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Three unidentified women on Feb. 21, 2012, leave a house in Dayton, Texas, where 11 children — some of them reportedly found in restraints — were removed by children's protective services the previous month. (Associated Press)
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President Obama talks Feb. 21, 2012, at the White House about the importance of the payroll-tax cut and jobless-benefits extension compromise that bi-partisan House and Senate conferees reached the previous week. He is joined by people who posted comments on the White House web site about how the tax cut would affect them. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Joseph Getty (R-Carroll and Baltimore) asked several questions about amendments that the Maryland House attached to the Civil Marriage Protection Act before the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the act Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Annapolis, Md. Although Mr. Getty voted against the bill, it passed by a vote of 7 to 4 and will now move to the Senate floor. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Sen. Jamie Raskin, Montgomery County Democrat, explains several of the amendments in the Civil Marriage Protection Act to his fellow Senate Judiciary Committee members before a vote on Feb. 21, 2012, in Annapolis. The committee passed the act by a vote of 7 to 4. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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North Korean defectors wearing masks to cover their faces participate Feb. 21, 2012, in a rally against the Chinese government's arrest of North Korean refugees, near the Chinese Embassy in Seoul. The protesters called for China not to send North Korean refugees back to their country, saying those refugees might be executed. (Associated Press)
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Millions of dollars forfeited by Mexican drug cartel kingpin Osiel Cardenas-Guillen, serving 25 years in prison for threatening U.S. agents, has been given to a dozen local Texas law enforcement agencies. (Associated Press)
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Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks Feb. 20, 2012, at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A person walks Feb. 15, 2012, on the University at Buffalo campus in Buffalo, N.Y. (Associated Press)
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A child cries out for her father as she pushes on a prison gate with police standing on the other side Sunday at a prison on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, that was the scene of deadly rioting. (Associated Press)
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Jean-Marie Le Pen used his oratory skills to denounce the "decadence" of French society, promote an anti-immigration "French first" agenda and try to cast doubt upon the Holocaust. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Maggie McIntosh, Baltimore City Democrat, left, and Rep. Heather Mizeur, Montgomery Democrat, both openly gay members of the Maryland House of Delegates, speak with reporters alongside Speaker of the House of Delegates Michael Busch in Annapolis, Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, after the House passed a gay marriage bill. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg says he is good to go, 17 months removed from elbow-ligament reconstruction surgery. (Associated Press)
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Connecticut's Tiffany Hayes pushes past St. John's Shenneika Smith, left, and Mary Nwachukwu for a shot in the first half in Storrs, Conn., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, right, hugs Speaker of the House of Delegates Michael Busch after the House passed a gay marriage bill in Annapolis, Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Police respond to the scene of a stabbing outside a homeless shelter on New York Avenue in Northeast on Feb. 17, 2012 (Andrea Noble/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
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Delegate Don H. Dwyer, Jr., Anne Arundel Republican (left), a vocal opponent of the proposed same-sex marriage bill, confers with fellow Republican Delegate Richard K. Impallaria on the House floor Thursday. The bill could go to a vote Friday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Delegate A. Wade Kach (left), Baltimore County Republican, threw his support behind the same-sex marriage bill on Thursday. He's shown with Delegates Ariana B. Kelly and Nathaniel T. Oaks, both Democrats. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire is surrounded by legislators and others Monday as she signs into law a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. The law is to take effect June 7, but opponents are mounting a repeal effort. (Associated Press)
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Government army soldiers on top of an armored personnel carrier patrol a street at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border. A human rights group said Syrian troops "committed a new massacre" near the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, killing 19 people - 11 of them from the same family. The report was impossible to confirm.
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** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Obama's fiscal 2013 federal budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
