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Logo for the Cartoon Network's "Stop Bullying: Speak Up" initiative, for which President Obama will deliver a message.
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Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks March 10, 2012, during a conference of the PASOK socialist party at Faliro, near Athens. (Associated Press)
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A poster hanging on the wall in the D.C. Superior Court building in Washington, D.C. shows "Black Women Paving the Way to Greatness in Politics." It curiously includes Ms. Davis. (The Washington Times)
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Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim attends a rally in downtown Cairo on Thursday, March 8, 2012, to mark International Women's Day. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during the Cape County Republican Women's Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday, March 10, 2012, in Cape Giradeau, Mo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw, Fairfax Democrat, left, and Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr., James City Republican, right, confer as the Senate met at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va. Thursday, March 8, 2012. The budget deadlock in the Senate continues. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown).
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** FILE ** Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich smiles during a March 8, 2012, rally in Jackson, Miss. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said that conversations would continue in the House about a longer term approach to the nation's transportation needs. For now, he said he is willing to take up a Senate transportation bill. (Associated Press)
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Activist Loretta Nall, founder of the U.S. Marijuana Party, says it was unfair to not include her in the debates. "It's hard to overcome not being on the stage with the other contenders," she says. (Associated Press)
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Delegate Neil Parrott , R-Washington Co., speaks during a news conference Thursday, June 30, 2011 in Annapolis, Md. The Republican-led group is trying to repeal the controversial new state law granting new benefits to illegal immigrants and is nearing the signatures required. Also pictured is Delegate Michael Hough, R-Frederick Co. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Facial images based on forensic reconstruction of skeletal remains of two sailors aboard the USS Monitor, a CIvil War-era ironclad ship that sank in 1862, have prompted one federal agency to ask the public: do you know these men? (Images from NOAA)
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Facial images based on forensic reconstruction of skeletal remains of two sailors aboard the USS Monitor, a CIvil War-era ironclad ship that sank in 1862, have prompted one federal agency to ask the public: do you know these men? (Images from NOAA)
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** FILE ** Jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford arrives in custody at the federal courthouse in Houston in August 2010. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Russian police detain opposition activists Monday in St. Petersburg. More than 100 were arrested in Russia's second-largest city, where about 2,000 gathered to protest results of the presidential election.
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Virginia Capitol Police arrest more than 30 pro-choice activists when they refused to disperse as ordered. (Associated Press)
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Virginia State Police stand by as protesters are removed from the front steps of the state Capitol in Richmond on Saturday. (Associated Press)
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Georgetown University law student and activist Sandra Fluke (center) speaks March 5, 2012, during an appearance in New York on the daytime talk show "The View" as co-hosts Joy Behar (left) and Sherri Shepherd listen. Fluke talked about conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and the comments he made on his program after she testified to Democratic members of Congress in support of a requirement that health care companies provide coverage for contraception. (Associated Press/ABC)
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A protester chants slogans in front of blocked ticket machines with a banner that reads "Occupation" placed on them at the Syntagma Metro station in Athens on Saturday, March 3, 2012, during a protest against the Greek government's austerity measures. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
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An Afghan refugee girl reacts March 4, 2012, after another child stole her food voucher while she was queuing in front a truck organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner at Bowling Green State University, Saturday, March 3, 2012, in Bowling Green, Ohio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
