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President Barack Obama greets people as he arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in New York, en rout to Hempstead, N.Y. and a presidential debate.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
In Washington, the U.S. Capitol dome is silhouetted as the sun rises Monday, Oct. 15, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney kisses wife Ann as he leaves the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Belmont, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., helps his son Sam out of the car as he arrives for breakfast at Josie's restaurant, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, at Centre College in Lexington, Ky.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Vice President Joe Biden, left, followed by his daughter Ashley Biden, center, and son Beau Biden, right, walk out of Air Force Two upon their arrival at Lexington Blue Grass Airport, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Lexington, Ky., for the vice presidential debate.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., delivers his opening statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, during the committee's hearing on the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
This image released by ABC shows Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney during a cooking segment on "Good Morning America," Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 in New York. Romney served as a guest co-host on the popular morning show.
PHOTO: AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., right, faces reporters as former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, left, looks on during a news conference at a banquet hall in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Whitman, who served as governor of New Jersey from 1994-2001, offered her endorsement of Brown in his run against Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren for the Senate seat.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Steven Senne
Trader Joseph Lawler, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Another dire prediction about global economic growth is sending stocks lower on Wall Street in early trading on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Richard Drew
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., left, and and the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-Md., release a report on a yearlong probe of China's two leading technology firms, Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp., warning they pose a major security threat to the US and that the U.S. government systems and private U.S. companies should avoid business with them, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Jonathan Corpina, left, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Stocks are rising in early trading on Wall Street after the government reported that the U.S. unemployment rate fell below 8 percent for the first time in almost four years.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Richard Drew
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane in Denver, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
PHOTO: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,accompanied by Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul, speaks at the U.S. Afghanistan Bilateral Commission, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 , at the State Department in Washington.
PHOTO: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
Voters wait in line to pick up their ballots inside the Hamilton County Board of Elections after it opened for early voting, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Cincinnati. Ohioans can cast an early ballot by mail or in person beginning Tuesday for the Nov. 6 election.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Al Behrman
Nigerian widow Esther Kiobel, a plaintiff in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, cries as she speaks outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Standing with her second from left is Brad Weikel with EarthRights International.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally at the Valley Forge Military Academy, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, in Wayne, Pa.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Matt Slocum
President Barack Obama stops to talk a greet two young supporters at a campaign event at Farm Bureau Live, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Virginia Beach, Va.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listen in front of a national debt display during a campaign rally, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Westerville, Ohio.
PHOTO: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
Former President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney after he spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative convention in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is kissed by her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, as he welcomes her to the podium at the Clinton Global Initiative, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 in New York.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., right, smiles at her husband, Sidney Williams, a former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, during a House Ethics Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Waters, a senior Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, is fighting allegations that she steered a $12 million federal bailout to a bank where her husband owns stock.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, center left, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., center right, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., right, hammer nails into a plank during the First Nail Ceremony for the official launch of construction of the Inaugural platform where the President of the United States will take the oath of office on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Cliff Owen
Robert Stephen Beecroft listens during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on his nomination to be ambassador to Iraq on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 in Washington.
PHOTO: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane in Santa Ana, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, as he travels to Salt Lake City, Utah, for campaign events.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2011 file photo, Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, eats breakfast. Mei Xiang has given birth yesterday to a cub following five consecutive pseudopregnancies in as many years.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Susan Walsh
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk back to their seats after speaking during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attends a campaign event at Van Dyck Park in Fairfax Va. on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meets with State Department personnel in the courtyard of the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, after speaking at the White House concerning the recent deaths of Americans in Libya.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Alex Brandon
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept, 11th, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) salute during a hand over ceremony of U.S.- run prison to Afghan government in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. U.S. officials handed over formal control of Afghanistan's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Kabul on Monday, even as disagreements between the two countries over the thousands of Taliban and terror suspects held there marred the transfer.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, right, reacts after reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, taxis on the runway under a heavy rain before departing at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, en route to Charlotte, N.C. for the Democratic National Convention.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
The youngest Texas Delegate keeps herself entertained waiting for the start of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC on Tuesday, September 4, 2012.
PHOTO: Ralf-Finn Hestoft
Kelly Jacobs, from Hernando, Miss., wears button laden campaign hat while touring the convention hall ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Marco Rubio speaks to the reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
PHOTO: Ralf-Finn Hestoft
Maryland delegates Ellen Sauerbrey, left, George Engelbach, and Audrey Scott pose together for a picture on the floor at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
John Boehner and Diane Sawyer on the floor of the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Monday, August 27, 2012.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
Storm clouds blow over the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa Bay, Florida as Hurricane Isaac approaches.
PHOTO: UPI/Kevin Dietsch
Children look out at the beach as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches in Barahona, Dominican Republic, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at Watson Truck and Supply, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, in Hobbs, N.M.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Women relax on the border of a fountain in Milan, Italy, Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012. A heat wave has struck Italy with temperatures rising up to 38 degrees Celsius (100.40 Fahrenheit) in some parts of the country.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Antonio Calanni
A man rides his bicycle through a waterlogged street during a monsoon shower in Jammu, India, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Channi Anand
Party balloons sit on the floor of the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, in preparations for the Kids' "State Dinner," hosted by first lady Michelle Obama.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Yadira Garcia, left, of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, holds up a sign in protest as she joins young immigrants as they sit in the waiting area of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, in Phoenix.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to traveling press secretary Rick Gorka on the campaign charter flight before departure from Port Columbus International airport, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Columbus , Ohio.
PHOTO: (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
As wind turbines turn in the distance, President Barack Obama changes direction as he walks from a podium after speaking at the Heil family farm , Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Haverhill, Iowa, during a three day campaign bus tour through Iowa.
PHOTO: (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives at a campaign event at Flagler college, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in St. Augustine, Fla.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
An Indian girl in traditional dress dances during the Janmashtami festival celebrations at a temple in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 10, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Kevin Frayer
President Barack Obama hugs Virginia Romero while ordering at the counter at Romero's Cafe and Catering, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Pueblo, Colo.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Taxi driver Richard Meid waits for a fare in front of the British Museum during the 2012 Summer Olympics,Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
A man slides down a hill after a rare snowfall in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. Temperatures dropped to below freezing Tuesday morning as snow flurries blew through South Africa's Johannesburg.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Themba Hadebe
People burn incense and pray on Monday, August 6, 2012 in front of the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of Hiroshima as they mark the 67th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye
Jim Fortier, left, and Mark Toomajian, kiss as they join about two dozen members of gay rights groups and others protesting outside the Decatur, Ga., Chick-fil-A restaurant Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Gay rights activists plan kiss demonstrations at Chick-fil-A stores Friday, just days after the company set a sales record when customers flocked to the restaurants to show support for the fast-food chain owner's opposition to gay marriage.
PHOTO: AP Photo/David Tulis
Jan Ebeling of the United States, waves to the crowd after riding Rafalca in the equestrian dressage competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in London. Rafalca is co-owned by Ann Romney, the wife of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
PHOTO: AP Photo/David Goldman
A man holding a pole stay on the mound of garbage washed ashore by big waves as others look for recyclable materials Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 along Roxas Blvd. in Manila, Philippines. The slow-moving Typhoon Saola killed at least 12 people and displaced 154,000 in the Philippines.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pat Roque
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks with Polish WWII veterans after laying a wreath at the Warsaw 1944 Uprising monument in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, July 31, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz
Andy Roddick of the United States dives for the ball during his match against Martin Klizan of Slovakia at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Elise Amendola
U.S. Gen. James D. Thurman, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea, fourth from right, poses with Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, United Nations Forces and South Korean officers after a ceremony marking the 59th anniversary of the signing of the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War on July 27, 1953, at the border villages of Panmunjom, South Korea, Friday, July 27, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, July 26, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool
Sunbathers lie at the beach of lido "Strandbad Wannsee" in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, July 25, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Gero Breloer
A rower practices before the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 24, 2012, in Eton Dorney. Opening ceremonies for the games will be held Friday, July 27.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko
People gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012. An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed scores of people across Iraq on Monday, in the nation's deadliest day so far this year. The attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq declared a new offensive seeking to re-assert its might in the security vacuum left by the departing Americans.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Karim Kadim
Chinese people walk past a flood damaged vehicle sitting on the bricks at a village in Fangshan district of Beijing, China Monday, July 23, 2012. As China's flood-ravaged capital dealt with the aftermath of the heaviest rain in six decades Monday, including the deaths of 37 people, questions were being raised about whether the city's push for modernization came at the expense of basic infrastructure such as drainage networks.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Andy Wong
Judy Goos, second from left, hugs her daughters friend, Isaiah Bow, 20, while eye witnesses Emma Goos, 19, left, and Terrell Wallin, 20, right, gather outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012 in Denver. A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded movie theater at a midnight opening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities said.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez
Former South African President Nelson Mandela as he celebrates his birthday with family in Qunu, South Africa, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Across the country, and even abroad, people are doing good deeds to honor the country's most famous statesman on his 94th birthday Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke pauses as he arrives to give a semiannual report to the Senate Banking Committee, Tuesday, July 17, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bernanke's testimony comes as job growth has slumped, manufacturing has weakened and consumers have grown more cautious about spending
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at the Cincinnati Music Hall in Cincinnati, Monday, July 16, 2012. Obama is spending the day campaigning in Cincinnati.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Susan Walsh
President Barack Obama walks over to greet people after arriving at Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, Va., Friday, July 13, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Susan Walsh
A lady uses her smartphone to photograph a Water Lily at the Singapore Garden Festival on Thursday July 12, 2012 in Singapore.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted at the Ho Phra Keo Temple Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in Vientiane, Laos.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski
An Indian child dives into the River Ganges in Varanasi, India, Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh
Bosnian Muslim women pray near the coffin of a relative, among 520 newly identified Srebrenica victims, at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on Monday, July 9, 2012. The 520 victims will be buried at a memorial center near Srebrenica on the 17th.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Amel Emric
People pull over to the side of the road in Beltsville, Md., to watch the Fourth of July fireworks on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
A Pakistani man sleeps on top of an oil tanker, which was used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, while parked with other tankers in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The Obama administration said Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, after the U.S. belatedly issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Fareed Khan
Giovanny Alvarez, a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, leaves after delivering mail to a residence in Washington, Monday, July 2, 2012, damaged by the powerful storm that swept through the region Friday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Barack Obama talks with media as he tours the Mountain Shadow neighborhood devastated by raging wildfires, Friday, June 29, 2012, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Angela Botticella of ProtectYourCare.org celebrates the Affordable Care Act decision at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 28, 2012
PHOTO: Richard A. Bloom
Employee Juergen Liebert cleans Wiehe's Mount Rushmore sculpture with US Presidents Barack Obama, left, and Bill Clinton, right, in the exhibition 'The USA from East to West' in the miniature world park in Wiehe, central Germany, Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jens Meyer
Michael Phelps starts in the men's 200-meter freestyle preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Neb.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
Ron Kirby, of Alexandria, Va. talks to reporters after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold key parts of the Arizona immigration law on Monday, June 25, 2012.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
An Indian shouts for water as a shanty town is engulfed in flames in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 22, 2012. A fire swept through a slum in the Indian capital on Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Kevin Frayer
Girls leap through a wall of water at Yards Park in Washington, on Thursday, June 21, 2012. Heat index values are expected to exceed 100 degrees across the northeast on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Thousands of yoga enthusiasts convene in New York's Times Square to mark the summer solstice, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Temperatures are expected to be near 100 degrees Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP Photos/Mark Lennihan
Two Egyptians argue during a protest near the Egyptian Parliament in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, June 19, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Manu Brabo
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, is introduced by Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., left, as Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis. looks on during a campaign stop on Monday, June 18, 2012 in Janesville, Wis.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon during clashes with Syrian troops near Idlib, Syria Friday, June 15, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo
An Egyptian boy peers out of barbed wire, his face painted with the number 25, the date of the Egyptian revolution, during a protest in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday June 14, 2012. Egypt's highest court has ruled that Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister can stay in the presidential race.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Amr Nabil
President Barack Obama visits a Kenny's BBQ restaurant with Army First Lt. William Edwards, a 2012 Military Fatherhood Award Winner, second from left, and Nurney Mason owner of Mason's Barber Shop, left back to camera, Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Washington.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 12, 2012, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing looking into national security leaks.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
This image made available by LOCOG shows Kirsty Wade holding the Olympic Flame as a lone piper plays at the Calanais Standing Stones in Callanish on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland as the sun rises on Day 24 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, Monday, June 11, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Danny Lawson/LOCOG
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, June 7, 2012 . Perry has provoked boos at the state Republican Convention by repeating his support for U.S Senate candidate David Dewhurst. Perry said Thursday that the country needs more conservatives in Washington like his friend Dewhurst, who has been lieutenant governor since 2003. Dewhurst and former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz meet in a runoff election July 31 for the Republican nomination U.S Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
PHOTO: AP Photo/LM Otero
The space shuttle Enterprise is makes the final leg of its journey to its new Manhattan home on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Wednesday, June 6, 2012. The space shuttle Enterprise is hoisted by crane onto the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 in New York. The Enterprise comes to New York as part of NASA's decision to end the shuttle program after 30 years. It is scheduled to open to the public in mid-July.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Richard Drew
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker votes Tuesday, June 5, 2012, in Wauwatosa, Wis. Walker faces Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a special recall election.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Morry Gash
Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh, center left, walks with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, center right, during a welcoming ceremony at the Ministry of Defense in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, June 4, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool
An Egyptian woman chants slogans against Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq at a protest in Tahrir Square decrying the result of the first round of voting in the Egyptian presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 1, 2012. Several hundred protesters rallied Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the Egyptian uprising.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Fredrik Persson
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves while leaving a community center in Mahachai, Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand on Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Kicking off her first trip abroad in nearly a quarter-century, Suu Kyi offered encouragement Wednesday to impoverished Myanmar migrants whose flight to neighboring Thailand is emblematic of the devastation wrought on her homeland by decades of misrule.)
PHOTO: AP photo/Sakchai Lalit
In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. The meeting Tuesday followed a massacre in Houla, Syria, last week in which more than 100 people were killed, some of them women, children and entire families gunned down in their own homes. Following the meeting, Annan told reporters "We are at a tipping point."
PHOTO: AP Photo/SANA
President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his face as he speaks during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, Monday, May 28, 2012, in Washington.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla
A village boy leads his goat past a parched pond on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout
Former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards, right, arrives at a federal courthouse with his father, Wallace Edwards, in Greensboro, N.C., May 16, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Gerry Broome
U.S. astronaut Joseph Acaba, left, Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, center, and Sergei Revin, right, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, prior to the launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel
The Dalai Lama leaves the St. Paul's Cathedral in London with Bishop of London Richard Chartres, right, and St.Paul's Cathedral Canon Pastor Reverend Michael Colclough after receiving the 2012 Templeton Prize on Monday, May 14, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Sang Tan
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