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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, is preparing a fiscal plan that calls for a complete overhaul of the tax code but would leave Social Security untouched.
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Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, has proposed cutting $6.2 trillion in government spending over the next decade as a start to dealing with the national debt. The plan relies on repealing the year-old health care law and deep cuts in Medicaid. (AP Photo)
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer a year ago became the face of anti-Washington sentiment when she signed the toughest state immigration law. (Associated Press)
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NBC VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg suggested Sunday that illegal immigrants could earn citizenship by working in Detroit.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Detroit Mayor Dave Bing saw his city lose 25 percent of its resident since the last census. Mr. Bing's spokesman said Detroit is open to New York's mayor's suggestion that the federal government allow illegal immigrants to move to the Motor City.
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES More than two years after anti-littering legislation passed in the District, police have begun enforcing the law. "Residents are tired of all of this litter and trash throughout the city," D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown said.
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Associated Press Philip Congdon resigned from his state job in Maine after comments that offended rural residents, blacks and American Indians - all in one day.
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Activist Anna Hazare, 73, stages a hunger strike against corruption in New Delhi. He has called for a panel to investigate corruption.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman has been on the disabled list since April 12 with an abdominal strain. There is no timetable for his return.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman has been on the disabled list since April 12. He will undergo surgery on a torn abdominal muscle and will miss at least the next six weeks.
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BARBARA SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Camryn Swain, 5, of the District, relaxes in the "ZOO" sign at the National Zoo on Monday. Hundreds of people came out to the zoo on Easter Monday in celebration of African-American Family Day. An altercation led to a stabbing during the event and zoo officials say security will be reviewed.
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Displaced Cambodian villagers wait for assistance from government at a shelter in Oddar Meanchey province. A border clash between Cambodia and Thailand marks an escalation of a dispute over a holy site claimed by both. (Associated Press)
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Janet Jenkins, of Fair Haven, Vt., shows a photo of her daughter, Isabella, who just turned 9. She has been involved in a same-sex custody battle with Ms. Miller for more than seven years in a case that has implications for parental rights and state laws on civil unions. (Associated Press)
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READY TO FIGHT: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, says her state's immigration law "united America." (Associated Press)
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Students at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology light candles April 10 to mourn fellow students who committed suicide at their campus in Daejeon, South Korea. Four have killed themselves since the beginning of the year. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, wants the Justice Department to halt Utah's guest-worker program for illegal immigrants, calling it "unconstitutional." (Associated Press)
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Yoweri Museveni (Associated Press)
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Ugandan military police arrest a demonstrator during Monday's "walk to work" protest against the high cost of fuel and food in Kampala. The same day, police arrested Kizza Besigye, the country's top opposition leader, for the third time in a week. Mr. Besigye and about a dozen members of parliament were arrested while they were trying to walk to work. (Associated Press)
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Gov. Robert F. McDonnell urged Virginia's State Board of Social Services to reject proposed changes to the rules governing adoption and foster case agencies. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A nurse tends to a victim of post-election violence at St. Gerard's Hospital in Kaduna. In the hospital's morgue lay the bodies of victims shot, burned and in one case disemboweled in rioting that swept Kaduna in the aftermath of Saturday's presidential vote. (Associated Press)
