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President Obama makes an opening statement during a press conference at the White House in Washington on Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

**FILE** Supporters of gay marriage rally Friday, March 11, 2011, in Annapolis, Md., before a vote by the Maryland House of Delegates on whether to give same-sex couples in Maryland the same marriage rights as heterosexuals. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

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This October 2008 photo shows the Fukushima No. 1 power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. at Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Japan's top government spokesman says the country has issued a state of emergency at the nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed. There was no radiation leak. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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** FILE ** In this March 30, 1981, photo, an unidentified Secret Service agent, automatic weapon drawn, yells orders after shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington hotel. A newly released Secret Service audiotape from the attempted assassination of Reagan sheds lights on the chaotic aftermath when neither the president nor his agents realized he’d been shot. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

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Wisconsin demonstrators jeer at Republican state representatives with shouts of "shame" as they leave the Assembly room of the Capitol in Madison after passing a bill that limits collective bargaining. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Keith Ellison, Minnesota Democrat (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, confers Thursday with an aide during a hearing, "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response." He said it was the first in a series of such hearings. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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A Libyan volunteer prays on the outskirts of the eastern town of Ras Lanouf on Thursday. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with rockets and tank shells on Thursday, significantly expanding dictator Moammar Gadhafi's control of Libya. (Associated Press)

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A T-shirt with the text of the Constitution on it that was made in Nicaragua is on sale at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter is one of many U.S. mayors seething at proposed cuts to community block grants. He called the concept "outrageous, unacceptable and un-American." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** State Rep. Jon Richards (center), Milwaukee Democrat, and other Assembly Democrats thank protesters in the gallery on March 10, 2011, after they were unable to stop the Republican majority from voting on, and passing, the budget repair bill at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (Associated Press/Wisconsin State Journal, Michael P. King)

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Illustration: NPR on the melt by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second left), during their meeting in Moscow on Thursday. The talks in Moscow are expected to focus on missile defense cooperation and Russia's efforts to join the World Trade Organization. (Associated Press)

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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama speak at a conference on bullying prevention in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. "We all share a responsibility … to teach all children the Golden Rule: We should treat others the way we want to be treated," said Mr. Obama. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, questions witnesses Abdirizak Bihi (left), director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center, and Melvin Bledsoe, whose son converted to Islam during college and left for Yemen, during a hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 10, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Real estate developer Donald Trump (left) listens as Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks during a joint news conference in New York on Thursday, March 10, 2011. Mr. Trump and a Georgian development group have agreed to build a Trump Tower in Georgia. Mr. Trump indicated he seriously is considering a run for the U.S. presidency. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee on State, foreign operations and related programs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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President Obama speaks at the opening of the Conference on Bullying Prevention in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, March, 10, 2011. The president said he was bullied as a child because of his big ears and his name. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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**FILE** Saudi Shi'ite protesters hold Saudi flags and portraits of unidentified Saudi Shi'ite prisoners during a demonstration in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, on March 9, 2011. Activists in Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite Muslim minority have issued Internet calls for a "Day of Rage." (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, opens hearings into Islamic radicalization on Thursday, March 10, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. King dismissed what he called the "rage and hysteria" surrounding the hearings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)