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Mitt Romney campaigns at the shuttered Solyndra plant in Fremont, Calif., on Thursday. "It's a symbol not of success, but of failure," he said of the company lauded by President Obama that received $535 million in government-backed loan guarantees. (Associated Press)
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A woman casts her vote at a polling station in North Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday. Irish voters went to the polls to vote on ratification of the European Union's Fiscal Treaty, a deficit-fighting pact designed to bind debt-ridden eurozone members to much tighter spending limits. (Associated Press)
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SunTrust Mortgage, a subsidiary of SunTrust Bank, has agreed to pay $21 million to resolve a suit in which the Justice Department claimed it increased interest rates and fees for qualified black and Hispanic borrowers. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** John Edwards speaks May 31, 2012, outside a federal courthouse as his daughter Cate Edwards (left) and parents Wallace Edwards (second from right) and Bobbie Edwards look on after the jury's verdict in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** John Edwards arrives at a federal courthouse during the eighth day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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John Edwards arrives at a federal courthouse during the eighth day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. The jury declared it was deadlocked on five of the six counts related to campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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John Edwards arrives at a federal courthouse during the eighth day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Former Sen. John Edwards leaves a federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., on Thursday, May 31, 2012, during the ninth day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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The property at 4661 Black Stump Road in Weems, Va., is on the market for $3,300,000. It includes two docks, a main house, a carriage house, and a horse barn.
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Specialist Allison Gamba works at her post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on concerns about the stability of Europe's financial system. (Associated Press)
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Passers-by are reflected in the window of the Nasdaq media center as they view reports of trading activity on Facebook's stock on the Nasdaq stock market in New York. The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions. The stock fell $3.07 to close at $28.84 on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Graduation is held for the U.S. Navy Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington)