Politics

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Lois Lerner, head of the Internal Revenue Service unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status, was put on administrative leave after she declared her innocence but refused to answer congressional questions about the targeting. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks at a news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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"If you're on the road, and you listen to every speech I give every day, I walk through systematically for about 18 minutes exactly what I want to do with specifics on job creation, I talk about education what we have to do on transportation," Democrat Terry McAuliffe says. (Associated press)

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"It's not good enough if the children who live in the right ZIP code are excelling in the classroom and moving on to college while families trapped within a low income community have a mediocre education at best and a failing school at worst," Republican Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II says. (Associated press)

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Sydney Leathers, former online pal of New York mayoral hopeful Anthony D. Weiner, is now offering her opinion of conservative women: "really uptight." (CBS' "Inside Edition)

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Ali McCracken, right, and others with Code Pink wear pink drones as they protest outside the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International 2013 conference held at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, August 13, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Washington, D.C. skyline (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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A person holds an Israeli flag splattered with red paint during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, as people protested Israel's decision to release 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them held for deadly attacks, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Mideast negotiations. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

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**FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, takes questions from reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference on Aug. 1, 2013, as Congress prepares to leave Washington for a five-week recess. (Associated Press)