Politics

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Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is being investigated by federal prosecutors. (Associated Press)

One of seven historic paintings hang in the lobby of the Georgia Department of Agriculture as a visitor checks into the security desk Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010, in Atlanta. The incoming Georgia agriculture commissioner wants to remove the paintings including one depicting idealized versions of slavery and put them into storage when he takes office next month. Those pastel paintings have hung in the lobby of a state building for half a century without causing a stir. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Reporters stand at the entrance of Finland's embassy to the Holy See, in Rome, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 where a suspicious package was found. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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** FILE ** George Clooney poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto in 2007. A group founded by American actor George Clooney said on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010, it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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**FILE** A Chinese petitioner wears a hat with the words "Officials Corrupt, Changed Judiciary" in Beijing on May 4, 2009. China plans to crack down in the coming year on lavish parties and seminars organized by government officials, hoping to placate a public angered by corruption and accounts of sex and booze-fueled fetes held at taxpayer expense. (Associated Press)

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FILE - George Clooney poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, in this Sept. 8, 2007 file photo. A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday Dec. 28, 2010 it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Wisconsin's new governor, Republican Scott Walker, may void a new law tougher on payday-loan companies and auto lenders. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from Feb. 1, President Obama makes a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House. From left: Council of Economic Council Chair Christina Romer; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; the president; Budget Director Peter Orszag and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers. (Associated Press)

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Wisconsin's new governor, Republican Scott Walker, may void a new law tougher on payday-loan companies and auto lenders. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Iraqis work at the Rumaila oil refinery near the city of Basra. The province, located on the Persian Gulf bordering Kuwait and Iran, is Iraq's only outlet to the sea and is the hub for most of Iraq's oil exports of nearly 1.9 million barrels a day to the international market. (Associated Press)

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A policeman stands guard as a city bus passes by in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. India's Home Ministry has issued a countrywide alert after receiving information of a potential terror strike by a Pakistan-based militant group, an official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

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Rep.-elect Allen West, Florida Republican, is a retired Army officer who hopes to bring more discipline to the spending ways of his new colleagues on Capitol Hill beginning in January. (Associated Press)

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak visits the South Korean Army soldiers at a military base near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Yanggu, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. South Korean fighter jets dropped bombs and tanks fired artillery Thursday as the military staged its largest air and ground firing drills of the year in a show of force a month after North Korea's deadly shelling of a front-line island. (AP Photo/ Jo Bo-hee, Yonhap)