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** FILE ** ABC News journalist Christiane Amanpour (right) and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak talk after an interview in Cairo on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/ABC News)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. John Kerry Sunday disavowed a diplomat's apparent support for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's continued rule.
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander is the only one in recent years on the council to pay for a constituent services office.
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Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman (center) meets Sunday with representatives of the anti-government movement in Cairo to try to end the country's political crisis. The immediate ouster of President Hosni Mubarak continued to be a key demand.
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Anti-government protesters squat on the tracks of Egyptian army tanks Sunday to prevent them from moving near Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Egyptian protesters display a saddle as a trophy they seized in violence last week when pro-government combatants, some on horseback, attacked demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
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Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, under Republican fire for supporting the health care initiative in 2009, now says he doesn't want to scrap the entire law but would consider tweaking it or even repealing some of its provisions. (AP Photo)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky vows that Republicans will keep revisiting the health care law in a variety of ways in an effort to modify it or repeal it.
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ASSOCIATED PRRESS Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico and potential Republican candidate for president, has by his count addressed 450 different groups, journeyed to Iowa and to South Carolina four times each and visited New Hampshire six times in the past 14 months.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican strategist Mary Matalin will host a CPAC fundraiser by GOProud, a gay conservative activist group.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Erik Yehl, 11, leaves school with his mother, Kirsten. Like King George VI, whose battle to overcome stuttering is depicted in "The King's Speech," Erik struggles with the speech impediment. The movie's powerful message for him is, "I'm not stupid."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a point to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (left) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a European Union summit in Brussels on Friday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle during the Conference on Security Policy in Munich on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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Anti-government protesters sit on and lie inside the tracks of an Egyptian army tank, both to prevent the tank from moving and to shield themselves from the rain, at a protest site opposite the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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** FILE ** Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to guests at the Reagan Ranch Center on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, in Santa Barbara, Calif. (AP Photo/The News-Press, Michael Moriatis)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is seated at the podium during the International Conference on Security Policy in Munich on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Egyptian flags wave during a Jan. 29 demonstration in front of the White House demanding that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak step down. (Associated Press)
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John Barletta, the head agent of former President Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail, answers questions about his service. (Peter Parisi/The Washington Times)
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov finalized the New START treaty in February 2011. Last month, the Uranium One case resurfaced when news reports revealed that the FBI apparently covered up information about illegal Russian attempts to lobby Mrs. Clinton. (Associated Press/File)
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From left, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel participate in a round table discussion at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. EU leaders meet for a one-day summit on Friday, with energy, the eurozone debt crisis and unrest in Egypt set to dominate the agenda. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
