Politics

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Col. Gadhafi traveled to a hotel in Tripoli on Tuesday to give television interviews while talks in Washington were about whether to establish a no-fly zone over his country. (Associated Press)

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Rebels run as smoke rises from a house hit during an airstrike Tuesday in the oil port of Ras Lanouf in eastern Libya. Warplanes kept up attacks to prevent the opposition from advancing toward leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital of Tripoli. (Associated Press)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks to reporters after his party's weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Former French President Jacques Chirac leaves his office in Paris. Mr. Chirac, 78, is accused of embezzlement, breach of trust and conflict of interest, based on allegations linked to his tenure as Paris mayor — before he became president in 1995. His trial was suspended until at least June. (Associated Press)

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Staff Sgt. Robin Duncan-Chisolm enjoys time with her son, Seth, in Upper Marlboro, Md. She was deployed to Iraq last year with the District of Columbia National Guard while she was getting a divorce, which kept her worried about keeping custody of him. (Associated Press)

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Iraqi security forces close a bridge leading to the heavily guarded Green Zone while protesters chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration in Baghdad on Friday. Hundreds of people gathered in central Baghdad for an anti-government demonstration despite a vehicle ban that forced many to walk for hours to attend the rally. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Republican congressional candidate Tom Graves declares victory in a special election during a celebration at his campaign headquarters in Cumming, Ga., on Aug. 10, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani at a seasonal meeting of Iran's Experts Assembly in Tehran Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Mr. Rafsanjani lost his position as the head of the Assembly, a powerful clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader. (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Former French President Jacques Chirac, 78, leaves his office in Paris on Monday, March 7, 2011. Mr. Chirac's long-awaited trial on corruption charges stemming from his tenure as mayor of Paris was postponed on Tuesday until at least June. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ride on an armored carrier near Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association, leaves after a day's negotiations with the NFL involving a federal mediator, Monday, March 7, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates spoke to U.S. troops at Bagram air field in Afghanistan. Mr. Gates said U.S. and Afghan governments agree that the American military should remain involved after the planned 2014 end of combat operations. (Associated Press)

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is to report on Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this week. (Associated Press)

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Marleine Bastien (left) tries to comfort Claudine Magloire, a U.S. permanent resident, as she talks about her fiance, Wildrick Guerrier, in Miami last month. He was a Haitian man who suffered choleralike symptoms and died in his Caribbean homeland after the U.S. government deported him. He had participated in a hunger strike while detained in the U.S. and wrote to immigration attorneys that returning to Haiti amounted to a death sentence. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, flanked by Arthur from the popular PBS children's show, is defending public programming against Republican funding cuts. (Associated Press)

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Gas prices are posted Monday in Santa Cruz, Calif. Pump prices have jumped an average of 39 cents per gallon since the Libyan uprising began in mid-February, forcing motorists to pay an additional $146 million per day for the same amount of fuel. (Associated Press)