Politics

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet at the Gorki presidential residence on Wednesday. Mr. Gorbachev has been awarded with Russia's highest honor on his 80th birthday. Mr. Gorbachev recently has become increasingly critical of Russia's current rulers, saying they have taken the country back to the Soviet ways. The painting in the background depicts Russian Emperor Peter the Great. (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday. Al Qaeda gunmen are suspected in the killing of four Republican Guard soldiers on Sunday in the mountainous central province of Marib, security officials said. (Associated Press)

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Of her party's proposed $60 billion in budget cuts, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said, "We can't stop there." (Associated Press)

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney works the tables like a presidential candidate Saturday in Bartlett, N.H, where he was keynote speaker at Carroll County Republican Committee's Lincoln Day Dinner. He called for repeal of President Obama's health care law. (Associated Press)

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Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fire a rocket launcher Sunday as they battle Gadhafi's troops outside the town of Bin Jawwad in eastern Libya. Libyan helicopter gunships fired on a rebel force advancing west toward the capital along the Mediterranean coastline Sunday and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi fought intense ground battles with the rival fighters. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, who is House Homeland Security Committee chairman, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves receives his ballot during parliamentary elections at a polling station in Abja, Estonia, on Sunday, March 6, 2011. Estonia voted in its first election since becoming a eurozone member, with the center-right government hoping to be rewarded with an unprecedented second term for steering one of Europe's most depressed economies back to growth. (AP Photo/Timur Nisametdinov, NIPA)

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** FILE ** Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon D. Fox (center), Providence Democrat, speaks with fellow lawmakers during a session in the House chamber at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Mr. Fox, who is gay, is a co-sponsor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Two elderly anti-government protesters dance during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, March 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Female supporters of a left-wing political party hold placards carrying pictures of Afghans killed or wounded in recent air strikes during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 6, 2011. Hundreds of people marched through the streets of central Kabul to protest U.S. military operations and demand the withdrawal of foreign troops. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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A Chinese policeman stands on duty near the Xidan shopping district, one of two sites designated in an Internet call for protest, in Beijing on Sunday, March 6, 2011. The Chinese capital is increasing its control on foreign journalists amid calls on the Internet for anti-government protests styled on those rocking the Middle East and North Africa. (AP Photo)

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Thousands of Bahraini anti-government protesters chant slogans as they wave national flags and signs with the words "Down with the Government" while circling outside Gudaibiya Palace in Manama, Bahrain, Sunday, March 6, 2011, where the office of Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa is located. The prime minister's resignation is a key demand as protesters' calls for reform in the strategic Gulf nation enters their third week. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and supporters waving flags and firing their guns in the air pour into Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday, March 6, 2011, to celebrate claims of overnight military successes. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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** FILE ** This March 15, 1958, file photo shows then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, center, D-Mass., and his brothers Edward Kennedy, left, a student at the University of Virginia, and Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee, at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

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Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hold a pre-Gadhafi flag as they celebrate after fighting against troops loyal to Gadhafi and capturing the oil town of Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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President Barack Obama speaks at Miami Central Senior High School in Miami, Friday, March. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)

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** FILE ** Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pa., is seen during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Feb. 3, 2011, file photo. The Senate passed a resolution this week urging an international probe into war crimes allegations. Casey, who introduced the Senate resolution, said that a "state of denial" exists in the Sri Lankan government that is "not helpful" in achieving accountability for the bloodshed. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided Nov. 17, 2010, by Goodman Media International, Inc., shows Donald Berwick, the official quarterbacking the overhaul of the nation's medical system, installed last year by President Barack Obama as a recess appointment, bypassing the Senate. Unable to repeal Obama's health care law, 42 Republican senators asked Obama in a letter released Thursday, March 3, 2011, to withdraw his nomination of Berwick as Medicare administrator. (AP Photo/Goodman Media International, Inc., File) NO SALES.

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File - A crowd of over 10,000 gather for the opening of the Terror House, a museum dedicated to the horrors of communism and the building where people were interrogated and tortured, Budapest, Hungary, in this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002 file photo. People spied on by Hungary's communist-era secret police would have the right to destroy their surveillance reports under a government proposal historians say would damage the country's ability to acknowledge its past. Maria Schmidt, director of Budapest's House of Terror museum, said she hoped lawmakers would rethink the plan. "If these files are handed over, facts and connections will be no longer be able to be researched," Schmidt said. (AP Photo/Eileen Kovchok, file)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)