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Sure enough, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning that the greatest threat to the United States

Billions of dollars of stimulus funds created in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act remain in state coffers, Alec MacGillis reports at The

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent a special investigation team to Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant to examine the circumstances around the plant’s latest unplanned shutdown. Palisades 798 MW pressurized water reactor, located about 70 miles southwest of Grand Rapids on Lake Michigan, abruptly powered down on Sunday night when an electrical malfunction took out the power supply to several safety-related valves and switches. “The issue involved plant workers who were performing maintenance activities on an electrical panel when a small metal piece located inside the breaker panel came into contact with another metal piece and caused an arc,” the NRC said Wednesday.

Maybe there’s a way to reduce our gasoline consumption without buying everyone a Prius after all. The Department of Transportation issued new fuel economy

Another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The New York Times reports that the rig is just east of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded in

In his first interview since being appointed to lead the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, Herschel Vinyard spoke with The Florida Current about some of Florida’s more controversial proposals, including a stricter set of water pollution standards and a plan that would privatize portions of some Florida state parks.

Cue the OH NOES. From Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ testimony on the defense budget today: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested on Thursday that as many

Writing at Slate, Daniel Gross wonders why Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn’t seem to care much about high unemployment: In a speech earlier this month,

At 6:52 a.m. EST this morning, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin posted a 1,141-word Facebook post with an accompanying eight-minute video responding to the

The massive protests at the White House in opposition to the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline continued on Tuesday with 60 people, including actress Margot Kidder, being arrested and taken to jail. The Huffington Post did a video report from the site of the protests, including an interview with protest organizer Bill McKibben.

Peter Bergen, the only western reporter to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, reads my post about Obama’s rendition hints and emails: I think the situation

Three veteran FBI interrogators, concerned by Attorney General Eric Holder’s proposal to expand the public safety exceptions in the Miranda warning during

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The Obama administration has proposed cutting funding for programs that go directly to senior services in the 2012 proposed budget, meaning many older Americans

Latino students in Texas still lag behind their Anglo peers in several important measures involving college completion, according to a new report from a

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Florida about $1.8 million to help the state sign up more children for health insurance.

An omnibus bill drafted by Legislative Republicans was greatly denounced Tuesday at a public hearing on the eve of the Iowa House’s debate on it. In a two-hour public hearing in the Iowa House chamber, representatives heard mostly pleas from individuals and groups who do not want to see cuts or reduced spending on education, tobacco use prevention and the Health and Human Services budget. The omnibus bill wraps several pieces of legislation into a two-year budget proposal

There’s some head-spinning intellectual dishonesty at work in the first two major-media columns that argue, counterintuitively, that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen

The $600 million border security bill signed into law by Obama last week is fully funded through a hike to visa fees for companies that send large numbers of

With home prices spiraling down, the foreclosure crisis spreading and Wall Street paralyzed by a credit crunch, the once-unthinkable notion of a big

Following scant debate, the Senate last week approved an amendment to an Indian health care bill that would permanently prohibit the use of federal dollars