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New York hotel workers jeer Dominique Strauss-Kahn as he arrives at the courthouse. "New York is the wrong place to mess with a hotel worker," said Aissata Bocum, a Ramada Inn housekeeper. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press MIT economics professor Peter A. Diamond said critics had failed to recognize the value of his expertise on the causes of unemployment in blocking his bid for a seat on the Federal Reserve board.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Apple CEO Steve Jobs, interrupting his medical leave to attend the firm's developers conference on Monday, introduces the new iCloud system, which stores user information from several devices, including iPhones and iPads, and makes sure the same data is available on all of them.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Apple CEO Steve Jobs tells the firm's developers conference on Monday the new iCloud system enables users to share songs and data among devices.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is contending with a scandal involving her chief of staff, issues about her own health and the intervention of her predecessor in a legislative issue at the same time she is managing a slowing economy and high inflation.
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Todd Allen, the lawyer for Warren and Maureen Nyerges, speaks to the media outside a Bank of America branch in Naples, Fla., while sheriff's deputies meet with the bank manager inside. (AP Photo/Naples Daily News, Eric Strachan)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs gestures to his audience during a keynote address to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 6, 2011. (Associated Press)
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President Obama tours Chrysler Group's Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday. "We´ve got a ways to go. Even though our economy has created more than 2 million private-sector jobs over the past 15 months and continues to grow, we´re facing some tough headwinds," he said.
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June Gregg of Bainbridge, Ohio, displays her original bankbook during her 100th-birthday celebration at the Chillicothe branch of Huntington National Bank on Tuesday in Chillicothe, Ohio. Miss Gregg's father opened a bank account for her in 1913, and she has held the same account ever since. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Former Sen. John Edwards (center) leaves the Federal Building in Winston-Salem, N.C., on June 3, 2011, with his daughter Cate Edwards (left). (Associated Press)
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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Human Services Committee Chairman Jim Graham confers with D.C. Council members about the nomination of Neil A. Stanley as director of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Makro, a big-box chain owned by South Africa's Massmart wholesale and retail business, soon may be part of the Wal-Mart family. South African regulators have approved Wal-Mart's bid to buy a controlling share of Massmart, which operates in more than a dozen African countries. providing access to more of the continent. The deal is expected to be finalized soon.
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Egyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar waits to be arraigned at Manhattan criminal court on May 31, 2011, in New York. Omar, the former chairman of one of Egypt's major banks, was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a maid at a Manhattan hotel. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Dave Camp, House Ways and Means Committee chairman, said Tuesday the House vote on raising the nation's debt ceiling "sends a clear and critical message that the Congress has finally recognized we must immediately begin to rein in America's affection for deficit spending." (Associated Press)
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A customer fuels up his car in view of gas prices on Friday in Philadelphia. A survey shows consumers are losing faith that the economy will keep improving. Factors include high gas prices and a moribund housing market. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A Nov. 27, 1968, photo shows the exterior of the Pierre Hotel in New York. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria and currently an executive with El-Mex Salines Co., was arrested on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, on charges of sexually abusing a maid at the hotel. (AP Photo)
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Brazilian Economy Minister Guido Mantega welcomes French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, the front-runner for chief of the International Monetary Fund. Brazil is one of several countries that wants the IMF search to go outside of Europe. (Associated Press)
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Kevin Cooper (41) of the Maryland Terrapins tries to navigate past Colin Briggs (34) of the Virginia Cavaliers in the first quarter during the 2011 NCAA Lacrosse Championship at M & T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 30, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Members of the U.S. Marine Corps Band from Quantico, Va., march down Constitution Avenue during the National Memorial Day Parade, in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times) ** FILE **
