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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)
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Rep. Patrick Meehan explores the finer points of monitoring social media while protecting First Amendment rights at a Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence hearing Thursday. (photo from Rep. Meehan)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that self-insuring religious employers will be exempted from a contraception coverage mandate. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. joined her Tuesday for the release of a health care fraud and abuse control program report. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Children line up Jan. 19, 2012, to receive a meal at a food distribution center for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies Feb. 14, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee to outline the Pentagon's budget. (Associated Press)
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Democratic Delegates Bonnie L. Cullison (left), of Montgomery County, and Jill P. Carter, of Baltimore, exult after a bill to legalize same-sex marriage jointly passed two Maryland House committees Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A worker cleans the sign of the Bank of Greece from red and black paint, after Sunday's riots, in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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President Obama pushes Congress to extend the payroll-tax cut and unemployment insurance through the end of the year during a speech on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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** FILE ** Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, listens during a court hearing regarding the custody of his two sons on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, in Tacoma, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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President Barack Obama speaks about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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New Jersey state Sen. Richard J. Codey, a Democrat, speaks in favor of a bill legalizing gay marriage in debate Monday at the state Capitol in Trenton, N.J. The Senate passed the measure on a vote of 24-16, but Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, has vowed to veto it. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks Feb. 13, 2012, about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (Associated Press)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie answers a question in Trenton, N.J., on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, about his statement the day before that he will veto a bill being considered by the Legislature to legalize gay marriage. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
