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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left) and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner listen as the president speaks at the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC) theater. (Associated Press)
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An absentee father "leaves a hole in a child's life," President Obama says Monday in Anacostia while announcing a mentoring program for fathers, including job training and violence prevention, and initiatives to help ex-offenders return to parenting. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian and Lebanese flags wave over fishing boats off Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Monday, June 21, 2010, during a demonstration supporting Lebanese ships planning to sail from Lebanon in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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A Palestinian child stands on a side street in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Monday, June 21, 2010. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat pressed ahead Monday with a contentious plan to raze 22 illegally built Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center that Palestinians fear would tighten Israel's grip on the city's contested eastern sector. The site, called al-Bustan, is a section of the larger neighborhood of Silwan, which is home to some 50,000 Palestinians and 70 Jewish families. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency in North Korea and distributed by Korea News Service in Tokyo on Monday, June 21, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il gestures while meeting with miners at Pyeong-an puk-do, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Brazil's United Nations Ambassador Maria Ribeiro Viotti speaks before the United Nations Security Council voted on new sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, June 9, 2010. On Monday, June 21, 2010 Iran announced it was barring two U.N. nuclear inspectors. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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BLOOMBERG NEWS Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's prime minister, who also heads the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, welcomed the flexibility decision by China about the yuan.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a public gathering in Iran. He says Tehran is willing to deal with the outside world but resents U.N. sanctions. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets with Sen. Tom Udall, New Mexico Democrat, on Capitol Hill. Newly released e-mails from Elena Kagan's time as an aide to President Clinton portray the Supreme Court nominee as a driven and highly opinionated person with a flair for political tactics and little tolerance for high-flying rhetoric.
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** FILE ** Carol Porter and her husband, Georgia state Rep. DuBose Porter, are running in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor and governor, respectively. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser, File)
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** FILE ** Palestinian trucks loaded with fruits and other goods arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip, from Israel through the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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Presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos participates in a televised debate in Bogota, Colombia, on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Colombians are holding a presidential runoff on Sunday, June 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Manan Trivedi, who is running for Congress in Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District, makes campaign calls in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 16, 2010.
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Manan Trivedi, who is running for Congress in Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District, poses for a portrait in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. A new wave of Indian-American candidates is running for high-profile office across the country. At least eight children of Indian immigrants are running for Congress, governor or attorney general -- the most ever. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this June 16, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama makes a statement in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington after meeting with BP executives.
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President Barack Obama, wearing a White Sox baseball cap, attends a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the Chicago White Sox, Friday, June 18, 2010, in Washington. His daughter Malia is at left. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva, right, speaks to a wounded ethnic Kyrgyz citizen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Alchiyev, pool)
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President Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama tours a Recovery Act highway project in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, and others, delivers remarks at the groundbreaking of a road project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Friday, June 18, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
