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**FILE** People wait in line to have their bags checked in what the Customs and Border Protection officers refer to as "Secondary" — the secondary screening area — at Washington Dulles International Airport on Feb. 16, 2012. This is where the agriculture experts check for items that are illegal to bring in to the United States, such as meat products and plant life. (The Washington Times)
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The penthouse homes are priced from $395,000 to $595,000 and have 697 to 1,457 finished square feet. Co-op fees average $650 monthly.
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"We've not only been able to do the tough things on revenues to balance the budget, but we've also been able to protect our priorities." - Governor Martin O'Malley, Maryland Democrat
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Rep. John Conyers, Michigan Democrat, noted that about 300 organizations voiced opposition to the House domestic-violence bill before the vote. "Who supports this bill? Who thinks this is a step in the right direction?" he asked. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** John Lennon performs at New York's Madison Square Garden on Aug. 30, 1972. (Associated Press)
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Joshua Komisarjevsky, sentenced to death in a gruesome home invasion in Connecticut in 2007, is pictured in March 2011. (AP Photo/Connecticut Department of Correction)
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New York resident Melissa Garcia Velez from Colombia speaks during a rally in March in Union Square in New York. The rally was one of many around the country to focus attention on the issue of illegal immigration. A lawsuit filed Monday by illegal-immigrant students and some House Democrats challenges filibusters and would rewrite the way the Senate operates, if successful. (Associated Press)
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More than 100 people rallied outside the State House in to support emergency legislation that would muzzle the far-reaching opinion on pit bulls and pit bull mixes. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown's budget proposal includes a compromise to raise more revenue from expanded bar and restaurant hours.
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Several hundred supporters rally Monday at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., on behalf of Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student convicted of bias intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate. (Associated Press)
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New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told University of North Carolina graduates during his commencement address Sunday that last week's gay marriage vote in the state shows there is still work to be done for civil rights in the U.S. (News & Observer via Associated Press)
