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NAACP President Ben Jealous said the organization won't let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout as it launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters. (Associated Press)

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Bryan Cranston arrives at The John Varvatos 9th Annual Stuart House Benefit, Sunday, March 11, 2012, at The John Varvatos boutique in Los Angeles. The John Varvatos Stuart House benefit hosts an outdoor charity concert and family day to benefit Stuart House, a program of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. (AP Photo/ Katy WInn)

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**FILE** House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks April 26, 2012, at a news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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President Obama is pictured on a monitor in the White House briefing room in Washington on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, during an interview with ABC News in which he said he supports gay marriage. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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A man passes by an election billboard in central Belgrade, Serbia, that depicts Ivica Dacic, the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia, formed by late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, on May 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Openly gay Colorado state Sen. Pat Steadman (center) speaks at a rally in support of civil unions at the Capitol in Denver on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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Signs backing and against the Constitutional Marriage Amendment line a sidewalk outside a polling site at Leesville Road Middle School in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday. A constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was driving turnout for the state's primary. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Sandy Adams, Florida Republican, is the lead author of a bill to renew the nation's domestic-violence prevention law. A House panel passed the bill during a daylong session Tuesday despite the objections of Democrats. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** The popular HIV-fighting pill Truvada can help healthy people avoid contracting the virus that causes AIDS, a federal drug panel has affirmed. (AP Photo/Gilead Sciences)