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Hayley Atwell plays a Russian emigre in pre-World War II Paris recruited as a spy by a British agent played by Rufus Sewell in “Restless.” Michelle Dockery of “Downton Abbey” is also in the cast of the Sundance Channel original miniseries. (Sundance Channel via Associated Press)
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George Osborne (left), Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, walks with Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the treasury, to deliver the half-yearly budget statement to Parliament in London on Dec. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Qatari women activists holding a banner reading "commit to climate justice 4 all" as they march with local and international activists march to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 1, 2012. (Associated Press)
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State Sen. Ted Lieu urged fellow California lawmakers to approve his bill to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight. The law was passed and then signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. (Associated Press)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray says the city should 'double down' on its gun laws in the wake of the school shooting in Newton, Conn. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Conservative lawmakers and interest groups have said House Speaker John A. Boehner's offer of $800 billion in tax increases abandoned core Republican principles and earned no credit from a White House that has insisted on even bigger tax hikes. (Associated Press)
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A Free Syria Army fighter receives treatment Dec. 3, 2012, at a makeshift clinic during clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)
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Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq has absorbed more than 30,000 Syrian Kurds since April, housing many of them in U.N. Refugee Agency tents. (Giulio Petrocco/ Special to The Washington Times)
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Former President George W. Bush gives opening remarks on Dec. 4, 2012, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas for a conference titled "Immigration and 4% Growth: How Immigrants Grow the U.S. Economy." The George W. Bush Institute was hosting panel discussions highlighting the positive impact of immigration on U.S. economic growth. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Tea party supporter William Temple of Brunswick, Ga., protests President Obama's health care law outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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**FILE** Revelers display American and gay pride flags as they celebrate early election returns favoring Washington state's Referendum 74, which would legalize gay marriage, during a large impromptu street gathering in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in the early hours of Nov. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)
