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Attacks on Christian villages in Nigeria leave 100 dead

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, June 15, 2010, photo, workers at General Motors' Lordstown Assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio put the final touches on Chevy Cobalts. U.S. safety regulators are demanding that General Motors turn over documents detailing what the company knew when about a dangerous ignition problem that has been linked to 13 car-crash deaths. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

GM at fault for 303 airbag-related deaths: safety group

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Passengers from the disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship arrive by bus at the Hilton Riverside Hotel in New Orleans on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. The ship had been idled for nearly a week in the Gulf of Mexico following an engine-room fire. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Carnival Triumph passengers seeking $5,000 a month for life

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber from the 34th Expeditionary Squadron flies a combat patrol over Afghanistan on Dec. 10, 2008. (Image: Department of Defense)

Made in China: Materials on U.S. F-16 jets, B-1 bombers

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 file photo, French soldiers protect a truck of fleeing Muslims after it broke down and was surrounded by hundreds of hostile Christian residents, including several anti-balaka militiamen, in the Gobongo neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic. Central African Republic has long teetered on the brink of anarchy, but the new unrest unleashed by a March 2013 coup has ignited previously unseen sectarian hatred between Christians and Muslims. More than 1,000 people were killed in December alone and nearly 1 million displaced. The crisis has forced some to flee across borders to desperately poor and unstable countries like Chad and Congo. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

U.N. warns of Muslim ‘cleansing’ in Central African Republic

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Chinese soldiers in training November, 2010. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

China announces biggest military hike in 3 years: We are not ‘boy scouts with spears’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Drug mix may have cured child born with HIV, doctors say

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Vladimir Putin listens journalists' questions on current situation in Ukraine at the Novo-Ogaryovo presidential residence outside Moscow on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Russia claims successful test fire of ICBM

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 file photo, Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, and Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil, left, waves to the crowd as they meet in Gaza City. An Egyptian court ruled on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 to ban activities of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Egypt in a move likely to fuel tension between Cairo's military-backed government and the Islamic group that rules the neighboring Gaza Strip. Egypt's interim leaders maintain that Hamas is playing a key role in the insurgency by militants in the northern region of the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Egypt court bans all activities by Hamas

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Calif. (Wikipedia)

Suicides at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge hit record high

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

**FILE** In this photo taken Thursday, Feb, 20. 2014, a burned out building is seen after an attack by Boko Haram in Bama, Nigeria. The latest attack by suspected Islamic extremists in Nigeria's northeast has left 115 people dead, more than 1,500 buildings razed and some 400 vehicles destroyed, witnesses said Thursday, as a traditional ruler accused the military of being scared to confront the militants. Sitting amid the smoking ruins of his palace, the shehu, or king, of Bama, Kyari Ibn Elkanemi, charged that the government "is not serious" about halting the Islamic uprising in a region covering one-sixth of the country, far from oil fields that make Nigeria Africa's biggest petroleum producer. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

Dozens of students slain in attack on Nigerian boarding school

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Iraqi Security forces patrol in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Sporadic clashes continued Tuesday in some parts of Ramadi, with only limited success by security forces Al-Qaida-led militants are battling for control of mainly Sunni areas to the west of the Iraqi capital in a key test of the Shiite-led government's ability to maintain security in the country more than two years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops. (AP Photo)

Ambassador denies reports Iraq has weapons deal with Iran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gives a joint press conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon during Ki-moon's two day visit to Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 13, 2014. The U.N. chief expressed deep concerns Monday over the deteriorating security situation in Iraq as an unprecedented standoff is underway between Iraqi troops and al-Qaida-linked militants in western Anbar province. Ki-moon made his comments during a joint a press conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Mailiki. (AP Photo/Ali Al-Saadi, Pool)

Iraq signs deal to buy arms from Iran as State Dept. sees ‘serious concern’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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Biker who taunted Texas police with ‘catch me if you can’ captured

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This April 3, 2013, file photo shows bitcoin tokens in Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Bitcoin ATMs coming to Seattle, Austin

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010, photo shows fish on display for sale at Eataly's grand opening in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

Evolutionists say human face came from 415 million-year-old fish

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring speaks at a news conference at his office, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in Richmond, Va., where he stated he has changed his position on the marriage equality case and now supports gay marriage. Herring said he has concluded that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, and on Thursday he joined a lawsuit challenging it. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)

Judge certifies class action status in Virginia for gay marriage lawsuit

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Jan. 9, 2014, photo shows the Desert Research Institute's new cloud seeding drone at Heavenly Village in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. The drone has the ability to release silver iodide into a storm and generate additional rain or snowfall. (AP Photo/The Tahoe Tribune, Griffin Rogers)

California mulls ban on spy drones without warrant

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times