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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (second from left) greet merchants as they tour a crafts bazaar in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Mrs. Clinton is in Kabul to attend an international conference on the future of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Paul J. RICHARDS, Pool)
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In this Wednesday, April 21, 2010, file photo Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence James Clapper listens to remarks by Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair at a ceremony marking the ODNI's fifth birthday at its headquarters in McLean, Va. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ended weeks of delay Tuesday, July 13, 2010, and set a confirmation hearing for President Obama's nomination of Gen. Clapper to be the next director of national intelligence.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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** FILE ** Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan (foreground) listens to questions from Sen. Jeff Sessions (pictured on a video screen), Alabama Republican, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, during Ms. Kagan's confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Associated Press "I'm not prepared to say the well is shut in until the relief well is done," says retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen.
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President Obama leaves the Rose Garden on Monday after saying Republicans are wrong to withhold more unemployment benefits from people looking for work such as, from left: Leslie Macko, from Charlottesville, Va., Jim Chukalas, from Fredon Township, N.J., and Denise Gibson, from Brooklyn, N.Y. They were invited to appear with the president as a way to humanize his plea for another extension of jobless benefits. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel's outgoing U.N. ambassador, Gabriela Shalev (left, in 2008) says the most significant threat to her country is not Iran's belligerence but efforts by European courts and by some U.N. committees to delegitimize the Jewish state. "Israel is the most isolated, lonely country in the world," she told reporters Monday in Washington at a luncheon sponsored by the Israel project.
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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)
