Politics

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South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye receives a bouquet after making a victory speech in Seoul on Wednesday. She became the nation’s first female leader, and President Obama congratulated her on her election win. (Associated Press)

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Park Geun-hye waves to supporters after arriving at the party headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday. The new South Korean president will be returning to the presidential palace where her father, Park Chung-hee, ruled for 18 years. (Associated Press)

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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, speaks at a news conference on the fiscal cliff negotiations on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Illustration Government Money by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

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This photo taken Friday, April 27, 2012, shows an aerial view over northern Uganda. Some locals in Gulu in northern Uganda have other concerns that complicate the military mission of forces now hunting for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, such as the fear of reprisal attacks if they are thought to be helping the authorities find him, or concerns that troops hunting him will not be able to distinguish between the regular LRA fighters and their abducted children. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard at a building used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, in Obo, Central African Republic, in April. Obo is one of four forward operating locations where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers in the multinational effort to capture elusive warlord Joseph Kony (below). (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Roughly one year after 100 U.S. special forces troops arrived in four Central Africa nations to advise African soldiers in their pursuit, Kony is still on the run and his exact whereabouts unknown. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File-Pool)

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Soldiers and terrorists battle in the streets of Yemen in the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.” Video-game violence has come under scrutiny after the killing of 26 in an elementary school in Connecticut last week. (Associated Press)