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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is trying to win over a party that hasn't had a black nominee. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter, Michigan Republican, riffs on his star-spangled Fender Telecaster guitar, much to the delight of supporters, shortly after announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination at WAAM radio's Fourth of July weekend Freedom Fest in Whitmore Lake, Mich., on Saturday. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian children hold Palestinian flags and a blue-and-white Greek flag as they demonstrate in support of the Gaza-bound flotilla in the port of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Thais queue up at a polling center to cast their votes in Thailand's general election on Sunday, July 3, 2011, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan Republican, jokes with a crowd of about 150 supporters at the WAAM Freedom Fest in Whitmore Lake, Mich., on Saturday, July 2, 2011, where Mr. McCotter announced his candidacy for president. Mr. McCotter's wife, Rita, and two of his children, Timothy and Emilia, joined him onstage. (AP Photo/Lon Horwedel)
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Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee had an active first day of NHL free agency. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, left, speaks with Sheila Reiland of Iowa City, Iowa, during a breakfast chat at the Bluebird Diner on Saturday, July 2, 2011, in Iowa City. The event kicks off Bachmann's Iowa Bus Tour. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Jim Slosiarek)
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Afghan protesters hold a banner that reads: "ISI clear enemy" during an anti-Pakistan demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Several hundred people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an estimated 36 civilians along the eastern border with Pakistan in recent weeks. ISI stands for Inter-Services Intelligence — an intelligence department of Pakistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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A bicyclist rides on the road leading out of the closed Fort Snelling historic site Friday, July 1, 2011, in Minneapolis after negotiations over the state budget between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton broke down and the government shutdown at midnight. AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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Pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters hold up a poster of him (shown far right) during a demonstration to show their support in Damascus, Syria, on Friday, July 1, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities around Syria on Friday in one of the largest outpourings against the regime of Assad. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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** FILE ** In this June 30, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Illustration: Catholic vote by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves the New York State Supreme Courthouse with his wife, Anne Sinclair, on Friday, July 1, 2011. (AP Photo)
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African heads of state and country representatives stand during the opening session of the 17th African Union Summit, at Sipopo Conference Center, outside Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Heads of state pictured are, front row, from left, Chad President Idriss Deby, Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika; second row, from left, South African President Jacob Zuma and Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this image made from video released by Change.org, a Saudi Arabian woman drives a car on June 17, 2011, as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Keith Downey (left) talks to Rep. Branden Petersen on the house floor on June 30, 2011, as they await the government shutdown in the capitol in St. Paul, Minn. The Minnesota state government shutdown at 12:01 a.m. CDT on July 1, 2011. (Associated Press/Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (second from left) speaks at a meeting of the Lifeline Donor Steering Committee before the Community of Democracies ministerial conference on July 1, 2011, in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama walks off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 30, 2011, after returning from fundraising in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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THE INDEPENDENT RECORD VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Authorities from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's Office and Helena Police Department raid a medical marijuana operation March 14 in Helena, Mont. Now a judge has blocked the state from banning commercial medical marijuana operations.
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Maryland state Sen. Verna Jones-Rodwell, Baltimore Democrat who sponsored the bill to increase the tax on alcohol, cheers with supporters of the 50 percent jump on Thursday near Annapolis. It is expected to generate $85 million in its first year of implementation. Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Health Care for All Coalition, is at left. Laura Carr, a volunteer with End the Wait Now, is standing to the right. (Associated Press)
