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Mounted police officers check a bag in Stockholm Monday Dec. 13, 2010 security has been stepped up in the Swedish capital after Saturdays suicide bomb attack.(AP Photo/ Fredrik Sandberg)
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"This is not a tax on the rich. This is a tax on the very, very, very rich," said Sen. Bernard Sanders. He delivered an eight-hour speech on Friday in opposition to President Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, poses in his office on Capitol Hill on Thursday. The midterm elections, which gave the GOP more seats in the Senate, strengthened Mr. McConnell's hand in dealing with the president. (Associated Press)
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Claes Borgstrom (left), the lawyer for the two women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Sweden in August, talks to the media at his office in Stockholm on Wednesday. Mr. Borgstrom, whose office is under police protection, denied that the case had anything to do with WikiLeaks or the current U.S. interest in Mr. Assange. (Associated Press)
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Marianne Ny (back left), Swedish director of public prosecution, answers questions at police headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Tuesday. She said in a statement that she had moved to have Mr. Assange extradited to Sweden on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. (Associated Press)
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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car-bomb attack in Ramadi on Sunday. A suicide bomber blew up his car outside government offices in a province west of the Iraqi capital, killing and wounding scores of people, including women and elderly people waiting to collect welfare checks, officials said. (Associated Press)
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Greenpeace activists form the word hope as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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Denver Broncos football player Perrish Cox, right, and his attorney Harvey Steinberg arrive at the Douglas County Justice Center in Castle Rock, Colo., on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, as he arrives for a hearing in connection with the sexual assault charges that are pending against him.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2006 file photo, a sign on the Bridge Street Bridge shows where Antonio Varacalli drowned in 1917 after saving the life of a woman trying to commit suicide in the waters of the Seneca-Cayuga Canal in Seneca Falls, N.Y. For years, civic boosters have pointed out intriguing parallels that suggest Seneca Falls was the inspiration for Bedford Falls, the make-believe mill town in "It's a Wonderful Life." (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Muslim Advocates annual dinner on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, in Millbrae, Calif. Holder used the speech before the Muslim advocacy group near San Francisco to reiterate his resolve to prosecute hate crimes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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In this undated photo provided by the University of Connecticut on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, UConn offensive lineman Greg McKee is shown in a portrait in Storrs, Conn. McKee turned himself in to Connecticut state police on Wednesday morning, on child pornography charges. He is being held on $75,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned late in the day in Superior Court on charges of obscenity, importing child pornography and promoting a minor in an obscene performance. (AP Photo/University of Connecticut)
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, signs the new retirement law in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. The law lowers the country's retirement age to 58 and also nationalizes the pension system and extends coverage to the 60 percent of Bolivians who work in the informal economy. At right is Pedro Montes, leader of Bolivia's Workers Central Union. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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A Santa Claus joins shoppers looking at a holiday window display in Juneau, Alaska, on Dec. 3, 2010. The display, at the REACH building, which provides services to assist individuals and families experiencing developmental delays or disabilities, is created each season by REACH facilities director Dan Elstad. (AP Photo/Juneau Empire, Klas Stolpe)
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A cyclist rushes out of the way of hundreds of protesters marching through the city center to protest against the detention of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, in Brisbane, Australia, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)
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Outside a Beirut church, foreign domestic workers from Ethiopia say they work hard so they can send money to their families at home. They don't want to talk about abuses. (Heather Murdock/Special to The Washington Times)
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Mounted police officers clash with protesters as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London in a protest against increase in tuition fees Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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British police officers clash with protesters as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London in a protest against an increase in tuition fees Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Protesters cry out as they stand on the statue of Winston Churchill at Parliament Square in London, as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in a protest against an increase in tuition fees, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. The House of Commons voted Thursday to increase tuition fees. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A police officer kicks a demonstrator during a protest against an increase in tuition fees on the edge of Parliament Square in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Police clashed with protesters marching to London's Parliament Square as lawmakers debated a controversial plan to triple university tuition fees in England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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British police medics carry an injured protester away, as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London Thursday Dec. 9, 2010, during a protest against an increase in university tuition fees(AP Photo/Sang Tan)
