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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody in Chula Vista, Calif., on Friday, March 30, 2012, as part of a nationwide immigration sweep. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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**FILE** Gerry Zimmermann, a police K-9 trainer with Working Dog World, leads his 10-year-old Belgian Mainois named Civa on March 12, 2012, as she searches for drugs along the lineup of inmates at the Daviess County Detention Center in Owensboro, Ky. (Associated Press/Messenger-Inquirer)
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Verla Morris, 99, goes through some of her family census data from the 19th and 20th centuries at her local residential senior center on March 30, 2012, in Chandler, Ariz. (Associated Press)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has adopted a policy of rarely signing onto letters from his peers around the country supporting federal legislation. (The Washington Times)
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Afghan refugees gather on Thursday, March 8, 2012, outside the house in Haripur, Pakistan, that Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived in for nearly a year until he moved into the villa where he eventually was killed. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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Some thousands of demonstrators march through the streets of Dublin, Ireland, Saturday March 31, 2012, during protests against Ireland's new property tax. Ireland faces a public revolt as more than 1 million of Ireland's 1.6 million households have failed to pay the new property tax. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)
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House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, speaks March 29, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill after Republicans pushed an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget through the House. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Christopher Astacio reads with his daughter Cristina, 2, who recently was diagnosed with a mild form of autism, in her bedroom on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. Autism cases are on the rise again, largely because of wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials say. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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**FILE** House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (right), Wisconsin Republican, with Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, holds a copy of their budget proposal during a news conference March 29, 2012, on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
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"We keep passing the buck, and ultimately somebody's got to pay the bill. And I don't think it's fair to expect state employees, local employees and local governments to pay it," said Delegate Jennifer L. McClellan, Richmond Democrat, of the pension overhaul. (Associated Press)
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Yin Shanshan, who plans to study for a master's degree in Canada, checks her textbook during a French course of Alliance Francaise, an organization that promotes French language and culture, in Tianjin, China. Thousands of people in China are trying to gain enough proficiency in French to emigrate to Quebec. (Associated Press)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, holds her weekly news conference March 29, 2012, on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
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The Republican National Committee says Russian President Dmitry Medvedev should have a D after his name.
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II filed suit on behalf of the state against the federal government over the health reform act. He spoke to tea party activists gathered on the Mall on Saturday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling said that "governing has to be about more than breaking the dishes. It has to be about building consensus and finding solutions to problems." He is seeking the Republican nomination for governor.
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Thousands of unemployed workers marched in January 1932 from Pennsylvania to Washington to ask Congress and President Hoover for help.
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George Washington's reconstructed distillery in Mount Vernon, Va. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Three master distillers from Scotland take turns hammering a cork into a barrel of a single malt whisky made on colonial style stills at George Washington's reconstructed distillery with the help of Mount Vernon's historic distillers. The oak barrels will be aged for three years and then auctioned for charities around the world. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, speaks at a rally for opponents of same-sex marriage in Augusta, Maine, in August 2010. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Supporters of health care reform rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, the final day of arguments over the health care law signed by President Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
