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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says nothing is off the table when it comes to options to increase revenue, except a tax increase on the middle-class. (The Washington Times)
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An Indian family lights candles in memory of a gang-rape victim in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. Passers-by refused to stop to help a naked, bleeding gang-rape victim after she was dumped from a bus onto a New Delhi street, and police delayed taking her to a hospital for 30 minutes, the woman's male companion said in an interview. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Mazen Alotaibi, 23, a sergeant in Saudi Arabia’s air force who was arrested Dec. 31, 2012, in Las Vegas on charges that he pulled a teenage boy into Las Vegas Strip hotel room and sexually assaulted him the morning of the city’s big New Year's Eve fireworks extravaganza. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
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AC Milan Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng (second from right) is flanked by his teammate Mathieu Flamini as he gestures towards the crowd in Busto Arsizio, near Milan on Jan. 3, 2013. A friendly match between AC Milan and lower division club Pro Patria was abandoned after racist chants directed at Milan's black players, the latest incident of racial abuse that continues to blight the sport. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A girl sits on a Newtown bus leaving the new Sandy Hook Elementary School after the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., on Jan. 3, 2013. The Sandy Hook students started that day in their new school, formerly called Chalk Hill School in Monroe. It was renamed Sandy Hook Elementary and overhauled especially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting. (Associated Press)
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A bus traveling from Newtown, Conn., to neighboring Monroe stops in front of 26 “angels” along the roadside on the first day of classes in Monroe on Thursday for Sandy Hook Elementary School students. A vacant Chalk Hill School in Monroe was overhauled especially for the students after the Sandy Hook School shootings that killed 26 on Dec. 14. (Associated Press)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, applauds after handing the gavel to House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, who was re-elected as House Speaker of the 113th Congress, on Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner enters the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, after surviving a roll-call vote for re-election in the newly convened 113th Congress. He is escorted by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (front row), California Democrat, poses with other female House members on the steps of the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, before the official opening of the 113th Congress. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
