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People carry the body of a Pakistani acid attack victim Fakhra Younnus, at Karachi airport in Pakistan Sunday, March 25, 2012. Fakhra who committed suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of her flat in Rome, was a victim of an acid attack allegedly carried out 12 years ago by her husband. (AP Photo)
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Before the D.C. Council on Tuesday, (from left) Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi, Mayor Vincent C. Gray and budget director Eric Goulet arrive to testify on the mayor's fiscal 2013 budget. Mr. Gray's budget proposal would close a $172 million gap through $102 million in cuts and $70 million in new revenue. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Kathy Hansen, a family practice doctor in Houston, protests President Obama's health care law outside the Supreme Court on March 27, 2012. The justices were listening to arguments on the law's individual mandate. (The Washington Times)
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Demonstrators for and against President Obama's health care law march outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Obama administration has argued Congress' taxing powers are a justification for the law's individual mandate. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Mitt Romney has said he won't abandon the conservative positions he took in the Republican primaries, including those on illegal immigration. (Associated Press)
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Daryl Parks (from left), president of the National Bar Association; the Martin family lawyer, Benjamin Crump; and Trayvon Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, stand during a moment of prayer for Trayvon during a House Judiciary Committee Democratic briefing on racial profiling and hate crimes on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. In front is Rebecca Monroe of the Department of Justice. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Alex Libby of Edmond, Okla., is one of the bullied students whose experiences are documented in "Bully." The filmmakers followed him at Sioux City East Middle School in Iowa to show the physical and verbal abuse he suffered from other students. (The Weinstein Co. via Associated Press)
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Katy Butler, who says she was bullied in seventh grade and suffered a broken finger as a result, started an online petition to try to get the MPAA to change the rating for "Bully" from R to PG-13 so the film could be shown in schools. (Associated Press)
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Lee Hirsch, writer-director of "Bully," says his interest came not just from having been bullied himself as a child but from his problems getting adults to help him. (Associated Press)
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Kathy Hansen, center, a family practice doctor in Houston, Texas, says she feels like Affordable Care Act takes away the ability for her to make decisions for her patients. She says that no one consulted doctors when they wrote the healthcare law, and that all doctors believe that healthcare reform is necessary, but that President Obama's plan is not the answer. She joined hundreds of protesters on both sides of the issue of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, while the court listens to arguments on the personal mandate part of Affordable Care Act. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Protesters on both sides of the health care issue march outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, while the court hears arguments on the personal mandate section of the Affordable Care Act. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Protesters on both sides of the health care debate march outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, while the court hears arguments on the personal mandate section of the Affordable Care Act. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Protesters on both sides of the issue march outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, while the court decides on the personal mandate part the health care law signed by President Obama. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier hugs D.C. Council member Jim Graham of Ward 1 at the end of a press conference Monday to announce an arrest in the March 11 shooting at the International House of Pancakes in Mr. Graham's ward. The case is being investigated as a possible anti-gay hate crime. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sen. Jim DeMint was a speaker at the "Hands Off My Health Care Rally," which was organized by Americans for Prosperity and 21 interest groups. (Associated Press)
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Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (partially visible at center) leaves a courthouse March 26, 2012, after being questioned in a probe into a suspected prostitution ring in Lille, France. (Associated Press)
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"If you do it the way the bill came in, there's absolutely no recognition of property values," Sen. Thomas M. Middleton, Charles Democrat, said of changes to the bill on septic systems. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Demonstrators scuffle with riot police during a protest in downtown Seoul on Sunday. Both pro and anti-nuclear protesters turned out on the day before world leaders met for the start of a two-day Nuclear Security Summit.
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"This is a sharp, clear difference with two different futures," House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation" of the debt-slashing GOP budget plan. It would slice $5.3 billion from President Obama's budget in the coming decade through tax reforms and sweeping program cuts. (CBS News via Associated Press)
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The Fitch ratings agency has estimated that President-elect Vladimir Putin's pledges will cost about $160 billion over six years, while state-owned Sberbank has put the figure even higher at $173 billion.
