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White House press secretary Jay Carney briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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An injured anti-government protestor gestures as he arrives to a field hospital during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Opposition parties in Yemen have urged the international community, regional powers and human rights groups to help stop the bloodshed in their country. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Libyan rebels inspect a vehicle belonging to pro-Gadhafi forces that rebels claim were targeted by a NATO strike along the front line near Brega, Libya, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Libya's rebel forces are looking more effective on the front and even scrapping back some of the territory lost to Moammar Gadhafi's army, but the rag tag fighters are still a long way from being able to march to Tripoli. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Libyan Interim National Transitional Council Foreign Minister Ali Al Issawi (left) and Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini show accord during a joint news conference in Rome on Monday. (Associated Press)
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UNDER FIRE: Two Libyan rebels duck as others take cover when attacked by pro-Gadhafi forces along the front line on the outskirts of Brega, Libya, on Monday. Meanwhile, a government envoy is in Europe for talks about ending the fighting. (Associated Press)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner warned of a financial crisis if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling. He projects the U.S. will reach the current ceiling by no later than May 16. (Associated Press)
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"Any reduction to the Pell program would come at a much higher cost for our country down the road," said Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, admitting "tough budget decisions" are ahead. Education Secretary Arne Duncan projected that the Pell Grant program that helps low-income students afford college could face a $20 billion shortfall in 2012. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Edward J. Kasemeyer (left), Baltimore County Democrat and chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee.
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Carolyn Goodman (center) and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman greet customers at a restaurant while visiting businesses. She is on Tuesday's primary election ballot to succeed him as mayor because of a term-limit law. (Associated Press)
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Libyan National Transitional Council's Foreign Minister Ali al-Essawi talks during a press conference in Rome on Monday with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. Italy on Monday recognized the opposition Libyan National Transitional Council as the only legitimate voice in the north African nation, the Italian foreign minister said. Rome also dismissed a diplomatic push in Europe by Moammar Gadhafi's government to discuss an end to the fighting. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that any solution to the Libyan conflict involved the departure of Moammar Gadhafi and his family. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Debt tsunami by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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Naoki Suzuki, a truck driver, stands near the site of his home in downtown Rikuzen-Takata where his wife, Kazue, tried to ride out the tsunami as it rose above a nearby three-story apartment complex and post office. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Mr. Hamala first campaigned for president in 2006, an election won by Alan Garcia Perez, the current president. (Associated Press)
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Ollanta Humala (left), a former Peruvian army officer and current presidential candidate, talks with reporters next to his brother, Antauro Humala, during their short-lived military rebellion in October 2000. (Associated Press)
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Peruvian presidential candidates (from left) Alejandro Toledo, Keiko Fujimori and Ollanta Humala are the top three in a poll heading into Sunday's election. (Associated Press)
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Analysts say Mr. Humala's close ties with Venezulean President Hugh Chavez (right) - himself the instigator of a failed coup in in 1992 - kept him from the presidency. Now Mr. Humala says he has changed, and he is at the top of a poll heading into Sunday's election. (Associated Press)
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Yemeni army soldiers check anti-government protesters entering the site of a demonstration in Sanaa on Monday. The demonstrators are demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemeni troops opened fire on the crowd. (Associated Press)
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Palestinians gather around the car where Israeli-Arab actor, director and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis was fatally shot Monday outside his Freedom Theater in the West Bank. (Associated Press)
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A Yemeni army officer raised aloft by anti-government protesters holds a boy and waves a national flag during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, April 4, 2011.
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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, heads that House panel that wants documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the decision to "walk guns to Mexico in order to follow them and capture a bigger fish." (Associated Press)
