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** FILE ** Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz. (Associated Press)

Spanish minister angers gays over same-sex marriage comments

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Gina McCarthy stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2013, as President Barack Obama announced he would nominate McCarthy to head the EPA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s EPA choice signals tougher line on climate

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

**FILE** Locusts fly on to Fuerteventura Island, in the Spanish Canary Islands, on Nov. 29, 2004. The locusts have flown 100 kilometers (60 miles) across the ocean after a infestation that wreaked havoc in North Africa. (Associated Press/EFE)

Millions of locusts descend on Cairo

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Obama announces in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, March 4, 2013, that he will nominate (from left) Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Ernest Moniz for secretary of energy, Gina McCarthy as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Wal-mart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama taps budget chief, two for climate-change roles

By Susan Crabtree and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama visits the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla., in March 2012. (Associated Press)

State Department report paves way for Keystone; environmental backlash grows

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Yucca Mountain

BUCKNER: U.S. irresponsibility on nuclear waste

By Mel Buckner

**FILE** Crews work on construction of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline near County Road 363 and County Road 357, east of Winona, Texas, on Dec. 3, 2012. (Associated Press/The Tyler Morning Telegraph)

State Dept: No major objections to Keystone pipeline

By Matthew Daly - The Washington Times

**FILE** Secretary of State John F. Kerry (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Kerry’s global warming crusade

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Buzz off: Pa. honeybee colony getting new home

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

** 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)

State Department’s Keystone Pipeline report prompts divisive response

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

**FILE** Demonstrators carry signs during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 5, 2006, in support of a bill to ban horse slaughter for human consumption. (Associated Press)

Horse meat slaughter poised to return to U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A Subway sandwich shop is hoisted by crane onto the rising steel frame of One World Trade Center in New York in 2009. The concession trailer fed workers as they built the 105-floor building. (Associated Press)

Subway restaurant executive slams feds for burdensome regulations

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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)

Inside China: China’s ‘second navy’

By Miles Yu

Dust from Africa affects snowfall in California

By ALICIA CHANG - Associated Press

Tuna collapse fears fail to curb Japan’s appetite

By MALCOLM FOSTER - Associated Press

Suits dismissed against corps over Nashville flood

By TRAVIS LOLLER - Associated Press

Plight of the American bumblebee: Disappearing?

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

China sets its 5th manned space mission for summer

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

New, temporary radiation belt spotted around Earth

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

China plans next manned space mission for summer

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press