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APPOINTMENTS: Kenneth B. Ellerbe, Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray's choice as the District's next fire chief, answers questions Thursday as Mr. Gray and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier listen. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press POWWOW: President Obama greets guests after speaking Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Interior Department.
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Associated Press World War II-era Navajo Code Talkers listen to President Obama speak Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, which was attended by representatives of the nation's 565 recognized American Indian tribes.
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** FILE ** President Obama (center), accompanied by (from left) Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Marine Gen. James Cartwright, speaks about the Afghanistan-Pakistan annual review on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Associated Press Rachel Campos-Duffy, wife of Rep.-elect Sean Duffy, Wisconsin Republican, holds daughter Paloma in February 2009.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat, referring to New START, argues that Republicans are "delaying the ultimate passage of this critical treaty for the safety of the United States."
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Kaya Henderson (The Washington Times/File)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada talks to the media after their caucus luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Then-Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, in Pristina on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu) ** FILE **
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President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joseph R. Biden (left) and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, delivers a statement on Dec. 16, 2010, at the White House. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Larry King interviews former President Bill Clinton, right, on CNN's "Larry King Live," in New York on April 19, 2007. After 25 years, Mr. King will hang up his suspenders with his last broadcast on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/CNN, Jake A.Herrle)
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Unemployed workers fill out online resumes at the Maricopa County Workforce Connections job fair on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon characterized the vote as another attempt to "satisfy Democratic liberal agenda."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon characterized the vote as another attempt to "satisfy Democratic liberal agenda."
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Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, seen here with fellow Republican Sen. George LeMieux (left) of Florida, gestures during a news conference Wednesday on ratification of the New START treaty.
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Associated Press photographs Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, was the target Wednesday of a verbal jab by the Senate majority leader regarding the lame-duck session impinging on the Christmas season.
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Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, said Wednesday that he would try to block any amendments to the New START treaty because he thinks they would derail the agreement.
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Assistant Defense Secretary Wallace "Chip" Gregson says A2/AD is the term for China's special missiles and high-tech weapons.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Southern army officers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state in Sudan on Saturday peer into a bomb crater created from one of the bombs dropped by the northern Sudanese army on a southern army base in the disputed border zone of Kiir Adem, where southern Sudan meets Darfur. The northern Sudanese army has launched a series of aerial bombardments in this disputed zone over the past month, and the southern army says it will not respond to these provocations in order to protect the rights of southern Sudanese to participate peacefully in their January independence referendum.
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Sudan People's Liberation Army Col. Wieu Pal Padiet Deng, one of the top southern army officers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, holds remnants of munitions dropped by the northern Sudanese army on Kiir Adem on Saturday. Officials in the Khartoum-based north deny bombing areas under southern control and instead say southern officials are hosting Darfur rebels.
