Politics

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The Department of the Interior announced on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, that it will not declare the dunes sagebrush lizard an endangered species. Officials said voluntary efforts by New Mexico and Texas have headed off the need for the federal government to step in. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

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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)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks June 13, 2012, during the Business Roundtable quarterly meeting at the Newseum in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Interim D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson makes his way to his new office in the John A. Wilson Building in Washington after being elected on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, to temporarily fill the seat vacated by former council Chairman Kwame R. Brown. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Pakistani oil tanker drivers sit June 6, 2012, next to their tankers in a compound in Karachi, Pakistan. The tankers were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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This image taken from amateur video and broadcast by Bambuser/Homslive shows a series of devastating explosions rocking the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, June 11, 2012. Live streaming video caught the devastation during one of the heaviest examples of violence since the uprisings began over a year ago. (Photo/Bambuser/Homslive via AP Video)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta testifies June 13, 2012, on Capitol Hill before the Senate Defense subcommittee during a hearing on the the Defense Department's fiscal 2013 budget. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, speaks to the media after negotiations with the United States and five other world powers in Baghdad on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters as she arrives at Yangon International Airport on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar, on her way to Europe for the first time in 24 years. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Former Secretary of State Colin Powell attends the unveiling of the official portraits of former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)