Politics

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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago teachers union, departs a news conference after her meeting with the union's House of Delegates Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, in Chicago. Lewis told the delegates that a "framework" was in place to end the teachers strike. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Palestinian Hamas supporters burn a U.S. flag during a protest in Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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President Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks Sept. 14, 2012, during a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed earlier in the week in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Golden, Colo., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in the rain at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk Sept. 14, 2012, back to their seats after speaking during a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed earlier in the week in Benghazi, Libya. Behind them at right is one of the flag draped transfer cases of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (center) speaks June 7, 2012, with Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and Gen. John Allen (left center), the head of NATO coalition forces in Afghanistan, upon arriving at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Protesters hold signs as they wait for the Virginia Board of Health meeting on abortion clinic regulations in Richmond, Va., Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Activists on both sides of the abortion issue have gathered outside the meeting and the board was scheduled to take comments before voting on the regulations Friday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)