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President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Listening in back are Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, right. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, tours the Gabrielle Giffords Family Assistance Center in Tucson, Ariz., on Monday with staffer Ron Barber. It was one of her last acts as a congresswoman before stepping down this week to focus on her recovery from a gunshot to the head last year. (Associated Press)
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"Look, in my lifetime the single thing that hurt people most was the financial crisis," Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray tells the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "I think we can help head that off in the future." (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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On the day of his State of the Union address, President Obama takes a stroll from the Oval Office along the Colonnade of the White House on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Former rebel fighters celebrate as smoke rises from Bani Walid, Libya, at the northern gate of the town in September. Moammar Gadhafi loyalists seized control of the Libyan city and raised the ousted regime's green flag, an official and military commanders said Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Men in Kano, Nigeria, look around a house where a man and his pregnant wife were killed Tuesday in an attack witnesses said was carried out by security forces seeking members of Boko Haram. The sect has been blamed for an attack four days earlier that killed at least 185 people, but relatives said Tuesday's victims were not involved with it. Below, police officers collect undetonated soft-drink-can bombs recovered from the militants. (Associated Press)
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This Nov. 20, 1963 photo released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, shows President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Mrs. Warren, and others descending the Grand Staircase during the Judicial Reception at the White House. On Jan. 24, 2012, the Kennedy Llibrary released the final 45 hours of White House recordings secretly taped during President Kennedy’s time in office. The last tapes were made Nov. 20, 1963, two days before his assassination in Dallas. (AP Photo/The White House, Cecil Stoughton)
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On the day of his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office along the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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"Nobody can force me" to sit with Israelis, says Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat (left). He and Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie appeared for a news conference last year in front of a banner that reads, "Islam is the answer." (Associated Press)
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On the day of his State of the Union address, President Obama walks Jan. 24, 2012, from the Oval Office along the Colonnade of the White House. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Anti-government protesters wave banners during a demonstration march in Bucharest, Romania, on Jan. 24, 2012. The protesters called for the resignation of the country's president and early elections. (Associated Press)
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An Egyptian protester reads a newspaper outside a tent in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day before planned demonstrations to mark the first anniversary of the start of the uprising that deposed President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greets audience members after speaking at the National Gypsum Company in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Taking part in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, are (from left) former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, as moderator Brian Williams of NBC News listens. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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British Foreign Minister William Hague (left) speaks Jan. 23, 2012, with Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn during a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels. (Associated Press)
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Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele talks with reporters in the spin room following the Republican Candidates Debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., Monday, January 23, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum responds to questions during a brief appearance in the spin room following the Republican Candidates Debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., Monday, January 23, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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R.C. Hammond, Press Secretary and National Spokesman for Newt 2012, talks with reporters in the spin room following the Republican Candidates Debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., Monday, January 23, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Eric Fehrnstrom (center), senior campaign adviser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, talks with reporters in the spin room following the GOP candidates' debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
