Politics

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Presiding judge of the First Senate of the German Federal Constitutional Court Ferdinand Kirchhof announces its verdict on the anti-terrorism database in Karlsruhe, Germany, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Germany's top court has upheld the legality of an anti-terrorism database, but has ordered the government to tweak how it is operated. (AP Photo/dpa, Uli Deck)

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** FILE ** Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during the dedication of a room in the Capitol Visitors Center to slain congressional staffer Gabriel Zimmerman on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Zimmerman died two years ago in the Tucson, Ariz., attack that critically wounded Giffords and took six lives. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, is welcomed by Saudi Crown Prince, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense Salman bin Abdulaziz , center, during a meeting at his residence in Riyadh, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)

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Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz's public "F-bomb" at Fenway Park after the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon was indicative of the coarsening of American society. (Associated Press)

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has political aspirations in Australia. Will voters Down Under see through the WikiLeaks Party's facade and vote against Mr. Assange? It's hard to say. (Associated Press)

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White House press secretary Jay Carney says airline delays "are a result of the sequester that Republicans insisted take place."

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Valerie Parlave of the FBI's Washington field office — flanked by Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. attorney for Maryland (left) and Ronald Machen Jr., U.S. attorney for the District — speaks about the return to the U.S. of Mr. Toth, a former teacher at the Beauvoir school who fled the U.S. in 2008,

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Head Stone Mason Joe Alonso points to spires that broke off the Washington National Cathedral during a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in August of 2011, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 22, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Head Stone Mason Joe Alonso points to spires that broke off the Washington National Cathedral during a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in August of 2011, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 22, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Cathedral Stone Mason/Stone Carver Sean Callahan works on repairing a section of the North east corner of the Apse, the eastern most point of the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 22, 2013. Repairs continue on the Washington National Cathedral, which sustained millions of dollars worth of damage from a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in August of 2011(Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)