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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)
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Mexican federal police and army soldiers guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by gunmen on a highway between Mexico City and Monterrey in February. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. Many of Zetas' targets have been Mexican military and police personnel, but in recent years, U.S. law enforcement authorities also have come under attack. (Associated Press)
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Jeffrey M. Frederick, who chaired the Virginia Republican Party for about 10 months before being ousted in April 2009, is back as the head of a political action committee to fund anti-establishment candidates. (The Washington Times)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II is hoping the Supreme Court will fast-track his health care law appeal. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Associated Press "You can't get up on every issue when you're in the minority," said Missouri state Sen. Tim Green, St. Louis Democrat. "So you pick the ones you're most passionate about."
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Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, is chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo)
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A victim of a narco-crime is found along a road on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico. There are a half-dozen words for drug cartel informants and double that for drug war dead, but Mexicans worry that developing a kind of offhand jargon anesthetizes people by making violence seem routine. (Associated Press)
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Former Republican National Committee chief Michael S. Steele (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Female anti-government protesters gesture while chanting slogans during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, April 17, 2011, to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The country's anti-government movement took up the issue of women's rights in the conservative Muslim nation as thousands of demonstrators seeking the president's ouster denounced his comments against the participation of women in protest rallies. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Syrian women attend an anti-government protest in Banias, Syria, on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in this photo taken by a citizen journalist on a cellphone and acquired by the Associated Press. (AP Photo)
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An ill evacuee is treated by aid workers while being moved to a waiting ambulance, as nearly 1,200 migrant workers who were evacuated from Misrata by boat, many suffering from dehydration and needing medical attention, arrived at the port in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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In this letter, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell announces his veto of the state's redistricting plan.
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Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation Texas fisherwoman, her face smeared with syrup to represent oil, protests against BP as British police officers prevent her from entering the London conference center where the petroleum giant held the annual general meeting of its shareholders Thursday. "I think a lot of the shrimpers are concerned," she said. (Associated Press)
