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In this Sept. 14, 2012, file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the burnt out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and his colleagues in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the consulate. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Intel office dumps redacted Benghazi emails on Christmas Eve

By Maria Stainer - The Washington Times

Bruce Willis in a scene from "Die Hard." (originalprop.com)

Christmas action movies provide holiday entertainment alternatives

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

Suspicion: The National Security Agency used financial incentives, secret courts and theft to breach privacy, leaked documents show. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: NSA dumps data on personal spying amid Christmas Eve distractions

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

(Associated Press)

D.C. passes 100 homicides for 2014 with 4 killed over unusually violent holiday

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Clay Co. may try again for water well funds

By NATHAN GREGORY - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, file photo, Rosemary Cabelo uses a computer at a public library to access the Affordable Health Care Act website, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Avoiding health insurance gaps takes persistence

By Carla K. Johnson - Associated Press

Dave Dora, a lineman from Grand Haven Board of Light and Power, works on connecting fallen wires on Macon Avenue in Lansing, Mich., Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. From Michigan to Maine, hundreds of thousands remain without power days after a massive ice storm _ which one utility called the largest Christmas-week storm in its history _ blacked out homes and businesses in the Great Lakes and Northeast. (AP Photo/Lansing State Journal, Greg DeRuiter)

All thousands want for Christmas is electricity

By Alanna Durkin and Corey Williams - Associated Press

In this image taken from video provided by NASA, astronauts Rick Mastracchio, top, and Michael Hopkins work to repair an external cooling line on the International Space Station on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, 260 miles above Earth. The external cooling line — one of two — shut down Dec. 11. The six-man crew had to turn off all nonessential equipment, including experiments. (Associated Press/NASA)

Astronauts make rare Christmas Eve spacewalk

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In Southeast D.C. lurks the Grinch who shot Santa

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 photo, a member of Venezuela's navy touches an image of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez after a mass in support of him in Havana, Cuba. Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said late Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 night that he had spoken by telephone with Chavez and that the leader is up and walking following cancer surgery in Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Caracas still vague on health of Chavez

By Alexandra Olson - Associated Press

A Christian worshipper prays inside the Grotto at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Thousands of visitors flock to Bethlehem for Christmas

By Dalia Nammari - Associated Press

A store at the CambridgeSide Galleria in Cambridge, Mass., advertises holiday sale prices on Christmas Eve. Fresh data on the holiday shopping season is expected in coming days, but early figures point to a ho-hum season for retailers. Analyst say stores will need to offer ‘once in a lifetime’ blowouts to clear out inventory. (Associated Press)

Shoppers’ frugality hurts retailers’ bottom line

By Candice Choi and Mae Anderson - Associated Press

Christians in Uganda demand protection from Muslim extremists

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Pope Benedict XVI (seated) delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (Latin for "To the City and to the World") speech from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Blasts in Nigeria mar pope’s appeal for world peace

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

** FILE ** Sale signs are displayed at a North Face store in Freeport, Maine, where a shopper browses the racks on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Last-minute buyers top off strong shopping season

By Mae Anderson - Associated Press

For the 26th year running, Santa and his retinue -- elves, reindeer, the Grinch, Frosty -- will take to the waters of the Potomac River for, you guessed it, water sports. Catch this year's show Saturday, Dec. 24, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.

GET OUT: Water-skiing Santa

By Mike Riggs - Special to The Washington Times

Air Force Lt. Col. David Hanson, of Chicago, takes a phone call from a child in Florida at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs on Christmas Eve 2010. The tradition began in 1955, as a result of a newspaper typographical error. (Associated Press)

NORAD Santa-trackers standing by

By Dan Elliott - Associated Press

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