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Updated: May 18, 2012 | 1:47 p.m.
March 23, 2012 | 1:30 p.m.
Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla
A village boy leads his goat past a parched pond on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout
Former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards, right, arrives at a federal courthouse with his father, Wallace Edwards, in Greensboro, N.C., May 16, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Gerry Broome
U.S. astronaut Joseph Acaba, left, Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, center, and Sergei Revin, right, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, prior to the launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel
The Dalai Lama leaves the St. Paul's Cathedral in London with Bishop of London Richard Chartres, right, and St.Paul's Cathedral Canon Pastor Reverend Michael Colclough after receiving the 2012 Templeton Prize on Monday, May 14, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Sang Tan
Pakistani children who fled their villages with their families due to fighting between security forces and militants in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur, enjoy a ride on a merry-go-round at a makeshift entertainment park set up in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, May 11, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen
A high priestess, holds a torch with the Olympic flame during the lighting of the flame ceremony on Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Ancient Olympia, Greece. The flame will be carried from the birthplace of the Ancient Olympics to London, where the 2012 Summer Games will take place from July 27-Aug. 12.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Petros Giannakouri
Supporters wait in line to attend a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Fort Lupton, Colo.,Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Sen. Richard Lugar responds to a question outside of a voting location Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in Greenwood, Ind. Lugar is being challenged by two-term state Treasurer Richard Mourdock.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Darron Cummings
President-elect Francois Hollande, left, waves as he arrives at the Socialist Party headquarters in Paris Monday May 7, 2012. France handed the presidency to leftist Hollande, a champion of government stimulus programs who says the state should protect the downtrodden, a victory that could deal a death blow to the drive for austerity that has been the hallmark of Europe in recent years.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Michel Spingler
Christine McCoy, from Dubuque, Iowa looks over the paddock before the 138th running of the Kentucky Oaks horse race at Churchill Downs Friday, May 4, 2012, in Louisville, Ky.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
Du Yanling wears sunglasses, similar to those of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, over his normal glasses outside the hospital where Chen is recuperating in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 3, 2012. Du said he is there to show support for Chen who fled persecution by local officials in his rural town and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan
President Barack Obama returns a salute as he steps off the Marine One helicopter upon his arrival on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May, 2, 2012. Obama was returning from an unannounced trip to Afghanistan.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign a strategic partnership agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Space shuttle Enterprise, riding on the back of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, cruises over the Hudson river, Friday, April 27, 2012 in New York. Enterprise is eventually going to make its new home in New York City at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Beef vendors wait for customers at their stall at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 26, 2012. Indonesia became the first country to suspend imports of U.S. beef Thursday following the discovery this week of an American dairy cow infected with mad cow disease.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, after the court's hearing on Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
PHOTO: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Election worker Khalid Battle reads a book as he waits for voters to cast their ballots in Pennsylvania primary election at Memorial Gospel Crusades Church, Tuesday, April 24, 2012, in Philadelphia. Voters in New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were heading to the polls on Tuesday for primary elections.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Matt Rourke
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accompanied by by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., talks to reporters in Aston, Pa., Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
PHOTO: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
A group of U.S. Army veterans who took part in liberating Nazi death camps walk through the entrance gate of the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Thursday, April 19, 2012, as they take part in the annual March of the Living to commemorate Holocaust victims. Walking with the flag is Frederick Carrier, one of the U.S. soldiers who helped liberate Buchenwald.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz
Caption from the Los Angeles Times: "A soldier from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division with the body of an Afghan insurgent killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb. The photo is one of 18 provided to The Times of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses." Check out other times soldiers have been caught behaving badly here.
PHOTO: Photo published by the Los Angeles Times
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann stand outside Fenway Park baseball stadium in Boston, Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
PHOTO: AP Photo/Steven Senne
A soldier, part of the NATO forces, carries a sniffing dog after a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 16, 2012. A brazen, 18-hour Taliban attack on the Afghan capital ended early Monday when insurgents who had holed up overnight in two buildings were overcome by heavy gunfire from Afghan-led forces and pre-dawn air assaults from U.S.-led coalition helicopters.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq
A supporter of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawwa stands on a representation of a U. S. flag before set it on fire during a protest rally in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, April 6, 2012. Nation-wide protests condemned the United States for putting US$10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed, founder of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
PHOTO: AP Photo
President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 29, 2012, to urge Congress to eliminate tax breaks for oil and gas companies.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
March 28: People file out of the Supreme Court after the morning session hearing arguments on the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, the last day of hearings.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
March 23: Mitt Romney greets supporters during a campaign stop in Metairie, La., on Friday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Steven Senne
March 22: President Obama walks at TransCanada's Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla., on Thursday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
March 21: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, right, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appear on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
March 20: Thunderstorms announce the coming of spring on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
March 17: President Obama drinks a Guinness with his ancestral cousin from Moneygall Ireland Henry Healy, center, and the owner of the pub in Moneygall Ireland, Ollie Hayes, right, at The Dubliner Restaurant and Pub in Washington on Saturday, St. Patrick's Day.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
March 16: Actor George Clooney, center, and Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., left, are led to a police vehicle after being arrested during a protest at the Sudan Embassy in Washington on Friday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Cliff Owen
March 15: Rick Santorum speaks to an audience at a town hall meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo
March 14: British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama reach to shake hands during their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
March 13: President Obama stands with Commerce Secretary John Bryson, left, and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, as he makes a statement regarding China and trade on Tuesday in the Rose Garden of the White House.
PHOTO: Charles Dharapak/AP
March 12: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy introduces Mitt Romney at a campaign stop at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mobile, Ala.
PHOTO: AP Photo/ John David Mercer
March 9: Mitt Romney speaks at the Mississippi Farmers Market in Jackson, Miss., on Friday.
PHOTO: Rogelio V. Solis/AP
March 8: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama present the 2012 International Women of Courage Award to Safak Pavey of Turkey, on the 101st Anniversary of International Women's Day on Thursday at the State Department.
PHOTO: Charles Dharapak/AP
March 7: President Obama is reflected in the sunglasses of a member of the military as he greets people on the tarmac upon his arrival at Charlotte Douglas International airport in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
March 6: President Obama pauses during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
March 5: President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
March 2: Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Bellevue, Wash., on Friday.
PHOTO: Gerald Herbert/AP
March 1: Newt Gingrich pauses while speaking to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce on Thursday in Atlanta.
PHOTO: Evan Vucci/AP
Feb. 29: Mitt Romney tours the factory after a campaign rally at American Posts in Toledo, Ohio, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Gerald Herbert/AP
Feb. 28: Callista Gingrich, wife of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich meets with Republican supporters at a Smashburger restaurant on Tuesday in San Diego.
PHOTO: Gregory Bull/AP
Feb. 24: Mitt Romney addresses the Detroit Economic Club at Ford Field in Detroit on Friday.
PHOTO: Carlos Osorio/AP
Feb. 23: Mitt Romney speaks at the Associated Builders and Contractors National Meeting at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on Thursday.
PHOTO: Gerald Herbert/AP
Feb. 22: President Obama heads to the West Wing of the White House in Washington with Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, left, and White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew, right, after returning from a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Susan Walsh/AP
Feb. 21: President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday talks about the importance of the payroll-tax cut and jobless-benefits extension bill that Congress passed last week in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
PHOTO: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Feb. 16: A worker in hardhat, and others, listen as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at an economic round table at National Galvanizing in Monroe, Mich., on Thursday.
PHOTO: Gerald Herbert/AP
Feb. 15: Marine One, with President Obama aboard, departs from the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday, enroute to Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
PHOTO: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Feb. 10: A woman wearing a hat adorned with tea bags and the name Newt listens as Rick Santorum speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
Feb. 9: President Obama speaks about a mortgage settlement on Thursday in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington.
PHOTO: Susan Walsh/AP
Feb. 8: Employees of Jergens Inc., continue to work on the assembly line as Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a campaign stop on Wednesday in Cleveland, Ohio.
PHOTO: Evan Vucci/AP
Feb. 2: Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney after announcing his endorsement of Romney during a news conference on Thursday in Las Vegas.
PHOTO: Julie Jacobson/AP
Feb. 1: President Obama pauses as he holds up a proposed mortgage application form at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Va., on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Cliff Owen/AP
Jan. 31: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill on Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee.
PHOTO: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Jan. 27: President Obama greets supporters after his speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Friday.
PHOTO: Carlos Osorio/AP
Jan. 26: First Lady Michelle Obama gestures during a visit to a Latin grocery store in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday.
PHOTO: Chris O'Meara/AP
Jan. 25: This video image provided by House Television shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. on the floor of the House on Wednesday. Giffords resigned from the House on Wednesday amid tears, tributes and standing ovations, more than a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin.
PHOTO: AP Photo/House Television
Jan. 24: Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, leave the Tick Tock Restaurant on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
PHOTO: Matt Rourke/AP
Jan. 23: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., hugs Daniel Hernandez, the former intern who saved her life, in Tucson, Ariz., on Monday.
PHOTO: Gabrielle Giffords via Twitter
Jan. 21: Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, displays an autographed sign during a campaign stop at Tommy’s Country Ham House, on Saturday in Greenville, S.C., on South Carolina's Republican primary election day.
PHOTO: Matt Rourke/AP
Jan. 20: The shadow of Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is cast against the South Carolina state flag as he waits to be introduced at a campaign rally in an airplane hanger on Friday in North Charleston, S.C.
PHOTO: David Goldman/AP
Jan. 19: President Obama speaks about tourism and travel on Thursday along Main Street USA at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
PHOTO: Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP
January 18: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laughs after receiving a Los Angeles Lakers basketball jersey as a gift from global cultural ambassador and former NBA basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Wednesday at the State Department in Washington. Abdul-Jabbar will travel the world to engage a generation of young people to help promote diplomacy.
PHOTO: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Jan. 17: Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum arrives at the USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Matt Rourke/AP
Jan. 13: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has a Cuban coffee at the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana area of Miami on Friday.
PHOTO: Alan Diaz/AP
Jan. 12: Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry gestures during a campaign stop at Lizard's Thicket in Blythewood, S.C., on Thursday.
PHOTO: Matt Rourke/AP
Jan. 11: President Obama smiles as he greets U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk during a roundtable meeting on Insourcing American Jobs on Wednesday in the Old Executive Office Building.
PHOTO: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Jan. 10: Voters cast ballots in the gym of the Webster School in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Evan Vucci/AP
Jan. 6: Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum takes questions from the audience as he campaigns at the Keene Public Library in Keene, N.H., on Friday.
PHOTO: Charles Dharapak/AP
Jan. 5: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listens at left as Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a Boys and Girls Club in Salem, N.H., on Thursday.
PHOTO: Matt Rourke/AP
Jan. 4: Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., joined by husband Marcus, left, family and friends, announces that she will end her campaign for president on Wednesday in West Des Moines, Iowa.
PHOTO: Chris Carlson/AP
Jan. 3: Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum waits to be introduced at a campaign stop at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Charlie Riedel/AP
Dec. 28: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista greet Tonya Tran of Natural Nails salon during a campaign stop at the Southbridge Mall in Mason City, Iowa, on Wednesday.
PHOTO: CHARLES DHARAPAK/AP
Dec. 27: Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a town hall meeting at the GOP Headquarters in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Charlie Neibergall/AP
Dec. 25: President Obama gets a mouth and face full of fingers from Cooper Wall Wagner, 8 months, as he poses for a photo with Cooper and his parents, Captain Greg and Meredith Wagner, while visiting members of the military during Christmas dinner at Anderson Hall on Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Sunday in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
PHOTO: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Dec. 23: Former President Bill Clinton, center is flanked by his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic, on Friday.
PHOTO: Petr David Josek, Pool/AP
Dec. 22: President Obama speaks during am event in the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex on Thursday. The president was flanked at the White House by several people who commented on Twitter about how they would be impacted if the tax cuts were not extended.>
PHOTO: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Dec. 21: President Obama shops for Christmas presents with his dog Bo at Petsmart in Alexandria, Va., on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Dec. 20: Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew, center, is assisted by Rabbi Levi Shemtov, second left, and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, right as they light the National Hanukkah Menorah during a ceremony on The Ellipse in Washington on Tuesday, marking the first night of Hanukkah.
PHOTO: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Dec. 16: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a rally at Missouri Valley Steel in Sioux City, Iowa, on Friday.
PHOTO: Chris Carlson/AP
Dec. 15: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speaks in Baghdad on Thursday during ceremonies marking the end of the U.S. military's mission in Iraq.
PHOTO: Khalid Mohammed/AP
Dec. 14: President Obama, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, speaks to troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Wednesday.
PHOTO: GERRY BROOME/AP
Dec. 13: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., accompanied by fellow Republican leaders, meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday before a crucial vote on a GOP effort to renew an extension of the payroll-tax cut.
PHOTO: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Dec. 9: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a town hall meeting on Friday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
PHOTO: Charlie Neibergall/AP
Dec. 8: Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry listens to Catcher Jones, 7, of Greenville, S.C., as Jones tells him about his desire to become President of the United States and to become an Eagle Scout on Thursday on the U.S.S. Yorktown in Charleston, S.C.
PHOTO: Alice Keeney/AP
Dec. 7: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses the 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Forum luncheon honoring Amb. Sam Fox, hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition, on Wednesday in Washington.
PHOTO: Cliff Owen/AP
Dec. 6: Keith Thomas, 49, right, and Orlando Gonzales, 88, left, wearing red ski hat, both from Washington, join in a protest inside the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Dec. 2: President Obama listens as former President Bill Clinton speaks at a building under construction in Washington on Friday.
PHOTO: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Dec. 1: Myanmar President Thein Sein, right, shakes hands with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a meeting at the President's Office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar on Thursday.
PHOTO: Saul Loeb, Pool/AP
Nov. 30: Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the New Hampshire legislature during a campaign stop at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H., on Wednesday.
PHOTO: Jim Cole/AP
Nov. 29: Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, left, looks on as Vice President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey after he arrived, in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday. Biden arrived on a surprise visit to Iraq late Tuesday in a trip designed to chart a new relationship between the two countries.
PHOTO: Khalid Mohammed/AP
President Obama's dog Bo inspects the White House Christmas tree as it arrives at the North Portico, Nov. 25, in Washington. The 19-foot-tall balsam fir is from a farm near Neshkoro, Wis.
PHOTO: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Nov. 23: President Obama, with daughters Sasha and Malia, pardons Liberty, a 19-week old, 45-pound turkey,on Wednesday on the North Portico of the White House.
PHOTO: Lauren Rock/AP
Nov. 22: President Obama greets audience members before he spoke about jobs on Tuesday at Manchester High School Central in Manchester, N.H.
PHOTO: Charles Dharapak/AP
Nov. 18: President Obama poses for a photograph with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center, and his wife, Kristiani, upon his arrival for a gala diner at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on Friday.
PHOTO: Romeo Ranoco, Pool/AP
Nov. 17: Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Solyndra on Thursday.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
Nov. 16: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., right, answers questions after a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Huddling behind him, from left are, Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.
PHOTO: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Nov. 15: Occupy Wall Street protesters clash with police at Zuccotti Park after being ordered to leave their longtime encampment in New York on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Craig Ruttle/AP
Nov. 11: President Obama, accompanied by Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, left, places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a Veteran’s Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday.
PHOTO: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Nov. 10: Rowers on the foggy Potomac River approach the Memorial Bridge in Washington on Thursday.
PHOTO: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Nov. 9: Trader Michael Zicchinolfi runs across the floor the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 240 points in early trading after Italy's borrowing costs soared.
PHOTO: Richard Drew/AP
Nov. 8: President Obama visits a classroom at Yeadon Regional Head Start Center in Yeadon, Pa., on Tuesday.
PHOTO: Charles Dharapak/AP
Nov. 4: President Obama smiles in the rain as he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy attend an event on Friday honoring the alliance between the United States and France and their efforts in Libya at Cannes City Hall, after the G20 Summit in Cannes, France.
PHOTO: Charles Dharapak/AP
Nov. 3: World leaders pose for the group photo for the G20 summit in Cannes, France, on Thursday.
PHOTO: Markus Schreiber/AP
Nov. 2: President Obama speaks in front of the Key Bridge on Wednesday, which spans the Potomac River between Arlington, Va., and Washington.
PHOTO: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Nov. 1: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, greets Turkey's Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, between members of the military on Tuesday at the Pentagon.
PHOTO: JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP
Oct. 28: Members of the Veteran Corps of Artillery of New York remove their cannons following a ceremony at the Statue of Liberty to mark her 125th anniversary on Friday.
PHOTO: MARK LENNIHAN/AP
Oct. 21: President Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House on Friday where he announced that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by year's end.
PHOTO: EVAN VUCCI/AP
Oct. 20: Libyans celebrate Muammar el-Qaddafi death in Tripoli, Libya, on Thursday. Libya's information minister said Qaddafi was killed on Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Surt, the last major bastion of resistance two months after the regime fell.
PHOTO: ABDEL MAGID al-FERGANY/AP
Oct. 19: A protester throws a stone at Greek police officers during clashes in central Athens on Wednesday. Greek anger over new austerity measures and layoffs erupted into violence Wednesday, as demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and gasoline bombs, and riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades that echoed across Athens' main square.
PHOTO: LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/AP
Oct. 18: President Obama delivers remarks at the YMCA at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, N.C., on Tuesday.
PHOTO: GERRY BROOME/AP
Oct. 14: Clouds are seen over Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Friday before President Obama's arrival, prior to the president traveling to Detroit.
PHOTO: ANN HEISENFELT/AP
Oct. 13: President Obama welcomes South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during a state arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday.
PHOTO: EVAN VUCCI/AP
Oct. 12: President Obama speaks at the White House Forum on American Latino Heritage on Wednesday at the Interior Department in Washington.
PHOTO: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Oct. 7: President Obama stands with the 1985 Super Bowl XX Champions Chicago Bears football team during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.
PHOTO: PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP
Oct. 6: President Obama gestures during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.
PHOTO: SUSAN WALSH/AP
Oct. 5: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano gestures while discussing the department's enforcement of immigration laws on Wednesday at American University in Washington.
PHOTO: JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP
Oct. 4: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens to a question in the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., on Tuesday after he announced that he will not run for president in 2012.
PHOTO: MEL EVANS/AP
The White House is bathed in pink light Monday night to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
Sept. 30: President Obama pauses as he speaks on the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki on Friday during a 'Change of Office' ceremony at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va.
— PHOTO: PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP PHOTO
PHOTO: PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP PHOTO
Sept. 28: Rev. Al Sharpton on Wednesday announces details of a march for "Jobs Justice" to be held on Oct. 15, during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
— PHOTO: EVAN VUCCI/AP PHOTO
PHOTO: EVAN VUCCI/AP PHOTO
Sept. 22: Rep. Charlie Rangel on Thursday speaks at the unveiling of his portrait, which will be hung in the House Ways and Means Committee hearing room— PHOTO: CHET SUSSLIN
PHOTO: Chet Susslin
Sept. 27: A man attaches rigging to the top of the Washington Monument on the National Mall, in Washington, on Tuesday before engineers rappelled down the sides of the monument to survey the extent of damage sustained to the monument from the Aug. 23 earthquake.
— PHOTO: JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP PHOTO
PHOTO: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Sept. 21: President Obama addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Wednesday.
— PHOTO: JASON DECROW/AP PHOTO
PHOTO: JASON DECROW/AP PHOTO
Sept. 20: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry speaks at a press conference with American and Israeli Jewish leaders and supporters of Israel, in New York on Tuesday, where he attacked President Obama's foreign policy.
— PHOTO: MARY ALTAFFER/AP PHOTO
PHOTO: MARY ALTAFFER/AP PHOTO
Sept. 19: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, right, accompanied by Budget Director Jacob Lew, gestures during a briefing at the White House on Monday.
— PHOTO: SUSAN WALSH/AP PHOTO
PHOTO: SUSAN WALSH/AP PHOTO
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