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** FILE ** Fighters from the Syrian Free Army fire on a Syrian army position in Deal, Syria, less than 10 miles from the Jordanian border in Daraa province, on Thursday, March 28, 2013, in an image taken from video that was authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins (The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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Ukrainian lawmakers from both the majority and opposition fight around the rostrum during the session of parliament in Kiev on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
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Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, who represents Newtown, Conn., right, and Senate President Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, shake hands after the passage of a gun-control bill in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Joseph Kony heads the Lord's Resistance Army, a group which originated in northern Uganda and is notorious for massacring civilians and using child soldiers. (Associated Press)
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Jody Winslow, of Farmington, Conn., carries signs referencing the Second Amendment near the Capitol where gun rights advocates were gathering as lawmakers voted on a gun control bill, four months after the Newtown shootings.
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Gun rights advocates fill the hallways of the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday as the state Senate took up gun control bill. The body passed the legislation and sent it on to the state House, which was expected to approve it and send it on to the governor. (Associated Press photographs)
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U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician Staff Sgt. Salvatore DiGiacomo demonstrates use of the EOD 9 bomb suit. Air Force Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock has won top military photographer of the year honors seven times. (Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock)
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President Obama is returning 5 percent of his $400,000 annual salary in sympathy with the plight of federal workers facing possible furlough due to the "sequester" federal budget cutbacks. (Associated Press)
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Gov. Martin O'Malley, a strong supporter of the legislation, congratulates Delegate Kathleen M. Dumais, Montgomery Democrat. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, Southern Maryland Republican, (above) discusses gun control legislation Wednesday before the House of Delegates voted to approve a bill that will make the state's regulations among the strictest in the country. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
