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In this image from Egyptian state television aired Tuesday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announces that he will not seek re-election in September. (Associated Press/Egyptian state television via APTN)
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A New York Department of Sanitation front loader removes snow from Clinton Street near a car that is buried by another mound of snow on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they arrive at Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in downtown Cairo on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Egyptian authorities battled to save President Hosni Mubarak's regime with a series of concessions and promises to protesters, but realities on the streets of Cairo may be outrunning his capacity for change. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they march toward Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in downtown Cairo on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Egyptian authorities battled to save President Hosni Mubarak's regime with a series of concessions and promises to protesters, but realities on the streets of Cairo may be outrunning his capacity for change. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they march toward Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in downtown Cairo on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Supporters of a Pakistani socio-political group, Pasban, protest against a U.S. consular employee suspected in the shooting deaths of two Pakistani men in Lahore on Thursday, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A Pakistani court ordered the government Tuesday not to release the American official despite U. S. insistence that he has diplomatic immunity and has been detained illegally. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen (right) and Irish President Mary McAleese (second from left) arrive at Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence of the Irish president, in Dublin on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to sign a request for a Proclamation of Dissolution of the Irish parliament. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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** FILE ** In this photo provided by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Sen. Jon Tester (right), Montana Democrat, and Army Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, commander of the ISAF Joint Command and deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speak with the governor of Kandahar province, Tooryalai Wesa, concerning the current status of his province during a briefing at the governor's palace on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Chief Jason Carter)
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Demonstrators hold banners in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to demand that President Hosni Mubarak step down after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Former President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara Bush says she supports gay marriage. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds/file)
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More than a quarter-million people gather in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in central Cairo on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to demand that President Hosni Mubarak leave office after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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** FILE ** King Abdullah II of Jordan, pictured during a visit to Washington in September 2010, has sacked his government in the wake of street protests and has asked an ex-army general to form a new Cabinet. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announce new dietary guidelines at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on Monday to help Americans make healthier food choices and confront the obesity epidemic. (Associated Press)
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A wounded demonstrator carries a poster in Cairo on Monday. A coalition of protesters hopes Tuesday to increase the pressure on President Hosni Mubarak to resign. (Associated Press)
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Anti-government protesters pray Monday at Tahrir Square in Cairo. A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday. The Arabic on the sign reads "I'm Egyptian, anti-destruction." (Associated Press)
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Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei, a former nuclear watchdog, has emerged as a possible reform broker and leader in Cairo, but he has a reputation as a foe of U.S. interests. As International Atomic Energy Agency director, Mr. ElBaradei never allowed his agency to affirm one way or the other in public that Iran was pursuing nuclear weaponry. (AP Photo)
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A fence separates Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano estimates it will cost $750 million to expand the existing 53-mile virtual fence in Arizona all along that state's remaining 323 miles of border. (The Washington Times)
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In this photo released by the White House, President Obama is briefed on the events in Egypt by his national security team in the Situation Room of the White House on Saturday. Thousands of protesters in Egypt have thrown the country's 30-year-old regime into tumult. (Associated Press)
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Salvation Army Commissioner Linda Bond, who has been with the organization since 1969, became the first woman elected to the top post since 1986. (Salvation Army)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announce new dietary guidelines to help Americans make healthier food choices and confront the obesity epidemic at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Associated Press)
