Recently added articles from The Washington Times (Washington, DC):
Ex-customs chief urges weapons ban to rein in Mexican drug war.(PAGE ONE)
Nov 17, 2009 ... Byline: Jerry Seper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on assault weapons and take other measures to rein in the war between Mexico and its drug cartels, saying the violence has the ...
invested in Stanford scheme; Court scuttles attempt to seize funds.(PAGE ONE)
Nov 17, 2009 ... Byline: Ben Conery, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Seven current and former major league baseball players, along with hundreds of other investors, can keep the millions of dollars they put into R. Allen Stanford's purported $7 billion Ponzi scheme, a federal appeals court has ruled. ...
Cardinal sees duty to play role in health care debate; Bishops to fight to keep abortion-funding ban.(PAGE ONE)
Nov 17, 2009 ... Byline: Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES BALTIMORE -- Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, defended the bishops' decision to play an active role in shaping national health care legislation, saying Monday that the church must be the ...
Latin drug lords find allies in African Islamists; Traffickers plying South Atlantic.(PAGE ONE)
Nov 17, 2009 ... Byline: Claude Salhani, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The sea lanes of the South Atlantic have become a favored route for drug traffickers carrying narcotics from Latin America to West and North Africa, where al Qaeda-related groups are increasingly involved in transporting the drugs to ...
GOP weighs its own judicial filibuster; Payback eyed to Democrats.(PAGE ONE)
Nov 17, 2009 ... Byline: Kara Rowland, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Republicans who decried Democrats' filibusters of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees are debating whether they should use the same tactic against one of President Obama's nominees, a candidate who they say has an antipathy ...