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Although consumer spending is up, consumer confidence is at its worst since March 2009, at the height of the recession.
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Occupy Oakland protesters carry away a man who was hit by a police tear gas canister Tuesday near the Oakland City Hall.
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Libyan Transitional National Council fighters said Moammar Gadhafi was captured Thursday in this graffitti-filled culvert in Sirte.
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The Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, speaks to the press in Annapolis, Md., in 2007. The U.S. government said Tuesday that elements in the Iranian military plotted to kill the ambassador.
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women on Friday. From left: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
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Steve Jobs speaks announces the new iPhone OS4 software in Cupertino, Calif., in 2010.
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The price of gasoline stood at $3.17 earlier this week in Wakefield, Mass. That's more than 20 cents less than the national average for regular gas.
Charles Krupa/AP hide captionU.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed Friday in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen. U.S. officials say he was linked to several major terrorist plots in recent years. Anonymous/AP hide caption
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Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said (center) was the first foreign ruler to visit Iran after the 2009 re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right). Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption
Disguised members of the "hacktivist" group called Anonymous took to the streets of Los Angeles in March 2008 to protest near buildings associated with the Church of Scientology. Similar demonstrations were held in cities mainly in the U.S. and Europe. Chris Weeks/AP hide caption
Downtown San Diego is dark after a massive blackout hit Southern California on Thursday. Approximately 1.5 million residents from Southern Orange County to Northern Baja were without power. Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images hide caption