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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown leads Republican Meg Whitman by 8 points, according to a new poll. Mr. Brown got 44 percent of likely voters to 36 percent for Ms. Whitman, with 16 percent undecided and 4 percent for other candidates.
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Volunteer Betty Jean Talley urges people in King, N.C., to take free yard signs to display in support of a campaign to restore the Christian flag to a war memorial in the city's Central Park, where it flew until officials removed it after complaints. (Associated Press)
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Sgt. John Gabbard of Hubert, N.C., tries to gather information from a resident of Marjah, Afghanistan. Military patrols say the locals often won't acknowledge that there are any Taliban in the area. (Associated Press)
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Patrick Mooney, his wife, Joan Mooney (center), and another woman sing the national anthem at the start of a Tea Party Express rally on Tuesday in Las Vegas. The Tea Party Express bus is on the second day of its 29-stop tour. It will cross 20 states before ending up in Concord, N.H., on Nov. 1. (Associated Press)
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LONG SHOT: Republican Missy Reilly Smith has not received any D.C. party aid in her bid to unseat Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. (Provided by Missy Reilly Smith)
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Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois Republican, says he will "spend less, tax less and borrow less." (Associated Press)
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Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller has made potentially crippling missteps that critics say expose him as a hypocrite and flip-flopper. (Associated Press)
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Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor (left), shakes hands with debate moderator Maria Elena Salinas, before the start of her debate with Jerry Brown on Univision in this 2010 file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer denies he told his Republican challenger, "I'm coming after you."
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George Osborne, Britain's Treasury chief (center), delivers the Comprehensive Spending Review in London on Wednesday. Mr. Osborne ordered $128 billion in spending cuts through 2015. (Associated Press)
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Protesters clash with police during a rally in London against spending cuts on Wednesday. Britain will slash benefits and jobs to make the largest cuts to public spending since World War II. (Associated Press)
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The hospital bed next to Mr. Diallo holds Mory Keita. He was hit in the face by a rock at the party headquarters of a Malinke candidate in what was supposed to be Guinea's first democratic election since its independence in 1958. (Associated Press)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chats with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. (AP Photo)
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President Obama is introduced by Javier Garcia of Brownsville, Texas, before signing the Executive Order on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. (Associated Press)
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer improved her chances of keeping her seat when she signed into law a tough enforcement measure against illegal immigration. Polls show the Republican incumbent leading the race. (Arizona Republic via Associated Press)
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Special Force officers examine the scene after a bomb blast in front of a Chechen parliament complex in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, on Tuesday. Insurgents stormed the parliament complex, and one set off a bomb at the gates. (Associated Press)
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is waging a quiet war against al Qaeda in Yemen. (Associated Press)
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District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, here in 2002, is at the center of the debate on gays in the military with her ruling to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press Senate candidate Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, seen here Monday in Lexington, Ky., refused to shake his opponent's hand after a Sunday debate because of an attack ad the Democrat is running.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to the gathering for the launch of the two-week Tea Party Express bus tour in Reno on Monday.
