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Members of the media are asked to leave a meeting of the D.C. Councilmembers after they vote to close the meeting to the public at the Wilson Building as D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is charged with one felony count of bank fraud. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown leaves his office at the Wilson Building after being charged with one felony count of bank fraud and later resigned from the council, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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World War II veteran retired Army Pfc. Andy Semonco, 88, of Elkhorn, W.Va., right, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, visits the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day as part of the Honor Flights program (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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5th grader Olivia Szego, right, with Ashland Elementary School in Manassas, Va., shake hands with World War II veteran retired Army Pfc. Sheldon Franks, 93, of Corydon, Ind., center, while visiting the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day as part of the Honor Flights program. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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5th graders at Ashland Elementary School in Manassas, Va., Kayla Yeatts, left, Ainsley Rowlison, second from left, and Olivia Szego, center, shake hands and hug veterans including World War II veteran retired Army Pvt. Alberton Peace, of Magnolia Ky., center, while visiting the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Honor Flight guardian Lisa Williams, of Lexington, Ky., second from right, chats with World War II veterans retired Pfc. Harold Slaughter, 85, of Sellersburg Ind., left, retired Army Cpl. Wilmer Peck, 86, of Franklyn, Ky., second from left, retired Army Cpl. Edgar Casada, 88, of Highland, Ind., third from right, and retired Army Pfc. Walter Points, 93, of Falmouth, Ky., right, while visiting the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Veterans visit the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day as part of the Honor Flights program which flies U.S. veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit memorials on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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World War II veterans make their way into the Pacific entrance of the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rep. John D. Dingell (center), Michigan Democrat, speaks with retired Navy Seaman McKenley Morgan (left) of Flint, Mich.; his son Bruce Morgan (second from left) of Virginia Beach; and retired Army Sgt. Stanley Kaczor (right) of Woodhaven, Mich., at the World War II Memorial in Washington on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, the 68th anniversary of D-Day, as part of the Honor Flights program, which flies U.S. veterans to Washington to visit the memorials on the National Mall. Both the elder Mr. Morgan and Mr. Kaczor are World War II veterans, as is Mr. Dingell. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Retired World War II Navy veteran Jess Robertson, 88, of Springfield, Mo., looks toward a photograph of himself taken when he was in the service. Mr. Robertson was among a group of veterans who visited the National World War II Memorial on the anniversary of D-Day. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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World War II veteran Andy Semonco, 88, of Elkhorn, W.Va., (right), who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, visited the National World War II Memorial on Wednesday on the 68th anniversary of D-Day. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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"The political parties in Jamaica have realized that reggae was the music of the people," says Jimmy Cliff, who will be at the 9:30 Club on Thursday night, "and so they were the first political people to take music and use it in their political campaigns. It's not so strange to me that it's happening internationally." (Thomas Sheehan)

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The extended peacetime competition with China "at its heart is a clash of visions for the international system," Rep. J. Randy Forbes, Virginia Republican, says. (Associated Press)

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Villagers gather at a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid in Logar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan officials and residents say a pre-dawn NATO airstrike aimed at militants in eastern Afghanistan killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children. (Associated Press)