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Palin’s charge of ‘blood libel’ spurs outcry from Jewish leaders
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's remarks Wednesday in which she accused critics who would tie her political tone to the Arizona...
U.S. sues Arizona over its immigration law
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department Tuesday sued Arizona...
The fracking/real estate conundrum
The New York State Bar Association calls it the “perfect storm begging for immediate attention.” For homeowners who have been caught in the storm, it is an unmitigated economic disaster. But for the oil and gas industry at the center of it all, it is just the latest ...
Google redirects traffic away from China site
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. on Monday began re-directing Internet traffic away from its Chinese-language site at google.cn to Hong Kong-based...
The great carbon bubble: Why the fossil-fuel industry fights so hard
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet — as we shall see — it’...
Taliban’s claim of responsibility for N.Y. bomb attempt is met with...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Taliban videos claiming responsibility for a car bomb found in downtown New York...
State defends loophole in fracking disclosure rules
Critics of new state rules that would require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” say the proposed regulations contain a massive loophole that will allow corporations to keep their ingredients secret...
Topeka, Kan., mayor changes city name to ‘Google’ to woo broadband...
LOS ANGELES — They are not in Topeka anymore...
Doubts still plague Boulder’s election results despite Colorado ruling
Questions continue to swirl around activists’ complaints regarding irregularities in the Boulder County election process, and while the secretary of state has largely brushed aside the concerns, a local elections official says the clerk and recorder’s office will ...
Sleeping giant no more
Around age 8, Conor Hall started doing primitive skills courses with his siblings near their home in Crestone, “kind of tucked under the towering...
Food Lobby’s ‘Highest Priority’ Is Fighting GMO Labeling in California
Grocery Manufacturers Association Long-time Obstructionist of Public Health...
Commission recommends sentencing reform for nonviolent drug crimes
In 1987, there were 192 drug offenders in Colorado prisons. Today, there are more than 4,000, with drug offenders making up more than a third of the state’s prison population...
