Politics

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Robert "Bobby" Tufts, the 4-year-old mayor of Dorset, Minn., hands his card to potential voters on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, in his campaign for re-election. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)

Hazem el-Biblawi, a prominent economist who this week was named Egyptian prime minister, meets with interim President Adly Mansour (not pictured) in Cairo on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

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Greenpeace protesters climb up the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe, on Thursday, July 11, 2013, in London during a protest against drilling in the Arctic by Royal Dutch Shell. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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A X47-B Navy drone touches down as it lands aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush off the Coast of Virginia Wednesday, July 10, 2013. It is the first landing by a drone on a Navy carrier. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Former President George W. Bush was to receive the Improving the Human Condition Award at the University of Denver before a petition citing a "legacy of human rights abuses" was circulated. (The Washington Times)

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U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson is accused of striking a deal to stall the formation of an interim Egyptian government to give Mohammed Morsi a chance to return. (Associated Press)

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President Obama on Tuesday tapped Matthew Barzun, his former campaign finance chairman, as ambassador to Britain. Mr. Barzun is one of at least 11 of Mr. Obama’s diplomatic nominees this year who raised large sums of money for his campaigns or served on his campaign team. Government-reform advocates say Mr. Obama promised to shun that practice. (Associated Press)

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China this week showed off a new air-to-air missile loaded inside the weapons bay of the People's Liberation Army J-20 stealth fighter jet. The weapons hold for the J-20 appears twice as large as that of the U.S. F-22 Raptor. (Chinese Internet and state media)