Alexandra Gutierrez

A member of the Louisiana State Wildlife Response Team cleans oil off of a pelican in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on May 15. The Clean Gulf Associates Mobile Wildlife Rehabilitation Station continues it work rescuing animals affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. (U.S. Navy and Deepwater Horizon Response/Justin Stumberg)

Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Afghan President Hamid Karzai took a tour the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, where the idea for the United Nations was developed. Roses were smelled; jokes were told.

Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, attends the Time 100 gala. The magazine has a particularly good cover this month.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met yesterday in Washington. Intense. (ISAF/Chad J. McNeeley)

Today, executives from BP and Transocean testified before Congress on the Gulf Coast oil leak. Cleanup and containment efforts are still underway. (Flickr/U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District External Affairs)

Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan sits with the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, for whom she clerked.

Robert Farley and Davida H. Isaacs get wonky on Iron Man 2: In Iron Man 2, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) risks billion-dollar pieces of equipment to impress guests at a birthday party — a big mistake for a defense contractor. After all, Stark’s reckless debauchery provides the perfect pretext for the U.S. […]

Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met yesterday to discuss the Gulf Coast oil disaster. (White House/Pete Souza)

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg visits Watford to launch the 2010 General Election campaign, on April 6. The United Kingdom’s general election will be held May 6. (Fishnik/Alex Folkes)

… from space. (NASA)