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5:27 p.m. March 26, 2009 Americans' support for nuclear power skidded in polling after the Three Mile Island accident 30 years ago and slipped more after the Chernobyl disaster seven years later. I...

For so many years American ladies ruled the skating world. Where did our ice queens go?

The effect of high food prices and the economic crisis on malnourishment is spreading beyond poor countries into the core of the developed world, Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, has warned

A bill pending in the California State Senate in Sacramento would allow Native American tribes in the state to remove land from Williamson Act contracts for the benefit of projects such as housing and tribal cultural centers.

California's Sierra Nevada and Jefferson National Forest in Virginia among 2m acres of land to get highest level of protectionThe US Congress has voted to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness - from California's Sierra Nevada mountains to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.Environmentalists hailed the legislation, which will block oil and gas development on vast swaths of federal land, as the most significant in US history. President Barack Obama is expected to quickly sign it into law.The bill unites almost 170 separate measures and represents one of the largest expansions of wilderness protection in decades. It grants the government's highest level of protection to land across California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.The bill also protects land in Alaska under a controversial land swap that allows the state to build a planned airport access road in a remote wildlife reserve near the Bering

CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? The New York Federal Reserve has signed off on American International Group Inc.'s latest cash infusion for its aircraft leasing unit, a lifeline aimed at keeping it in busines...

WASHINGTON ? The IRS is ratcheting up the pressure on Americans who kept secret Swiss bank accounts, giving them six months to come clean and cough up any evidence against their advisers or bank...

OCALA, Fla. - The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus on Monday in federal court to have Rita 'Fany' Cote brought before a judge and released from the Lake County Detention Center.

WASHINGTON - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano is scheduled to testify tomorrow before the House Homeland Security Committee as part of the hearing titled, "DHS: The Path Forward." The American Civil Liberties Union calls on the committee to inquire into the secretary's views on key DHS policies, where the balance between security and civil liberties was often skewed under the Bush administration. Employment verification (E-Verify) and Real ID are both areas that need thorough revamping in order to respect the constitutional rights of all Americans.

ASPEN – Shifting the United States to clean-burning renewable fuels has the potential to cut through a thicket of thorny social ills and solve long-standing problems across the entire spectrum of American life, from manufacturing to national security to clean water, the country's top environmental cop said on Wednesday. [More]