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A Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce's "Bayi Aerobatic Unit" J-10 fighter jet taxis back upon landing as an air force personnel stands guard at a base of the PLA Airforce's 24th Division in Yangcun, Tianjin, China, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The media, along with about 51 military attaches from embassies in Beijing, including the United States, Britain and Israel, witnessed a 15-minute demonstration by four pilots from the 24th Air Division in China's domestically developed J-10 fighters. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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President Obama makes a courtesy bow to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington earlier this week. A report by the CIA's Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center links Chinese companies to nuclear and missile programs in Pakistan and missile programs in Iran. (Bloomberg News)
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Who says the tea-party movement is divisive and limited to far-right-leaning activists? A new "tea" shirt from manufacturer Authentic GOP challenges that claim.
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A 6-foot fence installed in 2008 at the home of D.C. Council President Vincent C. Gray in the Hillcrest section of Southeast Washington. (The Washington Times)
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A volounteer lays down flowers in front of the President Palace two days after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash, in Warsaw, Monday, April 12, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in dense fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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** FILE ** Investigators work at the site of the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, on Monday, April 12, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died along with dozens of others when the plane went down as it came in for a landing in thick fog. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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** FILE ** A Sudanese street vender waves Sudanese flags at a traffic line in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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A protester covered by Kyrgyz national flag walks April 8, 2010, in front of Kyrgyz government headquarters on the central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Associated Press)
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after signing the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) at the Prague Castle in Prague on April 8, 2010. UPI Photo/Alex Natin.
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Indian President Pratibha Patil (second left) puts her signature after being enumerated for the national census, at the presidential palace in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 1, 2010. India kicked off the national census of its billion-plus population with a 2.5 million strong army of census-takers fanning out across the country to conduct what has been billed the world's largest administrative exercise. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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President Barack Obama points to the crowd before signing the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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** FILE ** Abu Obeida, center, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas' military wing, holds a press conference in Gaza City, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Abu Obeida, center, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas' military wing, holds a press conference in Gaza City, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, is questioned by reporters about an incident involving "tea party" demonstrators as he leaves a speech by President Obama to House Democrats on Saturday on Capitol Hill.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, clutches a pen used by President Obama to sign the health care bill on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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ALL SMILES: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signs the newly passed health care reform bill Monday as other Democrats wait for souvenir pens. From left are: Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, and Reps. George Miller, Louise M. Slaughter, Rosa DeLauro, and John D. Dingell. (Associated Press)
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A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, Saturday, March 20, 2010. A Palestinian teenager was killed during clashes with Israeli troops in Iraq Burin, medical officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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** FILE ** Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, listens to Caucus chair Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., speak during a news conference on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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** FILE ** In this March 17, 2010, file photo, Jon Runyan, then a Republican congressional candidate in New Jersey, answers questions a day before the formal launch of his campaign, in Mount Laurel, N.J. (Associated Press)
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IN THE LINE OF FIRE: Office of Management and Budget chief Peter R. Orszag (left) and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner confer in March 2010 before testifying to a congressional panel. *FILE PHOTO* (Bloomberg News)
