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This Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, file photo shows the Citibank building in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

5 big banks fined $3B in plot to manipulate $5.3T exchange market

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 16, 2014, file photo Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon speaks at a news conference in Ferguson, Mo., dealing with the aftermath of the police shooting of Michael Brown. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Ferguson waits: National Guard on call in case violence erupts after grand jury decision

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Feinstein may ask Obama to protect Mojave sites

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Amber Vinson, 29, the Dallas nurse who was being treated for Ebola, speaks at a news conference after being discharged from Emory University Hospital, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, in Atlanta. Vinson worked as a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who died of Ebola at the hospital on Oct. 8. Vinson was one of two nurses who became infected while caring for Duncan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

U.S. treatments show Ebola ‘not a death sentence’ after all

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This Oct. 25, 2014, photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows lava flow advancing across the pasture between the Pahoa cemetery and Apaa Street, engulfing a barbed wire fence, near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)

9,000 Hawaii villagers poised to flee from fast-moving lava

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

From left, Jon Cryer, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Macaulay Culkin, and Matthew Broderick seen during a tribute to the late director John Hughes at the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Judd Nelson forced to fight media reports: I am not dead

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Armed Afghan policemen destroy an opium poppy field in Noorgal, Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 13, 2013. (Associated Press)

America’s $7.6B war on opium in Afghanistan failing: inspector general

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A woman walks her dog past a broken block wall in Fullerton, Calif., on Saturday, March 29, 2014, after an earthquake hit Orange County Friday night. More than 100 aftershocks have rattled Orange County south of Los Angeles where a magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck Friday. Despite the relatively minor damage, no injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT

LA agency to urge mandatory quake retrofits

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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, speaks to his running mate, vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, right, R-Wis., as Romney's wife Ann waves to supporters after Romney conceded the race during his election night rally in Boston. Romney and his wife Ann announce an initiative to accelerate treatment and cures for complex neurological diseases, in partnership with Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Ann Romney: ‘Mitt and I are done’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this July 12, 2013, file photo, anti-abortion rights supporter Katherine Aguilar holds a crucifix and prays while opponents and supporters of abortion rights gather in the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas. Nearly three-quarters of Texas' 18 abortion facilities would be forced to close by the end of Aug. 2014 if one of the nation's toughest new anti-abortion laws is allowed to take effect, attorneys for clinics challenging the law told a federal judge Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)

Two-thirds of Texas abortion clinics close in face of court ruling

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Cockroaches temporarily shut theme park restaurant

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FILE - This Dec. 1, 2006 file photo shows Snow Summit Ski Area in the San Bernardino mountains in Big Bear Lake, Calif. The operators of Mammoth Mountain have signed a $38-million deal to acquire Snow Summit and Bear Mountain, two Southern California ski resorts that draw visitors from around the world. (AP Photo/Adrienne Helitzer, File)

2 Southern California ski resorts sold

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Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger poses with his official portrait after it was unveiled at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. The photograph-like giant image of the former governor was done by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein and will hang on the third floor of the Capitol. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Arnold Schwarzenegger unveils 6-foot-high portrait of self at Calif. Capitol

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

File - In this Jan. 26, 2014 file photo, Miguel Angel Warner, right, 4, of Los Angeles, asks Ed Dickens Jr., senior manager of heritage operations for the Union Pacific Railroad, about the historic locomotive, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014, at Metrolink Station, in Covina, Calif. The locomotive was to head for Colton over the next several weeks before No. 4014 is towed to Union Pacific's Heritage Fleet Operations headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, file)

Southern California rail line sees ridership dip

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Police in riot gear watch protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The transfer program is under intense scrutiny in the aftermath of this month's standoffs between police and protesters. (Associated Press photographs)

Missouri residents file lawsuit accusing police of brutality in Ferguson

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Jan. 15, 2014, file photo shows a test drone as it is is launched by catapult as a trail plane follows on a ranch near Sarita, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

California lawmakers vote to require warrants for spy drones

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This June 8, 2014, photo shows low water levels at the San Luis Reservoir near Gustine, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers used the backdrop of California's most severe drought in nearly four decades to put the $7.5 billion water plan on the ballot earlier this week. Despite its size, the measure will not solve the problems created by the drought nor is it expected to prevent rationing during future ones. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California extends review of $25B delta plan

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French President Francois Hollande, left, and French prime minister Manuel Valls chat with people as they arrive at the Fort de Bregancon, one of the official presidential residences since 1968, to take part in a working meeting, in Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France, Friday Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Bertrand Langlois, Pool)

France’s socialist government folds over economic dispute

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, actor Chris Kattan arrives at Puma's African Bazaar event in Los Angeles. Audio released by the California Highway Patrol on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, includes two motorists who describe Kattan's driving and the aftermath of his collision with a road crew on a Southern California freeway during the early morning hours of Feb. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

SNL alum Chris Kattan gets probation for DUI

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