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Sen. Jeff Sessions, ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, discusses last week's budget deal and the debt ceiling on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. He said President Obama must do more than just give a speech he is planning this week. (Associated Press)
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Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, appearing on "Meet the Press," says the White House needs to cut back on spending. (Associated Press)
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Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi greets supporters in Tripoli on Sunday as envoys from the African Union, including South African President Jacob Zuma, arrived for two days of talks with Col. Gadhafi and rebel leaders. The African Union repeated its call for a cease-fire. (Associated Press)
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WHODUNIT?: Crime writer Patricia Cornwell is embroiled in a federal probe of illegal campaign contributions. (Associated Press)
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Libyan rebel fighters fire rockets in the desert between Ajdabiya and Brega on Saturday. The rebels said NATO airstrikes Sunday helped them drive Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces out of Ajdabiya, the gateway to the opposition's stronghold. (Associated Press)
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Presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a former military officer, waves after casting his ballot in the general elections in Lima, Peru, on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Banners and placards are held aloft during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Poland is still deeply divided over the investigation into the crash. A year later, 42 percent of Poles now see Polish-Russian relations as "bad." (Associated Press)
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Presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a former military officer, votes in general elections in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. Mr. Humala, who promises to favor the poor by redistributing Peru's mineral wealth, was expected to win the most votes in Sunday's presidential elections but fall far short of the outright majority needed to avoid a runoff. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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A Syrian protester holds the national flag in front of the Syrian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Saturday, April 9, 2011, during a vigil calling for President Bashar Assad to step down. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)
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Vietnamese and foreign audiences come to the concert named "Bob Dylan - Live in Vietnam," a one night only show held at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Sunday, April 10, 2011. After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, legendary performer Bob Dylan is finally getting his chance to see Vietnam at peace. (AP Photo/Le Quang Nhat)
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An Israeli soldier sits in a tank along the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Palestinian militants fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel on Saturday, and Israeli warplanes killed four militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-09 offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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** FILE ** President Obama is introduced by White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe before the president speaks at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Pro-democracy protesters hold a picture of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei outside the China Liaison Office in Hong Kong on Sunday, April 10, 2011, as they demand his release. Mr. Ai's sister says police still have not told the family where he is being held or why, nearly a week after he was grabbed at a Beijing airport. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Libyan rebel fighters retreat from Ajdabiya, Libya, during an advance by forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Government soldiers and rebel gunmen battled in the streets of the key front-line city after the Libyan military used shelling and guerrilla-style tactics to open its most serious push into opposition territory since international airstrikes began. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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FILE - In this April 6, 2011 file photo, Bob Dylan performs with his band in Beijing. After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, Dylan is finally getting his chance to see Vietnam at peace. The iconic folk singer and songwriter was set to play a special concert in the former Saigon on Sunday evening, where he's expected to belt out some of his classic anti-war tunes, nearly 36 years after the Vietnam War ended. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT
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Filmmaker Ken Burns looks at a book of Civil War draft records during a news conference at the National Archives in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2011, in conjunction with Ancestry.com, making newly digitized Civil War records available online. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Ilyasah Shabazz, left, and Malaak Shabazz, daughters of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, are shown on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in New York. The Shabazz sisters are unhappy about a new biography, "A Life of Reinvention: Malcolm X," which alleges that their parents' marriage was strained and that their mother, Betty Shabazz, was unfaithful. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
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** FILE ** Lu Qing, wife of avant-garde artist and outspoken government critic Ai Weiwei, listens during an interview in Beijing on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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In this Feb. 9, 2011 photo, the logo of ITA Software is displayed at the company's office in Cambridge, Mass. Government officials are letting Google proceed with its $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software. The deal will establish the Internet search giant as a key player in the online travel market.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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**FILE** President Obama speaks in the Blue Room of the White House about the budget and averted government shutdown after a deal was made between Republican and Democrat lawmakers on April 8, 2011. (Associated Press)
