Politics

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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)

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British and Australian soldiers carry the coffin of an unknown soldier during the service of rededication at the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, northern France, Monday, July 19, 2010. Ceremonies were marking the 94th anniversary of the World War I Battle of the Somme. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, talk during the service of rededication at the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, northern France, Monday, July 19, 2010. Ceremonies are marking the 94th anniversary of the World War I Battle of the Somme. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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Australia Governor General Quentin Bryce prepares to put a rose on the coffin of an Australian unknown soldier during a ceremony at the British Australian cemetary of Fromelles, Northern France, Monday, July 19, 2010. Royalty, governments and relatives on Monday honored Australian and British soldiers whose remains were discovered in mass graves on the 94th anniversary of the World War I battle of Fromelles in northern France.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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Britain's Prince Charles delivers a speech during the service of rededication at the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, northern France, Monday, July 19, 2010. Ceremonies were marking the 94th anniversary of the World War I Battle of the Somme. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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President Obama (second from left) walks from the podium in the Rose Garden of the White House with (from left) Leslie Macko of Charlottesville; Jim Chukalas of Fredon Township, N.J.; and Denise Gibson of Brooklyn, N.Y., after delivering remarks on extending unemployment insurance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Musical instruments sit next to a stain on the floor at a house where a party was interrupted by gunmen early Sunday in the town of Torreon, in the Mexican northern state of Coahuila, Sunday, July 18, 2010. The gunmen arrived at the party in several cars and opened fire without saying a word, the Coahuila state Attorney General's Office said in statement. According to the statement 17 people were killed and at least 18 wounded.(AP Photo)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik (right) after their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, July 19, 2010. Mrs. Clinton opened the high-level talks with Pakistan by announcing several new aid projects aimed at improving the country's water, energy and health sectors. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Associated Press photographs Gamal Mubarak, the son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, has a major advantage to become his father's successor. The younger Mr. Mubarak, 47, is head of the powerful policy committee of the ruling National Democratic Party.

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (right) meets with George J. Mitchell, U.S. envoy for the Middle East, at the Presidential palace in Cairo. The talks come within the framework of efforts aimed at reviving direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looks on during a meeting at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 6, 2010.

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Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams addresses a crowd March 30 in Salt Lake City. A spokesman for the National Tea Party Federation on Sunday said the organization has expelled the Tea Party Express from its ranks for refusing to oust Mr. Williams after he posted a blog that satirized the NAACP and referred to its president, Benjamin Jealous, as "Tom's nephew and NAACP head colored person."