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** FILE ** Democrat Jack Conway, Kentucky's attorney general, lent himself $400,000 to prevail in second-quarter fundraising against Republican Rand Paul in their campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat. Mr. Paul reported raising $1.1 million in the three-month period that ended in June. (AP Photo)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat (right) and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, listen to ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, speak Tuesday. Mr. Sessions requested the vote on Elena Kagan to be delayed a week.
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As the White House releases its National AIDS Strategy Tuesday, Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched an ad campaign comparing President Obama's AIDS policy with President George W. Bush's. (Graphic: AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, greets Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, left as her husband Prince Philip watches from the center at the opening of The British Garden in Hanover Square. (Photo: Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama, right, announces he has named Jacob J. "Jack" Lew, left, to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (UPI/Ron Sachs/POOL)
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President Barack Obama walks into the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington Tuesday, July 13, 2010, to announce he will nominate Jacob Lew, left, as the next budget director. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama, right, announces he has named Jacob J. "Jack" Lew, left, to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (UPI/Ron Sachs/POOL)
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Jacob J. "Jack" Lew, appointed to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (UPI/Ron Sachs/POOL)
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President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Jacob J. "Jack" Lew, left, after announcing he has named Mr. Lew to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (UPI/Ron Sachs/POOL)
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President Barack Obama, right, and Jacob J. "Jack" Lew, right, depart from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House after Mr. Lew was named to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (UPI/Ron Sachs/POOL)
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at a conference Tuesday at Iranian Embassy in Madrid, demanded that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri be allowed to return home "without any obstacle." (Associated Press)
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In this Dec. 9, 2009, file photo, Jacob Lew testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Obama says he will nominate Mr. Lew to serve as budget director. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, right, and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, center, listen as the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama speaks during a business meeting of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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This May 18 2010, file photo shows France's Najat addressing reporters during a press conference in Montreuil, east of Paris. After a debate in which many lawmakers described their visceral reaction to face-covering veils, France's lower house of parliament approved a ban Tuesday July 13, 2010.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
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A man lies injured after Nationalist protesters clashed with the Police Service of Northern Ireland in the Ardoyne Area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo)
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Police and nationalist protesters clash before an Orange Order march in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo / Niall Carson, PA)
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Police Service of Northern Ireland officers fire plastic baton rounds after coming under attack from petrol bombs thrown by Nationalists in the Ardoyne Area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo)
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Police remove nationalist protesters before an Orange Order march in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. (AP Photo)
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The Rev. Barry C. Black, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, poses for a portrait in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, July 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer)
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In this May 10, 2010, file photo, President Obama walks with his Supreme Court Justice nominee Elena Kagan, into the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to delay her confirmation vote by a week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
