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In this Nov. 7, 2012, photo, U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. presidential election event, organized by the U.S. embassy in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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The building housing “Unit 61398” of the People’s Liberation Army is seen in the outskirts of Shanghai, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013. Cyberattacks that stole information from 141 targets in the U.S. and other countries have been traced to the Chinese military unit in the building, a U.S. security firm alleged Tuesday. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** President Obama warned about the dire consequences of failing to avert budget cuts Tuesday in front of 17 uniformed firefighters and law enforcement officers, who he said could lose their jobs. (Associated Press)
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Alan K. Simpson (left) and Erskine Bowles, leaders of the White House’s defunct debt commission, are asking lawmakers to cancel the sequesters and embrace a $2.4 trillion deficit-reduction plan they proposed Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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associated press White House press secretary Jay Carney circles around reporters’ complaints about being kept at bay when President Obama was in Florida.
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White House spokesman Jay Carney briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Feb. 19, 2013. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attends a news conference at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
