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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a media conference in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Mr. Fogh Rasmussen warned that continuing unrest in the Middle East could cause economic hardships and increased illegal immigration to Europe. (AP Photo/Elisa Day)
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Green Bay Packers' Jordy Nelson celebrates after he scored a touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the first half of the NFL football Super Bowl XLV game on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, under Republican fire for supporting the health care initiative in 2009, now says he doesn't want to scrap the entire law but would consider tweaking it or even repealing some of its provisions. (AP Photo)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky vows that Republicans will keep revisiting the health care law in a variety of ways in an effort to modify it or repeal it.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican strategist Mary Matalin will host a CPAC fundraiser by GOProud, a gay conservative activist group.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, he will return half of his annual salary to the government's treasury in a symbolic effort to balance the standard of living between the nation's rich and poor. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (left), Wisconsin Republican, and the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, are still divided on budget cuts. (Associated Press)
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Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, left, and Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi attend a press conference at the Vatican on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. The Vatican health office announced it will host an international conference in May on preventing AIDS and caring for those afflicted with it amid continued confusion over its position concerning condoms as a way to prevent HIV transmission. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos shakes hands with women in a camp of displaced people in Galkayo town in Somalia. The U.N. and aid agencies are warning of a possible catstrophe in Somalia, where a severe drought has plunged millions of Somalis into crisis. The drought has increased the number of malnourished children, displaced thousands of people and killed thousands of animals. (AP Photo/Malkhadir Muhumed)
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The Hawa Abdi hospital in Afgoye, Somalia, is along the main road to Mogadishu, a corridor that forms one of the world's largest concentrations of displaced people. (Associated Press)
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Jordan's Royal Palace says King Abdullah II has fired his government in the wake of street protests and has asked an ex-army general to form a new Cabinet. King Abdullah's move comes after thousands of Jordanians took to the streets — inspired by the regime ouster in Tunisia and the turmoil in Egypt — and called for the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai who is blamed for a rise in fuel and food prices, and slowed political reforms. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of a Pakistani socio-political group, Pasban, protest against a U.S. consular employee suspected in the shooting deaths of two Pakistani men in Lahore on Thursday, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A Pakistani court ordered the government Tuesday not to release the American official despite U. S. insistence that he has diplomatic immunity and has been detained illegally. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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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)
