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Radio host and life coach Lynne Rosen committed suicide with co-host John Littig sometime in late May, 2013. Their bodies were found together in a New York City home. (Image: wnnlifecoaching.com)
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**FILE** Bags of confiscated cocaine are shown at the office of the Guinean drug enforcement agency in Conakry, Guinea, on March 11, 2009. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** This May 20, 2013, photo provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Strike Force shows some of the marijuana plants the agency says were grown by a woman from a wealthy New York suburb in a warehouse in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/DEA Strike Force)
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Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday about sexual assaults in the military are (from right): Legal counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Brig. Gen. Richard C. Gross, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Judge Advocate General of the Army Lt. Gen. Dana K. Chipman, Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James F. Amos, and Staff Judge Advocate to the Marine Corps Commandant Maj. Gen. Vaughn A. Ary.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday introduced legislation to bring his state's abortion law more in line with federal standards. The abortion provision is part of a 10-point Women's Equality Act. (Associated Press)
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Marine One, with President Barack Obama aboard, flies past the Washington Monument as workers build scaffolding to the top, Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Washington, to make repairs to the 555-foot marble obelisk that was damaged in the August 2011 earthquake. President Obama is en route to Texas, as part of his ìMiddle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tours." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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People wait to enter, outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, on Monday March, 25, 2013, a day before the case for gay and lesbian couples rights, will be argued before the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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** FILE ** Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) testifies June 4, 2013, on Capitol Hill before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to investigate the growing epidemic of sexual assaults within the military. From right are Dempsey, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno and Judge Advocate General of the Army Lt. Gen. Dana K. Chipman. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this April 12, 2013, file photo, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2014, and the HHS. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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** FILE ** Imad Hamad, director of the Michigan office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, sits in his office in Dearborn, Mich., in 2002. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)