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Kevin Concannon, USDA's undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services, testified before a House panel on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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The father-son relationship between Robert De Niro and Paul Dano is at the heart of "Being Flynn," based on a druggy coming-of-age memoir by Nick Flynn. (Focus Features via Associated Press)
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Andrew Ramos (left) was charged with reckless endangerment in connection with a fatal shooting in Aspen Hill on Wednesday. Christopher Edwards (right) was charged with second-degree murder and reckless endangerment in connection with the crime.
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A Montgomery County sheriff's deputy walks away March 7, 2012, from an old school bus in Spendora, Texas, where an 11-year-old girl and her five-year-old brother were found living on their own. Both of the children's parents are in prison, officials said. (Associated Press/Houston Chronicle)
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Job seekers attend a National Career Fair in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe is sworn in before his testimony during a Council of the District of Columbia Committee on the Judiciary public hearing in the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, March 7, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe keeps to himself before his testimony at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday before the D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary to answer questions about a number of ongoing issues within the department. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson asks D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe questions at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Chief Ellerbe appeared before the D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary. "I never meant to or intended to harass anyone," he said. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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An Israeli diplomat's wife, her driver and two other people in a nearby car were injured when a magnetic bomb is believed to have been attached to the diplomat's car and then detonated. (Associated Press)
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Vincent Groves, seen here in an undated photo provided by the Denver District Attorney's Office, was convicted of murdering three women and died in prison in 1996. Authorities said he killed four other women between 1979 and 1988 and might be responsible for as many as 20 homicides. (Associated Press/Denver District Attorney's Office)
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Nadia Kahf (right), executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Aref Assaf, president of the American Arab Forum, speak to the media March 3, 2012, as they leave a meeting with federal and state law enforcement officials at the Richard Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton, N.J. (Associated Press)
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Facial images based on forensic reconstruction of skeletal remains of two sailors aboard the USS Monitor, a CIvil War-era ironclad ship that sank in 1862, have prompted one federal agency to ask the public: do you know these men? (Images from NOAA)
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Facial images based on forensic reconstruction of skeletal remains of two sailors aboard the USS Monitor, a CIvil War-era ironclad ship that sank in 1862, have prompted one federal agency to ask the public: do you know these men? (Images from NOAA)
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** FILE ** Jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford arrives in custody at the federal courthouse in Houston in August 2010. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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** FILE ** Dharun Ravi sits in a courtroom during his trial at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J., on Monday, March 5, 2012. (AP Photo/The Star-Ledger, John O'Boyle, Pool)
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**FILE** Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis testifies July 10, 2010, on Capitol Hill before the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Associated Press)
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Protesters hold banners that read "Freedom Syria" and "Stop the: lies, stealing, murder" during a March 6, 2012, rally against Syrian President Bashar Assad regime in front of the Syrian embassy in Belgrade, Serbia. (Associated Press)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat "is among the gravest that government leaders can face," but justified the action as legal and sometimes necessary in the war on terrorism.
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Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland Republican: "Law-abiding Americans should not have to prove to governments that they have a need to own and use a gun to defend themselves and their family members." (Associated Press)
