Politics

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2005 file photo, veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr sits at the microphone in the studios of National Public Radio in Washington. Newly released FBI files depict the Nixon White House role in ordering an investigation into newsman Schorr, whose tough reporting got him on the president's infamous enemies list. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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President Obama arrives at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu with Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (left) and Rep. Mazie K. Hirono, both Hawaii Democrats, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Adrian Sobaru, an electrician with the national television network, throws himself from a balcony in Romania's Parliament on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, just as the prime minister began to speak ahead of a no-confidence vote. (AP Photo/Bogdan Stamatin, Mediafax Foto)

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A South Korean K-1 tank fires live rounds on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, during the nation's largest joint air and ground military exercises at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in mountainous Pocheon, South Korea, 20 miles from the Koreas' heavily fortified border. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, Pool)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama, left, and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START treaty at the Prague Castle in Prague in this April 8, 2010, file photo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan assured the press that the federal government "is doing everything to prevent terrorists from carrying out cowardly attacks."

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** FILE ** Census Bureau Director Robert Groves announces results of the 2010 U.S. Census at the National Press Club on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, fist bumps John Feal after a news conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, after Senate passage of a bill to assist 9/11 First Responders. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS 'GRIDLOCK' BUSTER: President Obama discusses the Dream Act at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Wednesday. "This has been a season of progress for the American people," Mr. Obama said.

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Associated Press photographs Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, is seen here campaigning in Anchorage on Nov. 1, the day before the election in which she ran a write-in campaign. She won a state Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.

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Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller (right) confers on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, with his attorney, Thomas Van Flein.

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Associated Press photographs Sen. John Kerry (left) and Sen. Richard G. Lugar discuss the New START treaty on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

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Sen. Jon Kyl walks near the Senate floor on Wednesday. He and 25 of his Republican colleagues voted against the arms-control treaty.

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White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan assured the press that the federal government "is doing everything to prevent terrorists from carrying out cowardly attacks."

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Relatives of people detained in Sunday's opposition protest read information outside the prison walls in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday. President Alexander Lukashenko was declared on Monday the overwhelming winner of the presidential election, securing a fourth term in office as truncheon-wielding police arrested hundreds of opposition supporters, including seven other presidential candidates, who were protesting against alleged fraud in the poll.