Politics

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Rep. Tom Latham (left), Iowa Republican, has declined to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin. Reps. Bruce Braley (center), a Democrat, and Steve King, a Republican, have shown interest in the seat. (AP Photo/File)

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., right, sits next to the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, during a hearing on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013.. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to Syrian opposition coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib, during an international conference on Syria at Villa Madama, Rome, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

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** FILE ** Former Illinois Rep. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is surrounded as he walks to his car outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, after he entered a guilty plea to criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, sits between Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, right, and British Foreign Secretary William Hague during meetings at Villa Madama in Rome on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rome is the fourth leg of Kerry's first official overseas trip, a hectic nine-day dash through Europe and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 14, 1990, file photo, U.S. Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia, answers questions during an interview in Riyadh. A memorial service for the Desert Storm commander famously nicknamed “Stormin' Norman" will be held at the U.S. Military Academy's chapel Thursday afternoon, Feb. 28, 2013. His remains will be buried afterward at West Point's cemetery. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

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President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio attended the ceremony to dedicate a statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Wednesday before a brief meeting about budget cuts. (Associated Press)

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Cyberattacks that stole information in the United States and other countries have been traced to Chinese army operations in a building in the outskirts of Shanghai. (Associated Press)