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Eric Mitchell (left) and "The Red Men" high-five Washington Capitals fans outside the Verizon Center before the playoff game on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in Washington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Mandy Dalton (left) dances for the crowd in front of the Verizon Center before a Washington Capitals playoff game against the New York Rangers in Washington on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the media before meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin on Thursday, April 14, 2011. Mrs. Clinton is in Berlin to attend a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)
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President Obama has barred Americans from doing business with Mozambican businessman Mohamed Bachir Suleman because the U.S. considers him a drug lord. Authorities in Mozambique say he is under investigation, but he has not been arrested and continues to live in luxury. (Associated Press)
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Residents of Iitate village listen Wednesday to their mayor explain a government plan to evacuate residents from the village that is about 24 miles from the radiation-spewing Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican and Budget Committee chairman, talks with reporters after joining members of the party leadership in their response to President Obama's 2012 budget-plan speech on Wednesday.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama, during an address at George Washington University on Wednesday, says he wants to see a final deficit-reduction deal from Congress by June, and criticizes the House Republican proposal on the table as not a serious one.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama hosts a bipartisan meeting with House and Senate leadership on Wednesday in the White House. From left are: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, the president, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
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Council member Michael A. Brown, at-large independent, introduced the bill to allow online poker in the District under control of the D.C. Lottery.
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Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican and Budget Committee chairman, talks with reporters after joining members of the party leadership in their response to President Obama's 2012 budget-plan speech on Wednesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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After Bethlehem Ayele testified for the government against members of a drug gang in 2004, she lived part of her dream and ran the Ohio Restaurant on H Street Northeast. But when the former drug dealer and federal witness was slain in 2006, it closed and has been boarded up ever since. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican (Associated Press/File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Jon Kyl says the Obama administration's policy on arms control could undermine deterrence.
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Washington Capitals forward Mike Knuble defended Matt Bradley for the comments he made, and praised Alexander Semin's talent in a phone interview. (Associated Press)
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Lorenzo Vidino, a visiting fellow at the Rand Corp., tells a House subcommittee on counterintelligence and terrorism Wednesday that the Muslim Brotherhood has affiliates in more than 80 countries. He has written a study called “The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West.” (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner heads for a Republican caucus meeting on Friday. The budget pact worked out last week calls for $513 billion for defense, a cut of $18.1 billion from the president's proposal but more than $5 billion more than last year's amount. (Associated Press)
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President Obama announces his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington University in Washington on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) speaks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in the Qatari capital, Doha, at meeting of the Libya Contact Group on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Libyan rebels are in Qatar to call for stronger international pressure on Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime as Western and Arab envoys gather to discuss options. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)
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Delegates from the Libya Contact Group meet in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Representatives of the Libyan rebels called for stronger international pressure on Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime as Western and Arab envoys gathered to discuss options. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)
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** FILE ** In this Aug. 31, 2010, file photo Singer Justin Bieber performs at Madison Square Garden. The Israeli prime minister's office says tentative plans for a meeting with visiting pop teen sensation Justin Bieber have been called off, and the cause of the breakdown is in dispute. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, Files)
