Politics

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** FILE ** President Obama arrives to participate in a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 17, 2013, about measures to reduce gun violence. With Obama is former Rep. Gabby Giffords (left) and Mark Barden, the father of Newtown shooting victim Daniel. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Sens. Joe Manchin III (left), West Virginia Democrat, and Patrick J. Toomey, Pennsylvania Republican, arrive on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers. (Associated Press)

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Sens. John McCain (left), Arizona Republican, and Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, walk from the West Wing of the White House to talk to the media in Washington on April 16, 2013, following a meeting with President Obama on immigration. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the east Baghdad neighborhood of Kamaliya, Iraq, on Monday, April 15, 2013. A series of attacks across, Iraq many involving car bombs, has killed and wounded dozens of people, police said, less than a week before Iraqis in much of the country are scheduled to vote in the country's first elections since the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

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Anti-Syrian-regime protesters holding Syrian revolution flags during a rally marking the anniversary of the 1946 withdrawal of French troops from Syria, which marked the end of France's mandate of the Arab country, in the old quarter of the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)