Politics

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Members of the media are seen July 3, 2012, at the entrance of the building housing the offices of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. French investigators searched Sarkozy's home and office earlier that day as part of a probe into suspected illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the L'Oreal cosmetics heiress, an official said. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joe Biden salutes after arriving to speak before the 2012 National Educational Association annual meeting, Tuesday, July 3, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, April 15, 2008, file photo, Iranian oil technician Majid Afshari makes his way to the oil separator facilities in Iran's Azadegan oil field southwest of Tehran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

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** FILE ** In a March 30, 2011, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, addresses the Parliament, in Damascus, Syria. A Turkish newspaper says Assad, speaking in an exclusive interview, has expressed regret over the shooting down of a Turkish jet by his forces. (AP Photo/SANA, file)

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Former President George W. Bush paints the walls of a health center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Sunday. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, are in Africa to promote a partnership of the George W. Bush Institute and other organizations aiming to fight cervical and breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa. (Associated Press)

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Neither President Obama or Mitt Romney have any military service, increasing the chance that there will be no veterans on a major-party presidential ticket for the first time since 1932. (Associated Press)