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Ice in 6 out of 10 restaurants more filthy than toilet water: U.K. study

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Buescher humbled by Oklahoma tornado victims

By STEPHEN HAWKINS - Associated Press

Head-Stela with Stylized Face in Raised Relief, calcite-alabaster, 6th–3rd century B.C., Gift of Dr. Giraud Foster, 2007, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (21.36)

PENDLEY: Forest Service dims alabaster’s gleam

By William Perry Pendley

Overturned trucks block a frontage road off I-40 just east of 81 in El Reno, Okla., after a tornado moved through the area on Friday, May 31, 2013. (Associated Press)

Deadly El Reno, Okla., tornado was widest on record, rated a rare EF5

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Any day now, cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground after 17 years and overrun the East Coast with the awesome power of numbers. (AP Photo/University of Connecticut, Chris Simon)

EDITORIAL: The cicadas are coming

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

An Alton, Ill., Public Works employee checks on one of several large pumps being used to keep Mississippi River floodwaters at bay in downtown Alton, Ill., Monday, June 3, 2013. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, John Badman)

Hundreds flee rising waters in Missouri as levee breached

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

China ramps space program with planned astronaut launch

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Firefighters and medical staff prepare to remove body bags that appears to contain the bodies of those killed by a fire at a poultry processing plant in northeast China's Jilin province's Mishazi township on Monday, June 3, 2013. The massive fire broke out at the poultry plant early Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing over a hundred people, reports and officials said. (AP Photo)

Poultry plant fire in China kills more than 100 people

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

BAKST: Growing absurdities in the farm bill

By Daren Bakst

**FILE** This 1991 photo shows a close up of an Africanized honeybee or killer bee. (Associated Press)

Thousands of Africanized bees attack, kill Texas man

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" jet aircraft is surrounded by emergency vehicles while parked at a Terminal E gate at Logan International Airport in Boston on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, following a fire that started in one of the plane's lithium ion batteries. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Problem found on Boeing 787 jet, but no safety risk: report

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The Thompson Ridge fire burns in an area just north of Jemez Springs, N.M., on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Fire crews in New Mexico were fighting two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital of Santa Fe. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Roberto E. Rosales)

Southern California wildfire explodes in size overnight

By Christopher Weber - Associated Press

A police officer offers directions to a driver leaving a heavily damaged supply yard for Cactus Drilling Co. in El Reno, Okla., on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Employee David Stottemyre was working in the lot when a tornado took aim at the plant. Mr. Stottemyre ran inside the large supply storage building and took shelter as the twister passed over, leaving the building in a twisted pile of steel and metal. He was not injured. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel)

Cleanup goes on in central U.S. as storms move toward East Coast

By Sean Murphy - Associated Press

Residents of North Cotabato province in the southern Philippines look at boulders that partially blocked a highway on Sunday, June 2, 2013, after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake hit late Saturday. (AP Photo/North Cotabato Provincial Office)

Earthquakes kill 2 in Taiwan, injure 33 in the Philippines

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Cars that were damaged by a tornado in parking lot at Canadian Valley Technical Center on State Highway 66, west of Banner Road, Friday May 31, 2013 in El Reno, Okla. (Associated Press)

‘My life passed before my eyes’: Twister hurls Weather Channel meteorologist’s SUV

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A wide-ranging ban on smoking, signed into law by Vladimir Putin, has taken effect in Russia. (Associated Press)

Putin-approved smoking ban rolls out in Russia

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Overturned trucks block a frontage road off I-40 just east of 81 in El Reno, Okla., after a tornado moved through the area on Friday, May 31, 2013. (Associated Press)

At least nine dead, dozens injured after Midwest twisters

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Michigan turkey tests positive for West Nile virus

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Work to reduce turbine casualties

The Washington Times

'Armageddon,' 1998 (Image: Walt Disney Studios)

Asteroid fly-by on Friday sparks debate over readiness for ‘Armageddon’-style event

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times