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Rep. Ron Paul joins with Rep. Barney Frank and other Democrats to back first-ever legislation to "end the federal war" on marijuana. (Image from Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican.)
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton says the arrest of more than 2,400 convicted aliens resulted from "excellent teamwork." (Associated Press)
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David Flory, a New Jersey physics professor, is accused of operating a prostitution website. (AP Photo/Albuquerque [N.M.] Police Department)
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Ginger Adamson leads supporters of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2211 near the New Jersey Statehouse, where lawmakers were considering pension and health care legislation. (Associated Press)
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Children hold a handmade Syrian flag during a protest against President Bashar Assad's speech in a refugee camp across the border in Yayladagi, Turkey. Mr. Assad said Monday that his regime would consider political reforms, but opponents said his words lacked any clear sign of a transition to democracy. (Associated Press)
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A newly opened camp in the Turkish town of Reyhanli in Hatay province is one of many providing shelter for refugees from the violence in Syria. Estimates on the number of refugees range from 10,000 to 30,000. (Associated Press)
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Wal-Mart employee Betty Dukes was involved in a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the retail giant that the Supreme Court on Monday ruled could not proceed. (Associated Press)
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Ginger Adamson leads supporters of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2211 on Monday near the New Jersey Statehouse, where lawmakers were considering pension and health care legislation. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators for and against New York's same-sex-marriage bill fill the halls of the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Monday, June 20, 2011, as Senate Republicans determined the measure's fate. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday held out the possibility of a temporary debt limit increase while budget talks continue.
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Bob Fredenburg, chief consultant for California Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, looks at a dump site during a tour in Thermal, Calif., on Friday. Community activists in Southern California's Coachella Valley have been toiling for years to spread the word about the abandoned waste dumps and shoddy migrant housing that are a fact of life in this poor region. (Associated Press)
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PHOTOGRAPH PROVIDED BY SILVERDOCS "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" shows how one of the world's most famous restaurants shuts down for six months to create an entirely new menu.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Natasha Alexenko, who was raped at gunpoint as a college student, was interviewed for the HBO documentary "Sex Crimes Unit."
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Refugee women look out from their tented home inside a Syrian refugee camp just at the border in Turkey near Turkish village of Boynuyogun in Hatay province, Turkey, on June 18, 2011, during a press tour organized by the Turkish authorities. (Associated Press)
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Refugee children look out from a fence, from inside a Syrian refugee camp just at the border in Turkey near Turkish village of Boynuyogun in Hatay province, Turkey, Friday, June 18, 2011, during a press tour organized by the Turkish authorities. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, speaks to reporters after meeting with senators during a closed door Republican conference on gay marriage, Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Albany, N.Y. Conflicting interests and political maneuvering threatened to stall a vote in New York on whether to legalize gay marriage, viewed by advocates and opponents alike as a pivotal moment in the years-long debate.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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** FILE ** Young people hold a banner that translates as "For equal rights without compromise" during an equality march in downtown Moscow on Sunday, May 22, 2011. The demonstrators protested against discrimination based on sex or gender orientation and called for equal rights for women and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, May 24, 2011, file photo, Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving opened Friday, June 17, 2011, with female motorists getting behind the wheel. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Myanmarese refugee girls play in their shared room in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Under a deal still being negotiated, 4,000 refugees in Malaysia would be moved to Australia and 800 illegal asylum-seekers in Australia would be sent to Malaysia.
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In an image made from video broadcast by Cable TV, helmeted anti-riot police try to arrest protesters in Xintang, in southern China's Guangdong Province, on Sunday, June 12, 2011. Demonstrators in the manufacturing hub torched emergency vehicles in an outburst of anger against police abuse of migrant workers, eyewitnesses said Monday. Sunday night's rioting followed three days of steadily growing unrest in the town. (AP Photo/Cable TV via Associated Press TV)
