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President Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, during an unscheduled visit to the African American Policy in Action Leadership Conference. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announces on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, that a agreement has been reached on forming interim government in this image taken from a television broadcast. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 2, 2011, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain arrives to speak on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusoni waves to journalists as he leaves the Quirinale presidential palace, after meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Roberto Monaldo, LaPresse)
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Alexander Semin (28) of the Washington Capitals passes the puck away from Toby Petersen (17) of the Dallas Stars during the second period at the Verizon Center in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Alex Ovechkin (8) of the Washington Capitals and Stephane Robidas (3) of the Dallas Stars fight for the puck during the 1st period at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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An inadvertent "open mic" night caught French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama disparaging their Israeli counterpart. (Associated Press)
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REBUTTAL: "I have never acted inappropriately with anyone — period," Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain tells the news media Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz., responding to a string of accusations from women that he sexually harassed them. (Associated Press)
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The controversy that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio generates hasn't stopped presidential candidates from meeting with him, as Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota did in September. The sheriff makes inmates wear pink underwear and live in tents during Arizona's sweltering summers. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Brett O. Feese, a former high-ranking Republican in Pennsylvania, was convicted in a scheme to misuse millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
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During a military parade in Tehran, a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards looks at a Shahab-3 missile, which can be mounted with a nuclear payload and can reach Israel, Iran's arch foe. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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Barham Salih, prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, says a democratic, federal Iraq "may well represent a very viable option for the Kurds of Iraq." (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left) meets with President Thein Sein at the presidential office in the capital of Naypyitaw in 2010. (Associated Press)
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Former Washington Nationals prospect Derek Norris, 22, shows off his arm during an Arizona Fall League game. (Rick Scuteri/Special to The Washington Times)
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Sen. Ulysses Currie, Prince George's Democrat, leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, after a federal bribery case against him finished for the day. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Jeffrey M. Frederick, a Republican who is running for a seat on the Virginia State Senate, waits in line to cast his vote at Henderson Elementary School in Montclair, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Election Officers Dewita Soeharjono (left) and Pia Duryea (right) wait for arriving voters to come and make their voices heard by voting at the polls at Arlington County Fire Department Station 10 in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Mr. Holder was scrutinized for his role in allowing, or at least not preventing, a controversial tactic that allowed illegal guns to be smuggled into Mexico. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, grills U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (in foreground) on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' controversial gun-smuggling tactics during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain answers questions Oct. 31, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington about sexual harassment allegations. (Associated Press)
