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A victim of a suicide attack waits for a doctor on the floor of the emergency room of a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in central Baghdad killing and wounding dozens of them. (AP Photo)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner puts down his notes as he hosted the Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington,. Sitting behind Geithner is Alex Pollock from the American Enterprise Institute. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, shakes hands with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, right, during the Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Victims of a suicide attack are tended at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday among dozens of Iraqi army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in central Baghdad killing and wounding dozens of them. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican. OK? Do I need to say more?" Sen. Harry Reid said to a gathering of Hispanic supporters. State Attorney General Brian Sandoval, who's running for Nevada governor, is a Republican of Hispanic descent. The Democratic nominee in that race is Rory Reid, Mr. Reid's eldest son.
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Frank Watson (second left kneeling) and William Watson (second right standing) survey the site that they think is a mass grave for immigrant Irish railroad workers in Malvern, Pa. Continuing field work seems to indicate some were killed not by cholera but by human hands. Despite their lack of archaeological experience, historians at Immaculata University are leading the excavation in suburban Philadelphia. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Gay rights activists demonstrate in favor of the legality of adoptions by gay couples outside the Supreme Court in Mexico City on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The high court on Monday upheld a Mexico City law allowing the adoptions. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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Toni DeLaCruz (right), the widow of a Border Patrol agent who committed suicide, touches Christina Vasquez's 4-month-old daughter, Johhnie, in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, July 22, 2010. Ms. Vasquez named her daughter after the child's father, a Border Patrol agent who also took his own life. (AP Photo/L.M. Otero)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION: Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, wants a new policy for illegals involved in DUI cases.
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David Walker, an Arizona rancher, stands at a wall on the border with Mexico at a ranch in Hereford, Ariz., on Sunday. Mr. Walker was attending a rally in support of Arizona's immigration law. (Associated Press)
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United States guard Rudy Gay goes up for a dunk during the third quarter of an exhibition basketball game against France Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
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Masked Palestinian protesters hold a sound grenad, during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Aug 13, 2010. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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A Palestinian protester wears a gas mask as Israeli troops take position , during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, , Friday, Aug 13, 2010. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Kashmiri protestors shout slogans during a pro-freedom procession in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Tens of thousands of angry protesters rushed into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday after government forces killed four people and injured at least 12 others during protests against Indian rule in the disputed region, police said. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Kashmiri protestors shout slogans during a pro-freedom procession in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Tens of thousands of angry protesters rushed into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday after government forces killed four people and injured at least 12 others during protests against Indian rule in the disputed region, police said. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Kashmiri protestors run to participate in a pro-freedom procession in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Tens of thousands of angry protesters rushed into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday after government forces killed four people and injured at least 12 others during protests against Indian rule in the disputed region, police said. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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A Kashmiri protestor jumps over a shattered windshield as a pro-freedom procession marches through a street in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Tens of thousands of angry protesters rushed into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday after government forces killed four people and injured at least 12 others during protests against Indian rule in the disputed region, police said. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Kashmiri Muslims carry a wounded man on a stretcher at a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Tens of thousands of angry protesters rushed into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday after government forces killed four people and injured at least 12 others during protests against Indian rule in the disputed region, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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Kashmiri Muslims carry a wounded man on a stretcher at a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Tens of thousands of angry protesters rushed into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday after government forces killed four people and injured at least 12 others during protests against Indian rule in the disputed region, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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A man who identified himself as Richard prepares a sign in opposition to gay marriage on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, outside City Hall in San Francisco. Judge Vaughn Walker gave opponents of same-sex weddings until Aug. 18 at 5 p.m. to get a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on whether gay marriage should resume. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
