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Police officers put yellow tape outside Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif., on Tuesday. Officers took a youth into custody and transported him to a police station while the school remained locked down. (Associated Press)
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This frame grab from video made available by ABC7.com, shows a person being taken into custody at Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif. According to officials, two students were wounded in a shooting at the high school. (AP Photo/ABC7.com)
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"Cutting the [U.N.] budget is not enough, because you need to reform the monster, you need to reform the beast, and if you don't get fundamental reform, you are still rewarding a corrupt, mismanaged agency," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Associated Press)
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Human rights activists, wearing orange prison garb and black hoods to represent the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Friday to protest that the detention center has not been closed by President Obama. (Associated Press)
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If Marion Barry gets the D.C. Council committee gavel he expects, he'll have jurisdiction over issues related to senior citizens, gays, ethnic minorities, civil rights and human rights. (The Washington Times)
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"Cutting the [U.N.] budget is not enough, because you need to reform the monster, you need to reform the beast, and if you don't get fundamental reform, you are still rewarding a corrupt, mismanaged agency," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Associated Press)
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Human rights activists, wearing orange prison garb and black hoods to represent the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Friday to protest that the detention center has not been closed down by President Obama. (Associated Press)
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Thousands of people take part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in San Antonio on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Thousands of people take part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in San Antonio on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A man dressed as Abraham Lincoln takes part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in San Antonio on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A woman kisses a soldier as she protests against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the center of Tunis, Monday, Jan. 17. 2011. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Tunisians living in Belgium protest against Tunisia's President Zine Abidine El Ben Ali at the Brussels' stock market, Saturday Jan. 15, 2011. Tunisia has been grappling with looting, deadly fires and widespread unrest after protests forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia on Friday. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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"They can't be serious, to have people now that have pre-existing disabilities to no longer be able to get insurance," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." (Associated Press)
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"It is telling that the more Americans learn about it, the more discouraged they are by its harmful effects," new House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Sunday about the new health care law. (Associated Press)
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A prostitute advertises her wares behind red-lit windows in Amsterdam. Workers in the world's oldest profession are about to get a lesson in the harsh reality of Europe's new age of austerity. Amid budget cuts and falling revenues, the Dutch government has warned prostitutes to expect a visit from the tax man. (Associated Press)
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A woman of the Montagnard tribe cradles a baby as members of the tribe are relocated from Bu Lack village in September 1968. The Montagnards were being transported to a refugee camp. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
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Zhang Jie, 22, sits in the recovery room Dec. 13 after her second abortion in two years at a clinic in Xi'an, China. While exact numbers are hard to come by, official figures show abortions are increasing, and experts say many of the abortion-seekers are young, single women. (Associated Press)
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STEPPING DOWN: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas Republican, on Thursday announced plans to retire. (Associated Press)
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Salvation Army "soldier" Daniel Aherns collects donations on Fifth Avenue at Rockefeller Center in New York in 2011. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., holds a copy of a proposal to repeal the Health Care Bill, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, during news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
