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The Environmental Protection Agency announced late last week that it has chosen seven areas in five states to focus on in an ongoing study of the effects of hydrofracking on water quality. None of the sites are in Michigan, where a great deal of land has been leased to energy companies for possible fracking but little activity has begun. Three of the sites are in Pennsylvania, all located over the Marcellus shale

A source with an environmental group participating in a series of meetings with electric utilities on climate and energy legislation says discussions feel very

Details to come, but the Senate just confirmed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next secretary of state by a 94-2 vote. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) put a hold on her

A conference of U.S. and Mexico border governors is underway in New Mexico, but New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is the only U.S. governor in attendance after

How long before Glenn Beck calls Howard A. Schmidt a czar? Also, who is this guy, anyway? Mr. Schmidt is the chief executive officer of the Information

So now that the pre-trial hearing in Omar Khadr’s military commission has recessed while the government conducts a mental-health exam of the 23-year old

Defense Secretary Bob Gates, as Matt DeLong said, is in the Obama administration for another year. Charlie from the prominent counterinsurgency blog Abu

Roger Simon confirms that the Republican National Committee will vote on, and probably pass, a resolution rebranding Democrats as the ’Democrat Socialist

Spencer Ackerman, reporting from Guantanamo Bay, provides a glimpse into the lives of detainees at the notorious detention center.

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This week, North Carolina will make it easier for residents to divert money to nonprofit pregnancy centers that counsel women against abortion through license

School voucher opponents in Indiana were dealt a massive setback to overturning the state’s recently passed Indiana Choice Scholarship Program (CSP) when a

Some bad news for immigrants: The unemployment gap between immigrants and native-born citizens has expanded during the recession and will likely remain until

Reports on Monday that Michele Bachmann’s family business was performing therapy to “cure” gays and lesbian s of homosexuality quickly became a campaign issue for the presidential contender. When pressed by a local ABC affiliate to weigh in on the clinic she and husband Marcus own , Bachmann refused to answer questions about the “reparative therapy” that undercover video showed was being performed there. Interview requests at the Today Show and ABC News were also dodged on Monday

Just out from the Pentagon: the first units designated for service in Afghanistan in support of President Obama’s announced plus-up of 17,000 troops have been

Documents released quietly over the holiday weekend raises doubts about the Bush administration’s portrayal of Gitmo.

The Republican National Committee has sent reporters a radio actuality by John Bolton, President George W. Bush’s controversial ex-U.N. ambassador, who has

Voters in Tuesday’s Albuquerque municipal elections decided to keep two incumbent city councilors in office but rejected one of Mayor Richard Berry’s top initiatives. A long-standing red-light photo-camera bill was also rebuked. Mayor Berry’s “ABQ: The Plan” — the pairing of an improved interstate highway interchange and the construction of a 35-acre complex of sports fields and indoor courts, to the combined tune of $50 million — got nixed by voters.

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) A state-by-state look at the American Jobs Act , which President Obama presented to Congress last week, shows that Florida could gain thousands of education and infrastructure jobs. However, state GOP policymakers are already showing early signs that they might not participate in the president’s efforts.