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** FILE ** A U.S. Special Operations Forces service member along with 3rd Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide or Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) soldiers demonstrate the proper way to pass hallways and intersections during Close Quarter Battle training during Exercise Silent Warrior 2013 in Bamenda, Cameroon Jan. 17, 2013. (Image: Africom.mil, Air Force Master Sgt. Larry W. Carpenter Jr.)

U.S. Special Forces heading to Nigeria, training troops to ‘take the fight to Boko Haram’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Venezuelans swarm a government market in Caracas to buy subsidized food from a worker whose shirt translates as "Oh no! Chavez isn't leaving." (Associated Press)

Venezuela’s Maduro hails ration card to help deal with food shortages

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

**FILE** The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Security specialists say with diplomats residing in more well-guarded parts of cities, intelligence is likely to decline. (Associated Press)

Islamist militants storm Benghazi security building, killing 8

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., goes before the House Rules Committee for final work on his budget to fund the government in fiscal year 2015, at the Capitol in Washington, in this April 7, 2014 file photo. The plan being considered Thursday April 10, 2014 is a nonbinding framework aimed more at engaging GOP voters than rival Democrats. The budget plan from Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., revives a now-familiar list of spending cuts to promise balance, including $2.1 trillion over 10 years in health care subsidies and coverage under the Affordable Care Act; $732 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs; and almost $1 trillion in cuts to other benefit programs like food stamps, Pell Grants and farm subsidies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Black lawmakers meet with Paul Ryan: ‘We didn’t get a whole lot accomplished’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's weak economic recovery by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Obama’s economic stall-out

By Donald Lambro

Cody Wygant (Citrus County Sheriff's Office)

Fla. man charged with killing 16-month-old son to play Xbox undisturbed

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

2014 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A Pakistani policeman has been suspended for charging a 9-month-old boy with attempted murder

Nine-month-old Mohammad Musa was fingerprinted and booked on an attempted murder charge in Pakistan after his family members allegedly threw bricks at officials trying to collect an unpaid bill. (CNN)

9-month-old boy on the run after attempted murder charge in Pakistan

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, smiles as he meets President of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter during a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the 44. Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott)

Boeing gets permission by Obama administration to sell spare parts to Iran

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The U.K. has unveiled its newest stealth drone: Taranis. (Reuters TV screenshot)

Stealth drone Taranis debuts: ‘Most advanced aircraft ever built by U.K. engineers’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 10, 2014, photo, a farmer shows a cluster of dead snails prior to being prepared for planting at a rice field in Calamba city, Laguna province, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of Manila, Philippines. The aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has added urgency to finding a solution to a longstanding problem: Less than 10 percent of farmers have crop insurance, and while its advantages are widely understood, few can afford it. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

U.N. climate author withdraws because the report has become ‘too alarmist’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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

IRS says bitcoin can be taxed as property

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this file photo taken April 4, 2013, marijuana plant starts are seen at a growing facility in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Washington tribe tries to keep marijuana out of large swath of state: report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Images of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (right) and current President Nicolas Maduro cover a wall in downtown Caracas. Mr. Maduro, the hand-picked successor of Chavez, has remained popular among the working class but has failed to win the support of the discontented middle class. (Associated Press)

Venezuelan agents arrest opposition mayor; high court orders another jailed

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Reinforcement Afghan police officers pose together as they are expected to go for recapturing the village of Wanat in Nuristan province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday July 17, 2008. U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers earlier this week, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo)

U.S. may have paid Afghan police force for non-existent ‘ghost workers’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A solar eruption on April 16, 2012, which was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. (NASA) ** FILE **

Scientists: Crippling solar blasts just missed Earth in 2012

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A pro-Russian soldier is back dropped by Russia flag while manning a machine-gun outside an Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukrainian soldier killed, another wounded in attack at base in Crimean town

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times