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Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) confirmed that the flight lost contact while over the Nangang district of Taipei. Shortly before 11 a.m. local time, the New Taipei City Fire Department…
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency issued comments on the State Department’s environmental analysis of the Keystone XL pipeline, stating that development of the Canadian oil sands “represents a significant…
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency met Friday with Vatican officials who helped draft Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology, evidence that the Obama administration is seeking to…
PHILADELPHIA – President Obama on Thursday asked wary House Democrats to hold their fire while the administration negotiates several trade deals opposed by scores of liberal lawmakers. Read the whole…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, after days of mounting tension, signaled on Wednesday how angry it is with Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted Republican leaders’ invitation to address Congress on…
“This nation’s energy renaissance has been totally dependent on private investment on private land,” said Andy Radford. a senior policy advisor with the American Petroleum Institute. Critics of the Obama…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a proposal to open up coastal waters from Virginia to Georgia for oil and gas drilling. At the same time, the administration…
At a Capitol news conference, they vowed to do everything they can to block the plan. “This administration has effectively declared war on Alaska,” Murkowski said, blaming the White House…
READ: Netanyahu visit continues to stir emotion Though his administration could take some steps immediately, the plan would need the approval of Congress — which Senate Energy and Natural Resources…
Relief is palpable in Washington over the well-planned and seamlessly executed transfer of Saudi Arabia’s throne to King Salman bin Abdulaziz, 79, following the death of his 90-year-old half brother…
The announcement from House Speaker John Boehner’s office this week came after several high-level interactions between U.S. and Israeli officials, including a phone call between the President and Netanyahu and…
Bowing to an outcry over privacy, the Obama administration reversed itself Friday, scaling back the release of consumers’ personal information from the government’s health insurance website to private companies with…
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared to be have pulled off a masterful political victory against the Obama administration Wednesday when he revealed that he had invited Israeli…
On the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 242-179 to pass a bill that would codify…
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed deep skepticism that negotiations between six world powers, known as the P5+1, and Iran are…
Rather it’s in the boxes and gallerieswhere the White House and lawmakers seat their invited gueststhat this year reflect the vast differences in opinion on Obama’s new policy toward the…
The letter, subsequently forwarded to reporters by the State Department, demonstrates how reaction to the policy change is doesn’t necessarily cut along political lines. Its signatories include George Schultz, who…
HuffPost is interviewing Obama administration officials immediately after the president’s annual State of the Union address on Tuesday. President Barack Obama’s speech is scheduled to begin at approximately 9 p.m….
Republican lawmakers are already signaling they will do what they can to block President Barack Obama’s pitch for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans. Obama is making that pitch to…
That means average land and sea temperatures, worldwide, have never been hotter in modern times, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the gold standard for global climate data)…
The National Climatic Data Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noted the average temperatures over land and oceans were higher in 2014 than any year since…