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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party say Western sanctions against Myanmar hurt the military junta, not the people, and should continue. (Associated Press)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes a phone call from an Acela train at Union Station in Washington. (AP File Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his war crimes trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool)
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meets with the Emirates foreign minister (not pictured) at the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. The meeting is the first appearance for Mr. Mubarak in front of international media following the country's Jan. 28 protests. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Wael Ghonim, a Google Inc. marketing manager, talks at his home in Cairo on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Mr. Ghonim, who was held by Egyptian authorities for about 10 days over anti-government protests, was freed on Monday. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali)
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GIVING A BREAK: President Obama, calling for a simpler tax system, says that "it's time to stop subsidizing yesterday's energy; it's time to invest in tomorrow's." (Bloomberg)
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Sen. Orrin G. Hatch says lawmakers should end special individual and corporate tax breaks but not to put money back into the federal government. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Darrell Issa has invited business representatives to testify before the government reform committee, which he heads, about federal regulations that they say cost jobs. He wants their comments included in a review of government regulations President Obama ordered. (Associated Press)
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A vandalized souvenir shop near Tahrir Square in Cairo gives only a small indication of the big economic fallout from the continuing anti-government protests in Egypt. (Associated Press)
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Anti-government protesters pray in front of an army armored vehicle as one stands to have his picture taken by a friend at the continuing protest in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. Egypt's embattled regime announced a 15 percent raise for government employees in an effort to defuse popular anger. (Associated Press)
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Southern Sudanese celebrate the official announcement of secession-vote results in Juba on Monday. Almost 99 percent of southerners voted to secede, to take effect in July 2011. (Associated Press)
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Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil (right), chief of the referendum office, hands the final results of the vote on southern Sudan's independence to Salva Kiir, president of the semiautonomous south. (Associated Press)
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\Former Rep. Jane Harman, California Democrat, resigned to become president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Credit card regulation by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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President Obama speaks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The Green Bay Packers' Jarrett Bush (24) reacts as he is tackled by the Pittsburgh Steelers' Ramon Foster after intercepting a pass during the second quarter of the NFL Super Bowl XLV game on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Former President George W. Bush watches the first half of the NFL Super Bowl XLV game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Musicians, one (center right) playing the oud, entertain anti-government protesters with songs against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the continuing demonstration in Tahrir Square in central Cairo on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a media conference in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Mr. Fogh Rasmussen warned that continuing unrest in the Middle East could cause economic hardships and increased illegal immigration to Europe. (AP Photo/Elisa Day)
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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2009 file photo, actor Martin Short and his wife Nancy Dolman arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
