Politics

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ASSOCIATED PRESS House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says Rep. Paul Ryan, the author of a plan to overhaul government health care programs, would make a good presidential candidate. Mr. Ryan said he is not planning to run for president.

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray promised that all contracts for more than $1 million would go to the D.C. Council for review, but a contract for school security remains unchecked. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, members of the Homeland Security Committee, were part of the debate Monday on presidential powers in the even of a cyber-attack on vital systems. (Associated Press)

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Homes burn in Abyei, Sudan, on Monday. Armed men burned and looted the disputed oil-rich province on Monday, the U.N. mission there said. (Associated Press)

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"By honoring its public commitment to choose an alternate site in Orange County, Wal-Mart has demonstrated that preservation groups and retailers can work together to find universally beneficial resolutions." - James Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Trust (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Migrants from Latin America and Asia leave a truck that was heading to the United States after being detected by X-ray equipment at a checkpoint. Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state found more than 500 migrants May 17 inside two trailer trucks. (Associated Press)

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This handout X-ray photo provided by the Chiapas State Attorney General Office in Mexico shows, according to the attorney's office, migrants from Latin America and Asia inside a truck heading to the U.S. at a checkpoint near Tuxtla Gutierrez. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** U.S. President Barack Obama drinks Guinness beer at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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An Irish youngster poses for a photograph with a U.S. flag painted on her face amongst people queuing up to join the crowd to listen to U.S. President Barack Obama make an address at College Green in Dublin, Monday, May 23, 2011. President Barack Obama paid a joyful visit Monday to the small Irish village where his great-great-great grandfather once lived and worked as a shoemaker, an improbable and memorable pilgrimage for America's first black president into his Irish past. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, reacts after he was presented with a hurley stick from Irish Prime Minister and Taoiseach Enda Kenny while in Farmleigh, Dublin Monday May 23, 2011. Obama said Monday that the U.S. and Ireland share a "blood link" that extends beyond strategic interests or foreign policy into the hearts of the millions of Irish Americans who still see a homeland here.(AP Photo, Pool)

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President Barack Obama, is shown how to hold a hurling stick by Ireland's Taoiseach Enda Kenny, in front of Farmleigh House in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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US President Barack Obama, left, and Taoiseach Enda Kenny shake hands during talks in Farmleigh, Dublin Monday May 23, 2011. President Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S. and Ireland share a "blood link" that extends beyond strategic interests or foreign policy into the hearts of the millions of Irish Americans who still see a homeland here. (AP Photo, Pool)