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Amanda Spiro of Gaithersburg, Md. recites religious text during a morning ceremony of prayer vigils and rallies against late-term abortion near "late-term abortion provider" Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic in Germantown, Md. on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. The prayers and rallies are a part of the nine-day pro-life protesting event, Summer of Mercy 2.0. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, speaks to the crowd during a morning ceremony of prayer vigils and rallies against late-term abortion near "late-term abortion provider" Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic in Germantown, Md. on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. The prayers and rallies are a part of the nine-day pro-life protesting event, Summer of Mercy 2.0. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Pro-life activist Joe Scheidler at a morning ceremony of prayer vigils and rallies against late-term abortion near "late-term abortion provider" Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic in Germantown, Md. on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. The prayers and rallies are a part of the nine-day pro-life protesting event, Summer of Mercy 2.0. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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A pro-life protester kneels to pray during a morning ceremony of prayer vigils and rallies against late-term abortion near "late-term abortion provider" Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic in Germantown, Md. on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. The prayers and rallies are a part of the nine-day pro-life protesting event, Summer of Mercy 2.0. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Pro-life protesters kneel to pray during a morning ceremony of prayer vigils and rallies against late-term abortion near "late-term abortion provider" Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic in Germantown, Md. on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. The prayers and rallies are a part of the nine-day pro-life protesting event, Summer of Mercy 2.0. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Amanda Spiro of Gaithersburg, Md. holds a pro-life sign during a morning ceremony of prayer vigils and rallies against late-term abortion near "late-term abortion provider" Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic in Germantown, Md. on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. The prayers and rallies are a part of the nine-day pro-life protesting event, Summer of Mercy 2.0. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Rudolph W. Giuliani has offended the Italic Institute of America by hosting AMC's "Mob Week." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from July 10, 2009, Muslim worshipers come out of a mosque after noon prayers in Kashgar, China. (Associated Press)

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A protester waves an Egyptian flag from the top of a street lamp on July 29, 2011, during a demonstration in Cairo after Friday prayers in Tahrir Square. Many Egyptians have rallied in the main city square seeking to unify their demands despite rifts over key issues between liberal activists and Islamist groups. (Associated Press)

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Calling themselves an "Interfaith Coalition," a group of religious leaders leads prayer and protest against Congressional leaders in the Capitol Rotunda, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 28, 2011. The group said they were against "immoral budget cuts" and said they felt poor people were not being protected by new budget decisions. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Calling themselves an "Interfaith Coalition," a group of religious leaders leads prayer and protest against Congressional leaders in the Capitol Rotunda, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 28, 2011. The group said they were against "immoral budget cuts" and said they felt poor people were not being protected by new budget decisions. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Nafissatou Diallo, who accused former IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually attacking her, speaks to reporters as her attorney Ken Thompson listens during a news conference Thursday, July 28, 2011, the Christian Cultural Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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**FILE** Protesters opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline hold signs outside the office of Rep. Lee Terry, Nebraska Republican, in Omaha, Neb., on July 26, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Christopher Bennett-Bey, grand sheik of the Charlotte, N.C., temple of the Moorish Science Temple of America sect, says "it's just distressing" that flimflam artists are using his organization as a false front for their illegal activities in the state and elsewhere across the country. (Associated Press)

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Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna (left) reacts as his Pakistani counterpart, Hina Rabbani Khar, reaches out to shake hands before their talks in New Delhi on Wednesday. The ministers met Wednesday for the first time since the nuclear-armed rivals resumed peace talks in February. Those talks were suspended after Pakistan-based militants attacked the city of Mumbai in November 2008. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Abdulhakim Muhammad is escorted in to the Pulaski County Courthouse in Little Rock, Ark. Muhammad said he opened fire in a Little Rock recruiting station as retribution for the deaths of Muslims abroad.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are assisted by law-enforcement officials to board a San Angelo Independent School District bus that is being used to relocate them from Eldorado, Texas, to San Angelo, Texas.

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Personal trainer Mubarakah Ibrahim of New Haven, Conn., will re-arrange her schedule while fasting during Ramadan to mostly mornings, when she has the most energy. (Associated Press)

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A girl raises a bible above her head while marching with protesters against gay marriage in New York on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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People light candles at Oslo Cathedral on Sunday in memory of the victims of the attacks on Norway's government headquarters and an island youth retreat. "We are a people in mourning," Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme said during an emotion-filled Mass attended by members of the Norwegian government, the royal family and the general public. (Associated Press)