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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 7, 2011. Mr. Conrad said Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, he will not run for re-election in 2012. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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National police officers patrol a corridor at the hotel floor where Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier is staying in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Jan. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Icicles form as the West Front of the Capitol is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Freezing rain overnight left icy conditions, closing schools and delaying the opening of the federal government by two hours. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 24, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama welcomes China's President Hu Jintao as he arrives for the G-20 summit dinner in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Human rights activists, wearing orange prison garb and black hoods to represent the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Friday to protest that the detention center has not been closed by President Obama. (Associated Press)
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If Marion Barry gets the D.C. Council committee gavel he expects, he'll have jurisdiction over issues related to senior citizens, gays, ethnic minorities, civil rights and human rights. (The Washington Times)
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Human rights activists, wearing orange prison garb and black hoods to represent the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Friday to protest that the detention center has not been closed down by President Obama. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Rielle Hunter (background left) holds a video camera as former Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat, campaigns for president in Portsmouth, N.H., in December 2006. Ms. Hunter had an affair and an out-of-wedlock child with Mr. Edwards. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** One of the 1,800 Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers being sent to the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia participates in a Dec. 21 drill at Singo Military training camp, about 100 kilometers north of Kampala. (Associated Press)
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President George W. Bush welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao in a South Lawn arrival ceremony in April 2006. Mr. Hu was disappointed to have lunch with the president instead of a state dinner. (Associated Press)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron discusses reform of Britain's public services. He dismissed suggestions that services could carry on as they were as "a complete fiction." (Associated Press)
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak plans to form a new parliamentary faction inside the governing coalition. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of Mr. Duvalier wait outside the terminal of the Toussaint Louverture international airport, after listening to radio reports of his return to Port-au-Prince. "I'm not here for politics," Mr. Duvalier told Radio Caraibes. "I'm here for the reconstruction of Haiti." (Associated Press)
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Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier (center) waves to supporters from a hotel balcony after his arrival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday. Mr. Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last year's devastating earthquake. (Associated Press)
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Members of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family — (from left) Christine King Farris, the civil rights leader's sister; Alveda King, his niece; the Rev. Bernice King, his daughter; Martin Luther King III, his son; the younger Mr. King's wife, Arndrea; and their daughter, Yolanda, 2 — pray at the crypt of King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, as the nation mark's the 25th federal observance of King's birthday on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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President Obama helps paint cartoon characters in a lunchroom as he observes the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday by participating in a community service project at the Stuart Hobson Middle School in Washington on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Singing "We Shall Overcome" during a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church honoring the 25th federal observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, in Atlanta are (from left) Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed; the Rev. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III, two of King's children; Christine King Farris, the late civil rights leader's sister; Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; and Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia Republican. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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President Obama greets volunteers as he and first lady Michelle Obama observe the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday by participating in a community service project at the Stuart Hobson Middle School in Washington on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. King, a preacher who rose to prominence as a leader of the black civil rights movement, was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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** FILE ** Gun enthusiast D.J. Dorer of Yorktown, Va., carries his AR15 pistol outside the Capitol during a pro gun rally at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. Speakers at Monday's event said tragedies such as the shooting spree in Arizona that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords are no excuse for "destroying the Constitution." Instead, they called on lawmaker to relax Virginia's gun laws. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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FILE - This combination image of three file photos shows Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman accused of trying to assassinate Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others. From left to right Loughner is seen at the Tucson Festival of Books in a March 2010 photo by Mamta Popat of the Arizona Daily Star, in an undated photo obtained from MySpace, and in another undated photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office to the The Arizona Republic. Loughner was not on any government watch list before the shooting. (AP Photo/Files) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO MAGAZINES. NO SALES.
