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"We cannot balance the budget" on the backs of residents and small businesses, said council member Jack Evans. (The Washington Times)
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In a May 2006 file photo, Gilead Sciences Inc. Chief Executive John Martin holds a Truvada pill bottle in a lab in Foster City, Calif. Scientists have an exciting breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Daily doses of Truvada, a pill already used to treat infection with HIV, the virus that causes the disease, helped prevent healthy gay men from catching it through sex with an infected partner. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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"Americans don't want Congress passing massive trillion-dollar bills that have been thrown together behind closed doors," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, here with Sen. Lamar Alexander (center), said recently. Big-ticket economic issues face the lame-duck Congress after Thanksgiving. (Associated Press)
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Fernando Mateo, left, the president of Hispanics Across America, and attorney Kevin Faga announce in New York on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, that the estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant killed in a 2008 confrontation with a mob of teens in in Patchogue, Long Island has filed a $40 million federal civil rights lawsuit. Hate crimes reported last year by police agencies nationwide were down by 15 percent compared to 2008 and hit their lowest point in 15 years, the FBI said Monday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Fernando Mateo, left, the president of Hispanics Across America, and attorney Kevin Faga announce in New York on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, that the estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant killed in a 2008 confrontation with a mob of teens in in Patchogue, Long Island has filed a $40 million federal civil rights lawsuit. Hate crimes reported last year by police agencies nationwide were down by 15 percent compared to 2008 and hit their lowest point in 15 years, the FBI said Monday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy watches from the sidelines during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against Texas, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London on Oct. 23, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor has asked for a court order to detain Mr. Assange for questioning on suspicions of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.(AP Photo/Lennart Preiss/File)
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U.S. Congress Sen. Peter V. Domenici, co-chairman of the task force, calls the growing deficit "a quiet killer."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Fifty-six new members of the Maricopa County sheriff's "Immigration Posse" are sworn in Phoenix. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has deputized nearly 3,000 posse members since 1993. He is fighting U.S. Justice Department accusations that he discriminates against Hispanics.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Fifty-six new members of the Maricopa County sheriff's "Immigration Posse" are sworn in Phoenix. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has deputized nearly 3,000 posse members since 1993. He is fighting U.S. Justice Department accusations that he discriminates against Hispanics.
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U.S. Congress Sen. Peter V. Domenici, co-chairman of the task force, calls the growing deficit "a quiet killer."
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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Rastafarian inmates Allen McRae (above) and Kendall Ray Gibson (top) have been in isolation for more than 10 years in Virginia prisons because state policy bans beards and calls for hair above shirt collars. Now they and other inmates who refused to comply will live together in a southwestern Virginia prison.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Four Loko is among the caffeinated alcoholic beverages that federal authorities say have created a "very important public health issue."
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Muslim's pray as they are reflected on the water of a fountain outside the Athens University on Tuesday, Nov.16, 2010. Thousands of Muslim immigrants have gathered for outdoor prayer services across Athens to mark the festival of Eid-al-Adha. Despite repeated pledges from successive Greek governments, Athens still lacks an official place of worship for Muslims, who form the majority of the tens of thousands of immigrants who entered the country illegally in recent years. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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FAMILY PHOTO Chicquelo Abney, who was fatally shot in Southwest Washington on Oct. 12, 2009, was under the supervision of the District's Youth Rehabilitation Services.
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Associated Press Catholic Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in Baltimore reiterated his warnings Monday that the new health care law will allow indirect subsidies for abortion.
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**FILE** Maj. Nidal Hasan is seen April 9, 2010, at the San Antonio to Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. (Associated Press/Bell County Sheriff's Department)
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** FILE ** Tugboats guide the disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor into San Diego Bay. The luxury liner, which lost power with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew aboard, was towed from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This is a Thursday, July 21, 2005 file photo of Vlatko Markovic, head of the Croatian Soccer Federation in Budapest, Hungary. The head of Croatian Soccer Federation apologized on Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010, for anti-gay remarks he made in an interview, in which he said that he would not allow a gay player on the national team. Vlatko Markovic's remarks sparked protests in Croatia, with two gay groups planning to complain to UEFA.. (AP Photo/MTI, Peter Kollanyi, File)
