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John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable, speaks with editors and reporters of The Washington Times in December. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano (riding fifth horse from left) tours the U.S.-Mexico border with Border Patrol agents in the Coronado National Forest near Nogales, Ariz., in October. Starting in January, the force of 1,200 National Guard troops at the border will be reduced to fewer than 300 at a cost of about $60 million. (Associated Press)
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Kyodo News via Associated Press The body of longtime North Korean leader Kim Jong-il lies in state Tuesday in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. The Stalinist Northeast Asian nation is in an 11-day period of official mourning.
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George Mason senior guard Andre Cornelius was suspended 10 games for pleading guilty to misdemeanor credit card fraud in November. (Associated Press)
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Londoners have offered Queen Elizabeth II suggestions on how to save money in a down economy. (The Washington Times)
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Kevin Harpham has pleaded guilty in connection with a plan to detonate a bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., on Jan. 17. (Associated Press)
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Anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square react to a televised statement on Feb. 10, 2011, by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down the following day. His departure and that of Tunisia's Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali have some seeing the twilight of U.S. influence in the Middle East and others seeing new opportunities. (Associated Press)
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"No one is immune from the waves of change. ...We are witnessing something that is transformative and whose full impact will play out over years, maybe decades, ahead." - Nicholas Burns, a professor of diplomacy and international politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former No. 3 official at the State Department
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Egyptian women angered by recent violence leveled against them in clashes between army soldiers and protesters demonstrate in Cairo on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. One protester carries a poster that reads in English: "Down with military rule, Military are liars and We will cut your hand." (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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** FILE ** President Obama, speaking at a briefing at the White House on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, said a "faction" of House Republicans is refusing to vote on a Senate bill that would extend a payroll-tax cut for two months. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**
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President Obama (center) and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left) greet Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, on the apron at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, walks Dec. 20, 2011, to the House floor in the Capitol in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination, autographs a book before a stop at Global Security Services in Davenport, Iowa, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is laid out in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/KRT)
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In this image made from KRT television, Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's youngest known son and successor, visits the body of senior Kim with top military and Workers' Party officials in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/KRT)
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GRIEF: North Koreans were in a state of mourning in Pyongyang on Monday after learning of the demise of their leader, Kim Jong-il, who died Saturday. The Marxist dictator had inherited power from his father and ruled for 17 years. (Associated Press)
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UNCERTAINTY: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (right) huddles with his National Security Council on Monday about strategy for North Korean relations.
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An Egyptian man chants slogans denouncing military rule in Cairo's Tahrir Square. At least three people were killed during a military sweep early Monday, pushing the death toll from four days of street clashes to at least 14. (Associated Press)
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Egyptians stand on a barrier set up by the military to separate army troops from demonstrators near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Hundreds of soldiers in riot gear swept through the square early Monday and opened fire on protesters who demanded an immediate end to military rule. (Associated Press)
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Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Robert McDowell answers a question during a meeting with editors and reporters of The Washington Times on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
