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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Energy Department is poised to approve $6.5 billion in lending for two nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is expected to announce the deal at a speech in Washington on Wednesday, a day before he visits the $14 billion Vogtle nuclear plant being built by Southern Co. and several partners about 30 miles southeast of Augusta. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

US agency issues permit for Canada-NYC power line

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Downed power lines and a battered road is what superstorm Sandy left behind as people walk off the flooded Seaside Heights island, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Power line developer focusing on Vermont project

By WILSON RING - Associated Press

Michelin Guide knocks Daniel down to 2 stars

By J.M. HIRSCH - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 photo, Gov. Ed Rendell makes remarks during a news conference in Philadelphia. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell had been invited to join Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz on a doomed weekend trip to Boston. Rendell said Katz tried to persuade him on Friday, May 30, 2014, to attend an event at historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's home, but Rendell had another commitment. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Philly mayor trashes New York City in bid for DNC convention

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

More than 100 activists were arrested Monday in New York City during "Flood Wall Street," a protest against what organizers say is the corporate world's contribution to climate change. (Twitter/@FloodWallStreet)

102 climate change activists arrested during ‘Flood Wall Street’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Demonstrators stage a sit-in Monday on Broadway during a march protesting for action on climate change. (Associated Press)

Skeptics heated over climate conference

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this undated family photo provided by the National Action Network, Saturday, July 19, 2014, Eric Garner, right, poses with his children during during a family outing. Garner was confronted by police trying to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed, loose cigarettes on a Staten Island sidewalk, authorities said. The 6-foot-3, 350-pound Garner became irate, denying the charges and refusing to be handcuffed before one of the officers placed him in what Police Commissioner William Bratton said appeared to be a chokehold, according to partial video of the encounter obtained by the New York Daily News. (AP Photo/Family photo via National Action Network)

Expert says chokehold caused NYC man’s death

By JAKE PEARSON - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Queer Nation NY, anti-Putin protestors demonstrate in front of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York, where the Met held its season-opening gala featuring soprano Anna Netrebko and conductor Valery Gergiev, two longtime supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin, who has upheld anti-gay laws passed by the Russian legislature, has denied that homosexuals face discrimination in Russia and said the law does not infringe on their rights. (Associated Press/Scott Wooledge, Queer Nation NY)

Largest gay rights group seeks permit for St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Social Security’s outdated records systems invite disability fraud: IG report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on the effects of cigarette taxation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

McQUILLAN: Lessons from Eric Garner’s death and cigarette taxes

By Lawrence J. McQuillan

The Star Spangled Avenger means business in the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier now available in the Blu-ray format. (Courtesy Walt Dinsey Home Entertainment)

ZADZOOKS: Captain America: The Winter Soldier review (Blu-ray)

By Joseph Szadkowski - The Washington Times

FILE - In a March 17, 2006 file photo, members of the Irish-American gay community protest on Fifth Avenue against the exclusion of Irish and Irish-American gays people from marching in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade Friday, in New York. Organizers of the world's largest St. Patrick's Day Parade say they're ending a ban and allowing a gay group to march under its own banner for the first time. The parade committee, in a statement made available to The Associated Press, said on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, that OUT@NBCUniversal, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender support group at the company that broadcasts the parade, would be marching up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on March 17 under an identifying banner. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)

Gay marchers to join NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

FILE - This Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, file photo, shows speed cameras aimed at U.S. Route 127 in New Miami, Ohio. Lawsuits were filed Wednesday, June 4, 2014 against the suburban Dayton cities of Trotwood and West Carrollton and Redflex Traffic Systems, a Phoenix, Arizona-based company that contracts with municipalities across the country to operate traffic cameras. The suits charge the automated enforcement systems violate motorists’ constitutional rights to due process and also improperly bypass the court system. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

More speed cameras near NYC schools

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Thousands of police officers gather in front of the Saint Rose of Lima Church for the funeral of Officer Dennis Guerra in the Rockaway Beach section of New York, Monday, April 14, 2014. Guerra died Wednesday after being overcome by smoke from a Brooklyn mattress fire. He was the first NYPD officer killed in the line of duty since 2011. His partner remains in critical but stable condition. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYPD monitoring Britain terror precautions

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15 most expensive cities to get married

By Herb Scribner - Deseret News

**FILE** Attorney General Eric Holder speaks July 14, 2014, at the Justice Department building in Washington. (Associated Press)

Holder: Equip police officers with heroin antidote

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times