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Wiretap: Now even some Republicans are saying to listen to Moore,...

For those keeping score at home, two prominent Republican politicians bucked Donald Trump on major issues Sunday. One of them even works for him....

Wiretap: Democratic women in the Senate take the lead in pushing...

Democratic women in the Senate lead the way in calling for Al Franken to resign. And as Tina Dupuy writes in The Atlantic, it...

Analysis: What a new report on climate science portends for the...

The complexity of climate change means it’s hard to trace simple lines from cause to effect in daily life, much less plan for the...

Wiretap: Trump “threw a fit” when advisers said maybe he shouldn’t...

This won’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention or who saw Bob Corker’s tweet about adult day care at the White House, but...

Wiretap: Wet winter and record-breaking summer heat combine to leave California...

In the Caribbean and in the Southeast, there have been the winds and the floods of hurricanes. In the West, there are wildfires. Across...

Homebrew: Forest Service burns budgets fighting Western fires

Burning money National Forests in Colorado are losing their annual budgets to firefighting efforts across the West, reports the Aspen Times. That means road construction...

Wiretap: In the climate change west, rethinking how we fight wildfires

Last year, 19 men died battling an historic blaze outside Yarnell, Arizona. Is it time to rethink how we battle wildfires that burn ever hotter and more destructively?

Wiretap: Climate change is here; wildfire season around the corner

The new study is comprehensive and unequivocal: dry regions are getting drier, wet regions wetter, heat waves more frequent, wildfires covering more ground, insects killing more trees.

Senate passes budget; House unloads bill backlog

Notes from the 87th day of the 2014 legislative session.
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