Politics

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears on the cover of the Aug. 1, 2013, issue of Rolling Stone magazine. (AP Photo/Wenner Media)

A police officer shuts the doors to Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 2013, as protesters chant in the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. The sit-in at Mr. Scott's office was organized by Dream Defenders in response to the not-guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray eventually will have to decide whether to sign or veto the "living wage" bill. Meanwhile, large retailers other than Wal-Mart call the D.C. Council legislation "misguided." (The Washington Times)

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"There is a growing list of cases and incidents that point to the fact that religious liberty in our nation's military is under attack." — Tony Perkins, president, Family Research Council. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wyden, who has been instrumental in the fight for open government warned Wednesday that the government's practice of vacuuming up the phone records of millions of law-abiding Americans puts citizens' privacy at risk. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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The Trayvon Martin case was about profiling! (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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William C. Thompson (center), a Democratic candidate for New York mayor, speaks after receiving the firefighters union's endorsement on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Egyptian riot police stand guard during a demonstration for supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Several hundred supporters of Egypt's deposed president massed outside the Cabinet building Wednesday in Cairo, expanding their protests denouncing the country's new government and demanding the reinstatement of Islamist leader Morsi. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)