul Quader Mollah in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Sept. 17, 2013. Bangladesh's Supreme Court sentenced Mollah to death for committing crimes against humanity during the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan. (Associated Press)

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District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier (center), flanked by D.C. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (left) and Mayor Vincent Gray, briefs reporters on the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington on Sept. 16, 2013. (Associated Press)