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This Nov. 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows a mountain lion known as P-22, photographed in the Griffith Park area near downtown Los Angeles. P-22, the celebrated mountain lion that took up residence in the middle of Los Angeles and became a symbol of urban pressures on wildlife, was euthanized after dangerous changes in his behavior led to examinations that revealed poor health and an injury likely caused by a car. (U.S. National Park Service, via AP, File)

Famed Los Angeles mountain lion euthanized

By Christopher Weber - Associated Press

The Metrorail station at Dulles International Airport is seen on Nov. 2, 2022, in Chantilly, Va., with the terminal in the background. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is ready to open the second and final phase of its Silver Line Metrorail extension on Nov. 15. The six new stations will for the first time connect the airport and the outer suburbs of Loudoun County to the region's flagship mass transit system. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)

Customs officials seize giraffe and zebra bones from arriving traveler’s luggage at Dulles

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Chart courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Texas wracked by magnitude 5.4 earthquake, the state’s fourth-strongest ever

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Illustration on the China threat to U. S. satellites by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Will China knock out America’s satellites?

By Jed Babbin

A Qatari man films new central concourse terminal expansion new airport opened to accommodate people arriving for the World Cup in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

What would a more sustainable World Cup look like?

By Suman Naishadham - Associated Press

In this image made from video provided by NASA, a SpaceX rocket carrying the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (NASA via AP)

Satellite launched to map the world’s oceans, lakes, rivers

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this Tuesday Dec. 2, 2014, photo, Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden Travis Fountain checks a sack of oysters aboard an oyster boat to make sure they are legal, in East Galveston Bay, Texas. State officials have recommended parts of Galveston Bay be closed to oyster harvesting amid concerns over immature mollusks being removed and reefs still recovering from 2008’s Hurricane Ike. (AP Photo/The Galveston County Daily News, Jennifer Reynolds) **FILE**

Norovirus outbreak with 211 cases in eight states linked to raw oysters from Texas

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Virgin Atlantic flight VS3, front, and British Airways flight BA001 perform a synchronised departure on parallel runways at London Heathrow Airport, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, heading for New York JFK to celebrate the reopening of the transatlantic travel corridor, more than 600 days since the U.S. travel ban was introduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Anthony Upton/PA via AP) ** FILE **

Virgin Atlantic to fly from London to New York using fuel made from cooking oil and fat

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

An American flag flies near an oil rig near the site where President Donald Trump delivered remarks about American energy production during a visit to the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Midland, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Magnitude 5.4 earthquake jolts West Texas; one of state’s strongest ever

Associated Press

Debris lay on the street after a huge fish tank burst at the Seal Life Aquarium in central Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)

Huge Berlin aquarium bursts, releases flood of fish

By Frank Jordans and Emily Schultheis - Associated Press

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., joins female House Democrats at an event ahead of a House vote on the Women's Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act at the Capitol in Washington, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

AOC’s documentary on climate crisis results in box-office catastrophe

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to African leaders gathered for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Biden to remove some Chinese companies from a ‘red-flag’ trade list

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this 2012 image provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a technician reviews an optic inside the preamplifier support structure at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, was decades in coming, with scientists for the first time able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it. (Damien Jemison/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory via AP)

Fusion, finally

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, left, is greeted by South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

Seoul: U.N. agency to boost efforts to monitor North Korean nukes

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

This June 1, 2021, photo shows the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Democrats in the Texas Legislature are planning to leave the state in another revolt against a GOP overhaul of election laws. A person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press that Democrats are set to once again break quorum at the Texas Legislature in a dramatic showdown over voting rights in America. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Texas state Republicans grill BlackRock in committee hearing over ‘woke’ investment practices

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Civil Defense Department, Civil Defense personnel search for survivors buried after a landslide hit a campsite in Batang Kali, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. A landslide hit the campsite outside Kuala Lumpur early Friday, Malaysia's fire department said. (Malaysia Civil Defence via AP )

2 dead, 51 missing as landslide hits Malaysian campsite

Associated Press

Workers with Randolph Electric Membership Corporation work to repair the Eastwood Substation in West End, N.C., on Dec. 6, 2022. Federal regulators on Thursday, Dec. 15, ordered a review of security standards at the nation's far-flung electricity transmission network, following shootings at two electric substations in North Carolina that damaged equipment and caused more than 45,000 customers to lose power. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, File)

Feds order review of power-grid security after attacks

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

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. Work crews are steadily erecting hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers along the rugged east end of Arizona’s boundary with Mexico as Republican Gov. Doug Ducey makes a bold show of border enforcement even as he prepares to step aside next month for Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

U.S. sues Gov. Doug Ducey, Arizona over shipping containers on Mexico border

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

A group of manatees are pictured in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power &amp; Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Dec. 28, 2010. Wildlife officials said Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, that food, gear and supplies are staging along Florida's east coast to tackle the recurring, pollution-related starvation crisis for threatened manatees. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Florida manatees facing starvation fed through program

By Curt Anderson - Associated Press

In this 2013 photo, cone collectors like Gabe Thorne, of Hamilton, head up into the high country around the west to climb to the very top of whitebark pine and collect cones from disease-free trees in Sula, Mont. U.S. officials say climate change, beetles and a deadly fungus are imperiling the long-term survival of the high-elevation tree found in the western U.S. (Perry Backus/Ravalli Republic via AP, File)

Whitebark pine that feeds grizzlies is threatened, U.S. says

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press