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House Republicans leave the White House via the North Portico on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, after their meeting with President Obama on the debt ceiling. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Opponents of the Syrian regime gathered on Turkey's Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, on June 1, 2011, for a conference aimed at overcoming their differences and bolstering protesters who have endured a bloody crackdown under President Bashar Assad. (Associated Press)
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Syrians walk past a T-shirt with a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic wording that reads "we love you" at a popular market in downtown Damascus, Syria, on May 30, 2011. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, Egypt's then President Hosni Mubarak listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu, unseen, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Egypt's state news agency says former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons will go on trial on Aug. 3. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File
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Burning tires left by anti-government protesters block the road during clashes between the protesters and Yemeni security forces in Taiz, Yemen, on May 31, 2011. (Associated Press)
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IAEA fact-finding team leader Mike Weightman of Britain answers to questions from reporters after meeting Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, on June 1, 2011. The meeting came after the IAEA nuclear experts wrapped up an onsite investigation at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O'Malley's $150,000 salary in 2009. (Associated Press)
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Sarah Palin, former Republican vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor, accompanied by her husband, Todd, visits Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Tuesday. She has not announced a run for the presidency in 2012, but she remains in the public eye with her current bus tour. (Associated Press)
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Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell shakes hands with Delegate Vivian E. Watts, Annandale Democrat, after signing sex trafficking legislation into law on Tuesday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Rep. Dave Camp, House Ways and Means Committee chairman, said Tuesday the House vote on raising the nation's debt ceiling "sends a clear and critical message that the Congress has finally recognized we must immediately begin to rein in America's affection for deficit spending." (Associated Press)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (dark suit) chats with Gregory McCarthy, Washington Nationals vice president for government and municipal affairs, as D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander (top, right), of Ward 7, awaits the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday at Fort DuPont Park in Southeast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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The press seems relish the idea of a cat fight between tea party "darlings" Sarah Palin (left) and Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination. Or how about a ticket with the two of them? (Associated Press)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a business forum in Moscow on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, captured in 2003, is one of five terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba facing military trials related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. (Associated Press)
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Former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown, who has accused the mayor's office of offering him a job in exchange for help on the campaign. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Angered by civilian casualties in a NATO airstrike, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's ban on the attacks could bring his government into direct conflict with its international allies.
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Adnkronos news agency via Associated Press Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad had told Human Rights Watch that he was afraid he would be killed for his reporting.
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Georgetown's Erick Fernandez, catcher, was selected in the 25th round of the MLB draft by the Washington Nationals. (Georgetown Athletics)
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President Obama (left) and Defense Secretary Robert Gates (center) walk on May 30, 2011, to the Rose Garden at the White House with Army Gen. Martin Dempsey (front to back right), President Obama's nominee for the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Adm. James Winnefeld, nominee for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and Gen. Ray Odierno, the nominee for Army Chief of Staff. (Associated Press)
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President Obama announces his nomination of John E. Bryson (right) to be the next secretary of commerce on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. At left is current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who has been appointed U.S. ambassador to China. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
