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Lieberman urges compromise in final Senate speech
Retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday used his final Senate floor speech to urge Congress to put partisan rancor aside to break Washington's ...
Energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner
In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. A thousand miles away on the plains of north ...
RI court hears arguments in pension case
With billions of dollars and the retirement security of public workers at stake, the legal dispute over Rhode Island's sweeping overhaul of its public ...
RI to seek dismissal of challenge to pension law
The high-stakes legal dispute over Rhode Island's public retirement overhaul faces a key court date Friday when attorneys for the state will ask a ...
Obama pipeline decision may preview energy policy
It's a decision President Barack Obama put off during the 2012 campaign, but now that he's won a second term, his next move on a proposed oil pipeline ...
Arctic sea ice larger than US melted this year
An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline ...
UN climate scientist: Sandy no coincidence
Though it's tricky to link a single weather event to climate change, Hurricane Sandy was "probably not a coincidence" but an example of the extreme ...
JFK's last night recalled as key event for Latinos
President John F. Kennedy was supposed to just stop by and wave hello. Instead a group of eager Latinos persuaded him to come inside and speak to a ...
Maine TV news co-anchors quit on the air
Two news co-anchors for a Maine television station surprised viewers and colleagues by quitting on the air, later citing frustration with their ...
Sarah Jessica Parker, Butler host Nobel concert
Sarah Jessica Parker and Gerard Butler are adding to the star wattage at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. The actors will be the hosts of the 19th ...
Global warming talk heats up, revisits carbon tax
Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax. On Tuesday, a ...
GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists
If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem. The nation's most populous state — home to 1 in 8 Americans — has ...
Obama wins Fla., topping Romney in final tally
President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that ...
Obama powers to re-election despite weak economy
President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his ...
Quiet media night explodes suddenly, Rove protests
Careful media coverage of a close presidential election Tuesday exploded so suddenly Tuesday that it left the bizarre spectacle of Fox News Channel ...
Tough choices if Obama wins but loses popular vote
An uncertain and thorny four years could await President Barack Obama if, under one possible outcome of Tuesday's election, he clings to power despite ...
Judge orders 1 Fla. county to extend early voting
A judge extended early voting hours in one Florida county Sunday after Democrats sued to allow more time in a presidential battleground state where ...
Dizzying array of media streams spotlight election
The days of watching Election Night coverage on a single television set may soon be a quaint anachronism. Americans have an array of alternatives for ...
Life on the rope line: 10 minutes of Obama frenzy
Kiss by kiss, handshake by handshake, President Barack Obama glides across the perimeter of a small tennis stadium, stooping to embrace white-haired ...
Lonely quest for 3rd party presidential hopefuls
The lone Virgil Goode campaign sign on a stretch of Virginia road was far outnumbered by placards promoting Mitt Romney. That Goode's sign was there ...
Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance
Legions of lawyers are ready to enter the fray in case Election Day turns on a legal challenge. One nightmare scenario would be for the results in a ...
Decisions show partisan bent in election managers
Decisions about how aggressively to purge ineligible noncitizens from voting rolls have varied widely from one state or county to the next, with ...
Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf
Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and his GOP allies are trying to put Michigan into ...
Momentum vs. math in election's final full week
One final jobs report before Election Day and the big storm threatening the East Coast loom large as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney ...
Very few voters to decide presidential race
The outcome of the hard-fought but still deadlocked presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be ...