Politics

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Artur Davis, a onetime Democratic representative from Alabama, says his recent switch to the Republican Party was prompted by the massive chasm between President Obama's promises as a candidate and his results as president. "The candidate who talked about and pledged to cut the deficit in half has now gotten us accustomed ... to trillion-dollar deficits every single year of his presidency,"he said on a visit to Virginia. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks Thursday at the Wolcott House Museum Complex in Maumee, Ohio, as part of a two-day "Betting on America" bus tour across Ohio and Pennsylvania. Mr. Obama flipped counties across the Rust Belt en route to winning the 2008 presidential election. (Associated Press)

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Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, 96, was recently detained at a Border Patrol checkpoint in southern Arizona. (Associated Press)

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Linda McMahon is running again as an outsider for the U.S. Senate after losing her first race two years ago. She spent nearly $50 million of her own fortune in 2010 in a losing bid for U.S. Senate against Democrat Richard Blumenthal. (Associated Press)

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Abdul Hakim of Arlington blows on his ink-covered finger — a sign that he has voted — at the poll for Libyan expats at the Holiday Inn in Arlington to elect a 200-member General National Congress. (Ryan M.L. Young/The Washington Times)

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Mitt Romney, seen here in February 2002 as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, will attend this year's London Olympics. (Associated Press)

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White House spokesman Jay Carney pauses June 27, 2012, during his daily news briefing at the White House. (Associated Press)

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The medical condition of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Illinois Democrat, is more serious than initially believed and he is undergoing further evaluation. (Associated Press)

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Interior image of the Corcoran Gallery of Art on Thursday, July 5, 2012, in Washington D.C. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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Pakistani border guards stand alert at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman, Pakistan, Thursday, July 5, 2012. The first truck carrying supplies to American and NATO troops in Afghanistan has crossed the Pakistani border after a seven-month long closure of the supply routes by Pakistan ended earlier this week. (AP Photo/Matiullah Achakzai)

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Jeff Shaara is now out with his latest historical novel set in the Civil War — "A Blaze of Glory," about the Battle of Shiloh. He'll read from that and other selections Thursday ay the National Museum of Natural History.

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**FILE** Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announces his bid for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination on Dec. 28, 2011, in the rotunda of the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. (Associated Press/The New Mexican)