Politics

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Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren campaigns at a senior citizens housing complex in Quincy, Mass., on Tuesday, three weeks before Election Day. (Associated Press)

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Joan Specter hugs a woman as she leaves the temple after the funeral of her husband, former Sen. Arlen Specter, in Penn Valley, Pa., on Tuesday. Specter died Sunday of complications from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He had spent 30 years in the Senate before losing his seat in 2010. He crossed party lines to vote for President Obama’s stimulus. (Associated Press)

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The Justice Department is seeking the dismissal of a House lawsuit demanding that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. produce records on Operation Fast and Furious. President Obama has invoked executive privilege in the matter. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she made an “inadvertent error” when, on an official trip earlier this year, she urged an audience to vote of President Obama. (Associated Press)

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“Most people I talk to are convinced that our automated traffic enforcement cameras are just about raising revenue,” said Tommy Wells, Ward 6 Democrat and one of three council members who introduced the bill to lower traffic fines. (The Washington Times)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attends a conference on women's empowerment in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Clinton arrived for the long-planned women's event in Lima, Monday, after another weekend of criticism from Republicans over the Obama administration's initial explanation of the Sept. 11 attack and security at the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 photo, a general view of hangars at a desert military training facility where U.S. forces — and a handful of British allies — are training Jordanian commandos in Russeifeh, Jordan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. The U.S. and regional allies are closely monitoring Syria's chemical weapons but seem to have few good options other for securing the toxic agents stuffed into shells, bombs and missiles that have been caught in the midst of a raging civil war. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)