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Rep. Anthony Weiner announces resignation Weiner (D-N.Y.) is stepping down after a weeks-long scandal over lewd online exchanges with several women.
June 16, 2011
Anthony Weiner arrives at a news conference in Brooklyn, N.Y., to announce his resignation. He said it was impossible for him to continue representing his district because of “the distraction that I have created.”
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Weiner announces his resignation. His speech, however, made it clear that he did not intend to depart the public stage for good.
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Constituents of Weiner's at Thursday's news conference.
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“I had hoped to be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do: to fight for the middle class and those struggling to make it,” Weiner said Thursday. “Unfortunately, the distraction that I have created has made that impossible.”
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June 16, 2011
Weiner leaves his home in Queens, N.Y., to attend a news conference to announce his resignation.
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Weiner and wife Huma Abedin at their home in Queens, N.Y. She did not appear with Weiner at Thursday's news conference.
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June 16, 2011
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill. She refused to answer questions about early reports of Weiner's plan to resign.
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June 16, 2011
Capitol Hill interns pose for pictures outside Weiner's office.
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June 15, 2011
Former porn actress Ginger Lee, right, hugs her attorney Gloria Allred following a news conference in New York. Lee said on Wednesday she had an e-mail relationship with Rep. Anthony Weiner and that he urged her to lie about their exchanges in the hope that a scandal surrounding him would die down.
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June 15, 2011
Former porn actress Ginger Lee, right, walks with her attorney Gloria Allred following a news conference in New York.
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June 15, 2011
Former porn actress Ginger Lee, left, reads a prepared statement as her attorney Gloria Allred listens during a news conference at the Friars Club in New York.
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June 15, 2011
Ginger Lee and her attorney Gloria Allred listen to questions at a news conference at the Friars Club in New York.
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June 15, 2011
Ginger Lee arrives for her news conference at the Friars Club in New York.
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June 15, 2011
A framegrab from video shows Huma Abedin, Weiner's pregnant wife, returning to Washington after a trip to Africa with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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June 13, 2011
Huma Abedin, center, aide to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, works as Clinton arrives at her hotel in Addis Ababa. Abedin is married to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).
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June 12, 2011
A group of Weiner's constituents rally for his resignation outside his Kew Gardens office in the Queens borough of New York City.
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June 11, 2011
Weiner is questioned by the media near his home in the Queens borough of New York. The 46-year-old congressman acknowledged Friday that he had online contact with a 17-year-old girl from Delaware but said there was nothing inappropriate.
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June 11, 2011
An unidentified woman tells Weiner she supports him, as he enters a bank near his home in Queens.
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June 10, 2011
An axe-wielding neighbor threatens Philadelphia TV news reporter Kenneth Moton as he reports in front of the Delaware home of a 17-year-old high school student with whom Weiner exchanged messages online.
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June 10, 2011
Huma Abedin is seen at the airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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June 9, 2011
Rep. Anthony Weiner is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at his house in the Queens borough of New York. Weiner admitted four days ago that he had tweeted sexually charged messages and photos to at least six women and lied about it.
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June 9, 2011
Weiner closes the front door of his building as he arrives at his home in Queens.
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June 9, 2011
Huma Abedin, left, aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, walk to a meeting with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi.
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June 7, 2011
In this photo provided by "Inside Edition" Lisa Weiss, a blackjack dealer from Las Vegas, reacts while being interviewed in Las Vegas. Weiss, 40, admitted to sexting with Weiner.
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June 6, 2011
Meagan Broussard, one of the six women with whom Weiner admitted to exchanging "inappropriate" messages, is interviewed on the "Hannity" program on the Fox News Network.
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June 6, 2011
Weiner wipes his eye during a news conference in New York. After days of denials, Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married last year.
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June 6, 2011
Weiner during the news conference at the Sheraton Hotel.
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June 6, 2011
Weiner speaks to the press.
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June 6, 2011
Weiner arrives for a news conference in New York.
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A screen grab of the Web site Biggovernment.com shows a shirtless Weiner, a photo that was allegedly e-mailed to a young woman.
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June 1, 2011
Weiner walks from his office to an elevator in the Rayburn House Office Building for a vote, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On June 1, Weiner denied sending a lewd photo from his Twitter account to a 21-year-old woman, trying to calm a media furor that has only increased by the day and wasn't put to rest by the combative lawmaker's latest comments.
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May 31, 2011
Weiner leaves after he spoke to the media regarding a lewd photo tweet on Capitol Hill.
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March 8, 2011
Actor Ben Affleck, left, talks with Weiner while Affleck waits to testify before the House Foreign Affairs, Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights Subcommittee hearing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Securing Peace in the Midst of Tragedy, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Jan. 5, 2011
Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, are pictured after a ceremonial swearing in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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July 10, 2010
Abedin and Weiner, at their wedding at Oheka Castle in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y.
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May 23, 2010
Weiner, left, is surrounded by people singing from the RAMBAM Misivta school during the Salute to Israel Parade in New York.
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July 31, 2009
Weiner makes a quick point about the confusion that taxpayers have about how health care would work and what choices they would have on Capitol Hill.
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June 3, 2009
From left, Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.), Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) take part in a news conference on anti-Semitic teaching on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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April 27, 2009
Weiner comments about the latest developments in regards to the swine flu outbreak in front of St. Francis Preparatory School in the Queens borough of New York.
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Jan. 23, 2009
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, second from left, joins Sen. Robert Menendez, far left, Weiner, third from left, and Rep. Albio Sires, center, at a news conference following a tour of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
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Jan. 15, 2008
Weiner speaks as Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), right, listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Weiner and Wexler introduced a bill to stop a $123 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
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Oct. 30, 2005
New York Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer, second right, walks with Weiner; Manhattan borough president C. Virginia Fields, Ferrer's wife Aramina, and daughter Carlina, left to right, before his debate with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at WABC studios in New York.
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Jun 6, 2005
Democrats and Republicans square off in annual baseball game in Washington. Weiner has a laugh with Republican baserunner Virgil Goode (R-Va.).
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July 8, 2004
Weiner listens to his coach before the start of the the 43rd annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game at Prince George's Stadium in Bowie.
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Nov. 5, 2003
Weiner, third from left, joins Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), center, and other congressmen in front of the Supreme Court building protesting President George W. Bush's signing of the Partial Birth Abortion Bill.
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April 24, 2002
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton, left, speaks with the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, and Rep. Anthony Weiner at a voter registration rally, part of a Democratic National Committee nationwide voter registration initiative, in New York.
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June 1, 2001
Mathew Donoghue, who worked on the White House Council on Environmental Quality, talks about the embarrasment of being accussed of damaging the White House during the transistion period as Weiner, right, listens in front of the Old EOB building.
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March 20, 1999
President Clinton smiles after his weekly radio address from the Oval Office where he outlined a national strategy to crack down on gun violence and illegal gun markets. Joining the president at rear are, left to right: Attorney General Janet Reno, Undersecretary of the Treasury James Johnson and Weiner.
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