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Rebel fighters practice shooting at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Libya, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Libyan fighters have surrounded the ousted dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed, a spokesman for Tripoli's new military council said. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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Indian police officers prepare to cover the scene of a blast outside the High Court in New Delhi on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, after a bomb apparently hidden in a briefcase exploded in the deadliest attack in the Indian capital in nearly three years. (AP Photo)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California listens Tuesday as fellow Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland discusses job creation. (Associated Press)
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A worker leaves with a moving box Wednesday at Solyndra in Fremont, Calif. The solar-panel manufacturer, which received a $535 million loan from the U.S. government, has announced layoffs of 1,100 workers and plans to file for bankruptcy. A weak economy and strong overseas competition have proved insurmountable. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks about his plan for creating jobs and improving the economy during a speech Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in Las Vegas, at McCandless International Trucks. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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The new director of the CIA, David Petraeus (right), talks with Vice President Joseph R. Biden (back to camera) and John Brennan, President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, after Mr. Petraeus was sworn in at the White House on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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NEW ROLE: David H. Petraeus takes the oath of office Tuesday as director of the CIA with a Bible held by his wife, Holly Knowlton Petraeus. Vice President Joseph R. Biden administered the oath. (Associated Press)
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Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight calls New York Mayor MIchael Bloomberg's decision to omit clergy and prayer from the official Ground Zero remembrance of the 9/11 attacks a "great injustice." (Image from Associated Press)
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Families of 9/11 victims and first responders will journey from Norfolk, Va. to the New York Harbor for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks aboard the USS New York, which is bolstered by seven tons of recovered World Trade Center steel in her bow. (Image from US Navy)
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@Subhead.frcd.22:"That report does not mean anything for us. We will determinedly maintain this process. Diplomatic relations will be downgraded as of tomorrow, trade relations, military relations have been suspended." @PullQuoteSig:-Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left), Turkey's prime minister
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has been nominated to head the new Consumer Protection Bureau. But Senate Republicans say he would have too much power. Democrats, for their part, complain of political games being played in the process.
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Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during the American Principles Project Palmetto Freedom Forum Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/ Mary Ann Chastain)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Palestinians of means shop at the new al-Andulusia mall in Gaza City. A flurry of construction is allowing a tiny middle class to flaunt its wealth in the impoverished Gaza Strip, fueling perhaps the most acrimonious grass-roots resentment yet toward the ruling Hamas movement.
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** FILE ** Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin Democrat, speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
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** FILE ** In a Thursday, June 16, 2011, file photo, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon in Washington. The College of William and Mary has named former U.S. Defense Secretary Gates as its next chancellor. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Republican presidential candidate, takes part in the American Principles Project Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, S.C., on Monday. Mrs. Bachmann argued that the federal Constitution should prevent states from enacting individual mandates. (Associated Press)
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NO 'CRISIS': Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said during a forum with other presidential candidates that he would be reluctant to use the 14th Amendment in an effort to reverse Roe v. Wade. (Associated Press)
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London Mayor Boris Johnson unveils "After 9/11" in Battersea Park in London on Monday. "It is only if we and our children properly remember and understand 9/11 that we can make sure that nothing like it ever happens again," he said. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS NO 'CRISIS': Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said during a forum with other presidential candidates that he would be reluctant to use the 14th Amendment in an effort to reverse Roe v. Wade.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Republican presidential candidate, takes part in the American Principles Project Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, S.C., on Monday. Mrs. Bachmann argued that the federal Constitution should prevent states from enacting individual mandates.
