Politics

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A crater made by a missile from an Israeli warplane is seen at one of the entrance tunnel of the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command base, near the Mediterranean coastal town of Naameh, south of Beirut on Aug, 23, 2013. Israeli warplanes struck the target a day after militants fired four rockets into northern Israel, the Israeli military and a Palestinian official said. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Indians cheer during the launch of the Indian Navy’s anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kiltan on the Ganges river in Kolkata, India, on March 26, 2013. The Indian-built corvette is named after the Kiltan island in India’s Lakshwadeep archipelago. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dorothy Height, right, National President of the National Council of Negro Women and Director of the center for Racial Justice of the national YWCA, listens as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., gestures during his "I Have a Dream" speech as he addresses thousands of civil rights supporters gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday, April 20, 2010. She was 98. (AP Photo, File)

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Arial view of the masses who crowd the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, USA, in their freedom march during the historic speach of Dr. Martin Luther King "I Have A Dream" August 28, 1963. (AP Photo/Str) --- Martin Luther King, Baptist, Buergerrechtler, Marsch der Buergerrechtler auf Washington : King bei seiner historischen Rede "I Have a Dream" am Lincoln Memorial, Blick von oben auf die Teilnehmer am 28. August, 1963. (AP Photo/Str)

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This general view shows civil rights demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument grounds before noon on Aug. 28, 1963. The marchers will parade to the Lincoln Memorial, seen in the far background at right, where the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will end with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. (AP Photo)

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Native Hawaiian activists march during an independence protest in Honolulu as the island commemorates the 50th anniversary of statehood in 2009. The Akaka bill to treat Native Hawaiians the same as other indigenous groups in the U.S. was first introduced in 2000. Approved by the House three times, the measure never passed the Senate. (Associated Press photographs)

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Republican lawmakers have joined the fight to stop a federal court from ordering the removal of the giant white cross that has loomed for decades over the Mount Soledad Veterans War Memorial in San Diego. (Associated Press)

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz Cheney, will appear together at the Freedom Conference in Colorado. (Associated Press)

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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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**FILE** Voters wait in line on Nov. 6, 2012, at a polling place located inside a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, on Election Day. Attorney General Eric Holder says Texas is the first place that he will intervene to defend against what he calls attacks on the voting rights of minorities, but it is also the only state where the federal government has a clear opportunity to get involved, experts say. (Associated Press)