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Volunteer Dave Southers, 38, from Washington, and Oceana member Kevin Connor, 29, from Arlington, look for trash along the Anacostia River during the river cleanup at Anacostia Park on Wednesday. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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The district represented by Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Virginia Democrat, could lose black voters in the state Senate's redistricting plan.
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Jon Huntsman Jr. sits on a Harley-Davidson at a dealership during a May visit to Manchester, N.H. The GOP presidential candidate is back in New Hampshire, traversing the campaign trail on a Harley Road King. (Associated Press)
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Carolyn Goodman celebrates with supporters after being elected mayor of Las Vegas on Tuesday. She will succeed her husband, Oscar Goodman (left), the much-loved mayor for the past 12 years who was barred by term limits from running again. (Associated Press)
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CIA Director Leon Panetta is expected to be the next secretary of defense. Pentagon officials are preparing appeals of cuts made by Secretary Robert M. Gates to present to Mr. Gates' successor. (Associated Press)
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Robert Mueller (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Ryan C. Crocker (left) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry greet each other Wednesday before a two-hour hearing on Mr. Crocker's nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Tens of thousands of Sudanese are fleeing from the contested north-south border region of Abyei. The top U.S. official in the region warned of a humanitarian crisis over the north's invasion. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Anthony D. Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, a close aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, were married in July. They posed for a formal wedding portrait at the Oheka Castle in Huntington, N.Y. (Associated Press)
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A teary Rep. Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of New York, confessed at a news conference in New York on Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman after denying he did so for days. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, New York Democrat, arrives for a news conference in New York on June 6, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich poses with a supporter as he leaves court during his second corruption trial on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, in Chicago. Blagojevich insisted on the witness stand that he never sought to sell or trade President Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat for a top job or campaign cash. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
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New York City's fire department asked former President George W. Bush to write the introduction to its book marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks. (Fire Department of New York)
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Ryan Crocker, President Obama's nominee for ambassador to Afghanistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, June 8, 2011, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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On Tuesday, June 7, 2011, anti-government protesters in Sanaa, Yemen, read newspapers featuring on the front page a photograph of Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and a headline that translates as "What's after Ali Abdullah Saleh." (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Abdullah Al-Badri (right) and Oil Minister of Iran and OPEC President Mohammad Aliabadi talk on June 8, 2011, during a press conference after the OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria. (Associated Press)
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Syrian protesters carry national flags as they shout slogans against President Bashar Assad in front of the Syrian Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Syria's army has carried out days of deadly assaults to crush protesters calling for the end of Mr. Assad's rule. (AP Photo)
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President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel depart after a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday. "The chancellor and I have been clear: Gadhafi must step down and hand power to the Libyan people," Mr. Obama said. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (right) shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)
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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Accompanied by her attorney, A. Scott Bolden, Cherita Whiting testifies before the Government Operations Committee on Monday. She claimed she denied her felony conviction on a March 18, 2010, application for the job with D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson because she thought a 10-year grace period for disclosing prior felonies had expired.
