Politics

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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters after a brief visit to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Free Syrian Army fighters train April 1, 2012, in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani police secure the area outside the house where Osama bin Laden's family members are being detained in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 2, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Mitt Romney was an April fool when he was surprised by an empty room in Milwaukee. His staff members had gathered supporters in another room upstairs. Mr. Romney shared the story once he made it to the right room. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks to reporters Sunday at a restaurant in West Bend, Wis. His chance of winning the state's primary is a long shot.

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President Obama talks of reunification with North Korea during his visit to South Korea. President Lee Myung-bak is on hand. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney chats it up Tuesday with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show." His aides are said to have cautioned him: “Don't try and be funny.” (NBC-TV via Associated Press)

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has adopted a policy of rarely signing onto letters from his peers around the country supporting federal legislation. (The Washington Times)

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President Obama (second from left) meets March 25, 2012, with members of the South Korean and U.S. militaries at Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the tense military border between the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks April 1, 2012, to a crowd at a town-hall style campaign event in Madison, Wis. (Associated Press)

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Mrs. Suu Kyi (left) walks out of a polling station on the outskirts of Yangon on Sunday, a day that would see her elected to her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government of Myanmar.

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Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy cheer the election results Sunday in Yangon, Myanmar. Mrs. Suu Kyi's election to a parliamentary seat sets the stage for her to take public office for the first time, 21 years after she received the the Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent campaign for democracy in her home country. (Associated Press)

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People cheer as election officials count votes at a polling station in the Dagon port township in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. Supporters of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers after her party announced she had won a parliamentary seat in the landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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Vice President Joe Biden responds to a question from Bob Schieffer, host of the CBS Sunday-morning program "Face the Nation," during an interview recorded on Thursday, March 29, 2012, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

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Foreign ministers from dozens of countries, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (center), gather in Istanbul on Sunday, April 1, 2012, to push for tighter sanctions and diplomatic pressure to further isolate Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo)