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Wild horses roam around the Bureau of Land Management National Wild Horse & Burro Adoption Center in Palomino Valley, Nev. The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the state is appealing to all agency employees for reports any abuse of mustangs. "Regardless of title, whether you are a contractor or law enforcement or public affairs, that's everyone's responsibility," Amy Lueders said. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In 1998, voters in the District approved the Medical Use of Marijuana Initiative. (The Washington Times)
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The FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, is a hostile work environment, according to a class-action lawsuit that claims gender discrimination and sexual harassment. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Some lawmakers suspected that House Speaker John A. Boehner had acquiesced in the two-month extension of payroll tax cuts that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell worked out, and he was challenged on it in a closed-door meeting. Mr. Boehner bristled at the accusation, according to several participants, and denied it flatly. (Associated Press)
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President Obama is turning his campaign focus to the struggling middle class and the widening gap between rich and poor. Mr. Obama is expected to run for re-election with higher unemployment than any recent president. (Associated Press)
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A plaque for Sir Alexander Fleming is featured on a wall at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London. In January 2011, the government introduced a new health bill many fear will bring even more draconian cuts and competition from private providers. The bill is now in the process of being adopted and will overhaul the current management structure and ax more than 20,000 health jobs in the next two years. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** An unidentified member of the Oodua People's Congress militia walks with a gun on a major street during a protest against the radical Muslim sect Boko Haram in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Protesters shout slogans during a protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections on Sakharov avenue in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is followed by reporters after holding a news conference on the payroll tax cut on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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In this undated photo provided by Knights Out, Brenda S. "Sue" Fulton is shown. President Barack Obama has appointed Fulton, a founding board member of OutServe, an association of actively serving gay military personnel, to the U.S. Military Academy Board of Visitors. Fulton is also co-founder and executive director of Knights Out, an organization of gay West Point graduates, and graduated in 1980 with the first West Point class to include women. She's the first openly gay member of the Academy's board. (AP Photo/Knights Out, Joe Galioto)
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House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, is followed by reporters after holding a news conference on the payroll tax cut on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks Dec. 22, 2011, about extending the payroll-tax cut during a briefing on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
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Nooses hang in the replica of the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison. In background are plaques to those political prisoners who were executed. A prison employee who said he had been a death row guard helped ensure the new museum's details are correct, down to the thickness of the ropes.
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In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 photo, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano speaks during an interview in his office at City Hall in New Haven, Conn. DeStefano, the 10-term mayor of New Haven, helped illegal immigrants come out of the shadows five years ago with an ID card program. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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** FILE ** President Obama, speaking at a briefing at the White House on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, said a "faction" of House Republicans is refusing to vote on a Senate bill that would extend a payroll-tax cut for two months. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**
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Sen. Joe Manchin III (left), West Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Mark Kirk, Illinois Republican, comment as the Senate approves legislation that extends Social Security payroll tax cuts for two months, at the Capitol in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, criticizes Republicans as being responsible for a "do-nothing Congress" during a news conference on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, has teamed with Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, to offer offering seniors a choice between private plans and a traditional Medicare plan. (Associated Press)
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US Marines examine one of over 40 suicide vests loaded with C4 explosives and ball bearings found inside a schoolhouse in eastern Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, April 13, 2003. They also found nearly 40 empty hangers used to hold the vest leading Marines to think that there may be suicide attacks in Baghdad. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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President Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the campus in Washington on Dec. 15, 2011, where he announced action to provide minimum wage and overtime protections for in-home care workers. (Associated Press)
