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  • Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    GAFFNEY: The night that all the lights go out

    In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force - perhaps a collision with a large asteroid - peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political parties would come together to save the planet and our civilization.


  • Chinese 14-year-old will tee it up in Memorial

    Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old Chinese amateur who made history at Augusta National, is bringing his game to Jack Nicklaus' backyard.


  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    EDITORIAL: The deficit dip

    The deficit is shrinking, but it's too soon to celebrate a return to sanity. America is still sinking more into debt by the minute and is still on a path to ruin.


  • A clerk counts Chinese yuan banknotes at a bank in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. (AP Photo)

    China sentences underground bank operator to death

    A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by entrepreneurs.


  • Leland Shelton is congratulated as he is acknowledged by President Obama in Sunday's Morehouse College commencement address. After a difficult childhood, Mr. Shelton graduated Phi Beta Kappa and is headed to Harvard Law School.
(Associated Press)

    Obama at Morehouse: Black men cannot use racism as a crutch

    Speaking at a historically black college, President Obama said Sunday that he sometimes blamed his youthful failings on racism and urged graduates to look up to black male role models such as filmmaker Spike Lee.


  • President Obama (right) and Morehouse College President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. stand onstage during the  college's 129th commencement exercises on Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama to black graduates: Don't use racism as an excuse

    Speaking at an historically black college, President Obama said Sunday he sometimes blamed his youthful failings on racism and urged the all-male class of graduates to look up to black male role models such a filmmaker Spike Lee.


  • ** FILE ** Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with President Thein Sein at the presidential office in the capital of Naypyitaw in 2010. (Associated Press)

    Myanmar's promises unfulfilled as leader meets with Obama

    Myanmar's president will meet Monday with President Obama amid criticism that the Southeast Asian country has done little to end its war against ethnic minority rebels, protect stateless Muslims or institutionalize democratic reforms that have been promised since its military junta was dissolved in 2011.


  • Beckham's role after retirement to remain global

    After David Beckham's long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps even more glamorous than it already has been.


  • Guan will miss Nelson cut after 2nd-round 77

    Guan Tianlang was constantly tossing grass up in the air trying to get a feel for the swirling winds. He was often shaking his head.


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