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Associated Press Florida Democratic Senate nominee Kendrick B. Meek savors the moment as supporters chant the four-term congressman's name in Hollywood, Fla., at his victory party.
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TAKING THE FIFTH? Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, leaves the polling station Tuesday in Phoenix after casting his vote in the Arizona primary election in his bid for a fifth term.
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Associated Press Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, independent candidate for Senate, speaks to reporters after voting in St. Petersburg.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS LOOKING FOR A 'FRESH START': House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks about jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland.
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Associated Press photographs THIRD WAY: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, independent candidate for Senate, speaks to reporters after voting Tuesday in St. Petersburg.
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Associated Press Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (right), a former Republican, had $8 million in his campaign coffers for his independent bid for Senate as of Aug. 4, nearly double that of his GOP rival.
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TAKING THE FIFTH? Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, leaves the polling station Tuesday in Phoenix after casting his vote in the Arizona primary election in his bid for a fifth term.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack embraces former department official Shirley Sherrod in Washington on Tuesday. Sherrod, ousted in a racial misunderstanding last month, declined to return to the agency.
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Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NB) speaks before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Washington Strategic Concept Seminar on the future of NATO in Washington on February 22, 2010. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Billy Bennett shows Iraqi federal policemen how to walk in a "wedge" formation on patrol during a training exercise on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Lara Jakes)
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D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee (right) talks with third-grader Kmone Feeling, who wants to be a librarian, during a visit to J.O. Wilson Elementary School in Northeast Washington on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, the first day of the new academic year. D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (second from left) and Principal Sheryl Warley (left) stand at the back. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks on jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks on jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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** FILE ** John Brennan (left), President Obama's counterterrorism adviser, accompanied by White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton, speaks during a news conference in Vineyard Haven, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage, a spokesman for the al-Shabab militia,Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, in Mogadishu, Somalia, who said that members of the group's "special forces" had carried out the attack against those "aiding the infidels." Scores of people were killed during the attack. (AP Photo/Mohamed Olad Hassan)
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Somali government forces walk outside the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday Aug, 24, 2010. A suicide bomber and a gunman stormed the hotel in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, killing more than 30 people, including members of parliament, a military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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**FILE** An improvised explosive device (IED) wrecked a police car and wounded several police officers in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2010. (Associated Press)
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South Korean human rights activists participate in a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
