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Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer, shown in an undated photo, was deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Ganjgal Village in Afghanistan's Kunar province. The 23-year-old former Marine scout sniper from Columbia, Ky., who has since left the corps, will become the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor in decades. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps)
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LENDER: Jonathan Silver, head of the Energy Department program that approved the $535 million deal for Solyndra in 2009, faced some of the toughest questioning Wednesday by a House investigations subcommittee. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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A bill in Congress would cut rates for earthquake insurance so more homeowners can afford it, but critics say it's just a bailout for California, which bears the brunt of quake activity in the U.S. The 6.7 magnitude Northridge quake (pictured) in 1994 caused an estimated $20 billion in damage. (Associated Press)
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Republican vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, right, with Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, arrive for a campaign stop at the Bangor Airport, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, in Bangor, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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**FILE** A motorist pulls the nozzle out of his gas tank after fueling his car at a station in Augusta, Maine, on Aug. 15, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Lance Cpl. Meitzer, saluting as the sun rises at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Va., has been a Marine for 4½ years. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** This undated photo provided by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows Plum Island, a tiny island off the coast of New York's Long Island where the nation's primary animal disease laboratory is located. (Associated Press/USDA-ARS)
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French Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet speaks Monday at a press conference at the nuclear site of Marcoule in southern France, where one person died in an explosion. The site treats nuclear waste. (Associated Press)
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An office on the lower level of the closed Prince George's County Administration Building shows items in disarray after last week's storms caused water damage from flooding. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Townspeople watch as rescue workers tend to the injured and dead in flattened homes after a gasoline pipeline exploded Monday in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 75 people were dead and the toll was expected to rise; more than 100 suffered severe burns. (Associated Press)
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This undated photo courtesy of Target shows their new shopping cart design. The new Target shopping cart is made of lightweight recyclable material, with interchangeable plastic parts. Rust isn't a concern, repairs are easy, and scanning cart contents is a breeze. (AP Photo/Target)
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Mohammad Ahmadian (left), deputy chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, exchanges documents with Alexander Glukhov of Russia's Atomstroyexport during a ceremony at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. Iran's first nuclear power plant stepped up operations Monday after more than a decade of delays, pumping out electricity at up to 40 percent of capacity and marking a major step forward in the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Younes Khani)
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Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks during a news conference after the first meeting of the IAEA's board of governors in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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The International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors meets at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Rescuers and medics land by helicopter at a nuclear site in Marcoule, France, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, after an explosion at a plant that treats nuclear waste. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) ** FILE **
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In this March 15, 2011 photo, provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, a Taylor's checkerspot butterfly is seen in Oregon. A federal judge on Friday, Sept. 9, 2011 approved a pair of sweeping settlements that require the government to consider endangered protections for more than 800 animal and plant species. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A person searches for anyone who may be occupying a building last month as raging floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene cross Route 100, closing the main road to traffic in Waitsfield, Vt. As the soggy Northeast tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn't come, it seems like an ideal match of oversupply and unquenchable demand. It isn't.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "It is better that we all lose something than lose everything, forever," Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said about new economic measures.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A truck passes a cornfield near an intersection Thursday in Palmyra, Iowa. Tall stalks obstructing drivers' views are an increasing fall hazard in the Corn Belt as farmers expand their fields closer to the edges of roads.
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The muddy interior of a Mini Cooper is seen in the parking lot of a Courtyard Marriott hotel on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
