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** FILE ** President Barack Obama views a math project during a tour of Mooresville Middle School in Mooresville, N.C., Thursday, June 6, 2013. The president traveled to Mooresville, N.C., to promote his "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy Department risking taxpayer dollars in project tied to Obama donor, watchdog warns

By Edward Felker - Washington Guardian

A dark line of morning storm clouds creep across the sky near Pentagon City, Arlington, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Severe thunderstorm watch issued for D.C. area

By Celina Durgin - The Washington Times

**FILE** Utility workers with Dominion repair damaged lines (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Thousands of outages in Maryland after first wave of storms

By Andrea Noble and Celina Durgin - The Washington Times

Swirling morning storm clouds can be seen on Interstate 66, Arlington, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Derecho threatens: D.C. area braces for severe thunderstorms, high winds

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Scott Edwards with Montgomery County Highway helps clean up fallen trees in the Cloverly neighborhood after severe storms came through the region bringing heavy rain and winds, Silver Spring, Md., Thursday, June 13, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Tornado spotted in Montgomery County; outages in Md., Va. and D.C.

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

A wall cloud, containing a reported funnel cloud, passes over the Wanatah, Ind., area as a line of severe storm moves through the area Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (AP Photo/The LaPorte Herald-Argus, Bob Wellinski)

State, federal agencies taking storm precautions

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

A fire rages after an explosion at The Williams Companies plant in the Ascension Parish town of Geismar, La., on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The company's website says the firm puts out about 1.3 billion pounds of ethylene and 90 million pounds of polymer-grade propylene a year. (AP Photo/Ryan Meador)

Explosion rocks Louisiana chemical plant; several injured

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Swirling morning storm clouds can be seen on Interstate 66, Arlington, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Storm falls short of derecho

By Celina Durgin - The Washington Times

A slurry bomber flies over homes as it prepares to drop fire retardant on the Black Forest fire northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The fire has consumed an estimated 7,500 acres and forced the evacuation of thousands of people. (AP Photo/BryanOller)

Number of homes destroyed in Colorado wildfire could approach 100

By Thomas Peipert - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2012, file photo, an American Beech tree is down on Capitol Hill grounds in Washington across from the U.S. Supreme Court after a powerful storm swept across the Washington region. A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms with tree-toppling winds is likely to threaten one in five Americans Wednesday is as it rumbles from Iowa to Maryland, meteorologists warn. The massive storms may even spawn an unusual weather event called a derecho, which is a massive storm of strong straight-line winds spanning at least 240 miles. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Derecho potential? Massive Midwest storm system headed toward D.C. area

By Celina Durgin - The Washington Times

Al Gore

Al Gore: Koch brothers are ‘purveyors of the dirtiest energy on earth’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Firefighters use flashlights to search a destroyed apartment complex near a fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, in this photo taken early on Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

FEMA denies aid to West, Texas, to rebuild after blast

By Ramit Plushnick-Masti - Associated Press

** FILE ** American technology, along with its geology, has allowed oil and gas to be extracted from shale deposits deep within the bedrock. (Associated Press)

U.S. gains global competition as shale energy revolution heats up

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

**FILE** Kansas State Board of Education members Ken Willard (left), a Hutchinson Republican, and Kathy Martin, Clay Center Republican, confer Sept. 19, 2012, in Topeka, Kan., during the board's discussion of proposed science standards. Both have worried that the standards don't deal adequately with skepticism about evolution but like the guidelines' emphasis on hands-on learning over textbook instruction. (Associated Press)

Kan. school board approves new science standards

Associated Press

Mark Weber

WANZEK: Holding back a bounty of wheat

By Terry Wanzek

Thousands evacuated as river dam bursts in eastern Germany

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

BEAUPREZ: How the EPA connives with Greens on policy

By Bob Beauprez

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (third from left) flashes a victory sign during the inauguration of a space tracking center near Delijan, Iran, 125 miles south of Tehran, on Sunday, June 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad)

Iran says it has set up space monitoring center

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: D.C. Water missing chances for cleanup

The Washington Times

The Robo Raven was developed for the U.S. Army by the Maryland Robotics Center at the University of Maryland.

Army’s new robotic bird drone is so realistic it gets attacked by hawks

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times