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A man holds a poster of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the High Peace Council leader who was assassinated Tuesday, during a rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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Election judge Yvonne Barnes directs a voter to the check-in table at the Kettering Baptist Church precinct during Prince George's County special election on Tuesday. Winners of the Democratic and Republican primaries will face off in October. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson confers with council Chairman Kwame R. Brown on Tuesday. Mr. Mendelson favored the income-tax increase; Mr. Brown opposed it. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II wants to deputize members of the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit so they can serve subpoenas and carry a weapon. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, said that if a government shutdown occurred because of a dispute over disaster aid, it would be on the shoulders of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (Associated Press)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, wants to add almost $7 billion in disaster aid to a temporary funding bill crafted to avert a government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. (Associated Press)
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen confer while briefing the news media Tuesday on the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Mr. Panetta said repealing the ban on openly gay military service was a "historic day." (Associated Press)
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The American Conservative Union's "CPAC-FL" gathering is one of a number of major Republican events in and around Orlando, Fla., over the next fewer days. (American Conservative Union)
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Illustration: Google by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A tear in a campaign banner for Sawsan Taqawi, a candidate in Bahrain's special parliamentary elections, show anti-government protesters in Muqsha, Bahrain. The election is being held Saturday to fill 18 seats vacated by Shiite lawmakers protesting the government's response to a spring uprising.
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Then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry greets Danny Danon (right), deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset, as Rep. Robert Turner (center), New York Republican, applauds during a news conference in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE**
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Yemeni anti-government protesters carry an injured fellow demonstrator from the site of clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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**FILE** This photo from Jan. 21, 2002, shows Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan sitting in his office in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, file photo, former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, head of the Afghan High Peace Council, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two Afghan government sources said Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, Mr. Rabbani has been killed in the capital Kabul. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 12, 2011, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, heads to his vehicle after exiting the Papasito Restaurant in the Inwood section of the Manhattan borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Wading into a tense foreign policy dispute, Mr. Perry and former Gov. Mitt Romney on Tuesday criticized the Palestinian Authority's effort to seek a formal recognition of statehood by the U.N. General Assembly. The GOP rivals also used the jockeying at the U.S. to assail President Barack Obama's policy toward Israel. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
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Ralph Nader says the Democrats must mount an intraparty challenge to President Obama in the presidential primary season in order to promote the liberal causes of the party. Otherwise the liberal agenda "will be muted and ignored," says the longtime activist. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Navy Lt. Gary Ross (right) and Dan Swezy exchange wedding vows early on Sept. 20, 2011, in Duxbury, Vt., at the first possible moment after the formal repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Justice of the Peace Greg Trulson (center) officiated. (Associated Press)
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"Opening new markets for our farmers, ranchers and businesses ... has to be done in a way that puts American jobs first," says Sen. Max Baucus, Montana Democrat and Senate Finance Committee chairman. (Associated Press)
