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Sen. Roland W. Burris, Illinois Democrat, is offering an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that would lift restrictions on abortions at military hospitals. The Senate votes Tuesday. (AP Photo)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "OK, we're in a bad way. We need to get some stuff done. ... If you want to get stuff done, hire somebody that's done stuff and I've done stuff," Democratic state Rep. Bryan Lentz said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "They're all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I'm sure you've seen them at your house," former Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis gives the ball to the fans after scoring during the first half of an NFL football game against the Houston Texans in Landover, Md., on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Shirt protesters against the government cheer Sunday during a rally in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. Thousands of the demonstrators, who are supporters of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, took part in a rally marking the fourth anniversary of the military coup that ousted Mr. Thaksin from power. Chiang Mai is his hometown.
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Retired schoolteacher Jacques Sigot shows photos taken of a camp in the village of Montreuil-Bellay where, during World War II, thousands of French Gypsies were interned.
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Appearing at a news conference in New York on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, are (from left) Sarah Shourd; Cindy Hickey, mother of Shane Bauer; Laura Fattal, mother of Josh Fattal; and Nora Shourd, Ms. Shourd's mother. Ms. Shourd was held in Iran for more than 13 months after she, Mr. Bauer and Mr. Fattal were arrested near the Iraq-Iran border for spying. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS In 1960 in her Georgetown home in Washington, Jacqueline Kennedy works on her weekly column. The newspaper column called "Campaign Wife" included discussion of policies and issues with personal stories and Mrs. Kennedy's advice on everyday matters such as child-rearing and shopping.
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Mona Sahlin, leader of Sweden's Social Democrats party, licks the envelope with her ballot as she casts her vote at a polling station in a Stockholm suburb during general elections on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Janerik Henriksson)
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/NBC, William B. Plowman)
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who as an Army general also was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, speaks on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/NBC, William B. Plowman)
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** FILE ** Jalaluddin Haqqani, then the supreme commander of the Taliban army, talks with reporters in Miram Shah in Pakistan's Waziristan region in 1998. (AP Photo/Mohammad Riaz, File)
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A worker on the drilling floor is seen from the window of the drilling cage as the drilling pipe is removed on the Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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An Afghan election worker checks ballot boxes at the Independent Election Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. Election observers said they had serious concerns about the legitimacy of Saturday's parliamentary balloting as officials began Sunday to tally the results, a process that could take months. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Former Rep. Neil Abercrombie addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters in Honolulu on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Mr. Abercrombie won Hawaii's Democratic gubernatorial primary over longtime rival Mufi Hannemann. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)
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President Barack Obama is handed a personalized basketball by a military aide as he arrives for a private game of basketball at Fort McNair in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Afghan women wait outside a polling station to cast their ballots for the parliamentary elections in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Afghans braved Taliban rockets and polling site bombings Saturday to vote for a new parliament in elections seen as a measure of the government's competence and commitment to democratic rule. It was the first nationwide balloting since a fraud-marred presidential election last year undermined international support for President Hamid Karzai.The ink on the woman's finger is from traditional henna. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi)
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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, right, welcoming his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Damascus airport on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, at the start of the latter's three-nation trip which includes Algeria and the United States where he is to attend next week's U.N. General Assembly meeting.(AP Photo/ Sana-HO).
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** FILE ** The Transocean Development Driller III, the rig responsible for drilling the main relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, in this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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President Barack Obama, followed by Elizabeth Warren and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, to announce that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
