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**FILE** Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano says gay partners will be considered as family members when immigration agents are trying to decide deportation cases. (Associated Press)
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Visitors to a Minnesota State Fair booth staffed by supporters of a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage chat with a volunteer in late August in Falcon Heights, Minn. Gay-marriage backers, who are seeking to defeat the initiative, are likely to far outspend proponents, though the most recent polls show the referendum narrowly ahead. (Associated Press)
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A demonstrator holds signs with images of former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide during a protest against President Michel Martelly's government in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is traveling the country touting his plan that would allow seniors to receive vouchers to shop for private insurance. Two-thirds of voters 55 and older said in a survey that they prefer traditional Medicare over what Democrats call a “premium-support model.” (Associated Press)
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Emma Watson and Logan Lerman star in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” writer-director Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of his own novel exploring the trials of adolescence. (Summit Entertainment via Associated Press)
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ALTERNATE CROP OF LLP101 Former England soccer captain John Terry drives out of Wembley Stadium in London, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, where the Football Association hearing on a racism charge against him was held. Terry's racism hearing started Monday, a day after the 31-year-old Chelsea defender quit England duty in protest at the case being pursued by the Football Association. Terry was charged by the FA despite being cleared in court of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match in October. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
