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Portland attorney Kelly Clark holds a letter at an Oct., 18, 2012, press conference in Portland, Ore., to the U.S. Congress regarding some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were publicly released despite The Boy Scouts' fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Portland attorney Paul Mones (right), with Kelly Clark, talks at a Oct., 18, 2012, press conference in Portland, Ore., about some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were publicly released despite The Boy Scouts' fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Boy Scout abuse victim Tom Stewart poses Aug. 16, 2012, for a photo with his old Scout uniform outside the Boy Scout Camp Kilworth in Federal Way, Wash. Former Boy Scouts still struggle to cope with the abuse they suffered at the hands of Scout leaders, and those who are willing to tell the stories of their abuse have come to feel abandoned by an organization considered a pillar of American society. "There are so many victims who have suffered in silence. Marriages and relationships with their kids have suffered," said Stewart, a 46-year-old engineer for Boeing. (Associated Press)

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Portland attorney Kelly Clark examines Oct., 16, 2012, in his office in Portland, Ore., some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were released two days later, despite The Boy Scouts of America's fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus briefs reporters in an evening news conference in Brookfield, Wis., on Oct. 21, 2012, after a man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself. (Associated Press)

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Challenger Elizabeth Warren and incumbent Sen. Scott Brown promised to donate to charity if any outside groups advertised on their behalf. Direct mail, phone banks and canvassing efforts are allowed. (Associated Press)

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Kelly Clark looks some of 14,500 pages of documents the Boy Scouts of America created about child sexual abuse within Scouting from 1959 to 1985. Mr. Clark’s law firm got permission from the Oregon Supreme Court to release the files online. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A protester holds a replica of a fetus to make her point. Catholic and Protestant abortion opponents have come together to oppose the clinic’s opening. (Associated Press)

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Protesters opposed to abortion hold placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast on Thursday. The center plans to offer the abortion pill to women less than nine weeks pregnant if they’re at risk of death or long-term health damage from the pregnancy. (Associated Press)

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A Syrian looks at a damaged car at the site of a car bomb attack in the Bab Touma neighborhood, a popular shopping district largely inhabited by Syria's Christian minority, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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ABC News' Chris Cuomo (left) sits with Aaron Fisher, 18, during an interview airing Oct. 19, 2012, on the ABC news magazine show "20/20." Fisher is victim of former Penn State assistant football coach and Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted of child sexual abuse. (Associated Press/ABC News)