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**FILE** A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington on Aug. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)

U.S. government starts new year already in deficit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Wilfredo Yanes sits on his motorcycle Oct. 17, 2012, shows pictures of his late son Ebed Jaasiel Yanes, 15, at the site where he was shot dead, allegedly by soldiers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. According to his relatives, Yanes was killed by soldiers early May 27, when he was riding a motorcycle near a military checkpoint. (Associated Press)

Dad seeks justice for slain son in broken Honduras

By Alberto Arce - Associated Press

A Chevrolet Silverado stands for sale at an auto dealership in Springfield, Ill. Two of the three New York debt-rating agencies, Moody Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s, quickly gave GM’s new credit lines totaling $11 billion an investment-grade rating on Monday. (Associated Press)

GM secures $11B in new credit lines

Associated Press

A marijuana leaf neon sign advertises a medical-pot provider in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

Feds put D.C. medical pot in a legal haze

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, back row from left, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Ramzi Binalshibh, Walid bin Attash and the alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, attend their Military Commissions pretrial hearing in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. The five accused of the Sept. 11 attacks were back before a military tribunal, forgoing the protest that turned their last appearance into an unruly 13-hour spectacle. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

Accused 9/11 plotter rants at Guantanamo court

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** The building of the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Manhattan is seen here on Aug. 17, 2007. (Associated Press)

Source: Obama was considered a target in N.Y. terror plot

By Tom Hays and Colleen Long - Associated Press

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in this photo from March 1, 2003. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sept. 11 case back before Gitmo war crimes court

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

ICE Director John T. Morton (right) (Associated Press)

U.S. targets violent Central American street gang

By Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

House report: Shun two Chinese technology firms

By Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

**FILE** An illegal immigrant is fingerprinted Aug. 9, 2012, as part of processing in order to create or update a file on that immigrant at Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

U.S. begins flying home deported Mexicans

By Elliott Spagat - Associated Press

Illustration: Free speech by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Appeasement trumps First Amendment

By Robert Knight - The Washington Times

Hundreds of Pakistanis angry over an anti-Islam film that denigrates the religion's prophet protest in Islamabad on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

In Pakistan, U.S. ads try to dampen anger over anti-Islam film

By Munir Ahmed and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says in a public service message on Pakistani TV: “Let me state very clearly that the United States has absolutely nothing to do with this [anti-Muslim] video. We absolutely reject its contents.” (Associated Press)

Congress riled about account of Libya attack

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film

By GILLIAN FLACCUS - Associated Press

The department has given Nakoula Basseley Nakoula limited help, including escorting him, with face covered (below), to an interview with federal probation officials. (Associated Press)

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film

By Gillian Flaccus - Associated Press

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Islam film

By GILLIAN FLACCUS - Associated Press

**FILE** A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington on Aug. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)

Moody’s warns of downgrade from AAA without budget deal

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

**FILE** A group of American and British POWs being held by the Germans, including Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. and Capt. Donald B. Stewart, look over a mass grave where murdered Polish officers are buried, near Smolensk, Russia, in May 1943. The Soviet secret police killed the Poles in 1940, hoping to eliminate an elite that would have resisted Soviet control of Poland. Van Vliet and Stewart were among a group of British and American prisoners forced to see the horrifying site by the Germans, who wanted word to get out to the world of the Soviet atrocity. (Associated Press)

Memos show U.S. hushed up Soviet crime

By Randy Herschaft and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Economy Briefs: Backlog, delays after short EgyptAir strike

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A service station attendant pumps gas in Portland, Ore., in February 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

New mileage standards would double fuel efficiency

By Matthew Daly and Tom Krisher - Associated Press