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People endure the heat as they wait in line to see former President Ronald Reagan's casket as it lies in state at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Thursday June 10, 2004. ( Jessica Tefft / The Washington Times )
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Occupy activists attend training in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Occupy the Caucus headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday. Starting Wednesday, Occupy protesters are vowing to interrupt candidates at events and make life difficult at their Iowa offices by camping inside or outside them. They say they want to change the political dialogue, but critics fear their tactics could tarnish Iowa's reputation for civil political discourse ahead of the Jan. 3 caucuses. (Associated Press)
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Goalie Tomas Vokoun's appearance in relief of Michal Neuvirth on Monday night was his first action for the Washington Capitals in almost two weeks. (AP Photo)
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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, makes a campaign stop Dec. 27, 2011, at the Dubuque Golf and Country Club in Dubuque, Iowa. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Painter Helen Frankenthaler receives the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush during ceremonies at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington in April 2002. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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This image made from amateur video and released by Ugarit News Group Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, purports to show a Syrian military tank in Homs, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News Group via APTN)
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Members of a South Korean mourners delegation, including Hyun Jeong-eun (center), chairwoman of Hyundai Group, pay their respects to the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. (AP Photo)
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A Syrian Kurdish boy carries a banner during a protest outside the Arab League office in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. The protesters said the Arab League was not serious in attempts to stop the Syrian regime crackdown. A man behind the boy was carrying a poster of President Bashar Assad of Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Outside groups on both sides are spending millions of dollars on Massachusetts' high-profile U.S. Senate race between Republican Sen. Scott P. Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren (seen here). The level of spending foreshadows the role such groups will play in many of next fall's big political matchups. (Associated Press)
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Outside groups on both sides are spending millions of dollars on Massachusetts' high-profile U.S. Senate race between Republican Sen. Scott P. Brown (seen here) and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. The level of spending foreshadows the role such groups will play in many of next fall's big political matchups. (Associated Press)
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Yemen's outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh wants permission to travel to the U.S. for medical treatment. (Associated Press)
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Bill Langdon co-owns the Grand Ole Pub in West Chester, Ohio. He said he hears more people in the popular gathering spot for Republican partisans who like Newt Gingrich in the GOP presidential field. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In 1998, voters in the District approved the Medical Use of Marijuana Initiative. (The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Jack Evans, Ward 2 Democrat, has scheduled a committee mark-up of a bill that would repeal authority for iGaming.
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** FILE ** Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, autographs a campaign poster at Tangleberries in Centerville, Iowa, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, in her bid for the GOP presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)
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Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann signs an autograph during a campaign stop in Centerville, Iowa, on Friday. The Minnesota congresswoman is in the midst of a barnstorming tour in Iowa, home to the Jan. 3 caucuses. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is trying to convince voters he is the candidate who simply understands money and knows how to create jobs. Working against Mr. Romney is a long, sometimes puzzling record of changing positions that makes it hard to pin down his stances. (Associated Press)
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Some lawmakers suspected that House Speaker John A. Boehner had acquiesced in the two-month extension of payroll tax cuts that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell worked out, and he was challenged on it in a closed-door meeting. Mr. Boehner bristled at the accusation, according to several participants, and denied it flatly. (Associated Press)
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While speaker of the U.S. House, Newt Gingrich's House colleagues overwhelmingly voted to reprimand him for bringing discredit on the chamber. "The way I was dealt with related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than the ethics," he said of the 1997 vote. The findings were brought back into the limelight last month when he surged to the top among Republican presidential hopefuls. (Associated Press)
