Politics

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U.S. solicitor general Elena Kagan smiles in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, during a ceremony with President Barack Obama after her confirmation as Supreme Court justice by the Senate on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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A Saudi customer is served in a mobile shop at a market in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. (AP Photo)

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Illustration: Abortion (after Da Vinci)

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In this July 2005 photo provided by Lynn France, France poses for a photo on her wedding day on Italy's Amalfi Coast. In January of 2009, France discovered her husband's affair on Facebook. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Lynn France) NO SALES

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FILE - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski speaks at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., in this Nov. 24, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

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In this June 24, 2010 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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People look for survivors in the wreckage of a passenger bus which plunged into the flooded River Jhelum in Ghari Duppata near Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Police, said only a few of the 50 to 70 passengers onboard have been rescued so far. (AP Photo/Aftab Ahmed)

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U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, center, leaves the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park after the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States sent its first ever delegation to the ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, looking upward, takes part in the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States sent its first ever delegation to the ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Shigeyuki Inakuma)

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Tsuyuko Nakao, 92, prays for the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack in front of the cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Hiroshima marked the 65th anniversary of the the world's first atomic bomb attack that devastated the western Japanese city at the closing days of World War II. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left front, and his wife Yoo Soon-taek pray at the cenotaph for Korean atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Hiroshima marked the 65th anniversary of the the world's first atomic bomb attack that devastated the western Japanese city at the closing days of World War II. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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With the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome as a backdrop, doves fly over the cenotaph of the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Hiroshima marked the 65th anniversary of the the world's first atomic bomb attack that devastated the western Japanese city at the closing days of World War II. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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In this photo provided by the City of Hiroshima, U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, left, greets Hiroshima city's Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba on his arrival at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to attend the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States sent its first ever delegation to the ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks. (AP Photo/City of Hiroshima)

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Adnan G. Shukrijumah. is seen in these artists renderings by the FBI and made available to the Associated Press Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/FBI,HO)

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Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, is shown in these undated images provided by the FBI. The suspected al Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks. (AP Photo/FBI)

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In this Feb. 11, 2010, file photo, Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer briefs reporters at the White House in Washington. The White House said on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, that Mrs. Romer is resigning her position to return to academia. Her resignation will take effect Sept. 3. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Rainy weather didn't deter a group of about 15 Iranian activists, shown in front of the White House in Lafayette Park on Thursday, August 5, 2010, from protesting the regime's execution and torture of political prisoners.

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Shirin Nariman, a former Iranian political prisoner, speaks out on Thursday, August 5, 2010, against the Iranian regime's executions and methods of torture to a group of about 15 Iranian activists while some stand behind her, holding posters of political prisoners sentenced to death.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A letter signed by Ali Asghar Soltanieh says that "irrational conditions" imposed by the West are blocking a new round of the fuel-swap talks.

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Associated Press Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, at a Thursday news conference discusses legislation he introduced to provide funding for 1,000 new Border Patrol agents.