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ASSOCIATED PRESS LOOKING FOR A 'FRESH START': House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks about jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland.
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House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks on jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks on jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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South Korean human rights activists participate in a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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In an image from video provided by the Humane Society of the United States, dogs bark at a bear during a bear-baying exercise in South Carolina, the only state where the practice is legal. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS First lady Michelle Obama harvests vegetables in the White House garden on the South Lawn in June with the help of children from Hollin Meadows Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Obama launched a campaign against childhood obesity.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Texans are worried footbridges, like this one across the Rio Grande, are aiding illegal immigrants in entering the U.S.
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GOPROUD.ORG Ann Coulter's upcoming appearance at a gay Republican event got her booted from the speaker's lineup at World Net Daily's "Taking Back America" rally in Miami.
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Abbey Chikane of the Kimberley Process certified diamonds as conflict-free at a sale in Zimbabwe last week. The gems were mined from the Marange field, where human rights groups say soldiers killed 200 people, raped women and forced children into slavery. (Associated Press)
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Foxconn workers shout slogans during a rally to raise morale at the heavily regimented factories inside the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, south China, Guangdong province, Wednesday August 18, 2010. Following a string of suicides at its Chinese factories, Foxconn Technology Group raised workers' wages and installed safety nets on buildings to catch would-be jumpers. Now the often secretive manufacturer of the iPhone and other electronics is holding rallies for its workers to raise morale at the heavily regimented factories. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Former president and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, right, speaks with people who were displaced by the Jan. earthquake as he visits people who live in the Petionville Golf Club that is being used as a camp for the displaced in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a suicide attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters killing and wounding dozens of them, one of the bloodiest bombings in months in the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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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)
