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North Koreans pay their respects to the late leader Kim Jong-il in front of his portrait in Chagang, North Korea, on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Minnesota Vikings free safety Mistral Raymond (41) intercepts a ball intended for Washington Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss (89) in the fourth period as the Washington Redskins take on the Minnesota Vikings at Fedex Field, Landover, MD, Saturday, December 24, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko prepares to testify on Capitol Hill on Thursday before a Senate Clean Air and Nuclear Safety subcommittee hearing. He said the newly approved design would ensure safety through simplified security functions and other features. He also said plants using the design could withstand damage from an airplane crash without significant release of radioactive materials - an issue that gained attention after the 2001 terrorist attacks. (Associated Press)
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Flood debris awaits pickup in front of a Christmas manger scene Wednesday at a West Pittston, Pa., home. Months after a tropical storm caused Susquehanna River flooding, many will be out of their homes for Christmas. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A resident of Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines dries his clothes on toppled trees along a riverbank on Thursday. Flash flooding Dec. 16 killed more than 1,000 people.
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Bill Graves, president of the American Trucking Association, objects to the restart provision in the new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration work rules. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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North Koreans cry as they pay their respects to Kim Jong-il, their late leader, at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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D.R. Horton is building 13 single-family homes on 7,500-square-foot sites at Kensington Heights in Kensington. The Easton model, with 2,809 square feet, is priced from $629,990.
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EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said the agency's new rule that will limit toxic pollutants released by coal- and oil-fired power plants is the Obama administration's "biggest clean-air action yet." (Associated Press)
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North Korean military personnel cry as they visit the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay their respects to leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Mourners gather in Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, to pay their respects to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who died Saturday. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Emergency responders assists victims of a multiple-vehicle accident on westbound Interstate 40 about 15 miles west of Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/The Amarillo Globe News, Michael Schumacher)
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Kyodo News via Associated Press The body of longtime North Korean leader Kim Jong-il lies in state Tuesday in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. The Stalinist Northeast Asian nation is in an 11-day period of official mourning.
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The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is laid out in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/KRT)
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Paul Locke, chairman of the committee that wrote a National Academy of Sciences report on the safety of mining uranium in Virginia, says "there are still many unknowns" about the safety of lifting a ban on mining the radioactive material. (Associated Press)
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'TIME IS NOW': Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell issues a warning about the Internet. (Rod Lamkey Jr./ The Washington Times)
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Commuters board a bus that was one of the few still operating during a 24-hour bus strike in Lima, Peru, in July. Most bus drivers struck to protest an increase in fines and the reorganization of the bus system. The nation's capital contends with exasperating traffic congestion and gridlock on major thoroughfares. (Associated Press)
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Soldiers and health workers carry the body of a flash-flood victim in preparation for a mass burial at a public cemetery on Monday in Iligan city, southern Philippines. Tropical storm Washi blew away Monday after devastating the southern Philippines with flash floods that killed hundreds of people as they slept and turned two coastal cities into a muddy wasteland filled with overturned cars and uprooted trees. (Associated Press)
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Hundreds of North Koreans gather in front of a giant statue of former leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, to mourn the death of Kim Jong-il. (AP Photo/APTN)
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A man reacts as he walks with flowers towards the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Kim Jong-il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died, North Korean state media announced Monday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
