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Rep. Denny Rehberg, Montana Republican, often wears cowboy boots while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, and tells stories about his ranching background. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester derisively sees him as all hat and no cattle. (Associated Press)
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Republicans will get together at their convention next week in Florida, well established as a melting-pot battleground state, to nominate Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. (Associated Press)
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Finding a spot near the Bastille square in Paris is a result of the government's shutting down of encampments used by Roma, a life that modernity has bypassed. France wants the Gypsies to go somewhere — anywhere — else. (Associated Press)
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President Obama’s support for gay marriage and its inclusion in the Democratic platform would excite his base, but could lose some moderates. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (left) walks toward the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with two unidentified people on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama (right) and daughters Malia (second from left) and Sasha walk from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church to attend services on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Japanese coast guard officers patrol in a rubber boat as Japanese activists hang their national flag on a small lighthouse and its perimeter on Uotsuri, the largest island in a small archipelago known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands and in China as the Diaoyu Islands, on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign affairs minister who was named Friday as the new U.N. envoy for Syria, gives an interview to the Associated Press in Paris on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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Syrian President Bashar Assad performs Eid prayers at the Hamad mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, to mark Eid al-Fitr, a three-day holiday ending the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/SANA)
