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Associated Press Mayoral candidate Leo Alexander says he's campaigning on behalf of voters struggling to restore the roots of the District. He says anti-poverty programs endorsed by liberals and progressives have hurt, not helped, blacks.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Palestinian woman smokes a water pipe as she checks the Internet at a cafe in Gaza City on Sunday. Gaza's Hamas rulers have banned women from smoking water pipes in cafes, calling it a practice that destroys marriages and sullies the image of the Palestinian people.
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Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Kristen Cox, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services, hold a news conference to discuss an alleged illegal immigrant list at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, July 16, 2010. Utah officials said Friday they have identified at least two state workers who apparently accessed confidential documents to create a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants that was mailed to law enforcement officials and the news media. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Cyclists pass outside a locked exit that keeps lower-income migrants from China's rural areas in their gated village at night.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Arizona Rep. Russell Pearce, who wrote the state's tough immigration legislation, has filed a "motion to intervene" against the White House's challenge of the new law.
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A supporter of a congressional proposal to legalize same-sex marriage shouts to demonstrators who oppose the bill in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Early on Thursday, Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's sex crimes prosecutor, talks to the media during a briefing to present a new set of norms that the Vatican issued to respond to the worldwide clerical abuse scandal, cracking down on priests who rape and molest minors and the mentally disabled, at the Vatican, Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Elvira Arellano, left, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who has taken refuge in a Chicago church to avoid deportation for the last year, stands with others involved in the sanctuary movement as she answers questions at Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles church in Los Angeles Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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A Vietnamese oyster fisherman stands idle at the docks in Empire, La. The BP PLC oil spill has struck at the heart of the tight-knit Vietnamese community, posing hardships for those who brought their fishing traditions here as refugees. (Associated Press)
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In this Friday, June 25, 2010 photo, members of the Positive Ladies Football Club are shown during a practice session in Epworth, about 30 kilometers south east of Harare, Zimbabwe. The team consists of women who are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus, and soccer has become more than just a game for them. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
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As the White House releases its National AIDS Strategy Tuesday, Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched an ad campaign comparing President Obama's AIDS policy with President George W. Bush's. (Graphic: AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce federal immigration laws will not face lawsuits like Arizona, which has passed a law on illegal immigrants.
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** FILE ** Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer slammed the administration for being indecisive on criticism of the immigration law in July 2010. (AP Photo)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says he doesn't know whether a terrorist can face the death penalty if he or she were to plead guilty to a military commission. (CBS via Associated Press)
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Los Angeles police Sgt. Bill Smith (right) talks with Marine 1st Lt. Tylor Johnston as they ready for a ride-along in Los Angeles. Seventy Marines recently patrolled streets with the Los Angeles police in a weeklong exercise to help the Marines with law enforcement in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A Jan. 12, 2010, file photo shows American Aijalon Mahli Gomes, during a rally denouncing North Korean's human rights conditions at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday, July 9, 2010, that Aijalon Mahli Gomes, from Boston, attempted to commit suicide and was being treated at a hospital. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
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** FILE ** In this June 15, 2010 file photo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks in Phoenix. Donations to a special fund that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer established to help pay for the state's legal defense of its immigration enforcement law now total roughly $500,000. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File )
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A protester shouts slogans during a rally in central Athens, Thursday, July 8, 2010. More than 12,000 people took part in two separate protest marches, according to police estimates. Greece's governing Socialists are battling growing discontent as a new round of economic austerity faces party dissent, growing public hostility and fresh strike.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Protesters shout slogans during a rally in central Athens,Greece, Thursday, July 8, 2010. More than 12,000 people took part in two separate protest marches, according to police estimates. Greece's governing Socialists are battling growing discontent as a new round of economic austerity faces party dissent, growing public hostility and fresh strike.(AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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Protesters take part in a rally in central Athens,Greece, Thursday, July 8, 2010. More than 12,000 people took part in two separate protest marches, according to police estimates. Greece's governing Socialists are battling growing discontent as a new round of economic austerity faces party dissent, growing public hostility and fresh strike.(AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
