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A car passes by a stop sign, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas, after tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Manager Juan Cortez surveys a room at his motel, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in Raymondville, Texas. The motel lost a portion of its roof when tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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** FILE ** In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, left, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, sits with Pakistani flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner)

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** FILE ** Protesters march in Marseille, France, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, to demonstrate against plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. The banner reads: "Fighting Together. For what we got, our future, our pension." (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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French Socialist Party secretary general Martine Aubry answers reporters during a demonstration Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010 in Paris. French unions challenged unpopular President Nicolas Sarkozy with a major nationwide strike over plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, cutting service on trains, planes, buses and subways. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS SHINING BRIGHT: Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, chief sponsor of Arizona's immigration legislation, has become a GOP kingmaker.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Shining bright: Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, author of Arizona's immigration bill, has become a GOP kingmaker.

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**FILE** Indian policemen take away a protest banner as they detain a Greenpeace activist protesting against a nuclear bill near the Indian Parliament House in New Delhi, India, on Aug. 25, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, first entered the House in 1991, and could mark his 20th anniversary there by becoming speaker if his party retakes control of Congress in November.

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The Pima County morgue in Tucson, Ariz., has body bags stacked from floor to ceiling. A refrigerated truck has been brought in to handle the overflow as the deaths of illegal immigrants in the state soar toward their highest levels since 2005. (Associated Press)

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Ricky Cheney of Salt Lake City is a volunteer for No More Deaths, a group that fills water stations for illegal immigrants in the brutal summer heat of the Arizona desert. (Associated Press)

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Ric O'Barry, the former dolphin-trainer for the 1960s "Flipper" TV show, unveils the list of 155 nations demanding the end of the dolphin hunt during a reception for some 100 animal-lovers at a hotel in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese village's annual dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest against the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the town of Taiji because of threats from an ultranationalist group. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Kashmiri protesters throw stones at Indian policemen after police seek to disperse people playing in the street during curfew hours in Srinagar, India, on Monday.

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**FILE** Hamas authorities clash with a Fatah supporter in Gaza City. Palestinian rights groups have found a surprising symmetry in abuse between the U.S.-backed government in the West Bank and the Iranian-supported Hamas in Gaza. (Associated Press)

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South African Democratic Teacher's Union members protest in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday Aug. 19, 2010. Unions are demanding an 8.6 percent wage increase and a 1,000 rand ($137) housing allowance. The government is offering a 7.5 percent increase plus 700 rand $96) to 800 rand ($110) for housing. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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This Aug. 14, 2010, photo shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish police questioned Mr. Assange Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, over complaints of sexual assault. He denies the accusations. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Bertil Ericson, file)

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SENATE SKIRMISH: GOP ex-Rep. Pat Toomey (top) is set to take on Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak for a Senate seat from Pennsylvania.

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WAITING FOR CONGRESS: President Obama says Senate Republicans are holding "hostage" a bill aimed at helping small businesses. (Associated Press)

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Luis Fredy Lala Pomavilla, an Ecuadorean citizen who survived a massacre that left 72 Central and South American migrants dead at a ranch 100 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican border, rests at a hospital in Matamoros on Aug. 24. He said the killers said they belonged to the Zetas drug cartel. (Associated Press)