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B. Todd Jones, President Obama's nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was conducting his nomination hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, before a Senate Defense subcommittee hearing to examine department leadership. (Associated Press)
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Escorted by his bodyguards, pro-reform Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Reza Aref (center), a former vice president, arrives at his campaign rally in Tehran on June 10, 2013. The presidential election will be held on June 14. (Associated Press)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers stand guard at a scene of two explosions in the central district of Marjeh, Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. State TV said the blasts were caused by suicide bombers, while activists said they were bombs planted there in advance. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Demonstrators hold signs supporting Edward Snowden in New York's Union Square Park on June 10, 2013. Snowden, who says he worked as a contractor at the National Security Agency and the CIA, gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on privacy versus security. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** President Obama hugs Tolu Olubunmi, an immigration activist, before speaking about immigration reform on June 11, 2013, in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)
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Richard A. Falk, an American who is U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, answers journalists' questions during a press conference after he presented his report to the U.N. Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)
