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Hurricane Earl passes over the Leeward Islands on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in this image from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (AP Photo/NASA)
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President Obama walks out of the Oval Office of the White House on Monday to make a statement on the economy in the Rose Garden. (Associated Press)
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SENATE SKIRMISH: GOP ex-Rep. Pat Toomey (top) is set to take on Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak for a Senate seat from Pennsylvania.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS On the Democratic side, party leaders consider whether to stick with primary winner and Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams or go with a better-known alternative in the suddenly competitive race. The temptation would only grow if Mrs. Murkowski and Mr. Miller both ran and split the center-right vote.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, trails little-known challenger Joe Miller (right) by 1,668 votes in the GOP primary with about 14,000 absentee and early votes still to be counted this week.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama will meet Tuesday with soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas, hours before he delivers a prime-time speech from the Oval Office to mark the departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
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WAITING FOR CONGRESS: President Obama says Senate Republicans are holding "hostage" a bill aimed at helping small businesses. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS John Carney, a Democratic candidate for the House in Delaware, talks with Lou Best at a senior center in Wilmington, Del. "I'll support [President Obama] when I think he's right," he said.
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Luis Fredy Lala Pomavilla, an Ecuadorean citizen who survived a massacre that left 72 Central and South American migrants dead at a ranch 100 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican border, rests at a hospital in Matamoros on Aug. 24. He said the killers said they belonged to the Zetas drug cartel. (Associated Press)
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The bodies of the 58 male and 14 female massacre victims are seen inside the abandoned warehouse where they were found in San Fernando in eastern Mexico. They were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras trying to get to the United States. (Associated Press)
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President Obama makes a statement Monday on the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Associated Press)
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Robert Einhorn, the State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, right, talks with Daniel Glaser, the Treasury Department's deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, left, during a press conference at the Information Resource Center of the American Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. New sanctions against North Korea will target narcotics trafficking, money counterfeiting and other "illicit and deceptive" activities that provide the regime with hard currency used to build nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. envoy said Monday. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
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Marleni Xiomara Suarez Ortega, weeps as she speaks to the press while holding up a photo of her late husband, Miguel Angel Carcamo, outside of her home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Saturday Aug. 28, 2010. Her husband purportedly was among the 72 migrants killed in northern Mexico by, what could be, a gang of drug traffickers.(AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left) speaks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (center) and Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (right), the top U.S. commander in Iraq, in Baghdad on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Mr. Biden returned to Iraq to mark this week's formal end to U.S. combat operations and to push the country's leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking the formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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President Obama makes a statement on the economy, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Obama makes a statement on the economy, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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A U.S. Army helicopter takes off carrying soldiers wounded in a roadside bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Eyewitnesses said a U.S. military armored Humvee caught fire after having been struck by the bomb in a residential area of Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, while returning in a convoy from an unknown mission. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Supporters of National Council of Resistance of Iran in France protest the death sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, at Trocadero square in Paris, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Ms. Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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ADVANCE FOR 12:01 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 30, and thereafter; Graphic shows the prevalence of PSTD in veterans and spending on the drug
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**FILE** In this photo from Dec. 5, 2002, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (center) sits surrounded by members of his staff during a rally of his Ultra-Orthodox Shas party in Jerusalem. Yosef, an influential Israeli rabbi known for his vitriolic pronouncements against Arabs, said Palestinians and their leader should "perish from this world", Israeli army Radio said Sunday. (Associated Press)
