U.S. drivers need to pay more gas taxes and new user fees to fix crumbling roads and bridges and ease congested highways, a transportation commission is set to recommend to Congress later this month.
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An environmental advocacy group's tests of river water and ash near the site of a huge coal ash spill in East Tennessee showed levels of arsenic, lead, chromium and other metals at 2 to 300 times higher than ...
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Ed note: This is one of the legs of the NAFTA Superhighway.The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that it has officially killed the Trans Texas Corridor, saying that despite the project's visionary aspects, "it is clearly not
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Something dramatic happened about 12,900 years ago, and the continent of North America was never the same. A thriving culture of Paleo-Americans, known as the Clovis people, vanished seemingly overnight. Gone, too, were most of the largest animals:
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Mike Stepovich peered over Dwight D. Eisenhower's shoulder while the president signed Alaska's statehood proclamation - just to be sure.
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Citgo has suspended its free heating oil program for low-income residents,A Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph Kennedy announced Monday.
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A $7 billion missile-defense system for the United Arab Emirates. An estimated $15 billion potential sale of Lockheed Martin's brand-new fighter plane to Israel. Billions of dollars in weaponry for Taiwan and Turkey. These and other recent deals hel
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A group of activists, watermen and former officials filed a lawsuit this morning against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, trying to force an overhaul of the troubled government campaign to clean the Chesapeake Bay. .
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Vehicle sales in the United States tumbled more than 35 percent in December, dragging the Detroit automakers' full-year totals down to their lowest levels in nearly half a century.
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When Ryan T. Muneio was tailgating with his parents at a Michigan State football game this fall, he noticed a big tent emblazoned with a Bank of America logo. Inside, bank representatives were offering free T-shirts and other merchandise to those wh
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There's talk that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson 's withdrawal as Commerce secretary nominee could be an opening for Michigan Gov.
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For years, there has been an ongoing discussion among world leaders and thinkers about deficiencies in the international financial architecture and about economic imbalances, including the widening U.S. trade deficit. Many worried about a disorderly
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President-elect Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are considering major expansions of government-assisted health care insurance and unemployment compensation as they begin intensive work this week on a ...
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The decriminalization of an ounce or less of marijuana officially went into effect this week.
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As the economic crisis deepened during 2008, the turmoil in the housing and credit markets generated most of the more dramatic headlines.
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