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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke advised Congress earlier this year to avoid big spending cuts now and rein in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare over the next five to 10 years. (Associated Press)
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is waging a quiet war against al Qaeda in Yemen. (Associated Press)
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Yemeni policemen patrol the area near the courthouse during the trial session of Saleh al-Shawish in San'a, Yemen, on Monday. A court in Yemen has sentenced the al Qaeda militant to death after convicting him of involvement in terror attacks and manufacturing explosives. After hearing Monday's verdict, al-Shawish vowed that al Qaeda will exact revenge on Yemen's government. (Associated Press)
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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is a defendant in an injunction request to stop enforcing expansion of a new obscenity law. (Associated Press)
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District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, here in 2002, is at the center of the debate on gays in the military with her ruling to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. (Associated Press)
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Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta said regarding the lawsuit against the former agent who wrote a revealing book: "CIA officers are duty-bound to observe the terms of their secrecy agreement with the agency. This lawsuit clearly reinforces that message." (Associated Press)
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Carlos Barrios, whose wife and mistress both went to the mine after the collapse, leaves the Copiapo hospital with an unidentified woman on Friday. (Associated Press)
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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft argues he should be shielded from lawsuits concerning his official duties. (Associated Press)
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James Cromitie, seen here in May 2009 in New York after being arrested in a plot to bomb synagogues and shoot down military aircraft, was among four defendants convicted Monday. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan is pictured at the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas, in April 2010. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department)
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** FILE ** Kevin Ring testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in June 2005. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Associate Justice Samuel Alito is seen during the group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) ** FILE **
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** FILE ** The front window of the DC9 nightclub in Washington, is covered on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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FILE - Actor Sean Connery attends the 8th annual Dressed To Kilt charity fashion show in New York, in this April 5, 2010 file photo. A Spanish court official says Sean Connery won't be appearing in court as requested by a judge investigating an allegedly shady real estate deal known in Spain as the "Goldfinger Case." The official says the 72-year-old actor sent the judge a letter explaining he cannot travel to Spain because of his age and unspecified health issues. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
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US principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, John W Henry, gestures as he leaves a law firm in London, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. Liverpool's board of directors won the latest court battle in the drawn-out attempt to sell the club to the owners of the Boston Red Sox on Thursday, leaving the current American owners with slim hopes of using the Texas legal system to block the deal. On a second successive day of legal wrangling on both sides of the Atlantic, a British High Court judge granted an injunction against co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr., ordering them to withdraw their legal action in a Dallas district court. (AP Photo Dominic Lipinski/PA)
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Dell CEO Michael Dell, right, leaves the federal court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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File - British author J K Rowling arrives to launch her latest book called 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' at a children's tea party in Edinburgh, Scotland, in this Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008 file photo. A British judge refused to dismiss a plagiarism lawsuit against "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling on Thursday Oct. 14 2010, saying claims that the best-selling author stole ideas from an obscure fantasy book deserved to be considered at a proper hearing. (AP Photo, file)
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A bust of Adolf Hitler is pictured in front of a portrait of Hitler during a preview for the exhebition 'Hitler and the Germans - nation and crime' in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. The exhibition runs from Oct. 15, 2010 until Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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FILE- In this Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005 file photo, former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in California Marion True is escorted by an unidentified lawyer as she leaves a Rome courtroom. A Rome judge on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, declared an end to the six-year-old trial of a former J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True, a case that followed with concern by museums worldwide, because the statute of limitations had expired, defense lawyers said. The case against True involved about 35 artifacts acquired by the museum between 1986 and the late 1990s, including bronze Etruscan pieces, frescoes and painted Greek vessels. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
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Courtroom sketches of John Gotti, as well as a book by artist Marilyn Church, are on display in her studio, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, in New York. Church has been a courtroom artist in the New York area for more than 30 years. She's sketched portraits of Bernard Madoff, Martha Stewart, Woody Allen, John Gotti and others. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
