Politics

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Syrians on motorcycles look Aug. 8, 2012, at the damage of a destroyed house after it was hit by an airstrike that killed six Syrians in the town of Tal Rifat, Syria. (Associated Press)

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This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Aug. 7, 2012, purports to show defected Prime Minister Riad Hijab (center) before leaving Syria en route to Jordan in Daraa, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney poses Aug. 7, 2012, with a bust of famed baseball announcer Harry Caray after a private fundraising event at Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse restaurant in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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Members of an underground sect in Russia's Volga River province of Tatarstan province stand at the gate of a house outside the provincial capital, Kazan, on Aug. 8, 2012. The reclusive sect that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade, prosecutors said. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns Aug. 8, 2012, at Central Campus High School in Des Moines, Iowa. (Associated Press)

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Then-Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab (center) speaks under the portrait of the Syrian President Bashar Assad during a meeting in Damascus, Syria, in an undated photo released by the official SANA news agency on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Mr. Hijab has defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman said Monday. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, left, campaigns for Michigan's new 14th district congressional seat at St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Detroit. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Susan Tusa)

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This undated combination photo shows Republicans Clark Durant (left) and former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who were running in the Aug. 7, 2012, Michigan GOP primary. Mr. Hoekstra was declared the winner and will take on Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow in November. (AP Photo)