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It wasn't that long ago that Sharron Angle was running for a U.S. Senate seat from Nevada. Now she's announced for a House seat. (Associated Press)
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"I think it's evident they didn't have a [jobs] plan," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Democrat, (right, with Rep. Robert E. Andrews, New Jersey Democrat) about Republicans. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Fran Fragos Townsend has emerged as a candidate to replace Robert Mueller as director of the FBI. Ms. Townsend is a lawyer who worked in the administrations of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledges the crowd during an unannounced walk Wednesday through Tahrir Square in Cairo. The square was the epicenter of the uprising that toppled Egypt's longtime autocratic leader last month. (Associated Press)
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Emperor Akihito tried to calm the nerves of his nation's people during a televised address on Wednesday. He expressed his condolences to those who have suffered since the earthquake and tsunami and urged them not to give up. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a Fatah central council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Bucknell sophomore guard Bryson Johnson talks to the media after open practice at the Verizon Center, in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, March 16, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Rep. Jackie Speier, California Democrat, talks with TV actress Lauren Potter (right) during a congressional briefing Wednesday on bullying children with special needs. Miss Potter has Down syndrome. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A fighter opposed to Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power displays the amulets he wears to protect himself from enemy fire, in the Abobo district of Abidjan. Civilians, former rebels and defecting security forces have united to try to force the president out. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani protesters burn tires during a demonstration against the release of Raymond Allen Davis, an American CIA contractor, on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Lahore, Pakistan. Mr. Davis, who said he shot and killed two Pakistani men in self-defense, was released from prison after the United States paid "blood money" to the families of the victims, apparently defusing what had been a major row between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistani officials said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan. At left is Defense Under Secretary for Policy Michele Flournoy. (AP Photo)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (center right) shakes hands with a child as she takes an unannounced 15-minute stroll through Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the popular uprising that toppled longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Cairo. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a Fatah central council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Abbas said Wednesday he will not run for re-election. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said a GAO study on government waste and duplication was "a step in the right direction" and was something that "over the long term that could save some money." (Associated Press)
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"We cannot kick the can down the road for even another three weeks. The American people recognize that we must no longer take these small calculated measures," said Rep. Allen B. West, who voted against the bill. (Associated Press)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the man Mr. Obama tapped to lead negotiations several weeks ago, has returned from his own European trip — apparently to the surprise of some House Republicans. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators hold up a placard during a protest against violence in hockey and demanding tougher sanctions from the NHL against hits to the head, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Montreal. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said a GAO study on government waste and duplication was "a step in the right direction" and was something that "over the long term that could save some money." (Associated Press)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan discusses the disaster at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday. Mr. Kan said the risks of further radiation leaks are increasing after an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. (Bloomberg)
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Mayor Eddie Espinoza of Columbus, N.M., was among 11 people named in an indictment following an investigation into a firearms-trafficking ring that operated across from a Mexican border town where drug gangs are warring. (Associated Press)
