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**FILE** In this photo from March 17, 2011, Christine Kwapnoski is seen at her home in Bay Point, Calif. The Supreme Court has ruled against Kwapnoski and four other plaintiffs in a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of women who work there. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Natasha Alexenko, who was raped at gunpoint as a college student, was interviewed for the HBO documentary "Sex Crimes Unit."
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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, members of the media and others examine the remains of a damaged residential building in Tripoli, Libya, on June 19, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Amanda Knox, second from left, walks past her lawyer Luciano Ghirga, as she arrives in court for the appeal trial in Perugia, Italy, Saturday, June 18, 2011. Knox was convicted of murdering her British roommate in Perugia, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
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U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan, right, talks to reporters, Friday, June 17, 2011, in Seattle, as San Juan County prosecutor Randall Gaylord looks on at left, after Colton Harris-Moore, known as the "Barefoot Bandit," pleaded guilty to seven charges stemming from a multi-state crime spree that included the thefts of several airplanes and boats. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Law enforcement work near the Pentagon after a suspicious vehicle forced multiple road closures Friday, June 17, 2011 in Arlington, Va. One person was taken into custody early Friday morning in Arlington National Cemetery after it closed. "This is an unfolding situation," said U.S. Park Police. Police were investigating a suspicious package in the man's car parked in the bushes near the Pentagon's North Parking lot. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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** FILE ** Young people hold a banner that translates as "For equal rights without compromise" during an equality march in downtown Moscow on Sunday, May 22, 2011. The demonstrators protested against discrimination based on sex or gender orientation and called for equal rights for women and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Law enforcement work near the Pentagon after a suspicious vehicle forced multiple road closures Friday, June 17, 2011 in Arlington, Va. In a situation that is still unfolding, officials say one man is in custody after they found his car, parked in the bushes near the Pentagon. The car contained material that appears to be ammonium nitrate, spent 9 mm shells and written materials stating "al Qaeda Taliban rules." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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American Girl at Tyson's Corner Center in McLean, Va. on Thursday, June 16, 2011. The grand opening of American Girl is Saturday, June 18. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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"It is beyond dispute that children will often feel bound to submit to police questioning when an adult in the same circumstances would feel free to leave," said Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the case involving juvenile rights. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Anthony D. Weiner (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, heard testimony Wednesday from ATF agents about their frustrations with now-halted Fast and Furious operation.
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This undated photo released by the U.S. Marshals Service, Wednesday, June 15, 2011, shows former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., who pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and campaign law violations in early June. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)
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A local resident walks near a house (center) on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in early May. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "The high turnout for the referendums demonstrates that the desire of citizens to participate in the decisions about our future cannot be ignored," Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said. Final results showed overwhelming majorities of those casting ballots chose to throw out two laws to privatize the water supply, kill a law reviving nuclear energy and undo the so-called "legitimate impediment" law offering the Italian leader a partial legal shield in criminal prosecutions.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sponsors of California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban are trying to persuade a federal judge that Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning the ban should be tossed out because he did not disclose he was in a long-term relationship with another man.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Demonstrators marched to the U.S. District Court building in Los Angeles on Monday to demand that federal prosecutors bring charges against a white transit officer who was released from jail after serving half of a two-year sentence for fatally shooting Mr. Grant, an unarmed black man.
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Angel Ayala-Vazquez — known as "Angelo Millones" and "El Buster" — led Puerto Rico's most powerful drug trafficking organization. He was convicted in April of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin, marijuana and pills such as Percocet and Xanax. (Department of Justice)
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** FILE ** In this Monday, June 6, 2011, file photo U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., addresses a news conference in New York, N.Y. Weiner, who has been under fire after admitting to sending graphic photos to women online, has acknowledged he had online contact with a 17-year-old girl but said the communications were "neither explicit nor indecent." (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Colton Harris-Moore, seen here in July 2010, exits a plane handcuffed and escorted by police upon arrival in Nassau, Bahamas. He was subsequently extradited back to the U.S. for trial. On Thursday, he pleaded not guilty to a series of crimes. (Associated Press)
