In what he describes as "the mother of all conspiracy theories," an Arizona-based talk radio host says the powers that be are intentionally destroying large bodies of water in a bid to create a multi-trillion-dollar biofuel industry. ...
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It was considered the largest oil-related natural disaster in the history of the world, so it only follows that the fine would be historic too. Gargantuan oil company BP has agreed to pay the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history for ...
The Obama administration said it isn’t “walking away” from a goal of 1 million EVs on the country’s roads by 2015. Heather Zichal, deputy assistant for energy and climate change at the White House, praised the soon ...
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The US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday that total September exports of $188.9 billion and imports of $230.7 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of ...
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HealthCare.gov -- was stable all week, with no unscheduled outages, President Obama's adviser said. Jeff Zients, chief performance officer and deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, was brought in to oversee ...
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China and the United States, the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, are increasing their cooperation in fighting climate change. US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said the US has a very good relationship with ...
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Prism whistle-blower Edward Snowden persuaded other National Security Agency (NSA) colleagues to give him their login details and passwords, which he later used to gain access to classified information that he later leaked to the media. ...
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Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, Thursday asked visiting US energy secretary Ernest Moniz to move forward the two countries' bilateral agreement on methane hydrate cooperation, a METI source said. The ...
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Intelligence agencies across Europe have been developing their own mass internet and phone surveillance capabilities in partnership with the UK's GCHQ electronic intelligence agency. That is the latest claim to arise from the cache of US ...
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The latest documents to be leaked via whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ have tapped the communications networks of popular internet companies. "Top secret" documents published in the ...
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) has allegedly monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in just one month. The reports, stemming from Spanish newspaper El Mundo, claim that documents provided by former NSA ...
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An update of key elements of a 2012 report on the impact of federal regulations on the manufacturing sector finds that the problems continue to persist, and in fact have increased in 2013. NERA Economic Consulting's update of a report ...
The statistics can be staggering: one in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year (that's nearly 53 million people). A very likely place for food poisoning is in the home: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
The US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft form of a cyber security framework that is intended to help critical infrastructure owners and operators reduce cyber security risks. ...
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Across large parts of the world Christmas is fast approaching. Retail stores are already stocking the usual tat associated with the festivity while young children begin to prepare their wish lists. Those who have behaved well this year or ...
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