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Audience members in El Paso, Texas, listen to President Obama speak about immigration reform in May. Mr. Obama heads out West again for three days on Monday. He will stop first in Las Vegas with a pitch to prod Congress to enact his jobs legislation. (Associated Press)
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"If there is something illegal going on, or there's a tip; but just to ask, I personally don't think they have a right." Brittany Ceaser, Falls Church, contractor, 24
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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Oct. 20, 2011, surveys damage to the Washington National Cathedral from the Aug. 23 earthquake (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Carcasses are scattered on the ground at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Sheriff's deputies shot 48 animals, including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions, after Terry Thompson, owner of the private farm, threw their cages open Tuesday and then committed suicide. (Associated Press)
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Lindsay Lohan is shown in court before being taken into custody by Los Angeles Country sheriffs deputies after a judge found her in violation of probation on Oct. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Greek riot police officers, covered in red paint thrown by protesters, react during clashes in central Athens on Wednesday. Anger over new austerity measures and layoffs erupted into violence, as demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and gasoline bombs and riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. (Associated Press)
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Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs take actress Lindsay Lohan into custody after a judge found her in violation of her probation on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark Boster, Pool)
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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a discussion by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of legislation for the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Sgt. Joseph Green observes the dank boiler room in Philadelphia where four mentally disabled adults were found locked inside Saturday. (Associated Press)
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'DISABLED': Stanley Thornton Jr., who lives part of his life as an "adult baby," is demanding an apology from Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who called for the Social Security Administration to review his qualification for benefits. (NatGeoTV)
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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, called for the review of Stanley Thornton Jr.'s Social Security disability payments after Mr. Thornton, who lives part of his life as an "adult baby," demonstrated woodworking skills on the National Geographic channel television show "Taboo." (Associated Press)
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Even with 312 days still to go until party time in Tampa, Fla., the 2012 Republican National Committee has already unveiled its logo, website and countdown clock. (Republican National Committee)
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Texas Rangers' Nelson Cruz rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run against the Detroit Tigers during the seventh inning at Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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On Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, Philadelphia police Sgt. Joseph Green investigates the dank basement room where four weak and malnourished mentally disabled adults, one chained to the boiler, were found on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ron Cortes, Pool)
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A police officer stands in an alley doorway of an apartment building in Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, after the landlord on Saturday discovered four mentally disabled adults locked in the sub-basement of the building. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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"Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday of the health care law provision that included nursing homes and in-home aides for the disabled. (Associated Press)
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did not start paying the full cost of his pension until August, despite a campaign vow to do so upon taking office. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** This May 3, 2004, file photo provided by the Archdiocese of Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., shows the Rev. Monsignor Robert Finn, who is facing a criminal charge for not telling police about child pornography that was found on a priest's computer. (AP Photo/Archdiocese of Kansas City and St. Joseph)
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A car is set on fire as protesters clash with police in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, as violence broke out during a demonstration, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures. The "Occupy Wall Street" protests, that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S., moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
