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A long row of double-stacked shipping contrainers provide a new wall between the United States and Mexico in the remote section area of San Rafael Valley, Ariz., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

Arizona, feds strike deal to dismantle shipping container wall on border

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this 2004 file photo the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier seen in the Barents Sea, Russia. A fire on Russia's only aircraft carrier injured two service members, Russian military officials said Thursday Dec. 12, 2019. The Admiral Kuznetsov was docked in Murmansk in northern Russia for an upgrade when the fire started amid welding work on Thursday morning. (AP Photo, file)

Fire breaks out aboard only Russian aircraft carrier, no reports of injuries

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This undated electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rabies virions, dark and bullet-shaped, within an infected tissue sample. Five Americans died of rabies in 2021 — the largest number in a decade — and health officials say some occurred because people didn’t realize they’d been infected or refused life-saving shots. (F. A. Murphy/CDC via AP)

Deaths trigger warning of rabies in South Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, bottom center, attends a ruling party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Jan. 12, 2021. North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years, more than half of it this year alone, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday, December 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Seoul: North Korean hackers stole $1.2B in virtual assets

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Four U.S. F-22 stealth fighters fly over Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Feb. 17, 2016. The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers and advanced stealth jets near the Korean Peninsula for joint drills with South Korean warplanes on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022 as the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un derided doubts about her country's military and threatened a full-range intercontinental ballistic missile test. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

U.S., South Korea fly bomber training missions amid tensions with North

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about the PACT Act, which helps veterans get screened for exposure to toxins, at the Major Joseph R. &quot;Beau&quot; Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Del., Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden pledge to boost foreign climate aid goes up in smoke

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This April 18, 2022, photo provided by Mohave County shows orchards near Kingman, Ariz. where irrigation now has been limited. The Arizona Department of Water Resources made the decision this week to protect a dwindling groundwater supply. (Mohave County via AP)

Arizona restricts farming to protect groundwater supply

By Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2014 photo, a fire engine truck rolls past potholes filled with rainwater in East Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Former 911 dispatcher admits to starting at least 24 fires in Ohio forest

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A worker from Washington Department of Transportation clears a drain on Northgate Way during a heavy snow at the morning commute in Seattle, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (Karen Ducey/The Seattle Times via AP)

Pacific Northwest braces for freezing temperatures

By Claire Rush - Associated Press

Illustration on the dangers of Biden's energy policy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

To help European allies, U.S. must make serious energy regulatory reforms now

By Brigham McCown

Activists of the &quot;Last Generation&quot; hold the top of a Christmas Tree and show a banner reading: 'It's just the top of the Christmas tree' at the Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Climate activists have cut off the tip of the Christmas, tree erected in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. The group Last Generation said two of its members used a hydraulic lift and a hand saw to cut six feet off the top of the 50-foot tree. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

Climate activists decapitate prominent Berlin Christmas tree

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This image released by NASA on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, shows NASA’s InSight lander on Mars. The lander’s power levels have been dwindling for months because of all the dust coating its solar panels. While ground controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory knew the end was near, they did not expect InSight to fall silent over the weekend. (NASA via AP(

NASA Mars lander InSight falls silent after 4 years

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker administers a second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine for a resident through the nose, at a temporary vaccination site in Beijing, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. Chinese health authorities on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022 announced two additional COVID-19 deaths, both in the capital Beijing, that were the first reported in weeks and come during an expected surge of illnesses after the nation eased its strict &quot;zero-COVID&quot; approach. (Ren Chao/Xinhua via AP)

China braces for hundreds of millions of COVID infections after U-turn on policies

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Postal Service pledges move to all-electric delivery fleet

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Sept. 6, 2022, in Washington. Biden is expected to discuss the prospect of another campaign with those closest to him when he departs Washington for a Christmas vacation. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden to meet with Mexican, Canadian leaders next month

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A man is silhouetted against the sky at sunset after coming out of the Pacific Ocean at Mission Beach, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ** FILE **

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake shakes parts of Northern California

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General Electric lightbulbs are displayed in a supermarket on April 5, 2021, in New York. The Biden administration is scrapping old-fashioned incandescent lightbulbs. Rules finalized by the Energy Department will require manufacturers to sell energy-efficient lightbulbs, accelerating a longtime industry practice to use compact fluorescent and LED bulbs that last 25 to 50 times longer than incandescent bulbs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Biden administration to phase out incandescent bulbs, move to LEDs

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Huang Runqiu, left, president of the COP 15 and minister of Ecology and Environment of China, listens as Steven Guilbeault, minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, speaks during a press conference at the COP 15 summit on biodiversity, in Montreal, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (Peter McCabe /The Canadian Press via AP)

Historic biodiversity agreement reached at U.N. conference

By Michael Casey - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Royal Thai Navy, an aerial view from a navy plane shows cleanup efforts of a large oil spill off the coast of Rayong, eastern Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. A special aircraft from a company specializing in recoveries from oil spills has arrived Thursday from Singapore to join an urgent effort to clean up an oil slick before it could hit beaches in eastern Thailand. (Royal Thai Navy via AP)

Thai navy searching for 31 missing sailors after ship sank

Associated Press

The Dutch flag flies upside down from a tractor during a small protest outside parliament, where Johan Remkes, an independent mediator, delivered his report into the Dutch government's plans to drastically reduce emissions of nitrogen pollutants by the country's agricultural sector during a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. The plans have sparked nationwide protests by angry farmers who fear for their livelihoods. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Concern over agricultural emissions plants a seed of degrowth

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times