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Home cooks, gas stove manufacturers feeling burned by government

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Actor Jane Fonda briefs reporters on expectations for the new High Seas Treaty, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (Loey Felipe/United Nations Photo via AP)

Jane Fonda campaigns to save ‘our brethren in the ocean’

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT shows what it says is a ballistic missile being launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward Japan on Monday in its second weapons test in three days that drew quick condemnation from its rivals and prompted Tokyo to request an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. (KRT via AP)

Fears, questions about North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal

By Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

A man receives medical assistance after being injured in the latest earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of Turkey that were laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands. Officials said more buildings collapsed, trapping occupants, and several people were injured in both Turkey and Syria. (Efekan Akyuz/Depo Photos via AP)

New quake brings fresh losses to residents of Turkey, Syria

By Zeynep Bilginsoy and Susan Fraser - Associated Press

Command post facilities at one of North Korea's nuclear test sites are demolished in Punggye-ri, North Korea, on May 24, 2018. Human rights advocates on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, urged South Korea to offer radiation exposure tests to hundreds of North Korean escapees who had lived near the country's nuclear testing ground. (Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP) **FILE**

Radiation leaks may be hobbling North Korean nuclear ambitions, new report says

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, disembarks his plane upon arrival at Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. Blinken has taken a helicopter tour of one of the provinces worst-affected by the Feb. 6 earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria. The secretary of state is making his first trip to NATO ally Turkey since he took office. Blinken arrived at Incirlik Air Base on Sunday after attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake

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FILE - U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, center, and Tim Seaman with the Rio Chama Acequia Association look on surveying the Rio Chama valley near Abiquiu, N.M., Aug. 31, 2021. Dozens of traditional irrigation systems that supply community farms, gardens and orchards in northern New Mexico won’t flow with water this spring. Rural officials tell state lawmakers Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, that it's a devastating consequence of a historic wildfire that the U.S. Forest Service sparked last year. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Wallowing in wokeism: Biden offers feds ‘ecogrief’ counseling for ‘emotional’ toll of climate change

By Staff

This photo provided by the Sao Paulo Government shows vehicles fallen from an elevated area along the beach in Sao Sebastiao, east of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, after it was damaged by a severe weather system went through the area. (Sao Paulo Government via AP)

Downpour kills at least 36 in Brazil, cities cancel Carnival

By Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, at Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken tours Turkey’s earthquake zone, pledges $100M in aid

By Andrew Wilks - Associated Press

In this image from video, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during an interview with The Associated Press on Jan. 21, 2023, in Dakar, Senegal. Yellen will travel to India next week to attend Group of 20 finance minister meetings in Bengaluru, India, and will address the global economic impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as her visit coincides with the one-year anniversary of the invasion.(AP Photo/Yesica Fisch, File)

Janet Yellen to visit India for G-20 finance meetings

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. The balloon was struck by a missile from an F-22 fighter just off Myrtle Beach, fascinating sky-watchers across a populous area known as the Grand Strand for its miles of beaches that draw retirees and vacationers. (Chad Fish via AP)

Military finishes recovering Chinese balloon debris

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Robin Silver, a feral bull is seen along the Gila River in the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico, on July 25, 2020. U.S. forest managers in New Mexico are moving ahead with plans to kill feral cattle that they say have become a threat to public safety and natural resources in the nation's first designated wilderness, setting the stage for more legal challenges over how to handle wayward livestock as drought maintains its grip on the West. (©Robin Silver/Center for Biological Diversity via AP)

U.S. Forest Service to shoot feral cattle in Gila Wilderness by ground and air

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A man walks past collapsed buildings following a devastating earthquake in the town of Jinderis, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. The death toll from the earthquakes of Feb. 6, that struck Turkey and northern Syria is still climbing. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

U.N. official warns of rising earthquake death toll in Syria

By Omar Akour - Associated Press

A woman sits next to bodies that were pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. The earthquakes that killed more than 39,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria is producing more grieving and suffering along with extraordinary rescues and appeals for aid. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Key developments in the aftermath of Turkey, Syria quakes

By Tanya Titova and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

A man raises his hand with a question for East Palestine, Ohio Mayor Trent Conaway, center, during a town hall meeting at East Palestine High School in East Palestine, Ohio, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. The meeting was held to answer questions about the ongoing cleanup from the derailment on Feb, 3, of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous material. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Upset Ohio town residents seek answers over train derailment

By Patrick Orsagos - Associated Press

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., arrives for a classified briefing on China, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Russian-Ukraine war, one year in, has supercharged the partisan divide on energy in Washington

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pauses before leaving an intelligence briefing on the unknown aerial objects the U.S. military shot down this weekend at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. The incidents come shortly after a Chinese surveillance balloon traversed the U.S. and was shot down off South Carolina a week ago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin: ESG hurts energy security if geopolitical risks get ignored

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Plastic bottles and plastic waste illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

How we can come together to recycle more plastic every day

By Matt Seaholm

A U.S. Supreme Court police officer walks by during a voting rights rally, at the Supreme Court Oct. 28, 2021, in Washington. Supreme Court police officers are looking for a few good men and women — as are law enforcement departments around the country in a tight employment market. High court personnel are showing up on college campuses, military bases and other venues to try to fill some of the force's many vacancies.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Supreme Court asked to decide if climate change lawsuits are federal or state court territory

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on carbon capture tax credit 45Q by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Government should impose transparency on carbon capture tax

By Brian Darling