Politics

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Fans seek the shelter of shade on the concourse as the Washington Nationals host the New York Mets. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Gio Gonzalez delivers in the top of the first inning as the Washington Nationals host the New York Mets. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Kids reach out for a tossed ball from the dugout as the Washington Nationals host the New York Mets at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 19, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Soldiers from the Free Syrian Army prepare to make a video stating publicly that they have formed a battalion after defecting from the Assad regime’s military. Control over Syria’s rural Idlib province is patchy and continues to shift. (Bradley Secker/special to The Washington Times)

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“As Americans, we don’t expect handouts,” President Obama tells supporters in Jacksonville, Fla. “You should be able to have a home that your call your own, health care you can count on if you get sick.” (Associated Press)

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Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, walks with Stephanie Cutter, a communications aide on his campaign, after exiting a helicopter in a landing zone in Red Bank, N.J., in 2004. (Associated Press)

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Illustration Jobs Votes by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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Mattel’s Flight Strike Batman and Venom Menace Bane are part of the QuickTek lineup of action figures. (Photograph by Joseph Szadkowski/The Washington Times)

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Gene Simmons and his Kiss band mates regularly meet with members of the U.S. military and perform for them. In 2008, they visited Air Force personnel and their families at Spangdalem Air Force base in Germany. (Associated Press)

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FBI agents load a box of materials into an SUV outside Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack's house on July 18, 2012, following a middle-of-the-night raid. Mack's two-year administration of New Jersey's impoverished capital city has been marked by accusations of nepotism and reckless spending. Mack, 46, emerging later in the morning from his home, denied any wrongdoing. (Associated Press/The Trentonian)

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Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari (far left) and Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin (far right) listen to speakers July 19, 2012, during a Security Council vote at the United Nations. Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution to impose non-military sanctions on Syria. (Associated Press)

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House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, talks July 19, 2012, to reporters on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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Fahd Jassem al-Freij (left), Syria's new defense minister, is sworn in before Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, July 19, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)