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President Obama meets with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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**FILE** In this photo from June 12, 2007, Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
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The roughly 782 Democrats running for the presidency are like the hot dog vendors of yesteryear, stressing not what makes them different but just how similar they are to the rest of the field. (Associated Press/File)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner (right), Ohio Republican — accompanied by (from left) Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, and Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican — speaks at his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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** FILE ** In this May 3, 2011, photo, as a long line of job-seekers wait, Lockheed Martin military relations manager Dave Wallace, left, shakes hands with Joe Archatowski, of Lansdale, Pa., at a job fair aimed at helping military and former military members transition to civilian jobs, in Cherry Hill, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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JosŽ Emmanuel Piaggessi (left), 23, an Argentinean that fights with rebel forces, collects ammunition on May 26, 2011, from a pick-up at the front line between them and Moammar Gadhafi forces, 25 kilometers west from Misrata, Libya. (Associated Press)
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President Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters following a budget vote late in the day, Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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After less than five months in office, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has fallen from favor among Floridians overall, a new poll found. A majority of Republicans still support him. (Associated Press)
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Employees of Venezuela's PDVSA state oil company shout anti-U.S. slogans at the company's main offices in Caracas on Wednesday to protest sanctions the U.S. imposed on the firm after it sent Iran two shipments of an oil-blending component worth $50 million. (Associated Press)
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"Before the reform, the government officials we met with would be very angry if we actually blamed the North Korean leader in any way, but afterwards, even they call him crazy," said North Korean defector and author Kang Cheol-hwan. (Associated Press)
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A Somali official of the central bank in Mogadishu arranges bank notes. Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a new report and an Associated Press investigation found that $80 million given to government officials that could have been used to fight terrorism, piracy or hunger is missing. (Associated Press)
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Federal authorities have spent more than two years investigating the campaign finances of John Edwards, the 2004 vice-presidential nominee. (Associated Press)
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Historian and author David McCullough's latest book, "The Greater Journey," follows the lives of noted Americans living in Paris in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Among them was artist George Catlin, whose work is shown behind Mr. McCullough (left) and is depicted by artist William Fisk (right). The paintings are at the National Portrait Gallery. (Associated Press)
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh at Winfield House, the residence of the Ambassador of the U.S., in Regent's Park, London. (Associated Press)
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Catholic friars from the Dominican order walk past the White House in Washington on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, on their pilgrimage from the Dominican House of Studies in Northeast Washington to St. Dominic's Parish in Southwest. This is the first time the friars have held the pilgrimage, which commemorated the date that St. Dominic's body was moved from its original grave to its current resting place in Bologna, Italy. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** In this photo from Feb. 18, 2011, Palestinians collect their belongings as they come back from Egypt at the Rafah border crossing the Gaza Strip. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators in London on May, 24, 2011, call for a free Syria outside Buckingham Palace, where President Obama is staying during a State visit to Britain. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Dec. 11, 2010, Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is seen in Raleigh, N.C. (Associated Press)
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President Obama (center) — escorted by John Bercow (center left), speaker of the House of Commons, and Baroness Hayman (center right), lord speaker of the House of Lords — arrives at the Palace of Westminster in London on Wednesday, May 25, 2011, for an address to both houses of Parliament. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)
