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Supreme Court to address gay marriage cases this week
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases on gay marriage this week, providing the first rulings from the highest court on the critical social issue...
Wyoming judge: Fracking fluid formulas are trade secrets
The state of Wyoming has won in a lawsuit against environmentalists hoping to find out what's in fracking fluid...
Oil & gas industry agrees to — non-binding — fracking standards
The oil & gas industry and environmental groups are kind of not friends. But even not-friends can agree on some things, evidently...
GMOs vs local food system
It’s springtime in Boulder County. Birds are building nests, lawns get a little greener with each passing day and, like the swallows to Capistrano, the talk of how to stop genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from being planted on county open space lands has ...
PHOTOS: Look back at the Iraq War, 10 years later
The U.S. invasion of Iraq took place 10 years ago this week, and news outlets have been marking the occasion by checking in with the current state of the country and looking up notable names from that time...
U.S. support for gay marriage surges to highest mark ever
Fewer than 10 years ago, 55 percent of Americans opposed gay marriage — to the point that they told an ABC News/Washington Post poll it should be made illegal...
Reid drops assault weapons ban; lacks support from Senate Democrats
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has announced he will not pursue a revival of the ban on assault weapons, saying the White House-supported measure has fewer than 40 votes in the Senate...
GOP establishment, right wing battle over 2012 election ‘autopsy’
The Republican Party is too old, too white and out of touch with average Americans...
10 reasons not to frack California’s dirty oil
Fracking is already a nationwide debate. Soon, it might become a nationwide practice...
Washington Post to implement website paywall
The Washington Post has announced it will be the next daily newspaper to implement a paywall on its website, charging "frequent users" a fee to view articles...
SimCity review: Just can’t overlook massive server issues
The latest offering from EA, the widely anticipated SimCity, had "one of the worst launches of all time," writes Peter Bright in a review. And despite a few bright spots, there are lots of flaws in the latest in the well-loved series...
Sen. Rob Portman supports gay marriage — but what about issues...
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has announced that he is in favor of gay marriage after his son told Portman and his wife that he is gay...
