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New Year's Day

Latest New Year's Day Items
  • LANGER: True cost of the union label

    Here's a Labor Day factoid: The total economic loss we'd feel from labor bosses' and environmental activists' joint "cap-and-trade" tax scheme - $10 trillion from 2012 to 2035 - is roughly the same as all of America deciding to completely cease all economic activity from New Year's Day to, well, Labor Day next year.


  • ** FILE ** Former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee (The Washington Times)

    D.C. charter schools face unfunded mandates

    D.C. schools open their doors Monday morning for the start of a new year, and charter parents and advocates say a new problem is compounding an old one.


  • A demonstrator carries a lamp after the window was broken at Sears during a protest in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty of involluntary manslaughter in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

    Justice Department to probe killing of Calif. black man

    The U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division will investigate a white Oakland police officer accused of killing an unarmed black man on a crowded train platform, a case reminiscent of the racially charged 1992 police beating of Rodney King.


  • In this June 1, 2010 photo, Alexandra Drane sits on her dock at her Winchester, Mass., home. After watching her sister in-law lose a battle with cancer in the hospital, Alexandra created a website to help support a person's option to spend their final days at home instead. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

    Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death

    Cancer patients are receiving more treatment and living longer, but some wonder if it's worth it.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS NBA commissioner David Stern, left, poses with the No. 1 overall draft pick John Wall, of Kentucky, who was selected by the Washington Wizards with the No. 1 pick in the NBA basketball draft Thursday, June 24, 2010 in New York.

    Wizards take Wall with No. 1 pick

    John Wall is ready to go to Washington and clean up the Wizards.


  • Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8), from Russia, moves the puck up-ice against Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Hal Gill (2) during the first period of Game 7 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

    NHL announces 2010-2011 schedule

    The Pittsburgh Penguins will open a new arena, and the Chicago Blackhawks will unfurl a long-awaited championship banner in the first week of the 2010-11 NHL season.


  • Illustration: Ted Nugent and Bears by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    NUGENT: If you are this politically incorrect …

    Ah, the joys of spring cleaning. What a wonderful American ritual it is to pursue cleanliness next to godliness as we tidy up our homes and properties following another cabin-fever-inspiring wintertime. Personal hygiene doesn't end with sacred temple management but surely extends into our beloved homes as well. My kids were all taught this self-evident truth, and spring is welcomed by most Americans thusly as we clean up for another grand year of the American Dream.


  • Associated Press
Mitchell Johnson already was facing sentencing on a weapons charge when he was arrested Saturday on drug possession.

    Around the Nation

    ARKANSAS


  • Bhutto's son, 19, will return to Oxford; not ready for power

    LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH


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