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Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, left, after he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. A woman at right is a protocol officer. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)

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Chinese premier ... Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, left, after he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. A woman at right is a protocol officer. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)
Small Fla. city ... A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Chinatown district in Oakland, Calif. A record Powerball jackpot has climbed to $600 million, and lottery officials speculated the jackpot would continue to soar in the run-up to Saturday’s drawing. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Obama exhorts go... ADDS THE IDENTITY OF THE SECOND MAN IN THE PHOTO - President Barack Obama receives an honorary degree from Robert Davidson, Chair of the Board of Trustees, partially visible, during the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. Morehouse is the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. It is Obama's second graduation speech of the year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
AP CEO calls rec... In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional", and that the secret subpoena of reporters' phone records has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)
Metro-North: Con... Emergency personnel work at the scene where two Metro North commuter trains collided, Friday, May 17, 2013 near Fairfield, Conn. Bill Kaempffer, a spokesman for Bridgeport public safety, told The Associated Press approximately 49 people were injured, including four with serious injuries. About 250 people were on board the two trains, he said. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham) MANDATORY CREDIT: CONNECTICUT POST, CHRISTIAN ABRAHAM
Official: Va. dr... Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several people. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk)
Syrian army push... This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows black smoke rising from what rebels say is a helicopter that was shot down at Abu Dhour military airbase which is besieged by the rebels, in the northern province city of Idlib, Syria, Friday May 17, 2013. Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)
Obama urged to m... FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2009, file photo Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, left, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, right, leave with President Barack Obama, not shown, from the White House in Washington. Obama allies and former top aides are worried he has lost his voice on his central theme of economic opportunity, silenced by a trio of recent troubles. Axelrod and Gibbs are pressing Obama's current aides to let the president stake out a big vision once again, not only to put a focus on his second term but to move away from the controversies engulfing the White House. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
Money tangle: Th... Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
A look at why th... FILE – In this Jan.23, 2013, file photo U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham pounds her fist as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Republicans and Democrats began condemning each other's response to Benghazi within hours of the first shots fired. The issue has flared and dimmed ever since, revived by new testimony, reports or documents like newly released emails. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
North Korea fire... A South Korean army soldier passes by a barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Sunday, May 19, 2013. The South Korean military on Sunday have beefed up monitoring on North Korea and are maintaining a high-level of readiness to deal with any risky developments to guard against possibilities of additional missile launches and other types of provocations. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Hofstra student ... In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)
1 winning ticket... Joe Fajardo poses holding his Powerball lottery ticket after buying it at a store Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the lottery game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Pacers knock out... New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler (6) reacts after being called for a foul by referee Ken Mauer, left, during the first half of Game 6 of an Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Denmark's de For... Emmelie de Forest of Denmark performs her song Only Teardrops during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, May 18, 2013. The contest is run by European television broadcasters with the event being held in Sweden as they won the competition in 2012. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
No Triple Crown:... Oxbow, ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, wins the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Victims: Marines... A sign cautions visitors outside a "pump and treat" facility on the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The sprawling installation is the site of one of the worst drinking water contaminations in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)
Reporter remembe... FILE - In this March 24, 1976 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla, center, is sworn-in as president at the Buenos Aires Government House accompanied by Adm. Emilio Massera, second from left, and Brig. Orlando Agosti, second from right, members of the junta that overthrew President Isabel Peron. The former Argentine dictator died of natural causes Friday, May 17, 2013, while serving life sentences at the Marcos Paz prison for crimes against humanity. Videla took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate "subversives." He was 87. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)
2 fires north of... Mike Whitaker, left, and Andrew Fullingim watch smoke from a brush fire from Lake Hughes in Castaic, Calif., Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Jonathan Pobre) MANDATORY CREDIT, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS OUT
What to watch fo... Kentucky Derby winner Orb stands as he is cooled down after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled to take place May 18. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Orb trainer McGa... CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO BAFFERT, NOT BAFFORD - Fiftyshadesofhay trainer Bob Baffert points at winning jockey Joel Rosario after winning the Black-Eyed Susan horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Friday, May 17, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Assad: Syria tra... FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country. The Syrian leader's comments, published Saturday in the Argentine newspaper Clarin, highlight the difficulties the U.S. and Russia face in getting the Assad regime and Syria's political opposition to the table at an international conference envisioned for next month. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Obama agenda mar... President Barack Obama speaks about jobs, at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
SKorea says NKor... A South Korean man watches a TV news reporting missile launch conducted by North Korea, at a Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 18, 2013. North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. The letters at a screen read " Fired three short-range guided missiles." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
IRS probe ignore... FILE – In this May 16, 2013, file photo Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, speaks during a news conference with Tea Party leaders, including Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chair of the Tea Party Caucus, left, about the IRS' targeting Tea Party groups on Capitol Hill in Washington. "I think the IRS' integrity is shattered," said Martin. Tea Party Patriots, a fierce Obama critic, was among the largest nonprofit conservative groups targeted by the IRS; the group raised $20.2 million in 2011, up from $706,000 just two years earlier, according to tax filings. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
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States balk at m... President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal is released and distributed to Senate staff members on Capitol Hill in Washington
FBI releases pho... The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest
Gaddafi's son Sa... Still image taken from video of Saif al-Islam, son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, sitting behind bars in Zintan
U.S. rethinking ... U.S. Defense Secretary Hagel and British Defense Secretary Hammond hold a joint news conference at the Pentagon in Washington
Obama rounds out... U.S. President Barack Obama announces new nominees at the White House in Washington
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