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** FILE ** A Saudi woman drives a car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the nation's capital, as part of a campaign to defy a ban on women driving, in an image made from video released on Friday, June 17, 2011, by Change.org. (AP Photo/Change.org)
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'HAVE A HEART': Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential hopeful, is taking some heat from conservatives over his position on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican, called the waiver approach to overhauling the No Child Left Behind law "a dangerous precedent." (Associated Press)
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Samia Tahir, a U.S. citizen from Illinois who lived in Tawarga, Libya, holds her daughter while waiting to be rescued along with other internally displaced Libyans outside Sirte, the hometown of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (right), Nevada Democrat, accompanied by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, speaks Sept. 23, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the continuing resolution to keep the government open. (Associated Press)
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"Assistance at a time of a natural disaster should not be a controversial issue. It hasn't been before. We're not going to balance the budget on the backs of people who have already been hit by a disaster," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. (Associated Press)
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A new logo for the Washington Nationals features Stephen Strasburg. (Provided by the Washington Nationals)
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A new logo for the Washington Nationals features Stephen Strasburg. (Provided by the Washington Nationals)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing Goldlink Go-Abroad Consulting Co., whose office is pictured here, has seen a growing number of wealthy Chinese seeking help to emigrate, especially to Canada and the United States, in the 15 years since the company was founded. A recent report verifies the trend.
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Minister Lynn Hopkins (left) comforts her partner Carolyn Bond in Jackson, Ga., on Sept. 21, 2011, after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute plea of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. Davis, who was convicted of killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail in 1989, was executed later that night. (Associated Press)
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Security was beefed up Wednesday at the Georgia prison where death-row inmate Troy Davis was scheduled to be executed Wednesday night. Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, has been on death row since 1991. The crowd outside the prison swelled to more than 500 as night fell. (Associated Press)
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Anti-death penalty protesters Wednesday chant "Let Troy Go" for Davis in Jackson, Ga. Davis, 42, was convicted in the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer in Savannah. His last-minute offer to take a polygraph test was rejected. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Uzbek emergency workers and volunteers pass traditional flat bread to ethnic Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk on June 14, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of death-row inmate Troy Davis gather outside the Atlanta building Monday where the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles is holding a hearing on whether to change his death sentence for the 1989 slaying of a Savannah, Ga., police officer. (Associated Press)
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"We're not opposed to more revenue. The way you get more revenue is get the economy going," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican.
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Former President Bill Clinton said of President Obama's current low poll ratings, "When you are out there running against yourself and people feel miserable, it's hard to see your numbers go up." (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators sit and hold a sign of protest as workmen put up fencing at the Dale Farm site occupied by Irish Travelers east of London. On Monday, more than 200 people are to be evicted from the site. (Associated Press)
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Vivien Slattery is one of several children of Irish Travelers living at the Dale Fram site near London. The newborn baby is among at least 200 people to be evicted Monday. They are the losers in a decade-long legal battle between local officials and the community of Irish Travelers. (Associated Press)
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Mississippi stereotypes persist in "A Time to Kill," starring Samuel L. Jackson. (Photograph provided by Warner Bros. Pictures)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (center), flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) and Budget Director Jacob Lew, arrives at the White House for the start of a cabinet meeting on plans to cut government waste, fraud and abuse on Sept. 14, 2011. (Associated Press)
