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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen (right) and Irish President Mary McAleese (second from left) arrive at Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence of the Irish president, in Dublin on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to sign a request for a Proclamation of Dissolution of the Irish parliament. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Former President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara Bush says she supports gay marriage. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds/file)
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U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson in Florida has ruled President Obama's health care law unconstitutional. (AP Photo)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announce new dietary guidelines at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on Monday to help Americans make healthier food choices and confront the obesity epidemic. (Associated Press)
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Salvation Army Commissioner Linda Bond, who has been with the organization since 1969, became the first woman elected to the top post since 1986. (Salvation Army)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announce new dietary guidelines to help Americans make healthier food choices and confront the obesity epidemic at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Associated Press)
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Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, listens to a reporter's question during an NFL Super Bowl Security news conference, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 in Dallas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde talks with migrants at a shelter in Chahuites, in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state, on Jan. 8. He warns migrants of their risk of being abducted and perhaps killed by the Zetas-linked kidnappers. (Associated Press)
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A migrant from Central America stands outside a migrant house, as do local police in the town of Arriaga, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, on Jan. 6. More than forty such migrants were abducted in Oaxaca in a December incident; 20 subsequently escaped. (Associated Press)
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Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, seen here in 2007, declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that sued to block it, saying that people can't be required to buy health insurance. (AP Photo/Pensacola News Journal, Tony Giberson)
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Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson is seen in a May 2007 photo. Judge Vinson declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, siding with 26 states that sued to block it, saying that people can't be required to buy health insurance. (AP Photo/Pensacola News Journal, Tony Giberson)
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Commissioner Linda Bond, a Canadian, will take office as general of the Salvation Army on April 2, 2011. She will be the third female international leader in the movement's history. [Photo by Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times]
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said Sunday he fears Senate Democrats won't acknowledge "real problems" with entitlements, such as Medicare and Social Security. (Associated Press)
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On NBC's "Meet the Press," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, on Sunday said, "I think the president needs to be more bold" in addressing the massive federal deficit, including entitlements, in a collaborative effort. (NBC via Associated Press)
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Dr. Donald Berwick, whom President Obama appointed as head of Medicare and Medicaid without Senate hearings, now needs Senate approval. (Associated Press)
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Egyptian anti-government activists, one of them holding a crossed-out portrait of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, chant slogans as they protest in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Egyptian anti-government activists, some standing on a burned police car challenge riot police officers, not seen, during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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**FILE** President Obama addresses the Families USA 16th Annual Health Action Conference in Washington on Jan. 28, 2011. Families USA is an consumer advocacy health care organization. (Associated Press)
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Egyptian anti-government activists run for a cover from the tear gaz during clashes with the riot- police in Cairo Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Egyptian activists protested for a fourth day as social networking sites called for a mass rally in the capital Cairo after Friday prayers, keeping up the momentum of the country's largest anti-government protests in years. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2006 file photo, a silicone gel breast implant is shown at Mentor Corp., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in Irving, Texas. Federal health officials said Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, they are investigating a possible link between breast implants and a very rare form of cancer after reviewing a handful of cases reported over the last 13 years. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam, file)
