Politics

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, right, and his former colleague Pyotr Ofitserov, left, are seen through a cage window in a courtroom in Kirov, Russia, on Friday, July 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman)

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NATO military equipment leaving Afghanistan is just one item taxed by the Hamid Karzai government. An inspector general’s report has estimated that a wave of taxation will slice $1 billion or more off the top of aid that was supposed to go to the Afghan people. Instead, it’s going into government coffers. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Darrell E. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (Associated Press)

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Democratic Congressman Karen Bass from California has changed here social media pages to images of Trayvon Martin, the young man who was killed by George Zimmerman during an altercation. (Facebook)

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** FILE ** President Obama stands with families who benefited from the health care law provision that provides consumers with a refund if their insurance company doesn’t spend the majority of premium dollars on medical care, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)