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PHOTOGRAPHS BY PRATIK SHAH/THE WASHINGTON TIMES "Come in here next year, and I can predict who will win the election," said Dexter Morse, a manager at the Washington Welcome Center in Northwest.
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associated press In this video image taken from Egyptian State Television, attorneys for relatives of protesters killed in the Egypian uprising shout and bicker, apparently over seating, before resumption of the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak on charges of corruption and complicity in the deaths of more than 800 protesters.
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President Obama speaks during a town hall meeting at Lower Hannah's Bend Park in Cannon Falls, Minn., on Aug. 15, 2011. (Associated Press)
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President Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Aug. 15, 2011, for a three-day bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. (Associated Press)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who announced his bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination on Saturday, visits the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Somalis from southern Somalia wait with their malnourished children in Banadir Hospital in the capital of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks with Jim Mudd of Cedar Falls, Iowa, at Sunday's Black Hawk County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner in Waterloo. "We are indignant about a president who apologizes for America," Mr. Perry said to the gathered GOP faithful. (Associated Press)
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MAKING FRIENDS: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the newest Republican presidential candidate, high-fives Remington Tack, 4, at the Black Hawk County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner in Waterloo, Iowa, on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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In this citizen journalism image, Syrian citizens wave to Syrian troops who withdrew from the Damascus suburb of Saqba, Syria, on Aug. 14, 2011, following a campaign of raids and arrests that started the previous night and continued into the morning. (Associated Press)
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HOMETOWN HERO: Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann steps from her campaign bus to greet supporters after winning the Iowa Republican Party's straw poll on Saturday. (Associated Press)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, high-fives Remington Tack, 4, at the Black Hawk County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner in Waterloo, Iowa, on Sunday. "We are indignant about a president who apologizes for America," said Mr. Perry, who officially announced Saturday that he would seek the Republican presidential nomination. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Bashir on charges of war crimes and genocide in Darfur. He has denied the charges. (Associated Press)
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The wealth of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, is approximated at from $190 million to $250 million, according to figures released Friday, but some of their investments still conflict with Mr. Romney's GOP stances. (Associated Press)
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President Obama will hold a town-hall meeting in Minnesota on Monday and then travel by bus to Iowa before concluding his Midwest trip in Illinois. The White House is billing the trip as an "economic bus tour," but Republicans are blasting it as a taxpayer-funded campaign swing. (Associated Press)
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Afghan police men and Afghan soldiers inspects the site of car bomb outside governor's compound in Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011. A team of six suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 19 people in the latest high-profile attack to target prominent Afghan government officials, authorities said. (AP Photo/ Ahmad Jamshid)
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"It's politics and they know it. Politics is a dirty game. If they were running for the public they would be telling the truth." Tenaw Gebru, Southeast, contractor
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A Pakistani rides past the house of kidnapped American development expert Warren Weinstein in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011. A senior police official said investigators still don't know who kidnapped Mr. Weinstein from his home on Saturday at gunpoint. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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The front page of the Norwegian newspaper VG published on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011, shows Anders Behring Breivik as he is taken back to Utoya island by police the day before for a reconstruction of the July 22 terror attacks that killed 69 people. (AP Photo/Kyrre Lien, Scanpix Norway)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, greets a group of supporters as she emerges from her campaign bus after winning the Iowa Republican Party's Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Confetti falls as Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, and her husband, Marcus, rally supporters at the Iowa Republican Party's Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
