Politics

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** FILE ** Rep. Richard Nugent, Florida Republican, center, accompanied by Rep. Austin Scott, Georgia Republican, right, and Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan., 24, 2012, to discuss the budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Mitt Romney campaigns at the shuttered Solyndra plant in Fremont, Calif., on Thursday. "It's a symbol not of success, but of failure," he said of the company lauded by President Obama that received $535 million in government-backed loan guarantees. (Associated Press)

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Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi speaks at a rally in Cairo. Mr. Morsi last week won the most votes in the first round of the presidential election. He is favored to win a runoff this month against former Prome Minister Ahmed Shafik. He has cast doubt on al Qaeda's role in the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. (Associated Press)

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A woman casts her vote at a polling station in North Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday. Irish voters went to the polls to vote on ratification of the European Union's Fiscal Treaty, a deficit-fighting pact designed to bind debt-ridden eurozone members to much tighter spending limits. (Associated Press)

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Palestinians wait as trucks carrying coffins containing the remains of bodies of 12 Palestinian militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinians arrive in the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing, in Beit Hanoun, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, shown with Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, has tea party support as he faces a recall vote. (Associated Press)

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Rookie Robert Griffin III will be firing passes to new Redskins receivers Pierre Garcon and Josh Morgan, both signed as free agents. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington TImes)

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, to object to actions by House Republicans whom he and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton say are targeting D.C.'s home-rule authority. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Washington Redskins tackle Jammal Brown (77) during an organized team activity at Redskins Park, Ashburn, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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In "For Greater Glory,"Andy Garcia plays a general who sides with Catholics in the Cristero War of the 1920s over the Mexican government's restrictions on worship. With him, holding the flag, is Mauricio Kuri. The mostly Latino cast speaks in English. (ARC Entertainment via Associated Press)

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"Luncheon of the Boating Party" (1881) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir last left the Phillips Collection in 2002, when the gallery was being renovated. (Phillips Collection)

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Salvador Dali's "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War" (1936) is representative of the artist's surrealist style. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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President Barack Obama speaks at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Jay Iselin holds a sign as he and other protesters gather at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Alex Jones, a radio personality and conspiracy theorist, left, and Jim Tucker, an auther and journalist who has been writing about the Bilderberg Conference since 1975, right, speaks with protesters and members of the media during a demonstration at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Protesters scream at a car as it turns into the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Police officers set up orange barriers as protesters gather at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)