Politics

20120530-203657-pic-538508016.jpg

Team Obama shifted from attacking Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital to his record on jobs in Massachusetts, which it called "among the worst in the nation." (Associated Press)

20120530-203657-pic-144010333.jpg

Mitt Romney sewed up the GOP nomination Tuesday night, and he got a call Wednesday from President Obama to wish him well. (Associated Press)

20120530-195950-pic-42687384.jpg

President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton applaud as former President George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush stand near the presidential portrait of Mr. Bush at its unveiling at the White House in 1995. A portrait of Mrs. Bush was unveiled as well. (Associated Press)

20120530-174808-pic-358242617.jpg

A Lebanese man (right) helps a Syrian family on Wednesday after they were shot by a Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria into Lebanon at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled in Akkar. (Associated Press)

20120530-174808-pic-704303893.jpg

This image purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. The announcement comes days after a massacre in Houla, in the central Homs province, which killed more than 100 people and prompted worldwide condemnation against the regime of President Bashar Assad.

20120530-174657-pic-236077883.jpg

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrate Wednesday in London outside Britain's Supreme Court, prior to its ruling greenlighting Mr. Assange's extradition to Sweden. (Associated Press)

20120530-170242-pic-737174440.jpg

"It's so rare to see grace trump military might, and when it happens we should make the most joyful noise we can," Bono says of Mrs. Suu Kyi, who spent 15 of the past 24 years and is now a member of Parliament. (Associated Press)

20120530-170242-pic-30839001.jpg

Bono will present Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with Amnesty International's highest honor next month when she visits Dublin a day after she collects her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. (Associated Press)

Presidential Campaign_Reps.jpg

** FILE ** In this May 29, 2012 photo, President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Obama's campaign was opening a new critique of Mitt Romney's record on Wednesday, focusing attention on the Republican nominee's economic agenda while he served as governor of Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)