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EDITORIAL: The harsh mistress

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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Floating island of debris the size of Texas headed for U.S. shores

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Central Industrial Security Force personnel walk near the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV–C25) at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. India is aiming to join the world's deep-space pioneers with a journey to Mars that it hopes will showcase the nation's technological ability to explore the solar system while seeking solutions for everyday problems on Earth. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K.)

Blastoff: India set to send spacecraft to Mars

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Muslim women in Jakarta, Indonesia, take part in an attempt to break a world record for the most sky lanterns flown simultaneously in 2009. New Hampshire lawmakers have a bill this session to ban the use and sales of sky lanterns in the state. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Japanese paper lanterns face state bans at hands of firefighters

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama speaks at a campaign event Cleveland State University during a rainstorm on Oct. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama orders government to prepare for impact of global warming

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

HADZI-ANTICH: Bureaucrats run free, misinterpreting Endangered Species Act

By Theodore Hadzi-Antich

Arizona Department of Public Safety officers investigate a multiple fatality accident involving six semi tractor-trailers and 19 other vehicles in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 south of Casa Grande, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Authorities say three people are dead and at least 12 others injured after a dust storm led to chain-reaction collisions. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Ron Medvescek)

Arizona dust storm leaves 3 dead in highway pileup

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Protesters interrupt President Barack Obama as he speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama heckled by Keystone protesters at Boston Obamacare rally

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A protester carries a sign and wears a pin during a pro-coal rally in front of the state Capitol, in Denver, Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013. Various industry groups came together for the protest Wednesday, while nearby the Environmental Protection Agency held hearings on future rules to stem emissions from existing power plants, in one of 11 meetings being held across the country. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Coal advocates press case to EPA

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Dolphin population gets boost with discovery of new species

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rockways residents float lanterns containing handwritten personal messages in the water at the conclusion of "Rockaways Rising: Hands Scross the Sand," commemorating the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York. The actual one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy is Tuesday, Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Obama praises Sandy response on one-year anniversary of storm

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Work has begun on the Keystone XL pipeline near Winona, Texas, but whether it will ever carry oil sands from central Canada to Gulf Coast refineries awaits a decision by President Obama. (Tyler [Texas] Morning Telegraph via Associated Press)

Both sides on Keystone agree Obama must act

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

DRIESSEN: The heavy price of regulations

By Paul Driessen

The Tesla Model S, an electric car that sells for $70,000, received the highest safety rating ever recorded from the federal government but a crash and resulting fire sent the stock tumbling Thursday. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Electric cars are hot

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Lead-ammo ban will save birds

** FILE ** This March 26, 2007, file photo shows the ferry building on Ellis Island, N.J. The National Parks Service says the Ellis Island Immigration Museum will reopen to the public on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. It's been about a year since Superstorm Sandy brought water levels as high as 8 feet to the iconic former U.S. immigration entry point. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)

Ellis Island to reopen, post-Superstorm Sandy damage

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A car is crushed under a fallen tree as a man pushes a bicycle nearby following a storm, in Hornsey, north London, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. A major storm with hurricane-force winds is lashing southern Britain, causing flooding and travel delays including the cancellation of roughly 130 flights at London's Heathrow Airport. (AP Photo/PA, Yui Mok)

England grinds to a halt as hurricane-like winds ground flights, stop trains

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Earl and Pam Robinson of Chatsworth, Ga., are among the first to get settled into the newly reopened Cades Cove campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Townsend, Tenn., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, The couple have been camping in the Smokies for 23 years and had made reservations six months ago for this trip. "I could hug the governor's neck, " said Earl about the reopening of the park. The Tennessee state government and Sevier and Blount counties are paying over $300,000 for five days of operation costs for the park which has been closed due to the partial federal government shutdown. North Carolina is adding $75,000. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, Paul Efird)

PENDLEY: How federal abuse can last for generations

By William Perry Pendley

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KREUTZER: The dollars and nonsense of energy conservation

By David Kreutzer

Sand and rubble sit where the boardwalk used to be in Seaside Heights, N.J. Seaside Heights, like many other coastal towns, is racing to rebuild its boardwalk from Superstorm Sandy’s damage in time for next summer’s tourism season. Boardwalks are a major economic engine for shoreline communities. (Associated Press)

Some N.J. mail carriers told to report for work during Superstorm Sandy

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times