Politics

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**FILE** President Obama walks offstage May 23, 2012, to greet supporters after speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Denver. (Associated Press)

**FILE** Gen. Chen Bingde (left), chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Israeli President Shimon Peres (center) and Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel military chief, pose for the media during a meeting at Peres' residence in Jerusalem. (Associated Press)

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Potlatch, Idaho, Mayor David Brown stands in front of conceptual drawings of plans to revive the town. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)

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Mohammed Bassiouni poses May 23, 2012, for a portrait inside his home in the Egyptian village of Ikhsas, south of Cairo. Bassiouni expressed dissatisfaction with the Muslim Brotherhood, a political party that enjoys broad support in areas throughout the country. That morning, Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. This election is the first free and fair presidential race since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the Latino Coalition's 2012 Small Business Summit on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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This undated image released by PFCAuctions shows a vial containing President Ronald Reagan's dried blood residue. A Channel Islands online auction house has angered the Reagan Foundation by claiming to offer a vial that once contained his blood. The auctioneers say it was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington. (AP Photo/PFCAuctions)

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The interim director of the District's Department of Forensic Sciences says it could cost up to $800 per case to outsource DNA testing after a national accreditation board ordered the city's crime lab to stop in-house testing. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (second from right) escorts European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton upon her arrival at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, ahead of nuclear talks with Iran. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ameen, Pool)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses the Latino Coalition's 2012 Small Business Summit, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)