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Associated Press Alaska's former governor Sarah Palin stands in the governor's mansion with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, in Juneau in 2008. Mrs. Palin has endorsed long-shot Joe Miller in his quest to unseat Mrs. Murkowski, the GOP's clear choice.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron's first visit to the White House will include discussions on the war in Afghanistan and whether BP, the company responsible for the Gulf oil spill, played a part in the release of the Lockerbie bomber, who killed 270 people, mostly Americans. (Associated Press)
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Anna Marie Miazga of Marcy, N.Y., shows Sen. Charles E. Schumer a photo of her daughter Suzanne, killed in the Lockerbie bombing. "The families of the victims have the right to know if [the bomber's] release was part of an oil deal," he said.
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Associated Press Robert Blagojevich (above) and his brother, ousted Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, are accused of scheming to sell or trade President Obama's old Senate seat from Illinois.
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Illustration: Banned thinker by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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Shoppers throng to a popular mall in Caracas in November 2006. Consumerism remains strong, creating resistance to socialism as Mr. Chavez looks to September's congressional elections.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Work has changed at Inveval, an industrial valve company in Caracas, Venezuela, that the government expropriated. Now it is limited to refurbishing valves rather than manufacturing them.
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A customer buys groceries at Mercal, a government-owned market in Caracas. The markets are part of Mr. Chavez's effort to counter 31 percent inflation in a recession economy.
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Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, left, meets with Muqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite political clerics, right, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, July 19, 2010. Mr. Allawi and Mr. al-Sadr are on a current visit to Syria to discuss the deadlocked government in Baghdad.(AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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President Benigno Aquino III, left, former President Fidel Ramos, 2nd left, and former President Joseph Estrada, second right, join as Charice Pempengco sings the national anthem during the inauguration ceremony Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)
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Former President Bill Clinton addresses delegates at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Arab women wear the niqab, a face-covering Islamic veil, as they shop in Souk Al-Hamediah, Damascus' oldest market, Syria, Monday, July 19, 2010. Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country's universities. The Education Ministry's ban on the niqab comes as similar moves in Europe spark cries of discrimination against Muslims. An official at the ministry says the ban affects public and private universities and aims to protect Syria's secular identity. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to a reporter's question during a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, July 19, 2010. Mrs. Clinton later flew to Afghanistan to attend an international conference on the Afghan war, reconstruction and development. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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This May 18 2010, file photo shows a woman, who gave her name as Najat, holding her passport during a press conference in Montreuil, east of Paris. France's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils on July 13. On Sunday, July 18, 2010, Syria banned such face-covering veils on university campuses. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, FILE)
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President Barack Obama, left, walks out of the Oval Office of the White House Leslie Macko, center, from Charlottesville Va., and Jim Chukalas, from Fredon Township, N.J., before delivering remarks on extending unemployment insurance, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the economy and the need to extend unemployment benefits at the White House on July 19, 2010. Mr. Obama was joined by Jim Chukalas, an unemployed parts manager from New Jersey, and Leslie Macko, an unemployed aesthetician from Charlottesville, Virginia. (UPI/Kevin Dietsch)
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on extending unemployment insurance in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. The White House announced Tuesday a push for government workers to travel less. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama stands with, from left to right: Denise Gibson from Brooklyn, N.Y., Jim Chukalas from Fredon Township, N.J., and Leslie Macko from Charlottesville, Va., all unemployed, as he speaks about the unemployment insurance and the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama, second from the left, walks away from the podium with from left to right, Leslie Macko, from Charlottesville Va., Jim Chukalas, from Fredon Township, NJ., and Denise Gibson, from Brooklyn, NY., after delivering remarks on the extending unemployment insurance in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
