Politics

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Texas state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway posts flyers for her campaign for the 30th Congressional District race on May 1. The Dallas Democrat is challenging Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who has served in Congress since 1993. (Associated Press)

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Jesse Ventura, the former wrestling star and Minnesota governor, is releasing a book titled "DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government." (Skyhorse Publishing)

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** FILE ** In this May 8, 2012 photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Lansing, Mich. President Obama opened a new advertising assault on challenger Mitt Romney's record as a businessman, casting the likely Republican nominee as a greedy entrepreneur who bought up companies and wiped out jobs. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

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Instructor Hipolito Correa shows students Isabel Lugo (right) and Luisa Elizondo how to operate a lathe at Cenaltec, an aerospace-industry training center in Chihuahua City, Mexico, set up by state and federal governments in collaboration with local businesses. (Keith Dannemiller/Special to The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama, left, is introduced by singer Ricky Martin at a fundraiser hosted by Martin and the LGBT Leadership Council at the Rubin Museum of Art, Monday, May 14, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee (left) stands on the outside of the circle of reporters as they ask questions of Dale Hunter during the Washington Capitals' last "Media Day" at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Va. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A Libyan man sits on debris from a damaged residential building on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, in June. Human Rights Watch is calling on NATO to provide compensation for Libyans who lost loved ones or had property damaged in airstrikes during the bombing campaign that helped rebels oust former leader Moammar Gadhafi. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul speaks Feb. 11, 2012, to his supporters following his loss in the Maine caucus to Mitt Romney, in Portland, Maine. (Associated Press)

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Mario Draghi (center), president of the European Central Bank, talks with Mario Monti (left), the Italian prime minister and finance minister, and Luxemburgian Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the Eurogroup, during a ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels on Monday, May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)