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Associated Press ACT OF CONTRITION: Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod, fired Tuesday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack after a video appearing to show her making racist remarks went viral, got an apology Wednesday from Mr. Vilsack.
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Tighe Barry (right) of Los Angeles and Zaccai Free rally Wednesday outside the Department of Agriculture in support of Mrs. Sherrod, demanding that she be reinstated.
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Associated Press Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio will continue his anti-illegal immigrant raids, regardless of the outcome of the battle over the state's new immigration law.
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This booking photo provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 shows Lindsay Lohan. The actress returned to jail in handcuffs on Friday after a judge refused to set bail and ordered her to remain in custody for failing a drug test until another hearing nearly a month away. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff)
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An Afghan policeman stands guard at the site of a suicide bomibng in Kandahar city, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. A suicide bomber struck hiding explosives in a cart topped with bottles of juice for sale, Afghan officials. Two civilians were injured in the blast. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Michael Lohan, father of Lindsay Lohan, and attorney Lisa Bloom arrive at the Beverly Hills courthouse, Tuesday, July 20, 2010, where Lindsay was taken into custody to begin serving her jail sentence for a probation violation. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Lindsay Lohan is shown in a court, Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Beverly Hills, Calif., where she was taken into custody to serve a jail sentence for probation violation. (AP Photo/Al Seib, pool)
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Former President Bill Clinton addresses delegates at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Guests in extravagant costumes arrives for the opening ceremony of the 18th Life Ball in front of Vienna's city hall, Austria, on Saturday, July 17, 2010. Life Ball is a charity gala, which organizers hope will raise more than 1 million euros (US$ 1.28 million) for people living with HIV and AIDS. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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** FILE ** A Saturday, June 5, 2004 file photo shows the execution table inside the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore. Maryland is considering becoming one of the few states to allow condemned inmates to choose a clergy member who is not employed by the state to be in the execution chamber when they die. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, file)
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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)
