Social Issues

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Baltimore free safety Ed Reed was suspended one game by the NFL for illegal hits, but his punishment was changed to a $50,000 fine. (Associated Press)

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Hats and scarves are just some of the donated items that the Audas family from Bethesda, Md. has collected as part of "Project Keep Them Cozy," a project started by the two Audas children, Abbi, 12, and Andrew, 9, as a way to help Hurricane Sandy victims. The family plans to drive all of the donated items up to New Jersey, where they will spend Thanksgiving volunteering to help those families who lost everything in the storm. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Nine-year-old Andrew Audas walks through a pile of clothing as his dad Jim Audas goes through a trash bag of donated clothes while sorting through the many bags of donated clothing items for "Project Keep Them Cozy," started by the Audas children to help victims of Hurricane Sandy. The family's unfinished basement room has become the home base for organizing and sorting all of the donations, which they will personally drive up to New Jersey this week. The family plans to stay up there through the Thanksgiving holiday to volunteer. This image was made Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, says he will block any nomination of Susan E. Rice to become secretary of state. (Associated Press)

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A Coptic pilgrim prays during a ceremony this month at Mar Girgis Monastery, near Luxor, Egypt. Egypt’s Christian minority, about 10 percent of the population of more than 80 million, has long complained of discrimination, but Christians fear things are reaching a crisis point since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and the subsequent rise to power of Islamists. (Associated Press)

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Jordanian police stand guard during a protest against the government's decision to raise prices for subsidized fuel in Amman, Jordan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Nearly a week after the announcement, which sparked unrest that left one person dead and scores wounded, protests across the country continued. The protests have included rare demands for King Abdullah II to be deposed. (Associated Press)