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Florida Gov. Rick Scott angered many residents, including some lawmakers in his own party, when he returned $2.4 billion in federal funds for building a high-speed rail link between Tampa and Orlando. (Associated Press)
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife gave a nonprofit $400 million to pay election workers, train poll workers and rent polling locations for the Nov. 3 vote in various states. (Associated Press/File)
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Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, wants the Justice Department to halt Utah's guest-worker program for illegal immigrants, calling it "unconstitutional." (Associated Press)
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Don't count on actor Matt Damon attending any of President Obama's six fundraisers on the West Coast. (Associated Press)
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Yoweri Museveni (Associated Press)
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Ugandan military police arrest a demonstrator during Monday's "walk to work" protest against the high cost of fuel and food in Kampala. The same day, police arrested Kizza Besigye, the country's top opposition leader, for the third time in a week. Mr. Besigye and about a dozen members of parliament were arrested while they were trying to walk to work. (Associated Press)
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Gov. Robert F. McDonnell urged Virginia's State Board of Social Services to reject proposed changes to the rules governing adoption and foster case agencies. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Syrians pray in Clock Square in the center of the city of Homs on Monday. Syrian security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition Tuesday at hundreds of anti-government protesters who took over a main square in Homs, the country's third-largest city, witnesses and activists said. (Associated Press)
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Photojournalist John Cantlie's novel "River City" is illustrated with more than 100 photographs of Americans fighting in Afghanistan, including this image. Mr. Cantlie spent five months on the front line in Afghanistan. (Provided by John Cantlie)
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A survivor of a massacre by rebel forces displays a bullet in front of burned houses in Fangak, Southern Sudan. The attack by rebel leader George Athor was carried out in February. Officials said 241 people died, most of them civilians. The rebel leader, a former high-ranking officer in the southern army, launched an insurrection after losing his bid for governor of Jonglei state last April. (Associated Press)
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Libyan rebel fighters drive by a previously destroyed tank belonging to Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces as the rebels make their way to the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, addressing the State Duma, the parliament's lower chamber, in Moscow on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, said Russia must be "independent and strong" to resist outside pressure. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, rebels in Benghazi, Libya, carry the coffin of a comrade who they said was killed by forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi during fighting in Brega. (AP Photo)
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, welcomes Libyan National Transitional Council's Mustapha Abdeljalil at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 20, 2011. France's government said Wednesday it will send a small number of military liaison officers to Libya to work with opposition forces, but no ground troops. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama (center seated) and others lower their heads during an Easter prayer breakfast with Christian leaders in the East Room of the White House. Leading the prayer at the lectern is Vashti Murphy McKenzie, bishop at African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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WAR-WEARY: The escalation of violence has led to protests like this one in Mexico City this month that drew thousands of participants. (Associated Press)
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Mexican federal police and army soldiers guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by gunmen on a highway between Mexico City and Monterrey in February. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. Many of Zetas' targets have been Mexican military and police personnel, but in recent years, U.S. law enforcement authorities also have come under attack. (Associated Press)
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Jeffrey M. Frederick, who chaired the Virginia Republican Party for about 10 months before being ousted in April 2009, is back as the head of a political action committee to fund anti-establishment candidates. (The Washington Times)
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Arab Druse Imad Merei wears a scarf with the portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad at his house in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights.
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The village of Bukata is located in the Golan Heights, an area Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War. Thousands living in Druse villages like Bukata have turned out to show support for Syria's President Bashar Assad as he faces anti-government protests. But the pro-reform wave stirs mixed feelings for the 20,000 Druse, who never stopped seeing themselves as Syrian but are used to freedoms under Israeli rule. (Associated Press)
