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Republican presidential candidates and fellow Mormons Mitt Romney (left) and Jon Huntsman Jr., were all smiles before the start of the Fourth of July parade this year in Amherst, N.H. "It's not so much that the church is more or less accepted, it's that you have two well-qualified candidates who happen to be LDS," Quin Monson of Brigham Young University said. (Associated Press)
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Pakistan army troops secure an area after an explosion at an army ammunition depot in Sihala, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, July 11, 2011. One soldier was killed and three others were injured, security officials said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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** FILE ** Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn (above) is the Democratic candidate in a special election to fill the seat of retiring U.S. Rep. Jane Harman. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, File)
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** FILE ** Craig Huey, the tea-party-backed Republican candidate in a special election for a U.S. House seat, talks with staff at Creative Direct Marketing Group in Torrance, Calif., in May 2011. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Steve McCrank)
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President Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations during a press conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Monday, July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations on Monday, July 11, 2011, in the press briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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A Pakistani soldier takes a position during a military operation against militants in Pakistan's Khurram tribal region on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)
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** FILE ** In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA and according to them, thousands of supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, carry a gigantic 17,500 yards (16,000 meters) Syrian flag during a pro-Assad demonstration, in the Mediterranean city of Latakia, northewest of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/SANA)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS 'GREAT MOMENT': Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that the administration wants "the biggest deal possible" on debt reduction.
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, is the target of a lawsuit by an ex-aide who claims the congresswoman is not a true advocate for the disabled. The ex-aide, who has a vision disability, has filed suit. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press photographs Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain finished first over the weekend in a straw poll of conservative activists at a gathering in Henderson, Nev., with 24 percent of the vote. Mr. Cain is the former chief executive officer of the Godfather's pizza restaurant chain.
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Miss America 2011 Teresa Scanlan certainly isn't the only pageant contestant ever to have political aspirations. The Republican vice-presidential nominee in the last election, Sarah Palin, placed third in the preliminary Miss Alaska Pageant in 1984. So Miss Scanlon's appearance and vibrant personality could be campaigning assets.
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Miss America 2011 Teresa Scanlan certainly isn't the only pageant contestant ever to have political aspirations. The Republican vice-presidential nominee in the last election, Sarah Palin, placed third in the preliminary Miss Alaska Pageant in 1984.
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Andy Coulson, a former British government communication chief and editor of the News of the World, was arrested Friday in the phone hacking and police corruption scandal. (Associated Press)
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta conducts a press briefing aboard his military aircraft on Saturday, July 9, 2011, en route to Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)
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Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa (third from left), with less prominent opposition figures, attends the opening session of government-sponsored reform talks in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, July 10, 2011. The banner reads, "National dialogue consultative meeting, July 10-11, 2011." (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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Afghans stand at the scene where a guard opened fire at a NATO-escorted reconstruction convoy in Dara, Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, July 9, 2011. The shooter killed a NATO service member and a civilian working for the coalition before being killed by return fire, the provincial police chief said. (AP Photo)
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Control a Strike Force Lightning Jet soldier in the video game Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.
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A woman prays as she holds a South Sudan flag and cross at the base of a statue of Dr. John Garang de Mabior, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, before the independence ceremony of South Sudan in Juba, South Sudan, on Saturday, July 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)
