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** FILE ** Census Bureau Director Robert Groves announces results of the 2010 U.S. Census at the National Press Club on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Relatives of people detained in Sunday's opposition protest read information outside the prison walls in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday. President Alexander Lukashenko was declared on Monday the overwhelming winner of the presidential election, securing a fourth term in office as truncheon-wielding police arrested hundreds of opposition supporters, including seven other presidential candidates, who were protesting against alleged fraud in the poll.
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** FILE ** U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves announces results of the 2010 census at the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, walks near the Senate floor during an unusual Sunday session on Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Mr. McConnell said he would oppose a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, damaging prospects for President Obama's foreign policy priority in the final days of the post-election Congress. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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BLOOMBERG "This compromise was to help people who were drowning," said Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., defending the compromise President Obama made with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts. The bill also included an extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.
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Firefighters sift through the still-smoldering Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Tuguegarao city in Cagayan province in the northern Philippines after a fire rapidly swept through the budget hotel early Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. The blaze killed 15 people, nine of whom were nursing students in town to take a licensing exam, officials said. (AP Photo)
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Britain's Prince Harry is accompanied by Marion Horn, right, chief editor of Bild newspaper, as he arrives for the German charity event "Ein Herz fuer Kinder" ( A heart for children) in Berlin Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. The Prince receives a Golden Heart award in recognition of his humanitarian work. The German charity organisation Ein Herz fuer Kinder is Germany's biggest television fundraising gala. (AP Photo/Kai-Uwe Knoth)
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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, walks near the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, during a rare Saturday session to finish the year's legislative business. The Senate voted to advance legislation that would overturn the military ban on openly gay troops known as "don't ask, don't tell." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Immigrant parents, students and others participate in a candle-light procession and vigil in support of the Federal Dream Act in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 7, 2010. The Senate on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, blocked the bill that would have granted legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children and young adults.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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A gay rights supporter watches a press conference on the House vote to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Congress is one step away from ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military, with the Senate ready for a landmark vote that could deliver a major victory to the homosexual community, liberals and President Obama. (AP Photo/File)
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In this film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, Colin Firth portrays King George VI, left, and Helena Bonham Carter portrays the Queen Mother in a scene from, "The King's Speech." British filmmakers must now meet new targets for ethnic minority, gay and female characters on and off screen if they wish to continue receiving funding from the British Film Institute, which backed "The King's Speech" in 2010. (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Laurie Sparham)
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Carmel Stewart, a lawyer of the three women victims of restrictions on abortion in Ireland, reads the judgment from the European Court of Human Rights in the Grand Chamber Thursday Dec. 16, 2010, in Strasbourg, eastern France. Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in a judgment that harshly criticized Ireland's long inaction on the issue. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)
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In this Dec. 9, 2010 photo, Stephen Farrar shows some of the medications he must take on a daily basis, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Across the country, thousands of HIV-positive people who once would have qualified for state-administered programs that provide free AIDS drugs to low-income people, have been placed on waiting lists or removed from the rolls, as the dismal economy has driven up the need for the program just as states are grappling with budget crises and as people are living longer with HIV. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Carmel Stewart, a lawyer of the three women victims of restrictions on abortion in Ireland, reads the judgment from the European Court of Human Rights in the Grand Chamber Thursday Dec. 16, 2010, in Strasbourg, eastern France. Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in a judgment that harshly criticized Ireland's long inaction on the issue. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)
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Protesters throw Molotov cocktails in Athens on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with riot police across the center city, smashing cars and sending Christmas shoppers fleeing during a massive labor protest against the crisis-hit government's austerity measures. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has assumed a high profile in leading a legal challenge of the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. (Associated Press)
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Chart shows breakdown of percentage of Medicaid costs associated with each enrollment group; and the decade long trend between enrollment and Medicaid spending.
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Supporters of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, hold posters with his photo during a protest in front of the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on alleged sex crime charges.(AP Photo )
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A police officer looks on as a car is removed from outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
