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In this Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, photo, Mariam, 11, father's name and family are unknown, who is mentally disabled and was found at the age of two-year and a half left by the gate of St. Joseph’s Hospice, is bathed in a sink by nurse Samina Aqeel, 37, at the children ward of the hospice, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Mohammed Aqeel spent weeks at home in Pakistan waiting for death after suffering a debilitating spinal cord injury in a car crash before friends suggested he come to St. Joseph’s Hospice on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad. Now 13 years later, his life and those of some 40 others who live on its grounds might be changed forever as this hospital of last resort faces closure over its rising debts. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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FILE - This undated file image released by Mexico's Attorney General's Office on May 31, 1993, shows drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at an undisclosed location. A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 that Guzman, the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, was captured alive overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and is on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s most-wanted list. (AP Photo/Procuraduria General de la Republica, File)
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"House Republicans have essentially declared legislative business over for the balance of the year because they are too concerned with establishing party unity to worry about the priorities of the American people," said one email from the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. (Associated Press)
