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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 25: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) (R) and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) welcome memebrs of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White to the U.S. Capitol April 25, 2013 in Washington, DC. Wearing the color white to symbolize peace, the Ladies in White is an opposition movement in Cuba consisting of wives and other female relatives of jailed political dissidents.
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He is wrong, however, to understate the continued threat to the US homeland or to suggest that the lethality of the threats posed by a weakened al-Qaeda and its affiliates is a return to a pre-9/11 norm that Americans should just accept
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Cuban-American politicians decry Beyonce Cuba trip
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Hunt: Immigration debate gives Marco Rubio a chance to shine
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