Classes resume Tuesday for Newtown, Conn., schools except those at Sandy Hook Elementary where a gunman took 26 lives last Friday.
A returning student smiles as his bus school bus pulls into Hawley School, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. Classes resume Tuesday for Newtown schools except those at Sandy Hook. Buses ferrying students to schools were festooned with large green and white ribbons on the front grills, the colors of Sandy Hook. At Newtown High School, students in sweatshirts and jackets, many wearing headphones, betrayed mixed emotions. Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself.(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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The Rev. Pat Robertson, a standard-bearer for a generation of newly energized Christian conservative voters, will be honored by the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
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Riot police, using tear gas and water cannon to scatter protesters, storm Istanbul's Taksim Square.
The final day of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md.
U.S. Marines work through dirt and heat to train Afghan National Army soldiers at Camp Shorabak, Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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State Department officials testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya.
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Photographs from the National Rifle Association's 142nd Annual Meetings and Exhibits in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.
The newest additions to the Washington Redskins report for rookie minicamp Sunday in Ashburn, Va.
The annual Cinco de Mayo celebration is held on the National Mall in Washington.
