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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (right) talks with Frank Smith, founder and director of the African American Civil War Museum, at the reopening ceremony at museum's new location at 1925 Vermont Ave. NW in Washington on Monday, July 18, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Marion Barry, Ward 8 Democrat, smiles as he is introduced at the reopening ceremony at the African American Civil War Museum's new location on Vermont Ave Northwest on Monday, July 18, 2011. At front right is Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Illinois Democrat. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Frank Smith, founder and executive director of the African American Civil War Museum, along with Yvette Alexander (right), cuts the ribbon to the entrance of the museum's new location on Vermont Ave Northwest in Washington on Monday, July 18, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Herman Cain is a contender for the Republican presidential nomination (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain came in fourth in a new poll of GOP primary voters in South Carolina at 10 percent. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Assistant Commissioner John Yates, Scotland Yard's top anti-terrorist officer, announces his resignation in London on Monday. Mr. Yates insisted he had done nothing wrong. "I have acted with complete integrity," he said. "My conscience is clear." But the government quickly announced an inquiry into police-media relations and corruption. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, offers his "Back in Black" plan to reduce the federal deficit during a news conference Monday. It attempts to explain how to reduce the deficit by more than $900 billion during the next 10 years. (Associated Press)
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Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, signs the "cut, cap and balance" pledge during a news conference while campaigning in Columbia, S.C., on Monday. (Associated Press)
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The North Carolina congressional district of Rep. Heath Shuler, a Democrat, is viewed as being on the "chopping block" as redistricting takes hold. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican (seen here) and Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, have concerns about an ATF program that allowed weapons bought in U.S. to be taken across the border to drug smugglers in Mexico. (Associated Press)
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Gen. David H. Petraeus leaves command of U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan to Gen. John Allen during Monday's change-of-command ceremony in Kabul. Gen. Allen assumes responsibility for drawing up exit plans for U.S. and allied forces from the nearly 10-year war zone. (Associated Press)
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Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud, No. 26 on Forbes' list of the world's richest people, received a $26 million loan from an arm of the World Bank for a luxury hotel in Ghana and Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vermont Democrat, wants to know why it was approved. (Associated Press)
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A Cambodian police officer (right) stands near the 11th-century Hindu Preah Vihear temple, near the disputed Cambodia-Thailand border in Preah Vihear province north of Phnom Penh. The U.N.'s highest court on Monday ordered troops from both Thailand and Cambodia to immediately withdraw military forces from disputed areas around the World Heritage temple straddling their border. (Associated Press)
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DAILY CALLER Lamb and Lynx Gaede (from left) have embraced diversity and abandoned most of their white nationalist beliefs.
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Marriage conference spokeswoman Helen Alvare asks the participants to bring the language and ideas from their culture to find a human solution. (AP/file)
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**FILE** In this photo from July 9, 2009, London's Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates stands outside the force's headquarters at New Scotland Yard in London. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Mohammed Wali Zazi leaves a federal courthouse in New York in December 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks July 18 2011, with reporters and editors during an interview at The Washington Times' office building in D.C. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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President Obama announces the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (right) as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Monday, July 18, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Syrians carry national flags and a picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad as they protest in support of him at the Umayyad Square in downtown Damascus, Syria, on July 17, 2011. (Associated Press)
