Politics

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** FILE ** President Obama smiles in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. (Associated Press)

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., following a closed-door GOP meeting on the "fiscal cliff" bill. It passed the Senate on Monday night and the House on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off a small island near Kodiak Island on Jan. 1, 2013. A Coast Guard C-130 plane and a helicopter were used to fly over the grounded vessel. Severe weather did not permit putting the marine experts on board the drilling rig, which is near shore and being pounded by stormy seas. (Associated Press/U.S. Coast Guard)

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President Obama and Vice President Biden arrive Jan. 1, 2013, to make a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

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This photo posted on the website freejamesfoley.org shows American journalist James Foley in Aleppo, Syria, in July 2012. The family of the journalist says he was kidnapped in northwest Syria by unknown gunmen on Thanksgiving day. (Associated Press/Nicole Tung, freejamesfoley.org)

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A churchgoer raises her hands as she prays for peace in the New Year's Day morning mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic on Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (Associated Press)

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A wounded man is pulled from the site of a Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha, Syria, on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. This citizen-journalist image was taken from video that was authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)