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Spectra Energy is planning a 15-mile natural gas pipeline in New Jersey, and elected officials in the region are questioning its safety. These fears come after

Speaking of Bernard Madoff -- and who isn’t, these days? -- the inevitable next chapter of this saga is the first-person tales of woe from his wealthy victims.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch made an economic case for immigration reform to Congress today, arguing deportation is too

The Bush White House might be on shaky ground in relying on memos written by administration lawyers to justify enhanced interrogation policies.

Toby Harnden, who penned a story about the president and vice president’s top 10 gaffes last week, does some detective work about another rumored gaffe. Did

At the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative conference, Retired Lt. Col. John Nagl took a question on whether the United States has a horse in the Afghan

Just months after ending an eight year long term as governor, Jennifer Granholm has joined the Dow Chemical board of directors. In announcing her new role Dow Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris said that Ganholm has a “demonstrated track record of cultivating many public-sector and private-sector collaborations that have laid the groundwork for profitable and sustainable growth for 21st century manufacturing.” The Midland Daily News reports: Granholm’s appointment may seem a natural fit for Dow, a Michigan company that has invested heavily in clean energy fields such as solar and battery technology as the company has transformed itself in recent years. As governor, Granholm made multiple stops in Midland to highlight hundreds of millions in state tax incentives for Dow and its subsidiaries for clean energy projects that have boosted job opportunities in the region.

Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator charged with doling out the $20 billion BP set aside for compensating victims of the Gulf oil spill, said this

Now that we’ve stripped away the mistaken outrage, here’s cause for real alarm. CBS finds that the State Department twice failed to do something about Umar

The former Republican House Majority Leader, who left Congress in 2003, doesn’t take credit for the Tea Party movement. At every opportunity, Armey pays

With Republicans in Congress unwilling to pass President Obama’s jobs bill, many believe that the Federal Reserve is the only institution left that can lift the

All three officials testifying before the Senate’s homeland security panel -- Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence; Michael Leiter, director of

It seems that President Obama’s impromptu press conference on Tuesday to sell the compromise he worked out with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits has not convinced some of his fellow Democrats. Several Democrats in the U.S. House are so upset about the deal that they’re trying to block the House from voting on the bill.

Adm. James Stavridis made it sound like a fait accompli this morning when he told a blogger conference call that NATO will soon announce a new senior official

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) has read the Army-Marine Corps Field Manual on Counterinsurgency that Petraeus quarterbacked in 2006, and he notes that it urges

John Harwood of The New York Times has sketched an emerging scenario in which the Obama administration seeks comprehensive health care and energy reform without

This morning, the conservative Heritage Foundation rolled out an energy proposal to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, arguing that the jobs created by

Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain’s brother referred to the Northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria as communist country, presumably for their

Bad polling news for a number of Democratic Senate hopefuls is coming out all at once. The first -- and most surprising -- item concerns Gov. Joe Manchin

A trusted defense source emails me a report from the subscription-only Inside The Pentagon newsletter that seems to herald the first defense-budget chicanery of