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In this photo taken April 28, 2014, Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP, announces that Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling will not be receiving his lifetime achievement award, at a news conference in Culver City, Calif. Jenkins has his own legal problems, which are coming into focus now that the NBA has banned Sterling for racist comments. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

NAACP head resigns over achievement award to Donald Sterling

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 28, 2002 file photo, a Muslim man prays as he enters Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. Brunei on Thursday, May 1, 2014 embraced a form of Islamic Shariah criminal law that includes harsh penalties, a move slammed by international rights group as a step backward for human rights. From Thursday, Brunei citizens can be fined or jailed by Islamic courts for offences like not performing Friday prayers, pregnancy out of wedlock, propagating other religions and indecent behavior. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Shariah law comes to first East Asian nation; Brunei blasted for ‘horrific and sickening’ move

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Vice President Joe Biden walks off stage after speaking about the release of the First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The White House is urging schools to provide victims of sexual assault with a confidential, respectful way to report the crimes and seek treatment. (AP)

Joe Biden invokes ‘Deliverance’ movie in point about rape

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a media meeting organized by the Russian People's Front in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin has mocked the Internet as a CIA project and pledged to protect Russia&#8217;s interest in the online industry. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

U.S. placing new round of sanctions on Russia

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

With the Colorado state capitol building visible in the background, partygoers dance to live music and smoke pot on the first of two days at the annual 4/20 marijuana festival in Denver, Saturday April 19, 2014. The annual event is the first 420 marijuana celebration since retail marijuana stores began selling in January 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Colorado 4th-graders busted selling legal marijuana on school playground

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rancher Cliven Bundy speaks at a news conference near Bunkerville, Nev., Thursday, April 24, 2014. Bundy, a Nevada rancher who became a conservative folk hero for standing up to the government in a fight over grazing rights, lost some of his staunch defenders Thursday after wondering aloud whether blacks might have had it better under slavery. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)

Cliven Bundy: ‘Negro’ term ‘shouldn’t offend anybody’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A police lieutenant swings his baton at Occupy Wall Street activists in New York, in this May 1, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

NYPD’s attempt at positive Twitter outreach campaign proves to be an epic fail

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Shawn Baxter waits to advise the media at the Yearning for Zion Ranch, Thursday, April 17, 2014, near Eldorado, Texas. State agents have seized the property, which belonged to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was where hundreds of children were removed during a 2008 FBI raid prompted by child sex abuse allegations. (AP Photo/San Angelo Standard-Times, Jennifer Rios)

Texas seizes polygamist Warren Jeffs’ 1,600-acre ranch

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 3, 2012 file photo, director Bryan Singer arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of the play &quot;8&quot; in Los Angeles. A man who claims he was sexually abused by the &quot;X-Men&quot; franchise director Singer said Thursday, April 17, 2014, that he reported the molestation to authorities at the time, and does not know why charges were never pursued. Egan sued Singer in Hawaii on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, and is seeking more than $75,000 on each of four accusations: intentional infliction of emotional distress, battery, assault and invasion of privacy. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)

‘X-Men’ director Bryan Singer accused of sexually abusing a boy

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2009 file photo, Henrique de Castro, Google's then Managing Director Media Solutions, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican's press room. Yahoo on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 announced that CEO Marissa Mayer is cutting loose de Castro, Yahoo's chief operating officer, a possible sign that the Internet company's efforts to revive its long-slumping advertising sales aren't paying off.(AP Photo/Riccarco De Luca, File)

Fired Yahoo exec’s $60 million golden parachute may be a record

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

uFly fires flight instructor who appeared on CNN

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers escort Farman Ali, right, and Arif Ali, two brothers suspected of cannibalism to a local court in Sargodha, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Police raided their house in central Pakistan Monday morning after neighbors complained of a horrible stench. Police officer Zafar Iqba said the men were previously jailed for two years on charges of digging up bodies, cooking and eating them in 2011. (AP Photo/M.I. Haq)

Child’s severed head leads to re-arrest of cannibalistic brothers

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

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Al Qaeda mocks U.S. in ‘extraordinary’ Yemen gathering; experts fear CIA caught flat-footed

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Ramon Pichs Madruga, Co-Chairman of the IPCC Working Group III, Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chairman of the IPCC Working Group III, and Rejendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, from left, pose prior to a press conference as part of a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, April 13, 2014. The panel met from April 7, 2014 until April 12, 2014 in the German capital. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

U.N. climate experts call for ‘near zero’ emissions, global taxes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Steve Israel, New York Democrat. (Associated Press)

DCCC’s Steve Israel says majority of Republicans are racist

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Pace of presidential prep picks up

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

Rep. Steve Israel, New York Democrat, is seen Sept. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Steve Israel: Dems banking on poor GOP ratings to help in November

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this June 28, 2013, file photo, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White, File)

Jimmy Carter jabs Obama, Hillary Clinton on handling of Middle East

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A Florida state trooper, center, escorts a group of parents to a day care center to pick up their children after a vehicle crashed into the center, Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Winter Park, Fla. At least 15 people were injured, including children. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Arrest warrant issued in day care car crash that killed girl, hurt 14

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times