Politics

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President Bush’s ambitious January 2004 vision for space exploration has been swallowed up by a budgetary black hole. (The Washington Times)

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Rep. Paul Ryan, whose Wisconsin district is home to many auto workers, backed a government loan program for auto companies to develop more fuel-efficient cars. (Associated Press)

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Casey Naughton of Washington, D.C., top left, and others sit on stoops along 18th street. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rosemary Sellers, 6, of Washington, D.C. gets her face painted during the 34th annual Adams Morgan Day Festival. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2008 photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, left, and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona, right, exchange responses as debate moderator Bob Schieffer listens during a presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Finally, the fall season delivers the matchup Americans have been waiting for, President Obama goes one-on-one with Republican Mitt Romney in three prime-time debates. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

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U.S. Attorney for the District Ronald C. Machen Jr. holds a news briefing in July with Ronald T. Hosko of the FBI (left) and Rick A. Raven of the Internal Revenue Service about the guilty plea of Eugenia C. Harris for city political campaign violations. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, has found a new place for a National World War I Memorial, leaving undisturbed the District’s own memorial on the Mall. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distribute strike signage at the union’s strike headquarters on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012, in Chicago. The union vowed to strike on Monday if there was still no agreement over teachers’ contracts with Chicago Public Schools by then. The uncertainty of whether there would be classes has left parents fuming. (Associated Press)

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Japanese protesters raise signs Sunday at a seaside park on Okinawa to oppose U.S. plans to deploy 12 MV-22 Osprey aircraft on the island. Safety concerns boiled over after Osprey crashes in Morocco and Florida earlier this year. (Associated Press)

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is a staunch believer in EU integration and agrees with his German counterpart on budget conservatism.

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Labor Party leader Diederik Samsom’s criticism of the EU is more moderate than Mr. Roemer’s and has taken over as torchbearer for the left.

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Holger Apfel, the leader of the far right National Democratic Party of Germany, NPD, is shown at a summer festival north of Berlin in August. The NPD, Germany’s biggest far-right party, has been toning down its message recently to try and appeal more to mainstream voters, and amid a new government investigation into whether it should be banned. (Associated Press)