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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has backed away from his earlier embrace of "cap-and-trade" programs to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and his earlier support of abortion rights, gun control and gay rights. (Associated Press)
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In this May 11, 2011 photo, the splash zone at Sheppard Swim Center is shown in Anderson, S.C. The splash zone won't be used after city officials closed it and the indoor pool to the public because of budget cuts. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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Blood "traders" - often from Bulgaria's Gypsy minority who offer a paid blood donor service, wait near the National Center for Hematology and Transfusion in Sofia. (Associated Press)
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"Medicare will be a part of any agreement to begin to reduce our long-term debt," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Dinka Ngok civilians needing medical assistance, some suffering from gunshot and machete wounds, who were internally displaced as a result of the recent Sudanese conflict, arrive in the town of Turalei after being airlifted from Abyei by U.N. helicopter. (Associated Press)
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An environmental activist sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Sunday, May 29, 2011, after Greenpeace activists fixed a radioactive sign to the gate's Quadriga sculpture to protest the nuclear power policy of the German government. (AP Photo/dapd/Michael Gottschalk)
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**FILE** Miroslava Acosta, 4, holds a sign during a rally at the Arizona state capital building in Phoenix on May 9, 2011, to protest Arizona's decision to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a decision by a lower court that put the most controversial parts of the state's immigration enforcement law on hold. (Associated Press)
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Alexis Carter gets her hair colored at Piaf Salon. A bill to be reintroduced by Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky would give the FDA more regulatory control over beauty products. Many salon workers favor the bill but not manufacturers. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Marines attend a training session on Thursday, April 28, 2011, at Camp Pendleton, Calif., on the military's new position regarding gay and lesbian service members and the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
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Private art collections such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art would have to pay a 6 percent tax on ticket sales under the 2012 budget proposal submitted by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray. (Associated Press)
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Inmates pass the time in cramped conditions at California State Prison in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court on Monday endorsed a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to improve overall health care. (California Department of Corrections via Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says Rep. Paul Ryan, the author of a plan to overhaul government health care programs, would make a good presidential candidate. Mr. Ryan said he is not planning to run for president.
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** FILE ** Migrants from Latin America and Asia leave a truck that was heading to the United States after being detected by X-ray equipment at a checkpoint. Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state found more than 500 migrants May 17 inside two trailer trucks. (Associated Press)
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This handout X-ray photo provided by the Chiapas State Attorney General Office in Mexico shows, according to the attorney's office, migrants from Latin America and Asia inside a truck heading to the U.S. at a checkpoint near Tuxtla Gutierrez. (Associated Press)
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An Irish youngster poses for a photograph with a U.S. flag painted on her face amongst people queuing up to join the crowd to listen to U.S. President Barack Obama make an address at College Green in Dublin, Monday, May 23, 2011. President Barack Obama paid a joyful visit Monday to the small Irish village where his great-great-great grandfather once lived and worked as a shoemaker, an improbable and memorable pilgrimage for America's first black president into his Irish past. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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A state trooper stands by as demonstrators on both sides of the gay-marriage issue gathered outside the Minnesota House on Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. Lawmakers cleared the way Saturday night for a voter referendum on the matter. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Fieldworkers pick onion bulbs on a Vidalia onion farm in Lyons, Ga., on May 10. Concerns abound that new legislation meant to bar illegal immigrants from the workforce and giving local police increased enforcement powers will scare away Mexican laborers. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Michelle Obama steps into 2012 presidential campaigning on Thursday with a speech to the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum.
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Cars are stranded on a dry strip of roadway north of Vicksburg, Miss., on Thursday. Thousands have been displaced by the floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Mississippi and Louisiana.
