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** FILE ** In this July 7, 2012, file photo former first lady Laura Bush is seen in Arlington, Texas. Bush spokeswoman Anne MacDonald said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, that the former first lady wants to be removed from a pro-gay marriage group's national advertising campaign featuring prominent people speaking on the topic. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 13, 2013, file photo, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks during his last news conference as defense secretary at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian well-wishers attending the speech of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hold up his picture at a mosque inside the leader's housing compound in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Khamenei said Saturday that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, but that no world power could stop Tehran's access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build one. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)

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“Is Cruz under attack because he’s Hispanic? Not at all … Cruz is under attack because he’s out-debating Democrats,” Powerline says of freshman GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Statesman.com via associated press

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for a meeting Friday with President Obama in the Oval Office. Cybersecurity will be among the topics on the two leaders' agenda. (Associated Press)

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President Obama and his administration are pressuring Republicans to cancel the sequester cuts and replace them with tax increases and different spending cuts. (Associated Press)

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David and Francine Wheeler, parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Benjamin Wheeler, embrace during the gun violence conference in Danbury, Conn., on Thursday attended by Vice President Joseph R. Biden. Mr. Biden said politicians must speak for victims of gun violence who can no longer do so themselves. (Associated Press)

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Ami Ayalon, center, in a scene from the Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Gatekeepers," about former heads of the Israeli security agency, Shin Bet. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics)

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David Gregory hosts NBC's "Meet the Press" from the site of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/NBC, Virginia Sherwood)