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** FILE ** National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter testifies in January 2010 on Capitol Hill before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on intelligence reform. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter (left) testifies in January 2010 on Capitol Hill before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on intelligence reform. (Associated Press)

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With temperatures again reaching the high 90s and a heat index above 100 degrees, Keti Khatiashvili of Tbilisi, Georgia, pours water on herself while cooling off in the fountain at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The home at 7105 Meadow Lane in Chevy Chase is on the market for $2,195,000. The six-bedroom home has four full baths, a powder room and a detached two-car garage. It was built in 1933.

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Today's mudrooms can be functional, yet stylish, as they bring order and organization into a home. Some families choose to link the mudroom and laundry room and even include a small desk or workstation. (Photo courtesy of Case Design/Remodeling Inc.)

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The Hylton Group is building 96 three-level town-home-style condominiums at Hampton Square Condominiums in Dale City. The Ashley II model has approximately 2,553 square feet including the garage, with base prices from $299,000.

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Mitchell Orenstein (left), market director for Combined Insurance, speaks with Gabriel Moraga of Somerville, Mass., at a job fair in Boston on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Cincinnati artist Jules Itzkoff (left) says the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe riding a surfboard is "so beautiful and so different that it doesn't resemble what we normally think of as graffiti." (Associated Press)

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BigGovernment.com posted this photo that purports to show Rep. Anthony D. Weiner shirtless. A woman said she received shirtless shots of the New York congressman. (BigGovernment.com)

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A fire that engulfed most of Otsuchi, Japan, burned the bottoms of trees around the Ko-tsuchi temple but didn't reach these stone tablets or the main wooden shrine. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)

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Meredith Vieira, co-host of the NBC "Today" television program, sheds a tear during her final show on June 8, 2011, in New York. (Associated Press)

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"Do they expect the Chinese to reverse course on their current policy and start heavily buying U.S. debt once again?" asked Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital. "That seems extremely unlikely." (Associated Press)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell greets children at Barcroft Elementary in Arlington as he leaves Tuesday's rally to launch the Share Our Strength No Kid Hungry campaign. "Some of you are going to have a very busy future, and so you all need to make sure you're eating right," Mr. McDonnell told them. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Associated Press Arna Hemenway, 23, a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, in Iowa City, Iowa, recently completed the first year of his participation in the two-year program, the nation's oldest and most prestigious for creative writing.

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Associated Press Iowa Writers' Workshop student Arna Hemenway works on a novel manuscript Thursday in the Frank Conroy Reading Room in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Delegates explore a prototype of an advance security screening system developed by IATA in Singapore on June 7, 2011, during the Executive Briefing on Aviation in a Dangerous World at The Air Transport Association's 67th Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit, held in Singapore over three days. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Miami's Chris Bosh said he couldn't let getting poked in the eye bother him during the Heat's Game 3 victory.

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**FILE** President Obama speaks on June 3, 2011, in front of a Jeep Wrangler at Chrysler Group's Toledo Assembly complex in Toledo, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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Walking arm in arm, Ryan O'Meara and Lindsey Brandt go down the stairs to the ballroom. "All of the kids talk about it and enjoy this event," said Janet Rogers, the mother of one attendee. The Rogers family paid $1,500 to sponsor a table. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. tests the waters for a 2012 GOP presidential bid Saturday with some retail politicking in Gorham, N.H.