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Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, the nation's capital, on Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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U.S. soldiers holds candles to mark Memorial Day at the headquarters of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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A U.S. soldier speaks during a ceremony to mark Memorial Day at the headquarters of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Republican candidate for the 26th District Congressional seat Jane Corwin votes in Clarence, N.Y., Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Corwin is running against Democrat Kathy Hochul and tea party candidate Jack Davis in the race to succeed Republican Chris Lee. Lee resigned in February after shirtless photos surfaced that he'd sent to a woman on Craigslist. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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Bikers in the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally ride across Memorial Bridge on Sunday. The 24th annual event, which saw thousands of military and civilian motorcycle riders rumble across the District, was held to remember American prisoners of war and support veterans. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates pats Army veteran Craig Gerhartz on the back prior to speaking at the Rolling Thunder rally Sunday. Mr. Gerhartz, from South River, N.J., served in the Army during the Vietnam War. Mr. Gates gave him two military "challenge coins." (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Supporters of the Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami listen to speeches during an anti-American rally in Islamabad. Facing increased violence after the killing of Osama bin Laden, Pakistanis are embracing conspiracy theories that allege foreign agents are to blame. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani officials visit the site of a suicide bombing in Peshawar. Conspiracy theories alleging Indian or American agents are behind recent attacks underscores the United States' challenges as it attempts to convince Pakistan's population that it faces a shared enemy in the Taliban. (Associated Press)
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President Bush greets Artie Muller, president of Rolling Thunder, and singer Nancy Sinatra at the White House in 2004 for the group's annual rally in Washington. Miss Sinatra was back this weekend. "I couldn't be anywhere else but with these guys, and that's all there is to it. I'm there for them," she said. (Associated Press)
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Residents hold up signs as President Barack Obama views damage from the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Chyba, a 12-year-old former military dog who served in Iraq with the U.S. Army, was adopted by Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, last year. (Associated Press)
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"Medicare will be a part of any agreement to begin to reduce our long-term debt," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Sarah Palin, with her daughter Piper (center), answers a reporter's question at the beginning of the Rolling Thunder motorycycle ride at the Pentagon on Sunday. She smiled broadly when many in the crowd urged her to run for the presidency.
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Sarah Palin, former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, rides on the back of a motorcycle past the U.S. Capitol on Sunday as she participated in the annual Rolling Thunder ride on Memorial Day weekend. "How do you wear all this leather and stay cool?" she asked one woman. (Associated Press)
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Dinka Ngok civilians needing medical assistance, some suffering from gunshot and machete wounds, who were internally displaced as a result of the recent Sudanese conflict, arrive in the town of Turalei after being airlifted from Abyei by U.N. helicopter. (Associated Press)
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Homesteads continue to burn in the center of Abyei, a Sudanese border town, on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Sudanese are fleeing from the contested north-south border region of Abyei, and the top U.S. official in the region warned Friday of a humanitarian crisis over the north's invasion. (Associated Press)
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Syrian anti-regime protesters carry national flags and banners during a rally in Talbiseh, in the central province of Homs, Syria, on Friday, May 27, 2011, in this image taken by a citizen journalist on a cellphone camera provided by Shaam News Network on Sunday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)
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Afghan security forces stand at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the provincial governor's compound in Taloqan, Takhar province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, May 28, 2011. The German military said its top commander in Afghanistan was wounded in the blast. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard )
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President Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on his way to visit tornado victims in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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An environmental activist sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Sunday, May 29, 2011, after Greenpeace activists fixed a radioactive sign to the gate's Quadriga sculpture to protest the nuclear power policy of the German government. (AP Photo/dapd/Michael Gottschalk)
