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Actress Sharon Stone (left) and Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli pose at the amfAR Foundation for AIDS Research charity event, part of the Fashion Week in Milan, on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu)
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Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization are seen here Sept. 11, 2012, inside the Liberty refugee camp in Baghdad. (Associated Press)
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OverStock.com CEO Patrick Byrne argues that it would be expensive and unfair for online retailers to collect taxes for all the places where they sell. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans at a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Pakistan has blocked cell phone service in major cities to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during a national day of protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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The political documentary about the president, “2016: Obama’s America,” is making an impact in this election season.
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A Georgian woman speaks to police officers through a prison fence during a protest against prison abuse in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)
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Amish enter the federal courthouse in Cleveland on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, as a jury began the fifth day of deliberations in the trial of 16 Amish accused of hate crimes in hair- and beard-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio. (AP Photo/Scott R. Galvin)
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"The president and his Democrat allies in Congress have sworn up and down that failing to comply with the individual mandate did not result in a tax on individuals or families. Now the nonpartisan CBO makes clear that the tax will hit 6 million Americans — mainly middle-class individuals and families," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican. (Associated Press)
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“[With] a need so great as unemployed veterans, this is not the time to draw a technical line on the budget," said Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat. (Associated Press)
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano testifies on homeland threats and agency responses in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano testifies on homeland threats and agency responses in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
