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Tea partyers rally at the Capitol in September 2010 to oppose government spending, particularly bailouts and economic policies backed by President Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Tea partyers gather on the steps of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis in September 2010 for the "Gateway to November" rally hosted by the St. Louis Tea Party and Tea Party Patriots. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democrat, thinks the Senate will have a "serious debate" on the so-called Bush tax-cut extension, but he will not speculate on an agreement. House Democratic leaders say they want to see what the Senate does before acting. (Associated Press)
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An Afghan works on the making of an army boot at the Kabul Melli boot factory in Kabul, Afghanistan. The NATO command has issued new guidelines for awarding billions of dollars worth of international contracts in Afghanistan, saying that without proper oversight the money could end up in the hands of insurgents and criminals, deepen corruption, and undermine efforts to win the loyalty of the Afghan people at a critical juncture in the war. (Associated Press)
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Israel will not build "tens of thousands of housing units that are in the pipeline, but we will not freeze the lives of the residents," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. (Associated Press)
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The Catherine Malandrino spring 2011 collection is modeled Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, during Fashion Week in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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President Obama's motorcade drives past "tea party" protesters on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest as he returns to the White House from playing basketball at Fort McNair in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell addresses supporters during a Tea Party Express news conference in support of her election bid in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, Pool)
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou addresses the media during a news conference on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, a day after his keynote speech on the economy in Thessaloniki, Greece. The prime minister said the Greek government is planning no new austerity measures as part of its efforts to pull the country out of debt. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan casts his vote in Istanbul on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, in a referendum on changes to the Turkish Constitution, which was crafted in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup. His wife, Emine Erdogan, is at left. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
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Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaks during a press interview at a hotel in Beijing Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. The U.N.'s climate chief urged countries to be flexible in order to make progress at weeklong climate talks in China next month, the last formal negotiations on climate change ahead of a major year-end meeting in Cancun, Mexico. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Defense Department shows Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta. President Barack Obama will award Giunta with the first Medal of Honor to a living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday Sept. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Bumgardner, Defense Department)
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Smoke rises after NATO aircrafts conducted an air strike near the Arghandab river, south of Senjeray village, Kandahar province, where U.S. commanders had identified as insurgent positions Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)
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A firefighter salutes as taps is played for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, during a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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U.S. military personnel participate in the Patriot's Day 9.11 Kilometer Run, honoring those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at Bagram Air Field, Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo Baerbel Bohley, a prominent figure in the pro-democracy movement that helped end communist rule in the former East Germany, poses for a photograph in her apartment in Berlin, Germany. The Robert Havemann Society _ a group set up by the New Forum movement that Bohley co-founded _ said she died of cancer on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, at the age of 65. (AP Photo/dapd, Philipp Guelland, File)
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New Hampshire Republican Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte greets Bingo players in Manchester, N.H., in this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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President Barack Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, at the Pentagon Memorial, marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Victims' families walk toward New York City's September 11th Commemoration Ceremony site on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
