Politics

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** FILE ** President Obama stands with Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College and Mr. Obama's nominee to be the next World Bank president, in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday, March 23, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** One Police Plaza is seen in New York on May 3, 2011. New York Police Department documents show that undercover officers attended meetings of liberal political groups and kept intelligence files on activists. The records show how, since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, counterterrorism tactics have been used to monitor even lawful activities. (Associated Press)

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A general view of Damascus, Syria, is seen on March 22, 2012. Mounting international condemnation of Bashar Assad's regime and high-level diplomacy have failed to ease the year-old Syria conflict, which the U.N. says has killed more than 8,000 people. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this July 13, 2008, file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma arrive for a formal dinner after a Mediterranean Summit meeting at the Petit Palais in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

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A man in the State House watches the action during the budget demonstration in Annapolis. Inside, the House debates the new budget proposal, which includes higher state taxes. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Federal authorities have been reviewing D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray's 2010 campaign since last year. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (left) and Russell Pearce attend an Arizona Red Mountain Tea Party meeting in Mesa, Ariz., on Monday. The sheriff is in a tough fight to stay in office and Mr. Pearce is trying to regain a seat in his state's Senate. (East Valley Tribune via Associated Press)

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Soldiers gather in Bamako, Mali, on Thursday at an entrance to the compound containing government ministries after taking power in a coup, Drunken soldiers looted Mali's presidential palace hours after they declared a coup on Thursday, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few established democracies in this troubled corner of Africa. (Associated Press)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 22, 2012, to criticize President Barack Obama's energy policies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum departs after a campaign stop Thursday in San Antonio. The former Pennsylvania senator hopes to increase his delegate tally in states where local caucuses were just the first step in winning delegates to the convention. (Associated Press)

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The London Knights celebrate their 7-2 hockey win over the visiting Oshawa Generals at the John Labatt Centre in London,Ontario, Canada on Friday March 2, 2012. (Craig Glover/Special to The Washington Times)

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A South Korean protester aims a toy gun at an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which is set on a mock North Korean missile during an anti-North Korea rally denouncing North's plan to launch a long-range rocket in Seoul on March, 20, 2012. (Associated Press)