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** FILE ** Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (left) and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, take part in a news conference on deficit reduction on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Democrat Bob Kerrey and Republican Deb Fischer are battling for a U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska. The Fischer camp is disputing poll figures indicating that Mr. Kerrey has significantly closed the gap between them. The race had been considered a lock for Republicans eager to regain control the Senate. (Associated Press)
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Chinese security guards the entrance to the Ningbo city government office where residents gathered Sunday to protest the expansion of a petrochemical factory. The local government relented and agreed not to expand the factory. (Associated Press)
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A truck passes a political sign in a yard in Dellslow, W.Va., on Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Vicki Smith) ** FILE **
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CURTIS LOVELL Escape artist Curtis Lovell has advice for voters who suddenly feel trapped by the election, politics and media coverage.
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Celebrity escape artist Curtis Lovell has advice for voters who may feel trapped by politics, the election and media coverage. (Curtis Lovell)
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A local election commission opens a ballot box Sunday to count votes from Sunday’s parliamentary elections at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the vote amid charges of election fraud are “a step backward for Ukranian democracy.” (Associated Press)
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Syrian security forces are seen in June where a car bomb exploded near the Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zainab in a Damascus suburb. Iraqi Shiites fear targeting of their sect and holy sites if Bashar Assad falls. (Associated Press)
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A forthcoming downloadable add-on to “Assassin’s Creed III,” called “The Tyranny of King Washington,” poses the hypothetical scenario of George Washington setting himself up as an autocratic monarch. (Ubisoft via Associated Press)
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Dr. Richard Carmona answers a question about Yuma County's jobless rate during the Arizona Senate debate with Congressman Jeff Flake in the Schoening Conference Center on the Campus of Arizona Western College Thursday afternoon Oct. 25, 2012 in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Yuma Sun,Craig Fry )
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Bakir Izetbegovic (center), chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina tri-presidency, speaks alongside U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) and Catherine Ashton, high representative for European Union foreign policy, during a press conference at the Presidency in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)
