Politics

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**FILE** Gabriel Gomez (center), Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, gives a thumbs up as he takes to the stage next to his daughter Olivia (left), 13, before addressing an audience at a watch party in Cohasset, Mass., on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, after winning the GOP primary. (Associated Press)

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Opposition lawmaker Julio Borges arrives with a bruised face to his political party's headquarters before speaking to the press in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Members of Venezuela's National Assembly say post-election tensions set off a brawl between lawmakers that left Borges badly bruised and bleeding, after he and other opposition lawmakers tried to protest a proposal barring them from legislative activities. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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** FILE ** Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., questions former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice to lead the Pentagon, during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo. A woman whose mother was killed in last year's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., confronted Ms. Ayotte Tuesday, April 30, 2013, during the senator's first public appearance in New Hampshire since voting against gun control legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)