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An oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico caught fire Thursday morning, reigniting the political debate over the safety of offshore wells. The fire began near an oil storage tank on ...

WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held "long and productive" meetings at the State Department yesterday and agreed to sit down together ...

PHOENIX -- The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County for not cooperating with an investigation into whether his department was systematically ...

WASHINGTON — They met. They shook hands. And they agreed to meet again.

Lawman refuses to cooperate in federal civil rights probe

In one of his most definitive statements on the subject to date, the nation's central banker said Thursday that he expects some of the nation's megabanks to start getting smaller. "The most important ...

Forget about the new oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The big breaking news is BP's attempt to leverage its promised $20 Billion Gulf Restoration Fund to get the US Government to let it keep ...

A federal judge is requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise a Bush administration recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, and the federal agency said Thursday it plans to release a draft next week. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Wednesday that the federal agency must come up with a revised recovery plan within nine months for the threatened bird.

WASHINGTON/PHOENIX - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued an Arizona sheriff for refusing to co-operate with its investigation into allegations he and his police force discriminate against ...

As students head back to school this fall, I traveled over the last two weeks on an eight-state bus tour to highlight "Courage in the Classroom." The mission of the tour was simple: to honor our ...