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  • ** FILE ** Judy Pepenella, a New York resident and member of the Conservative Society for Action, protests the health care reform law Monday outside the U.S. Supreme Court. She said she is part of a group of 50 doctors who filed a friend-of-the-court brief advocating that so-called Obamacare be struck down. (Raymond Thompson Jr./The Washington Times)

    Health premiums could hike 400 percent under Obamacare

    Prepare your wallet. Health premiums are set to rise by as much as 400 percent under Obamacare. That's according to a new report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee released this week that uses information from the nation's largest health insurance companies to estimate the emerging costs of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

  • Nafie Ali Nafie, National Congress Party of Sundan. (Associated Press)

    White House criticized by Holocaust scholars for hosting Sudanese war criminals

    A group of more than 100 Holocaust scholars and genocide experts signed on to a letter sent to the Obama administration Tuesday pressing it to cancel an upcoming meeting with a Sudanese delegation that includes war criminals who have facilitated "crimes against humanity."

  • A Russian Tu-95 bomber, surrounded by MiG-29s, participates in an air show marking 95th anniversary of the Russian air forces in August 2007. Coupled with newer long-range missiles, the slower but larger bombers are set to play a role in a modern military. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

    Russian bombers buzz U.S. territory — again

    Russian strategic bombers conducted flights near the U.S. defense zone close to northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands last week, Moscow's latest incident of nuclear saber-rattling against the United States, according to defense and military officials.

  • Human Rights Watch (HRW) has selected Mona Seif as a finalist for the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. (Image: Twitter)

    Human Rights Watch selects proponent of terrorism as finalist for award

    Several Washington-based human rights groups are facing criticism for awarding two radical Egyptian Islamists who have endorsed terrorism and expressed hostility toward Israel.

  • ** FILE ** Former President Jimmy Carter speaks Oct. 22, 2012, in the West Bank city of Ramallah to the media following a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (Associated Press)

    Jimmy Carter peace award sparks outrage from pro-Israeli camp

    A Jewish university that proposes awarding former President Jimmy Carter with a peace award has sparked the outrage of pro-Israel activists, who say he's done little, if anything, to advance their cause.

  • ** FILE ** Ann Coulter (Associated Press)

    Stop the presses! Human Events to shutter newspaper after 70 years

    Human Events, the venerable Washington-based conservative newspaper, will cease publishing its weekly print edition after nearly 70 years but will continue to operate its popular websites, the publisher announced Wednesday.

  • Dane Ellis, a full-service attendant at the Exxon station at Fourth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast in Washington, fills a car with gas on Monday, April 11, 2011. (The Washington Times)

    Business rails against Obama energy policy as gas prices keep soaring

    A group of top corporate executives is calling on President Obama to enact comprehensive energy policies so that industry might have an idea on how best to proceed in developing the nation's energy sources.

  • ** FILE ** In this Jan. 28, 2013, file photo, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez's office says he traveled on a plane owned by a Florida physician who is a friend and political donor, but denied that the senator had engaged with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

    Sen. Robert Menendez probe widens, as investigators look to decade-old dealings

    Investigators already scrutinizing Sen. Robert Menendez's ties to a Florida doctor-donor friend have now widened their investigation, going back a decade in the New Jersey politician's career and examining the circumstances surrounding his legislative halt to a company merger.

  • Super Bowl tickets were in big demand by both resellers and fans before the game Sunday in Indianapolis. (Associated Press)

    House Dems offer big tickets for campaign cash

    The Super Bowl. Lady Gaga. March Madness. Tickets to any one of these events are extremely costly, but for the right price, House Democrats are willing to put them into a donor's hands.

  • Pretty PR: Obama pulls women into new photo

    Obama and his team faced some scrutiny last week after adding a photo to the White House Flickr account featuring a meeting among the president's top advisers. The only problem: It was 100 percent men. Yesterday, the White House promptly trotted out three top female advisers for a photo-op with the president.

  • Illustration Two Al Gores by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    GAFFNEY: Al Gore profits from the stealth jihad

    Let's call it Al Goreera. This seems a fitting title for the new network that former Vice President Al Gore is launching with the jihadists' favorite television outlet: Al-Jazeera.

  • Illustration Hagal by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    GAFFNEY: Hagel a dangerous choice for defense

    The conventional wisdom is that President Obama dodged a politically perilous "bullet" when he declined to nominate Susan Rice as the next secretary of state.

  • DECKER: The next 9/11

    Washington hasn't learned the hardest lessons from Sept. 11, 2001. Although there is a new skyscraper reaching to the heavens where the World Trade Center once stood, the dust has yet to completely settle from the terrorist attacks on that fateful day 11 years ago.

  • President Obama walks May 8, 2012, across the South Lawn of the White House after a day trip to Albany, N.Y. (Associated Press)

    Security at pro-choice White House counts unborn children

    The pro-choice Obama White House requires pregnant visitors to count their unborn child as a person for tours of the mansion.

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