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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano testifies on homeland threats and agency responses before 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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Syrian refugees chant slogans to protest against the visit of Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, not pictured, to the Zaatari Refugees Camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
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A Kashmiri Muslim protester jumps over a burning tire set up as a roadblock in Srinagar, India, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, during a protest against a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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Muslim protesters burn a U.S. flag during a protest against the film “Innocence of Muslims” that ridicules Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday. The film has spurred widespread protests. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Chamique Holdsclaw, shown in the District as a member of the Washington Mystics in 2000, was a six-time WNBA All-Star. Her career was derailed by clinical depression, and now she is an advocate of erasing the stigma of the condition and other mental-health issues. (The Washington Times)
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**FILE** One of two kittens euthanized because of mutilation of its claws. Photo from the Washington Humane Society.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2012. (Associated Press)
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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows death row inmate Ronald Post. Post, 53, scheduled to die Jan. 16, 2013, for the 1983 shooting death of a hotel desk clerk, wants his upcoming execution delayed. At 480 pounds, Post says he’s too heavy for the state’s lethal injection process. (Associated Press/Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections)
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Opposition protesters react while listening to speakers during a rally in Moscow on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. The first major protest against President Vladimir Putin after a summer lull drew tens of thousands of people, determined to show that opposition sentiment remains strong despite Kremlin efforts to muzzle dissent. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Col. Deborah Liddick will lead the Air Force's basic-training unit at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where dozens of female recruits have alleged they were sexually assaulted or harassed by male instructors within the past year. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)
