Politics

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D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown's budget plan, passed Tuesday, restored funding to services for the homeless. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The military wing of the Kachin Independence Army provides security for the Kachin New Year celebration in January 2010. Myanmar troops have attacked Kachin forces to try to drive them from an area by China's border. (Associated Press)

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Adrien Brody has been suggested as a suitable actor to play Rep. Anthony Weiner, should Hollywood go after the New York Democrat's story. (Image from Associated Press)

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Ibtisam Saadeddin, 35, (right), a khaki-clad female soldier wearing a green Muslim headscarf and a Moammar Gadhafi pin on it, shouts pro-Gadhafi chants at the women-only Gurji fuel station in Tripoli in May. Among Col. Gadhafi's most ardent loyalists are a core of Libyan women who have risen to high-profile roles in the police, military and government. (Associated Press)

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New York state Sen. Thomas Libous is part of the critical bloc of Senate Republicans who helped defeat a gay marriage bill two years ago. Democrats' all-out lobbying effort hopes to turn the tide this year. (Associated Press)

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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, assails President Obama on jobs creation, following a GOP political strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Adrien Brody has been suggested as a suitable actor to play Rep. Anthony D. Weiner, should Hollywood go after the New York Democrat's story. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Lt. Col. Les Melnyk, a U.S. military historian in Iraq, walks past a mural of the late Saddam Hussein in the Victory Base Complex in Baghdad on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. As the United States prepares to pull out its forces by Dec. 31, Hussein's palaces will be handed over to the Shiite-led Iraqi government that replaced the Sunni dictator. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Kati Brunne eats a cucumber during a cucumber and tomato eating contest in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on June 14, 2011. Brunne won the contest, which was organized by the German Vegetarian Association. (Associated Press)

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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, a damaged Libyan army vehicle sits behind a damaged wall next to a gas production plant outside the town of Janzour, near Tripoli, Libya, on Monday, June 13, 2011. The facility was struck by a NATO bomb on Saturday evening, according to plant's director. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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Syrian refugees are seen in a camp, in Boynuyogun, Turkey, on June 14, 2011. According to the Turkish Prime Minister's office, the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey stands at more than 8.500 people. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in his office at the Pentagon on Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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President Obama speaks to a group of supporters at a Miami fundraiser on June 13, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Republican candidates for President gather before the start of their June 13 debate in New Hampshire. (Associated Press)

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From left, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania; Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney; Rep. Ron Paul of Texas; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty; and businessman Herman Cain greet the audience before first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate, at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday. (Associated Press)