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** FILE ** A satellite image taken on April 30, 2012, shows the area around the Yongbyon nuclear facility in North Korea. (AP Photo/GeoEye)

U.N. says North Korea seems to have jumpstarted reactor at nuclear plant

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The guided-missile destroyer USS Gonzalez (DDG 66) fires a 5-inch round during a live-fire exercise in the Indian Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Jon Bullough/Released)

U.S. offers to destroy Syrian chemical weapons at sea

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** FILE ** In this image made from the monitor at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (center), Liu Wang (left) and Liu Yang celebrate aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft after a successful manual docking between the spacecraft and the Tiangong-1 lab module on Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Beijing Aerospace Control Center via Xinhua)

China’s next step to space: A lunar launch, and a moon rover

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ma’s initiative solution to island dispute

By our readers

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

MEANS: Throttle shock

By Grady Means

Merry Christmas: California atheists launch godless billboard campaign

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

$FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. The Republican-controlled House is considering three energy bills aimed at speeding up drilling for oil and natural gas. Bills expected to win approval Wednesday would restrict the Interior Department from enforcing proposed rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on public lands and set strict deadlines for federal approval of oil and gas permits. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)$

Park Service pulls objection to fracking; used op-ed instead of scientific evidence

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Philippine Air Force, Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys, left, touches a typhoon survivor as she visits the Villamor Air Base in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines, Monday Nov. 25, 2013. Keys visited the air force base to bring cheer to hundreds of evacuees from eastern Philippine provinces wracked by Typhoon Haiyan earlier this month. (AP Photo/Philippine Air Force)

Alicia Keys visits typhoon refugees in Philippines

Associated Press

A golden eagle flies above a wind turbine on Duke Energy's Top of the World wind farm in Converse County, Wyo., on Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Dina Cappiello)

Duke Energy pleads guilty, will pay $1 million for killing birds

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Global-warming mania’s deadly fallout

By our readers

** FILE ** Steam rises from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Vogtle plant in Waynesboro, Ga., in April 2010. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, approved the construction of two new nuclear units at the Vogtle site — the first new reactors in the United States in 30 years. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)

EDITORIAL: No more razzle-dazzle

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The 2013 Capitol Christmas Tree, an 88-foot-tall Engelmann spruce from Colville National Forest in Washington state, arrives Monday on Capitol Hill ready to be adorned with more than 5,000 homemade ornaments before it is lit Dec. 3. (Associated Press)

Donations paid for Capitol Christmas Tree’s cross-country trip

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

DREIESSEN: Exploding biofuels’ myths

By Paul Driessen

China’s surveillance ship Haijian 15 plies the waters of the East China Sea near islands that are the center of a dispute between China and Japan. (Xinhua news AGENCY via Associated Press)

China sets air defense zone over East China Sea’s disputed islands

Associated Press

An American bald eagle (Associated Press) **FILE**

Wind energy company pleads guilty to eagle deaths

By Dina Cappiello - Associated Press

**FILE** Rep. Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The alarmist league

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On Cyprus, political reconciliation must prevail

By our readers

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

STEWARD: Turning the green Earth greener

By H. Leighton Steward