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Destroyed power lines, broken utility poles and a demolished building, a result of Hurricane Maria, are seen in the small southern coastal town of Playa Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico on January 1. (Laura Kelly)
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Illustration on New York's climate lawsuit by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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An emergency alert received by Hawaiians on the morning of Jan. 13, 2018, saying the state was under threat from an incoming ballistic missile. The Pentagon says it was sent in error. (Twitter user @rvelts via Business Insider) [http://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-emergency-alert-ballistic-missile-false-alarm-mistake-2018-1]
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ON AIR: Stephen Dinan
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ON AIR Charles Hurt
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Book jacket: "Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the State of Israel"
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The owner of the "Obama gas station" in Columbia, South Carolina, is facing charges of tax evasion. State investigators accuse him of dodging over $135,000 in taxes. (Image: WISTV-10 South Carolina screenshot)
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Gov. Chris Christie delivered his final state of the state address in Trenton, New Jersey on Tuesday before handing over control to Gov.-elect Phil Murphy. (Associated PRess)
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Former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are joining together in an online campaign, called the OneAmericaAppeal, to raise money for those affected by Harvey and the floods it caused along the Texas coast. (Associated Press/File)
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Michael Byrne, FEMA's acting regional administrator, said he is humbled by the scope of help Puerto Rico requires. (Courtesy FEMA/Kenneth Wilsey)
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Pizza Hut and Toyota have teamed up with the goal of using autonomous driving technologies by 2020 to deliver pizza. (Image: Toyota)
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Families in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, lost their homes when Hurricane Maria hit and have been living in a shelter set up at a school. (Associated Press/File)
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A woman passes an ice-covered fountain in New York's Bryant Park, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Frigid temperatures, some that could feel as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region attempted to clean up from a massive winter storm. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Salvadorans under temporary protected status who have been in the U.S. since a 2001 earthquake would have to face a difficult choice of leaving their children behind or taking them back to worse conditions in their home countries, according to immigration advocacy organizations arguing to continue the status for 200,000 people. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE — In this May 13, 2010 file photo, pelicans float on the water with an offshore oil platform in the background in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. The Trump administration on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 moved to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans with a plan that would open up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades. The Channel is one of those areas. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
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Illustration on U.S. energy development and its impact on Russia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Illustration on China’s background support of a belligerent North Korea by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Branch Davidian complex in flames.