Kashmiris salvage their belongings from the debris of a house after a gunbattle between Kashmiri separatists and Indian troops on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on Oct. 22. Both India and Pakistan claim the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, on the edge of the Himalayas, in a decades-long conflict.
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Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose reads from a notebook during a news conference on the sniper shootings, on Oct. 21, 2002, in Rockville, Md.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi waits to speak to supporters at an election night party in Washington on Tuesday. The California Democrat must relinquish the speaker's gavel after Republicans regained control of the House.
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Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) makes his concession speech to his supporters Tuesday in Middleton, Wis., after losing to Republican challenger Ron Johnson for the Wisconsin U.S. Senate seat.
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House Republican Leader John Boehner has said he would like to replace the health care law with "common-sense steps" to lower health insurance costs.
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Genes, made up of tiny strands of DNA, may no longer be patentable under the Justice Department's recent decision.
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