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A member of the National Honor Guard looks out to listen to President Barack Obama as he spoke during a VeteranÃs Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama speaks during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Guest bow their heads for a moment of silence during a VeteranÃs Day ceremony where President Barack Obama spoke, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama speaks during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Barack Obama walks in with Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, before placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a VeteranÃs Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama walks in with Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, before placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Members of Battery A, 7th Battalion, 8th Artillery reading newspapers in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, April 29, 1970 (Official U.S. Army photo)
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Alyce Dixon, who served at a military post office in France during World War II, speaks with Kwame R. Brown (left), chairman of the D.C. Council, and Eleanor Holmes Norton (right), the city's delegate to Congress, during a rededication ceremony Thursday at the District of Columbia War Memorial. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich could become the GOP presidential nomination race's new magnet for Republicans looking for an alternative to the current front-runners, some political analysts say. (Associated Press)
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RISING: In Florida, a poll has former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in third place with 17 percent of the GOP vote. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators march with a replica pipeline outside the White House on Sunday to protest TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Citing environmental fears, the State Department on Thursday ordered a new review of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline. (Associated Press)
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"The department has refused to schedule interviews with any of the other 11 witnesses. That's not the good-faith cooperation I was promised, and it is unacceptable. If this controversy has taught us anything, it is that you have to talk directly to the people who know the facts," said Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this April 30, 2011 file photo, the King George County, Va. Landfill is seen. Military sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information publicly, have confirmed that the King George County, Va. landfill was used to bury cremated portions of war remains, a practice halted three years ago. (AP Photos/The Free Lance-Star, Peter Cihelka)
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrive for a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday. Mr. Panetta ordered new reviews into mismanagement at the military's national mortuary in Delaware. (Associated Press)
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Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis has been a force with 40 catches for 559 yards. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a speech Thursday on the campus of the University of Hawaii. Mrs. Clinton is attending the APEC Summit this week in Honolulu. President Obama and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, are hosting the gathering of 21 Asia-Pacific nations. (Associated Press)
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Opposition party supporters gather around a radio to hear the announcement of presidential election results Thursday in Monrovia, Liberia. Africa's first and only female president handily won re-election.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, warned Israel and the United States on Thursday to expect military response if Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked. (Associated Press)
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"The Washington market is a complicated patchwork," says manuscript specialist Martin Gammon, the regional representative for Bonhams, an international auction house that just opened an office in the District. (Bonhams)
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Robert Gallow, of Navarre, Ohio, attends a rededication ceremony of the District of Columbia WWI Memorial with a group of veterans from the Army & Navy Union on an annual trip to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 10, 2011. District leaders spoke out against a plan to rename the memorial to be a national and D.C. memorial, arguing that the District should be allowed to keep their memorial since each state has a dedicated memorial to those residents who served in WWI. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
