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"To have to sit through that and hear all that again ... it's brutal, brutal," Rod R. Blagojevich said with the family dog, Skittles, resting on his lap. Listening to former aides, confidants and once-close friends testify against him was particularly painful, he added. All are expected to take the stand again. (Associated Press)
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Andrew Breitbart's new book is already soaring to the top of best-seller lists. (Hachette Book Group)
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Actress Tina Fey portrays then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live" on Sept. 13, 2008, shortly after Mrs. Palin's selection as the Republican vice presidential nominee. (Associated Press)
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Actress-comedienne Tina Fey, 40, arrives at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Aug. 29. Ms. Fey has won seven Emmys, as well as three Golden Globes. (Associated Press)
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Brooklyn, N.Y., resident Jennifer Egan, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction with "A Visit From the Goon Squad," says she was inspired by Marcel Proust in writing about the impact of change. (Associated Press)
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A lawmaker casts his vote in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city located 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Local lawmakers elected a new governor for a job that had been vacant for nearly two months. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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The Steve Miller Band's "Let Your Hair Down!" is a collection of blues standards done with inventive arrangements. It benefits from the band's extensive touring.
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Los Angeles Times photographer Barbara Davidson learns Monday that she won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for a series on gang violence in the city. The Times also won a Pulitzer for exposing high salaries in Bell, Calif. (Associated Press)
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new series, "Veep" on HBO, will be shot in Baltimore, where its pilot was filmed as the District's stand-in. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this 2011 file photo, one firm swipe from an excavator demolishes a New Orleans house damaged in Hurricane Katrina. Preservationists and HBO, which uses several such ramshackle houses in ads for "Treme," tried but failed to save them. (Associated Press)
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Christopher Hart, 8, of the District, holds a spinning plate as jester and entertainer Nick Newlin looks on during an open house for Shakespeare's Birthday at the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, April 17, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Renaissance era jester and entertainer Nick Newlin juggles for the crowd during an open house for Shakespeare's Birthday at the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, April 17, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Winner Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya crosses the finish line of the 115th Boston Marathon in Boston Monday, April 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Anais Buron, 7, of Bethesda, tries on a Renaissance-era dress during Sunday's open house at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrating Shakespeare's 446th birthday. The costumes were among the activites tied to the English author's life and times. Jester and entertainer Nick Newlin (below)j uggles for visitors at Shakespeare's birthday celebration. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Jester and entertainer Nick Newlin juggles for visitors at Shakespeare's birthday celebration. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya, winner of men's elite division of the 2010 Boston Marathon, listens to reporter's question during a news conference for the 115th Boston Marathon, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Boston. The Boston Marathon is schedulted to run on Monday, April 18. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)
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Sahr Ngaujah, portraying the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, performs at New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday after the ensemble cast from the Tony award-winning "Fela!" brought the Broadway production to the native country of the Afrocbeat superstar for a series of performances. Audiences saw the musical in a concert space run by the star's son Femi and daughter Yeni. The New Afrika Shrine is a relocated version of the place where their father once played, which later burned down. (Associated Press)
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Syrian women attend an anti-government protest in Banias, Syria, on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in this photo taken by a citizen journalist on a cellphone and acquired by the Associated Press. (AP Photo)
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The Philadelphia Orchestra rehearses for the first time in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in December 2001 in this file photo. The orchestra's musical director has curated a playlist for pets that's being piped into the shelter at the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the AP reported on April 11, 2019. (Philadelphia Orchestra/Eric Sellen ) **FILE**
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Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Mary and their children, Prince Christian, and Princess Isabella, at the Copenhagen Navy Church, Holmens, Thursday, April 14 2011, during the baptism of their 3 month old twins. Denmark's royal family has celebrated the baptism of baby twins Prince Vincent Frederik Minik and Princess Jospehine Sofie Ivalo Mathilda. In line with royal tradition, the names remained secret until Thursday's ceremony at the Holmen church in downtown Copenhagen. (AP Photo/Tariq Mikkel Khan/Polfoto, Pool) DENMARK OUT
