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[![FILE - In a Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, right, and his wife Jenny, left, arrive at the White House to attend a dinner hosted by President Obama, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)][1]][2]AP - When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford cheated on his wife, he also betrayed his top political adviser.

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AP - The president of the nation's largest teachers union announced Wednesday that she is resigning from her other job as head of New York's United Federation of Teachers.

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[![A sign for a Manifested Glory Ministries church is shown Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in Bridgeport, Conn. Gay rights advocates are outraged over a video that shows the Connecticut church performing an apparent exorcism of a boy to drive out what they call his homosexual demons. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)][1]][2]AP - The video shows the 16-year-old boy lying on the floor, his body convulsing, as elders of a small Connecticut church cast a "homosexual demon" from his body.

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[![Washington Transit Police work the site in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, where two metro trains collided on Monday. At right is a section of electrified rail that was removed for the investigation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)][1]][2]AP - Investigators are looking more closely at a stretch of track near the site of a deadly commuter train crash after finding abnormalities Wednesday in equipment that senses trains and transmits speed commands.

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[![State Senator Denise Ducheny, D-San Diego, center, listens to the debate over a Democratic budget plan at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, June 24, 2009.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)][1]][2]AP - Lawmakers have begun a sharp debate about a Democratic plan to close California's projected $24 billion deficit but a quick resolution seems unlikely.

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[![FILE - In this 1999 file photo released by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a National Science Foundation physician, is shown at the ceremonial South Pole. Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, whose struggle against breast cancer during a winter at the South Pole captivated the world, died Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at their home in Southwick, Mass, said her husband, Thomas Fitzgerald. The cause was cancer. She was 57.(AP Photo/National Science Foundation, File)][1]][2]AP - Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole a decade ago, has died after the disease recurred. She was 57.

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[![Engineers from the US space agency NASA think they have discovered the cause of a hydrogen leak which twice delayed a high-profile shuttle launch this month, according to the agency. It may now be all systems go for the space shuttle Endeavour, which is waiting to embark on its final mission to the International Space Station, after a dodgy gas line connection was uncovered during tests.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)][1]][2]AP - NASA will conduct a fueling test next week on space shuttle Endeavour to see if a hydrogen gas leak has been plugged.

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[![South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits to having an affair during a news conference Wednesday, June 24, 2009, in Columbia, S.C. He also announce that he is resigning as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)][1]][2]AP - How did he think he could get away with it? To visit his lover in Argentina, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford slipped his security detail, lied to his staff about his whereabouts and neglected to transfer executive power to the lieutenant governor in case of a state emergency.

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AP - Two men awaiting retrial in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop were released from jail Wednesday while prosecutors search for a match to new DNA evidence that didn't come from either of them.

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[![Investigators work at the scene of a shooting at Aplington-Parkersburg High School in Parkersburg, Iowa, Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The family of prominent central Iowa high school football coach Ed Thomas said that he died at a Waterloo hospital after being shot in the school's weight room Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)][1]][2]AP - A high school coach who helped launch several professional football careers was gunned down in front of students Wednesday by a former player who was to have been taken to a psychiatric ward days earlier, authorities said.

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[![FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2008 file photo, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs smiles during a product announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. A published report says Jobs, who has been on medical leave for undisclosed reasons since January, received a liver transplant two months ago, Saturday, June 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)][1]][2]AP - A celebrity like Apple CEO Steve Jobs scores a rare organ transplant and the world wonders: Did he game the system? The rich have plenty of advantages that others don't. But winning the "transplant lottery" involves more than the size of your wallet — and true medical need.

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[![This 2009 handout image provided by NASA is a composite image from a number of telescopes, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which shows a space blob in both optical and infrared light. The blob is the yellow mass of gas. Inside it is an adolescent galaxy in white. The red spots are galaxies seen in the infrared spectrum. (AP Photo/ Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/IoA, S.Chapman et al.; Lyman-alpha Optical: NAOJ/Subaru/Tohoku Univ., T.Hayashino et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Durham Univ., J. Geach et al.)][1]][2]AP - Mysterious space blobs aren't infant galaxies as astronomers once thought. Scientists say they mostly consist of galaxies going through puberty, all hot and bothered.

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[![FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2004 file photo, Dina Matos McGreevey, left, stands next to her husband Gov. James E. McGreevey as he announces he will resign in November during a news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. where also admitted he had an extramarital affair with another man. 'My truth is that I am a gay American,' said Jim McGreevey. The governor's father, Jack McGreevey, is seen at far right. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price, File)][1]][2]AP - Wait a minute, back up. There's the Democratic governor of New Jersey, the father of two daughters, standing next to his attractive wife, giving a televised press conference. Something must be wrong with the sound. Did he just use the word "gay"? In the first person?

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[![Former Texas Rangers executive Tom Schieffer officially announces he will run for governor as a Democrat, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)][1]][2]AP - Gov. Rick Perry is ready to raise campaign cash, while Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison may finally be ready to raise a ruckus as the Republican heavyweights begin combat for the governor's office next year.

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[![South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford pauses to look at his notes as he admits to having an affair during a news conference Wednesday, June 24, 2009, and that was the reason why he was in Argentina. He also announce that he is resigning as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)][1]][2]AP - After going AWOL for seven days, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he was having an affair. Wiping away tears, he apologized to his family and gave up a national Republican Party post, but was silent on whether he would resign.

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[![In this Wednesday June, 17, 2009 picture, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses the state budget deficit outside his Capitol office in Sacramento, Calif. Schwarzenegger has said state government operations will come to a 'grinding halt,' if lawmakers fail to pass a balanced budget by July 28. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)][1]][2]AP - To hear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state finance officials tell it, July 28 is California's last stand before fiscal Armageddon.

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[![The Manhattan Detention Complex, also known as the Tombs, is photographed in New York, Friday, June 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)][1]][2]AP - It was like any other bar mitzvah, complete with kosher food, singing and a reading from the Torah — except that it was in a Manhattan jailhouse.

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[![B. Roger Moore, a paleobotanist who was a speaker at a paleontology conference at the University of Cincinnati, takes notes as he looks over an exhibit at the Creation Museum, where about 80 of the conference attendees went for a field trip in Petersburg, Ky., Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/ The Kentucky Enquire, Patrick Reddy)][1]][2]AP - In a dimly lit corner of the Creation Museum stands a life-size replica of a wrecking ball labeled "Millions of Years" demolishing the facade of a brick church.

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[![Anita Gricar, a longtime resident of Versailles, Pa., talks about the loss of the local police department while standing outside the municipal building on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Her small town, population 1,700, disbanded its three-member police force. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)][1]][2]AP - As hundreds of jobs in Chicago's police department go unfilled, officers who once patrolled the streets with partners are riding alone in what some cops bitterly call "rolling coffins."

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AP - A man suspected of aiding in a woman's suicide in a Mexican hotel last month has pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug smuggling charges.

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