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Pro-choice advocates challenge pro-life advocates in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 23, 2012, file photo, pro-life advocates march past the Capitol during the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Pro-life advocates march past the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 as part of the March for Life. The group rallied at the National Mall and marched to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Pro-choice advocates challenge pro-life advocates in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Thousands of pro-life advocates march up Constitution Avenue to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 during the March for Life. They want the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and make abortion illegal. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Hundreds of youths gather in the street outside the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 following the Youth Rally and Mass for Life. Once the mass was completed, people picked up signs and prepared to march to the Supreme Court in defense of pro-life legislation. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Priests from across the country attend the Youth Rally and Mass for Life at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. These priests were later called upon to offer communion to the thousands of people in attendance. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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People file back into the arena at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. after receiving communion Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 at the Youth Rally and Mass for Life. Because there were so many people in attendance, communion stations were offered in several places throughout the center. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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"Obstructionists" and "compromise"? Enjoy a game of bingo based on cliches likely to surface in President Obama's State of the Union address, courtesy of Americans for Tax Reform. (Image from Americans for Tax Reform)
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Karla Zepeda (left), 15, and Elisa Chavez, 22, sit Jan. 21, 2012, inside the home of Elisa's mother, in Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. Both claim that they agreed to lend their babies in a two-week photo shoot for $755 ($10,000 Mexican pesos) for an anti-abortion ad campaign but instead fell in an illegal adoption ring involving destitute young women trying to earn more for their children and childless Irish couples desperate to become parents. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Texas Republican, said that "regardless of the president's good intentions, his policies have failed the American people." Mr. Hensarling gave the weekly Republican address on Saturday. (Associated Press)
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Civilians examine the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. More than 150 people were killed in a series of attacks.
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A field worker empties a bucket of Vidalia onions into a waiting truck in Lyons, Ga. Georgia and Alabama have approved immigration laws with tough enforcement provisions that farmers say are scaring migrant workers away from the states. (Associated Press)
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A displaced Somali woman walks past an armored vehicle of an African Union peacekeeping force that was transporting journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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This screen shot shows the blacked-out Wikipedia website announcing a 24-hour protest against proposed legislation — the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the Senate — intended to protect intellectual property that critics say could facilitate censorship. (Associated Press)
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House Minority Whip Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, says the new Congress is likely to be just as acrimonious as last year. "The only thing that we have on this week's agenda is a charade, a pretense, an abdication of responsibility." (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators carrying banners with anti-austerity slogans protest during a rally organized by the PAME Communist-affiliated union on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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A man is dragged away from the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States during an anti-death penalty protest, sponsored by the Abolition Action Committee, in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. There were 14 arrests. The protests are timed to mark the 35th anniversary of the execution of Gary Gilmore, who protesters said was the first person executed under the Supreme Court's upholding of the death penalty in 1976. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A color-coded chart at a detention center in Imperial Beach, Calif., details procedures for agents to follow in the U.S. Border Patrol's new Consequence Delivery System, part of the agency's strategy for dealing with migrants caught illegally crossing the border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)