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In this photo taken Monday, June 11, 2012, Democratic Congressional primary runoff candidate State Sen. Gene Jeffress is interviewed in Little Rock, Ark. Jeffress and Q. Byrum Hurst are vying for their party's nomination in the June 12 election in Arkansas' 4th district. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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FILE - In this March 31, 2012, file photo, Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., speaks before the North Dakota GOP Convention in Bismarck, N.D. Berg is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Kent Conrad. North Dakota’s prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under the economic wreckage of four years ago is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded. A former state attorney general with ties to the energy industry, Heidi Heitkamp, may be the state’s only Democrat who can prevent the party from losing retiring Sen. Kent Conrad’s seat. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid, File)
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Tim Kaine, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, said voters will have a clear choice between political philosophies in November. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Protesters carry a message reading "Russia Go Forward Without Putin" as thousands of people rally in Moscow on Tuesday, the Russia Day holiday marking the declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. (Associated Press)
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A woman holds a caricature depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during an opposition rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday. The rally came a day after policed raided the homes of protest leaders. Opposition figures likened the raids to the repression of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. (Associated Press)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right)and Chinese President Hu Jintao review an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony Friday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Mr. Ahmadinejad held more sway at a security summit in China than he does with Iran's theocracy at home. (Associated Press)
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With homicides up more than 50 percent over last year in Chicago, police will deploy dozens of specialized undercover officers on the violence-plagued West and South sides and saturate neighborhood streets with uniformed cops. (Associated Press)
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Stephen Lombardozzi is one Washington National who partakes in difference exercises to strengthen his eyes. (Associated Press)
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"Exploding health care spending is hardly the relief the president promised the American people," says Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican. (Associated Press)
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Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles waves during a ceremony to register his candidacy for the Venezuelan presidency in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Former Virginia Governor and Republican U.S. Senate candidate George Allen talks with Martha Woodbury of Springfield, Va., at the Orange Hunt Elementary School precinct in Springfield, Va., Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Former Virginia Governor and Republican U.S. Senate candidate George Allen takes a look at student's butterfly collection as he greets kids arriving to school at the Silver Brook Elementary School precinct in Fairfax Station, Va., Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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George Allen (right), a former Virginia governor and U.S. senator, greets voter Rod Wood of Fairfax Station at the Silver Brook Elementary School precinct in Fairfax Station on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Mr. Allen is running in the Virginia's Republican primary in an effort to reclaim the Senate seat he lost to Jim Webb, a Democrat, in 2006. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
