The Washington Times

New Year's Day

Latest New Year's Day Items
  • Abby Winer and her grandmother Marilyn Winer sit in the sun Tuesday at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., while they wait for Abby's father, John Winer, flying in from JFK Airport in New York. (Associated Press/The Palm Beach Post)

    Blizzard woes haunt N.Y.

    Hundreds of airline passengers were stranded for up to 10 hours on the tarmac at overworked Kennedy Airport. Ambulances struggled to get patients through unplowed streets. City buses sat abandoned in the snow.


  • Russian lawmaker and Communist leader Gennady Zyugavov, left, sits during a parliament session in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Russia's lower house of parliament will not be able to give its full approval to a U.S.-Russian nuclear arms treaty until at least next month, a senior lawmaker said Friday. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

    Russian parliament tentatively approves New START nuke pact

    Russia's lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval Friday to a U.S.-Russian arms treaty, but decided to delay the final vote until next month.


  • Political Scene

    Some taxpayers will be unable to file returns until mid-to-late February because of recent tax breaks approved by Congress in its lame-duck session, the IRS said Thursday.


  • BLOOMBERG
Cali Simpson wraps herself in holiday lights Thursday upon arriving at Chicago's O'Hare airport from Denver. Travelers generally were faring well.

    Spread-out holidays ease trips as weather improves but costs rise

    As travelers take to road, air and sky in the sometimes hectic last days before Christmas, they should keep one thing in mind: It could be worse.


  • Longer lines begin to develop as passengers wait to go through security at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    Holiday travelers benefit from spread-out season

    As travelers take to the roads, rails and skies in the sometimes-hectic last days before Christmas, they should keep one thing in mind: It could be worse.


  • Lakers' Jackson still down on Christmas games

    Phil Jackson says humbug to the NBA's Christmas schedule.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Obama waves from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Wednesday before departing for his Christmas vacation in Hawaii.

    Obama will dare to Dream again in January

    Critiquing an unexpectedly productive final legislative rush, President Obama on Wednesday said his "biggest disappointment" was the failure to push through a bill that would have laid out a path to citizenship for children whose parents came into the country illegally.


  • Inside the Beltway

    And that would be Jan. 6, the second day that the bustling new Congress will be in session in the new year.


  • After win No. 89, top-ranked UConn moves forward

    All the excitement that came with eclipsing the UCLA men's mark of 88-straight wins has quieted down, and top-ranked Connecticut presses on. The next significant milestone is an even 100, and after that, another national title.


Happening Now