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House Speaker John Boehner abruptly announced his resignation Friday, shutting down a tea party drive to depose the nation's highest-ranking Republican.

The 13-term Ohio lawmaker, second in line to the presidency, shocked his rank and file when he told them of his plans in a private meeting. He said he would step down from the speaker's job he's held for nearly five years, and from Congress, at the end of October.

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