Politics

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A Yemeni soldier inspects a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a "significant threat'' of an al Qaeda attack. (Associated Press)

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A Bahraini armored personnel vehicle reinforces U.S. Embassy security just outside a gate to the embassy building in Manama, Bahrain, on Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a "significant threat'' of an al Qaeda attack. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House after returning from Camp David in Washington on Aug. 4, 2013, his 52nd birthday . (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis (left), famous for her 12-hour filibuster attempt against an anti-abortion rights bill, greets attendees at a fundraiser on July 25, 2013, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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This handout photo released by the Tufts family shows Mayor Robert "Bobby" Tufts, right, shaking hands with and unidentified woman in Dorset, Minn. Tufts hasn't made it to preschool yet, but he's already been elected twice as mayor of a tiny tourist town in northern Minnesota. (AP Photo/Courtesy Tufts Family)

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People hold national flags as they shout slogans outside the Silivri jail complex in Silivri, Turkey, on Aug. 5, 2013. Some 275 people, including military officers, politicians and journalists, are facing verdicts in a landmark and divisive trial in Turkey over an alleged conspiracy to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. Security forces set up barricades around the courthouse in Silivri to tighten security after the supporters of defendants announced to hold a demonstration against the five-year trial. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this July 16, 2013, file photo, host David Letterman smiles on the set of the “Late Show with David Letterman." A study released Monday of gags made by late-night comics found that Obama and Democrats provided the lion’s share of punchlines during the first six months of the year. That’s an abrupt change from 2012, when Mitt Romney proved a gift to the comic gods. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)

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U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, greets supporters during the 133rd Annual Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky., Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)