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By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Thousands of activists rallied outside the Capitol on Wednesday to protest the IRS targeting of conservative and tea party groups, with many of the event’s speakers laying the blame for the fiasco squarely at the White House.

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
President Obama used the backdrop of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday to renew calls for the U.S. to reduce its stockpile of nuclear warheads, but the modest disarmament push underscores just how much has changed for a man who five years ago drew 200,000 people for a similar speech in heart of the German capital.

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Few would disagree that conservative professors are an endangered species on campus, which is why the University of Colorado Board of Regents is scheduled to consider Thursday a resolution that would prohibit discrimination based on “political affiliation or political philosophy.”

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
More than two decades after he fled the civil war raging in his homeland, Guor Mading, one of Sudan’s Lost Boys who is now a U.S. citizen, has returned to South Sudan to use his status as an Olympic athlete to publicize the plight of refugees who pack camps across the eastern African country.

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
James Gandolfini, the award-winning actor who played mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO’s hit series “The Sopranos,” has died following a massive heart attack in Italy, HBO announced today. He was 51.

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Thousands of activists rallied outside the Capitol on Wednesday to protest the IRS targeting of conservative and tea party groups, with many of the event’s speakers laying the blame for the fiasco squarely at the White House.

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Good hands. Cristina Torre, the daughter of Major League Baseball legend Joe Torre — who won the National League All-Star recognition for his skills as catcher — saved a 1-year-old who was plummeting to his death.

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A South African town that spans about 2,000 acres and touts about 1,000 residents is fighting to maintain its historical roots — as an all-white community that beckons from apartheid days.

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have offered a trade to the United States: Give us five senior operatives imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay and we’ll free one American soldier held captive since 2009.
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