Politics

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Egyptian demonstrators gather May 25, 2012, in Cairo's Tahrir Square to denounce the electoral success of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (right) salutes a huge crowd July 31, 1938, at a sports meeting in Breslau, Germany. (Associated Press)

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An Egyptian election official counts ballots May 24, 2012, following the presidential election in Cairo. (Associated Press)

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Howard L. Brooks (right), an aide to D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, makes his way to a waiting car after pleading guilty Thursday in federal court to lying about furtive campaign payments to candidate Sulaimon Brown before the 2010 Democratic primary for mayor. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Salina Beattie display work they did together in a sixth grade language arts class during Mr. Romney's visit to Universal Bluford Charter School in West Philadelphia, Pa. His statement that "just getting smaller classrooms didn't seem to be the key" to improving education was challenged. (Associated Press)

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President George W. Bush greets Artie Muller, national executive director of Rolling Thunder, and singer Nancy Sinatra at the White House in May 2004. Mr. Muller and Miss Sinatra will again be part of the Memorial Day Rolling Thunder tribute to veterans. (Associated Press)

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Loretta Nowakowski, president of the Democratic Club at the Greenspring retirement commmunity in Springfield, chats with Democratic Senate hopeful Tim Kaine, who was there to court seniors. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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A political activist paints a mural on a wall Thursday in Cairo's Tahrir Square. During the uprising that resulted in the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Tahrir Square was the central gathering point for protesters. Since the revolution, many streets leading to the square display murals dedicated to the uprising and those who died in it. (Associated Press)

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Mayor David Brown checks out a former sawmill site in Potlatch, Idaho. The community was once home to the nation's largest sawmill, and hopes to be revitalized as a gun-making town. Business leaders are actively seeking manufacturers. (Associated Press)

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Tensions between the Chinese people and foreigners – countries and visitors alike – are on the rise. Examples range from Chinese protesters (above) voicing their anger with the Philippines at the embassy in Beijing to a foreign woman teasing a young boy in Tiananmen Square (top). Many view the antagonism as an attempt by China's government to put the spotlight on outsiders as a distraction from the slowing economy, a high-level political scandal and a blind activist's daring flight into U.S. custody. (Associated Press)

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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen arrives in character for the premiere of his film "Borat" in Los Angeles in October 2006. (Associated Press)

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Sacha Baron Cohen stars in the title role of his new film "The Dictator," which has been a dud at the box office. (Paramount Pictures)

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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks to guests at a naturalization ceremony Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Albright, herself a naturalized citizen, was the keynote speaker for the event. Afterwards she donated objects from her diplomatic career, including the red suit she was wearing when named the first female secretary of state, an UN peacekeepers hat and a briefcase, to the museum. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)