Energy companies placed $487.3 million in winning bids for the right to drill in the western Gulf of Mexico, knowing they may get a chance later to explore in other areas that have been off limits for decades.
The University of Illinois has refused to release records related to Sen. Barack Obama's service for a nonprofit educational project that put him in contact with activist William Ayers, a 1960s-era radical and ...
A small plane carrying Secret Service agents assigned to Republican presidential candidate John McCain made a forced landing after taking off from a Phoenix area airport Tuesday, but there were no injuries.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a Bush administration policy that allowed only the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor polluting industries, giving states broader authority over emissions ...
