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** FILE ** Approximately 100 sex-abuse victims and their supporters march on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004, in Boston from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross to the Massachusetts Statehouse to urge Gov. Mitt Romney to appoint a clergy-abuse task force to oversee the church in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
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Stanley Thornton Jr., 30, is being fed with a bottle by his roommate, Sandra Dias. They were featured on National Geographic Channel's "Taboo" program. Sen. Tom Coburn is questioning their disability payment eligibility.
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Syrians who fled from violence in their country's western villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border protest against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area of Lebanon, about one-half mile from the border, on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Rick Welts, 58, president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, is the first high-ranking executive in a men's major team sport to publicly disclose his homosexuality.
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Young men create their own pointy-toed boots to wear in a dance competition in Matehuala. The boots' popularity spread from Matehuala to nearby cities and then to U.S. cities with many Mexican migrants.
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Israeli troops take positions along the border fence between Israel and Syria after Syrian demonstrators marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948 approached the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Height , Sunday, May 15, 2011. Isra(...)
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Israeli soldiers search a house on village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on the border between Israel and Syria after Syrian demonstrators marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948 approached the Majdal Shams, Sunday, May 15, 2(...)
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (second from right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is led from a New York police station where he was being held on Sunday, May 15, 2011, on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Elizabeth Haysom's parents were killed in 1985 in their Bedford County, Va., home. Her boyfriend took the blame, he says, to spare her from the death penalty.
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** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posters are displayed during a May 12 protest against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi outside Downing Street in London. The poster on the left contains a photo of British photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DIAGNOSIS: "Our plan was a state solution to a state problem," Mitt Romney said about Massachusetts' health care reform.
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**FILE** A sign outside a clinic in Madhya Pradesh warns that revealing the sex of an unborn child is illegal. The law, passed in 1994, is an attempt to cut down on the incidence of sex-selective abortions. (Associated Press)
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif ., right, talks with Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, left, and City Council Chairman Kwame Brown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2011, prior to the start of a House Health Care, DC, Census, and the National Archives subcommittee hearing on the city's budget. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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A Tunisian migrant arriving from Italy is led away by French police after being detained at a worker's residence. The influx of Tunisian migrants influx has strained relations between France and Tunisia. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Austin Scott, Georgia Republican **FILE**
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Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. suggested to Gov. Martin O'Malley in a May 9 letter that the fall's special General Assembly session include discussions on transportation funding needs, rising pension costs and the state's $1.1-billion structural deficit. (Associated Press)
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associated press Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, is expected to sign a bill creating a health care system modeled after Canada.
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A young protester runs as others are hit by riot police during clashes Wednesday in Athens. Riot police made heavy use of tear gas and stun grenades to disperse youths throwing stones and petrol bombs during a march attended by 20,000 people to protest the Greek government's harsh austerity measures. (Associated Press)
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'ALLIGATORS IN THE MOAT': Security personnel scan the horizon as President Obama greets well-wishers after stepping off Air Force One at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday as he arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to speak about immigration reform. (Associated Press)
