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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from right, speaks about the Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. Joining him, from left are, Social Security Administration Commissioner Michael J. Astrue, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Molly McKay of Marriage Equality USA reacts while reading a copy of a federal judge's decision overturning California's same-sex marriage ban in San Francisco on Wednesday. Judge Walker made his ruling in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS In this July 28, 2010 photo, a pickup truck carries a large sign that reads " Vote Aug. 3 Yes Prop C " outside a rally and fundraiser for supporters of a ballot measure to block the new federal health insurance law in St. Charles, Mo. Missouri will become the first state to the test the popularity of President Barack Obama's top policy accomplishment with a statewide ballot proposal attempting to reject its core mandate that most Americans have health insurance.
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BIG BUCKS: Microsoft mogul Bill Gates (left) and investor Warren Buffett have encouraged fellow billionaires to pledge 50 percent of their fortunes to charity. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this June 22, 2010 file photo, swimming instructor Juan Sebastian Barreneche, right, talks to children during a swimming class aimed at teaching minorities to swim at Swim Gym in Key Biscayne, Fla. A study commissioned by the sports governing body USA Swimming found 69 percent of black children had low or no swimming ability. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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Associated Press Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said he supports holding hearings on the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to those born in the U.S.
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Instructor Juan Sebastian Barreneche (right) talks to children during a USA Swimming class in Key Biscayne, Fla. A study revealed that 69 percent of black children and 58 percent of Hispanic children had low or no swimming ability. (Associated Press)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Census for Marine Life shows the Sargassum Fish (Histrio histrio), a member of the frogfish family (Antennariidae), a group of small, globular fishes with stalked, grasping, limb-like pectoral fins with small gill openings behind the base, a trapdoor-like mouth high on the head, and a "fishing lure" (formed by the first dorsal spine) on the snout. It typically lives in open waters in close association with floating Sargassum Weed (Sargassum natans and S. fluitans), but is frequently blown into nearshore and bay waters during storms. Although the Sargassum Fish is capable of swimming quite rapidly, it often crawls through the Sargassum Weed, using its pectoral fins like arms. (AP Photo/Census for Marine Life)
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Low pay means low productivity in communist Cuba, where the state employs 95 percent of the official work force. Now, facing a severe budget deficit, President Raul Castro has hinted at restructuring or pruning the government payroll. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan , Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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** FILE ** A July 20, 2010, photo shows Lindsay Lohan in a court in Beverly Hills, Calif., where she was taken into custody to serve a jail sentence for a probation violation. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool/File)
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President Obama exits Air Force One at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Ga., Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, before speaking at the Disabled American Veterans National Convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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** FILE ** In this May 26, 2010 file photo provided by Ernie Benko, death row inmate Robert Gleason meets with his defense team in the Wise County courthouse in Wise, Va. Gleason, who warned prosecutors he would kill again if not given the death penalty for strangling his former cellmate, is connected with the death of another inmate, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ernie Benko, file)
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This undated handout video image provided by Medicare.gov shows actor Andy Griffith in a new role: pitching President Obama's health care law to seniors, in a cable television ad paid for by Medicare. (AP Photo/Medicare.gov)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, right, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, talks with a 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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In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, right, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, talks with a 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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Protestors gather outside of CitiField before the Arizona Diamondbacks play the New York Mets in opposition to Arizona's immigration law on Friday, July 30, 2010 in the Queens borough of New York. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday she is asking legislators to consider whether they should change the state's immigration law in the wake of a judge's ruling blocking enforcement of key parts of it. Even though the law's critics scored a huge victory with the decision, passions among hundreds of immigrant rights supporters continue to flare. (AP Photo/Swoan Parker)
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This undated handout video image provided by Medicare.gov shows actor Andy Griffith in a new role: pitching President Barack Obama's health care law to seniors, in a cable television ad paid for by Medicare. (AP Photo/Medicare.gov)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Grenoble, France, on Friday, July 30, 2010. Mr. Sarkozy said in the address that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who endanger the lives of police officers. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
