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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)
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan chimed in Monday in support of federal recognition of same-sex marriage. (Associated Press)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden made his remark in favor of gay marriage two days before voters in the swing state of North Carolina are to weigh in Tuesday on a ballot measure that would codify the traditional definition of marriage as only the union of one man and one woman. (Associated Press)
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"We must make certain they do not harm the economy by drowning small business lenders in a sea of red tape," says Rep. Spencer Bachus, Alabama Republican, of the health care law.
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Police detain a demonstrator in St. Petersburg during a protest rally against Mr. Putin's inauguration. (Associated Press)
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Sudanese President Omar Bashir is condemned by South Sudan's chief negotiator as not a man of peace. “He is a warmonger and a racist, and someone who is calling for genocide.” (Associated Press)
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Model Linda Evangelista attends the American Foundation for AIDS Research's gala benefit at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after addressing supporters at his Union for a Popular Movement party headquarters after conceding defeat to Socialist Francois Hollande. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of Socialist Party candidate for the presidential election Francois Hollande celebrate with champagne after the first results of the second round of French presidential elections outside Socialist Party campaign headquarters in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Supporters of president-elect Francois Hollande celebrate after socialist Francois Hollande defeated conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday to become France's next president. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
