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In this photo made available by the office of Israeli Knesset Member Israel Hasson on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, Ilan Grapel, a U.S.-Israeli citizen arrested in Egypt, sits between Israel Hasson, right, and lawyer Yitzhak Molcho, left, in Cairo, Egypt. Israel on Tuesday officially approved a deal to swap 25 Egyptian prisoners for Grapel, who was arrested in Egypt in June 2011 on suspicions of espionage. (AP Photo/MK Israel Hasson Office, HO)
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks to the media as he arrives for an European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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Secretary of Homeland Security Janet A. Napolitano chats with Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner before testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee on border and immigration issues in Washington on Wednesday. "That was my No. 1 concern: that those responsible for the shooting death of Agent Terry were brought to justice. And that's what I was being kept apprised of," she said. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that she did not know why she wasn't briefed immediately on the gun-walking operation. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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"Lynchburg and the people of Moore County have been involved in the success of the Jack Daniel's brand," says Charles Rogers, who has led a campaign for a $5 million tax on the distillery. (Associated Press)
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"Politics is about momentum; politics is about expectations," says former New Mexico Gov. Gary E. Johnson, a dark-horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (right), with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Fairfax on Wednesday, faces ballooning Medicaid costs in his state.
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Democratic Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey opposed a bill that would overturn several NLRB rulings, but it passed a House committee 23-16. (Associated Press)
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President Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, as he returns from a three-day trip to Nevada, California and Colorado. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said in Washington on Wdnesday that he is convinced that authorities did not know Osama bin Laden was living among them. (Associated Press)
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A protester at the Occupy Atlanta demonstration in Woodruff Park is arrested after refusing to leave on Wednesday after Mayor Kasim Reed revoked his executive order allowing the protesters to camp out. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Bamako, Mali, rally in March in support of the longtime Libyan leader, whose regime was under siege by rebels at the time. Many in Mali mourned the Oct. 20 death of Gadhafi, who was captured and killed by the rebels, because Mali was one of many African nations on which he had lavished some of Libya's oil wealth. (Associated Press)
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Park Won-soon, an independent candidate for mayor of Seoul, greets supporters at his campaign office in Seoul on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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NATO and U.S. flags wave in the breeze outside NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, greets volunteers at a call center at the Fairfax County Republican Committee headquarters in Fairfax, Va., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the German parliament on the European debt crisis on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at the Reichstag in Berlin. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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A protestor of the Occupy Atlanta demonstration is arrested after refusing to leave after Mayor Kasim Reed revoked his executive order allowing the protestors to camp out in Woodruff Park early Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta speaks to U.S. military personnel at the Yongsan military base in Seoul on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Korea Pool)
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"Occupy Wall Street" protesters run from tear gas deployed by police at 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Darryl Bush)
