Politics

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/File)

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**FILE** Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill on June 2, 2009, before the House Health subcommittee hearing on health care reform. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, stresses the importance of state fiscal responsibility. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)

**FILE** Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili (left) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi before a meeting on April 1, 2010, at Foreign Ministry in Beijing, China. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rielle Hunter (center) is escorted into the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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**FILE** Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (at podium) addresses President Obama's announcement of offshore oil and gas exploration as (from left) Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade Jim Cheng, Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources Maureen Matsen and Secretary of Natural Resources Dout Domenech look on at the Capitol in Richmond on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)

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President Obama, followed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrive Friday to make a statement on Iran's nuclear facility during the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan (right), takes the oath of office in front of Chief Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu (left) to become the nation's next leader, at the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Mr. Jonathan was sworn in just hours after the death of the oil-rich country's elected leader, whose long illness had sparked a leadership crisis. (AP Photo)

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Bela Lugosi portrays the evil Count Dracula in the 1930 movie classic. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates listen to a question during a news conference at the State Department in Washington in 2009. (AP Photo)

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**FILE** In this 1912 black-and-white photo, President William Howard Taft is seen throwing out the first ball on opening day for baseball, to start the season for the Washington Senators in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin reads a statement to the House of Commons in London in this image taken from TV Monday May 18, 2009. Martin said Monday he was "profoundly sorry" for the handling of Members of Parliament expenses, saying the public had been let down "very badly indeed. (AP Photo/PA

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** FILE ** Billionaire R. Allen Stanford is escorted into the federal courthouse in Houston on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Mr. Stanford faces federal charges that he ran a $7 billion scheme to defraud investors with his international banking empire. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman is shown in this 2009 file photo. On Friday, April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Mr. Feltman, a career diplomat, would serve as the State Department's special envoy for the Horn of Africa. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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This photo provided by the White House shows President Barack Obama discussing the START treaty, during a phone call with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Friday, March 26, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pete Souza, White House )

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In this file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele prepares to speak at the "Bless The Mic" lecture series at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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** FILE ** Stuart Levey, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, speaks at a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington in 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Illustration: Misbehaving charities by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times.

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** FILE ** In this photo released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his wife Sara wave as they board a plane at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv early Sunday, May 17, 2009, on their way for the first visit to Washington since Netanyahu became Israeli Prime Minister.