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  • Immigration reform: After step forward in Senate, a leap back in House?

    While Senate negotiators were able to sign off on a proposal for immigration reform, a bipartisan group in the House appears stuck on the issue of health care for newly legalized immigrants.

  • For Oklahoma tornado survivors, shock follows storm

    The powerful tornado that swept through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday left 24 dead. As survivors survey the wreckage, they contemplate their luck, faith and building construction. The community has seen four tornados since 1998.

  • US acknowledges killing four American citizens in drone strikes

    Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged Wednesday that US drones have killed four American citizens in Pakistan and Yemen, justifying the attacks under US and international law. President Obama is scheduled to address the subject in a speech Thursday.

  • Arias jury deadlocked over death penalty

    Arias jury deadlocked over whether to give life in prison or the death penalty. Jodi Arias was convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend. The Arizona judge told the deadlocked jury to keep deliberating.

  • Obamas hosting Carole King: What's the special occasion?

    When the Beatles got off the plane for the first time in the US, the first person they wanted to meet was Carole King. So, winning the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and a White House gig were events just waiting to happen.

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  • Helping China end its cybercrime spree

    When Obama meets China's new leader next month, he should show how the rapid rise in Chinese cybercrime not only hurts the US but China's economy as well.

  • Is Washington too 'broken' to handle big problems such as immigration reform?

    Many Americans worry that Washington cannot handle big problems such as immigration reform and the debt. But the country has been here before, and overcome a supposedly 'broken' political system. Government is divided because 'we the people' are divided on the issues.

  • Dear friends in Oklahoma: Hope will find you

    In Alabama, we have an idea of what you are going through in the Oklahoma community of Moore. We continue to recover from the tornado that destroyed much of our city, Tuscaloosa, in 2011. If there's one thing we learned, it's that hope will find you, even when you can't find it.

  • Hey, Congress: It's comprehensive immigration reform or nothing

    Some members of Congress argue that the Senate immigration reform bill should be broken up and considered piecemeal. But only comprehensive legislation will pull together the strange-bedfellow coalition necessary to secure enough votes to pass both the House and Senate.

  • Americans should remember: Politicizing the IRS is a bipartisan tradition

    Democrats and Republicans alike have tried to use the Internal Revenue Service to serve their own political ends. The real question, as William F. Buckley foresaw, is whether the IRS can render its judgments with justice. Both parties should join hands to ensure that it does.

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  • Stocks fall on news Fed weighed cutting stimulus

    Stocks rose in the morning and fell in the evening Wednesday, rocked back and forth by news from the Federal Reserve. Suggestions that the economic stimulus could be scaled back as early as next month, if the economy picks up, pushed stocks down.

  • 3-D pizza on Mars? NASA awards grant.

    NASA is funding a prototype for a 3-D food printer, which would create a pizza out of prepackaged powders. If it succeeds, the 3-D pizza could be a starting point for solving many of the world's food-related problems.

  • Presidential jet sold, nets $15 million for poor Malawi

    Presidential jet sells for $15 million as new president institutes austerity for impoverished Malawi. Besides selling luxury presidential jet, President Banda aims to sell 35 Mercedes.

  • Existing home sales rise in April

    Existing home sales rose 0.6 percent in April and climbed 9.7 percent above the level seen a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors' Existing Homes Sales Report.

  • MBA: Mortgage rates jump as applications fall

    Mortgage rates jumped 11 basis points to 3.65 percent since last week, according to the latest mortgage rates data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The purchase application volume declined 3 percent over the same period.

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Energy/Environment

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  • Keystone XL: Hot topic in D.C. Ho-hum in rest of US.

    The House of Representatives issued another symbolic vote Wednesday in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline. But after years of debate, a new poll shows half of Americans have never heard of it. Is anyone listening to the Keystone XL pipeline debate?

  • Are oil pipeline spills inevitable?

    Talking points over pipelines are focused on economic and energy security interests on one side of the argument versus emissions and cleanup on the other. Given the legacy of pipeline spills since the Keystone XL debate began more than four years ago, the "real" issue may be the lack of debate over just why so many of these pipelines have burst open in the first place.

  • Oklahoma tornado: Energy dodges a bullet

    A devastating Oklahoma tornado left a trail of destruction Monday. How and why did the state's vast oil and gas infrastructure emerge seemingly unscathed from the Oklahoma tornado?

  • When natural gas prices rise, who loses?

    Natural gas is an important feedstock for the chemicals and fertilizer industries, so higher prices could pressure those sectors, Rapier writes. Oil companies with significant chemical operations could also see this business segment take a hit.

  • When oil forecasts get it wrong

    Oil forecasts fail so often that it's puzzling that the media, governments, corporations, and the public put so much faith in them, Cobb writes. Those whose plans were based on the IEA's 2000 oil forecast were completely blindsided by developments just a few years later.

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