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Olympic track trials, Democrats protest House contempt vote, health-care ruling and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
June 28, 2012
Keegan Taylor, 2, is kissed by his Newfoundland, Rudy, while playing on the beach at Norman F. Kruse Park on Lake Michigan in Muskegon, Mich. The National Weather Service issued heat advisories across the country.
Ashley Miller
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The Muskegeon Chronicle via AP
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June 28, 2012
Konrad Skarpnes, of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., receives a haircut from Lily Driver as midshipmen fourth class, or plebes, go through Induction Day at the U.S. Naval Academy's Alumni Hall in Annapolis. Approximately 1,200 men and women arrived at the academy for I-Day, beginning their summer training as plebes.
Matt McClain
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The Washington Post
June 28, 2012
Felisha Johnson competes in the women’s shot put qualifying round at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore.
Matt Slocum
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AP
June 28, 2012
Competitors take the water jump in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase final at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore. Evan Jager, wearing 13 on his leg, won the race.
Charlie Riedel
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AP
June 28, 2012
Reporters run with the Supreme Court's health-care decision. In its 5 to 4 decision Thursday, the high court upheld the largest new social program in a generation, a major overhaul of the health-care system that could extend coverage to 30 million Americans.
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June 28, 2012
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gives credit to Wendell Primus, a senior policy adviser, after relaying the news to her staff on Capitol Hill that the Supreme Court had upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Pelosi was instrumental in helping to pass health-care reform in Congress and was at President Obama's side when he signed it into law.
J. Scott Applewhite
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AP
June 28, 2012
Supporters of President Obama's health-care law celebrate outside the Supreme Court, after the court's 5 to 4 ruling to uphold the centerpiece of the legislation.
David Goldman
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AP
June 28, 2012
President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the central components of his health-care law.
Luke Sharrett
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AP
June 28, 2012
National Clergy Council members Rev. Rob Schenck, left, Rev. Alan Church, center, and Pastor Gary Dull pray in front of the Supreme Court, after the high court’s decision to uphold President Obama’s health-care law. Schenck has his hands on a copy of the bench decision.
Katherine Frey
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The Washington Post
June 28, 2012
With the Capitol in the background, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks about the Supreme Court's health-care ruling, which upheld most of President Obama’s law, including the individual mandate. “What the court did today was say that Obamacare does not violate the Constitution,” Romney said. “What they did not do was say that Obamacare is good law or that it’s good policy.”
Charles Dharapak
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AP
June 28, 2012
An supporter of President Obama’s health-care law reacts to the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision to uphold the law.
Mark Wilson
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June 28, 2012
House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), center, joins fellow Democratic House members for a walkout in protest of a vote on whether to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress. The House of Representatives later voted 255 to 67 to hold Holder in contempt for not submitting documents in Operation “Fast and Furious” to a House panel investigating the federal law enforcement program that allowed guns to circulate across the border between the United States and Mexico. More than 100 Democratic House members joined the walkout.
Alex Wong
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June 28, 2012
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. addresses the 83rd LULAC National Convention in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The House of Representatives voted 255 to 67 Thursday to hold Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents that Republican lawmakers demanded as part of an investigation into a flawed gunrunning operation. He is the first sitting attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress in U.S. history.
Gerardo Mora
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Getty Images
June 28, 2012
A 3-day-old American Robin chick begs for food in a nest it shares with its three siblings, in Freeport, Maine. In two weeks the robins will have opened their eyes and grown enough to venture out into the world.
Robert F. Bukaty
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AP
June 29, 2012
One-week-old lion cubs make their first public appearance at a zoo in the southwestern Russian city of Stavropol.
Danil Semyonov
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AFP/Getty Images
June 28, 2012
The reunited musical group The Jacksons perform during their Unity Tour at the Apollo Theater in New York.
Andrew Burton
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Reuters
June 29, 2012
Chinese astronauts Liu Wang, left, Jing Haipeng, center, and Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut, salute in front of the reentry capsule of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Shenzhou 9 returned to Earth on Friday, ending a mission critical to the country’s goal of building a space station by 2020.
Ren Junchuan
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Xinhua via Reuters
June 28, 2012
People ride on the inaugural trip of the Cabrio, the world's first open-air double-decker cable-car system, on the Stanserhorn mountain in Switzerland.
Christian Hartmann
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Reuters
June 29, 2012
A priest listens to a confession during an ordination ceremony in Econe, Switzerland. The traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), which rejects some of the reforms made at the historic Second Vatican Council, defied Rome in 1988 by consecrating four bishops, triggering their excommunication by the late Pope John Paul. SSPX says it has about 500 priests and 1 million followers in 38 countries.
Denis Balibouse
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Reuters
June 28, 2012
The Diamond Diadem, the tiara worn by the Queen Elizabeth II on British and Commonwealth stamps and on some issues of coinage and bank notes, is displayed at “Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration,” an exhibition at Buckingham Palace in London. More than 10,000 diamonds, set in works acquired by six monarchs over three centuries, are on display in the show, which marks the Queen’s 60-year reign. The exhibition opens on Saturday and runs through July 8, and then again from July 31 to Oct. 7.
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Getty Images
June 28, 2012
Caroline de Guitaut, curator of the Royal Collection, holds the Delhi Durbar, a tiara that was loaned to the Duchess of Cornwall in 2005. The tiara is on display at “Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration,” an exhibition at that forms part of the summer opening of Buckingham Palace in London.
Bethany Clarke
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