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The Week in Pictures

From the U.S. elections to protests in Argentina, here's a look at what dominated the headlines this week

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The Week in Pictures

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  • Oregon running back Kenjon Barner (24) scores a touchdown as Southern California safety Jawanza Starling (29) attempts to make the stop during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Nov. 3, 2012, in Los Angeles. Oregon won 62-51. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)

    NCAA

  • Students salute as they sing their national anthem before classes begin in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Monday. Classes resumed Monday in a sign of some return to normalcy after the passing of Hurricane Sandy, but more than 100 schools remain shuttered due to storm damage. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)

    Cuba storm

  • Roger Federer of Switzerland arrives on court to play Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia during their ATP World Tour Finals singles tennis match at the O2 Arena in London, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

    Roger Federer

  • Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill Biden, and son Beau Biden, waves to members of the media after casting his ballot at Alexis I. duPont High School, Nov. 6, 2012, in Greenville, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Joe Biden

  • Reserve bank governor Gill Marcus displays bank notes bearing the image of former President Nelson Mandela, in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday. New South African banknotes featuring the image of former President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela are going into circulation. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

    Nelson Mandela bank notes

  • Voters wait in line to cast their ballots outside a polling station during elections in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday. Puerto Ricans are electing a governor as the U.S. island territory does not get a vote in the U.S. presidential election. But they are also casting ballots in a referendum that asks voters if they want to change the relationship to the United States. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

    Puerto Rico election

  • Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon walks with her ballot in hand while voting in Greenwich, Conn., Tuesday. McMahon and Democratic opponent Chris Murphy were vying for the Senate seat now held by Joe Lieberman, an independent who's retiring. McMahon was defeated. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

    Linda McMahon

  • Protesters demonstrate against Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez in front of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday. Angered by rising inflation, violent crime and high-profile corruption, and afraid Fernandez will try to hold onto power indefinitely by ending constitutional term limits, the protesters banged pots and marched in Argentina's capital. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

    Argentina protest

  • On Wednesday, Amina Al Sado, 5, who fled with her family from the violence in their village, poses for a photograph inside a tent at a displaced camp, in the Syrian village of Atmeh, near the Turkish border with Syria. Most of the displaced people in the tent camp rising near this village on the Syrian-Turkish border are children. All have fled the violence of Syria's civil war further south. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

    Syria displaced children

  • House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks about the elections and the unfinished business of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday. President Barack Obama is slating a White House appearance on Friday, Nov. 9, to set the tone for upcoming talks with congressional Republicans on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff. Republicans are drawing a line in the sand against higher tax rates for upper-income earners, seeking to topple the conventional wisdom that the freshly reelected Democrat has the whip hand in upcoming negotiations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    John Boehner

  • Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house in Denver, on Thursday. Marijuana legalization votes this week in Colorado and Washington state don't just set up an epic state-federal showdown on drug law for residents. The measures also opens the door for marijuana tourism. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

    Marijuana Colorado

  • Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13) shoots over Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) as Russell Westbrook (0) watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

    NBA

  • People arrive in the chapel of the Cementerio General with decorated human skulls on metal platters, to offer a prayer before attending the Natitas Festival at the largest cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday. "Natitas" are human skulls from unnamed, abandoned graves that are cared for and decorated by faithful who use them as amulets, believing they serve as protection from thieves. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

    La Paz, Bolivia

  • Radhouane Nouicer, the U.N.'s regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, briefs the media during a news conference at the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

    Radhouane Nouicer

  • Posters decorate the street scene outside government buildings in Dublin, Ireland, Friday, before the historic referendum on an upcoming Saturday to decide on increasing legal protection for children in Ireland. Ireland's government is asking voters to agree to insert stronger rights for children into the constitution, a measure designed to make it easier for state agencies to protect children from abuse and for neglected kids to be adopted. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

    Ireland children

  • USA's pilot Jazmine Fenlator with brakewoman Lolo Jones races to a second-place finish in the women's bobsled World Cup competition on Nov. 9, 2012, in Lake Placid, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

    Jazmine Fenlator

  • Supporters of Referendum 74, which would uphold the state's new same-sex marriage law, cheer at a news conference Wednesday, in Seattle. Supporters of gay marriage in Washington state declared victory Wednesday, saying they don't see a way for their opponents to prevail as votes continue to trickle in on Referendum 74. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    Referendum 74

  • Patrick Murphy, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 18th Congressional District, talks to supporters during a "thank you" tour of his district, Thursday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

    Patrick Murphy

  • Cara Jennings joins the demonstration outside the Palm Beach Circuit Court building where people are demanding U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., stop his battle to keep his congressional seat, in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

    Cara Jennings

  • The coffins of slain farmworkers stand in a row during a funeral ceremony in Santa Rosa de Osos in Colombia's Antioquia state, Friday. On Wednesday, a drug-trafficking paramilitary group killed 10 peasants on a farm in northern Colombia, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

    Colombia slain workers

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  • Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
    Credit: AP/LM Otero

  • Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
    Credit: AP/Matt Rourke

  • A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
    Credit: AP/Jenny Aicher

  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
    Credit: AP/Molly Riley

  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
    Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite

  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

  • O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
    Credit: AP/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Jeff Scheid

  • Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
    Credit: AP/NASA/Chris Hadfield

  • When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
    Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

  • A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
    Credit: AP/The Duluth News-Tribune/Clint Austin

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