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Listening to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich at a campaign event in Des Moines, four days before the Iowa caucus.
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Listening to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich at a campaign event in Des Moines, four days before the Iowa caucus.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2011 after Gaeta’s ship returned from 80 days at sea. It ís a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings - one lucky sailor is chosen to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one. On Wednesday, for the first time, the happily reunited couple was gay.
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Garrett Jackson, an aide to GOP presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, steadied a chair for the candidate at a campaign stop Thursday at Music Man Square in Mason City, Iowa.
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U.S. Army Pfc. David Hedge of Bealeton, Va., front, and fellow soldiers from the First Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment were bathed in rotor wash moments after arriving by Blackhawk helicopter for an operation to disrupt weapons smuggling in Istaqlal, Iraq.
Red Huber / Orlando SentinelSpace shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, blasts off, Monday, May 16, 2011, on its historic 25th and final flight from the Kennedy Space Center.
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Ella Sciulli, 4, the daughter of a New York Stock Exchange specialist, played on the trading floor Friday.
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Dog tags of the 58,211 American service personnel who died in the Vietnam War hang from the ceiling of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum on Veterans Day, Thursday Nov. 11, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois.
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An Afghan policeman kept watch over what police said was the body of a suicide bomber while the targeted U.S. military vehicle was towed away in Kabul. The suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy near the new parliament building Friday, the first attack in Kabul in three months.
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The transfer cases containing the remains of Army Spc. Jonathan M. Curtis, right, of Belmont, Mass., and Army Pfc. Andrew N. Meari of Plainfield, Ill. sits at the end of the loader ramp upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. The Department of Defense announced the death of Army Spc. Jonathan M. Curtis and Army Pfc. Andrew N. Meari who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
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A U.S. Marine wore an ammunition belt around his neck after going on patrol in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Tuesday.
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U.S. military forces carried an Afghan army soldier injured by an improvised explosive device to a helicopter in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Wednesday.
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Amphibious vehicles re-enacted a landing operation Wednesday in the waters off Incheon, South Korea, that turned the tide in the Korean War. Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of the landing, led by U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
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U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, participate in a joint patrol with Afghan Army soldiers near Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010.
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U.S. Army Spc. Clayton Joy hugged his sons Peyton, 3, and Austin, 2, as soldiers were reunited with their loved ones at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state Wednesday. The soldiers are part of the last brigade of combat troops that were n Iraq.
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U.S. Army Lt. Col. Darron Wright, deputy commander, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, smokes a cigar after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait, on Aug. 16, 2010, more than seven years after he drove into Iraq during the US invasion. Lt. Col Wright, from Mesquite, Texas, is the deputy commander of the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces.
