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ASSOCIATED PRESS Adm. Mike Mullen (right), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned against further spending cuts for the military beyond the $350 million to $400 million already agreed by Congress and President Obama this week. “I think anything beyond that would damage our national defense," Mr. Panetta said.
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Thai prime minister-to-be Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011. Recently elected Thai lawmakers gathered for the official opening of parliament Monday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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The deadly bullet train crash in China's Zhejiang province on July 23 was the result of a lightning strike and malfunction of a monitoring device, according to government authorities.
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A woman carries three water containers on her back to her home on Aug. 4, 2011, at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. The camp, designed for 90,000 people, now houses about 440,000 refugees, almost all from war-ravaged Somalia. (Associated Press)
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President Obama acknowledges the crowd Aug. 3, 2011, as he stands on stage with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel before speaking at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from July 27, 2011, Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, greets a supporter at a tea party rally on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
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President Obama presides at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. In the background from left are Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the president, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. In the foreground from left are, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. (Associated Press)
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Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, center left, background, attends the funeral of Mona Abdinur in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. Abdinur was killed in the July 22 shooting attack at Utoya island. (AP Photo/Photo Berit Roald/Scanpix Norway)
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"I don't think [President Obama has] ever really run a business, I don't think he's ever really created a job," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican. (Associated Press)
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Mr. Obama is welcomed by singer Jennifer Hudson and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at a Chicago fundraiser Wednesday. One Republican critic said of the president: "The first job Obama is interested in saving is his own." (Associated Press)
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Mayor Vincent C. Gray, as chairman of the D.C. Council, in December 2008 was involved in initially blocking approval of a contract award to a company to run the D.C. Lottery. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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SIEGE: Smoke rises from a tank Wednesday as troops continue a crackdown in Hama, Syria, that is reported to have cost about 100 lives since Sunday. (Shaam News Network via Associated Press)
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Demonstrators hold up a noose and wave an Egyptian flag in Cairo on Wednesday as the Mubarak trial begins. Meanwhile, a deadly crackdown against anti-government crowds continued in Syria. (Associated Press)
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus discusses ongoing preparations for the committee's August 2012 convention in Tampa, Fla., at the RNC's summer meeting Wednesday in Tampa. (Associated Press)
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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, left, flanked by Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, reacts after addressing the Parliament on the state of the economy in Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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** FILE ** Washington Redskins quarterback John Beck drops back for a pass during training camp at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va., on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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President Obama speaks to members of the media during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug., 3, 2011. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (right) is greeted by Attorney General Eric Holder during the launching of the Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime on July 25, 2011, at the White House. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, after the Senate passed the debt ceiling legislation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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"The amount [of campaign donations] being raised is staggering by Wisconsin standards," according to Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. (Associated Press)
