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  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Air-conditioning tweet just satire

    On May 17, The Washington Times published an article titled "Saudi cleric: Prohibit women from using air conditioning" (Web). Since then, the article has been circulating around social media and news outlets, including CNN Arabic and the United Arab Emirates' Al Bayan. It even sparked its own dedicated hashtag on Twitter.


  • Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

    Pope Francis suggests atheists' good deeds gets them to heaven

    Pope Francis has sparked a religious debate with comments made earlier this week confirming atheists can indeed go to heaven.


  • ** FILE ** Neighbor Charles Ramsey speaks to media near the home on the 2200 block of Seymour Avenue, where three missing women were rescued in Cleveland, on Monday, May 6, 2013. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw)

    He's lovin' it: Cleveland hostage hero Charles Ramsey gets year of free McDonald's food

    Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who made national headlines with his rescue of three women from his neighbor Ariel Castro's home, was awarded a year's worth of free food at McDonald's.


  • A law enforcement official from Davis County walks from the garage Thursday, May 23, 2013, at a home where two young boys were found dead Wednesday night in West Point, Utah. A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home, police said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

    Utah teen, 15, charged with killing brothers, 4 and 10

    A Utah teenage boy has been arrested and charged with homicide in the death of his two adopted brothers, ages 4 and 10.


  • Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld leans on his time as a Navy pilot with advice for President Obama.

    Inside the Beltway: Rumsfeld rule for Obama

    Donald H. Rumsfeld has created considerable buzz with his book "Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life," which includes 400 advisories for those who would be leaders. Among those rules: American is not what's wrong with the world. If you expect people to be on the landing, include them in the takeoff. If you're coasting, you're going downhill.


  • What's Left: Lea Bessinger and her son Josh Bessinger sort through the rubble of Ms. Bessinger's tornado-ravaged home Tuesday.

    Oklahoma destruction hard to fathom even for Tornado Alley

    As search and rescue teams combed Moore, Okla., for survivors of Monday's deadly twister, officials struggled to describe devastation that, even for a town in the heart of "Tornado Alley," is almost unimaginable.


  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Thank you for Benghazi coverage

    Thank you for running "Countdown: The Benghazi scandal" by Rowan Scarborough (page A1, May 17) and giving it proper coverage on the front page. We subscribe to both the Washington Post and The Washington Times, and as usual the Post downplayed the Benghazi scandal; there was no mention of it on the front page.


  • The Tea Party Patriots plan to "rein in the IRS" through nationwide protests at Internal Revenue Service offices on Tuesday as it taps into public outrage. (Tea Party Patriots)

    Inside the Beltway: The Big Brew

    Delicious irony, perhaps: the tea party has been reinvigorated and reinvented following revelations that its groups' nonprofit status had been singled out and investigated by the IRS. Though a critical news media has tried to purge the conservative, liberty-minded grass-roots movement from the public radar, the tea partyers still push back in huge numbers, and on their own terms. Rush Limbaugh now deems the tea party "fearless."


  • Powerful earthquake hits Chile's coast

    A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 rocked off the coast of Chile on Monday.


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