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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks through Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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Sen. John Kyl., Arizona Republican, came out against a new nuclear weapons treaty with Russia on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, dealing a setback for its ratification by the Senate. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Palestinians gather around a destroyed car after an explosion in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Hamas officials say one person has been killed and four others wounded in the explosion. Hamas media reported the car was hit in an air strike. Israeli military had no immediate comment.(AP Photo/ Majed Hamdan)
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Palestinians gather around a destroyed car after an explosion in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Hamas officials say one person has been killed and four others wounded in the car explosion. Hamas media reported the car was hit in an air strike. Israeli military had no immediate comment.(AP Photo/ Hatem Moussa)
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Citizens of Madagascar line up to cast their votes in a referendum in capital Antananarivo on Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010. Twenty months after Madagascar's president was ousted in a coup by a former disc jockey, voters decided Wednesday whether to accept or reject a new constitution that calls for keeping Andry Rajoelina in power indefinitely. (AP Photo)
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In this Nov. 15, 2010, photo, Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole, right, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, speaks to the media during a press conference to kick off the holiday travel season at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Rep. Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Mr. Rangel was convicted earlier Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules and now faces punishment. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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An Israeli army vehicle is seen in the village of Ghajar between northern Israel and Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a plan to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday to withdraw from the northern half of Ghajar, recaptured during the 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, pauses Tuesday on Capitol Hill after a caucus luncheon. As a write-in candidate, she still leads the state's official GOP Senate nominee, Joe Miller.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat, who chaired the ethics panel that judged Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat, heads for a news conference Tuesday on Capitol Hill to announce a guilty verdict on 11 of 13 charges.
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Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York stays upbeat Tuesday. He was found guilty on 11 of 13 charges considered by a House ethics subcommittee. He did not cooperate with a hearing on failure to report income, improper use of an apartment for campaigning and other allegations.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who introduced the former president, said "history is beginning to come around."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, lift ceremonial shovels of dirt Tuesday in what he called "the beginning of a journey" for the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
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The ceremony also drew a crowd of protesters to the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, pauses Tuesday on Capitol Hill after a caucus luncheon. As a write-in candidate, she still leads in midterm voting over the state's official GOP Senate nominee, Joe Miller.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS In this Nov. 15, 2010, photo, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole, right, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, speaks to the media during a news conference to kick off the holiday travel season at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, Nov. 16, that passengers who refuse to go through a whole-body scanner machine and get a pat-down won't be allowed on planes, even if they turned down the in-depth screening for religious reasons.
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Foreign Policy Initiative Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy prime minister and founder of Russia's "Solidarity" movement, said in an address to the Foreign Policy Initiative, a Washington based think tank, this week that President Obama was making strategic concessions for tactical advances in his dealings with Russia.
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Bishop Gerald Kicanas (left) of Tucson, Ariz., vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops lost his bid to be elected president Tuesday.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York speaks at a news conference after being elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the conference's annual fall meeting Tuesday in Baltimore. It marked the first time since the 1960s that the sitting vice president was not elected.
