You can add two influential members of Congress to the list of people upset with Facebook over the social network's latest privacy flap.
The oil industry isn't drilling on leases for millions of acres of land that could be producing energy.
In the wake of a giant brouhaha over the news that Apple's iPhones record and store users' locations, Verizon Wireless says it will start slapping 'we can track you!' warning stickers on its products.
Live underwater video or 'spillcam' changed how Americans viewed the BP oil spill. One year later, now what?
As they furiously typed computer code through the night in a small Capitol Hill office, little did they know they were about to change the way Americans would view what has become known as the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
A Massachusetts congressman called on the federal government Tuesday to distribute potassium iodide pills to Americans living near nuclear reactors, a preventive step one expert warns might do more harm than good.
The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that would bar federal funding for National Public Radio -- a longtime target of conservatives irritated by what they consider the outlet's liberal bias.
CNN's Howard Kurtz talks to conservative activist James O'Keefe, the man behind the ACORN and NPR undercover videos.
The safety of America's nuclear reactors is being questioned as Japanese engineers scramble to avert a total meltdown at two of that country's quake-stricken power plants.
Three House Democrats urged President Obama Thursday to tap the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve as turmoil in the Middle East pushed oil prices over $100 a barrel.
President Obama's 2012 budget will propose cutting $2.5 billion from a program that helps low-income people cope with high energy costs in the cold of winter and heat of summer, according to a source familiar with the budget process.
Several House Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would impose stricter federal controls and oversight on oil companies and owners and operators of offshore oil rigs along the U.S. coastline.
CNN's Allan Chernoff reports on a bomb believed to have traveled on passenger planes before being found.
Pilots for UPS charged Monday that their employer is failing to protect them from acts of terrorism.
The blown-out well at the heart of the worst oil spill in U.S. history has been cemented shut and is "effectively dead," the federal government's point man for the disaster said Sunday.
CNN's John Roberts talks to Rep. Ed Markey about the amount of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico.
Adm. Thad Allen reveals a new timeline for stopping the oil and how much cleanup the government has left.
If all goes as planned, the "bottom kill" operation to permanently plug the ruptured underwater well in the Gulf of Mexico should be completed by the week after Labor Day, Thad Allen, the government's point man for the oil disaster, told CNN Thursday.
A demonstration shows what engineers will attempt on the temporarily-capped BP well.
A crucial test -- meant to determine whether an effort to seal the ruptured BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could proceed -- has been delayed because of a small leak, the company said Monday.
The "static kill" of the ruptured oil well is scheduled to commence Tuesday pending repairs on drilling equipment.
Testing has found that eight dispersants, including one used in combating the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, are no more toxic when mixed with oil than the oil alone, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.
Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts is accusing BP of "carpet bombing" the Gulf with dispersants.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the federal response to the BP oil spill, said Sunday that he is "satisfied" with the amount of dispersants that have been used to clean up the disaster, saying crews have used them only when needed.
Setbacks withstanding and weather permitting, crews in the Gulf of Mexico are back on track to permanently shut down BP's once-gushing wellhead in the next few weeks.
Just how much will BP pay in fines to the U.S. government? In a worst case scenario, they could top $18 billion.
Just how much dispersant is being deployed in the Gulf of Mexico? CNN's Ed Lavandera investigates.
Chemical dispersants keep flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at virtually unchanged levels despite the Environmental Protection Agency's order to BP to "significantly" scale back, according to a CNN analysis of daily dispersant reports provided by the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command.
A BP estimate made after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon noted that as much as 100,000 barrels per day could leak into the ocean if the blowout preventer and wellhead were removed, a higher worst-case scenario than previously reported.
A hearing to discuss the future of national energy policy in the wake of the Gulf oil disaster got pretty ugly Tuesday.
Congress wants to know if other oil companies are prepared to respond to a worst case scenario like the BP spill.
One of BP's most outspoken critics on Capitol Hill says he does not think BP is alone in lacking contingency plans to deal with a massive oil spill.
Researchers have doubled estimates of how much oil has been spewing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, reporting Thursday that up to 40,000 barrels (1.7 million gallons) a day may have escaped for weeks.
Suzanne Malveaux talks to the family of a worker whose son was born after he died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Scientists now estimate the leaking BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was releasing 20,000 to 40,000 barrels -- or 840,000 to 1.7 million gallons -- per day through last week, the head of the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.
Rep. Edward Markey on Monday challenged the assertion by oil giant BP's chief executive that no underwater oil plumes have formed because of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Rep. Edward Markey on Monday challenged the assertion by oil giant BP's chief executive that no underwater oil plumes have formed because of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Frustration is growing in the Gulf after the best hope yet of capping the leak was declared a failure.
A top White House aide and the managing director of oil giant BP provided differing versions Sunday for who provided the initial inaccurate estimates of the size of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
BP Managing Director Bob Dudley tells CNN's Candy Crowley why 'top kill' didn't cut off the Gulf oil leak.
As oil creeps up the Gulf coast, HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell discusses how a government agency may be responsible.
BP says it will continue to provide a live video feed of the ruptured pipe gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico during Wednesday's planned top kill procedure to seal the well.
BP will try again within the next day to cap a well that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy company said Friday.
Pres. Barack Obama says he does not appreciate oil executives blaming each other for the Gulf Coast spill.
Tim Lister reports on the back and forth about daylight-saving time.
Every year, like Valentine's and wedding anniversaries, it creeps up on us -- Daylight Saving Time -- and with it come resolutions to spend more time in the garden and get out of work early to enjoy the evening sunshine.
Exxon Mobil may be getting more than it bargained for with its recent plan to purchase natural gas giant XTO Energy.
The global warming debate heats up at a Capitol Hill hearing on leaked e-mails. CNN's Mary Snow explains.
The director of a U.K. research unit that has been at the center of a row over climate change data has said he is standing down from his post while an independent review is conducted.
Net neutrality supporters may be celebrating the Federal Communications Commission's unanimous vote Thursday to begin developing open Internet regulation, but the battle is far from over as the yet-to-be-written regulation is already facing Congressional opposition and will also likely be challenged in court.
As Americans paused Wednesday to remember the extraordinary life of Sen. Edward Kennedy, political observers also took note of a rare development caused by his passing.
Newsreel video from the 1960's features the early years of Sen. Edward Kennedy's career.
Nuclear power plants will likely add fortifications to future atomic power stations despite the cost involved, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted Tuesday to require any future nuclear power plants to be designed to withstand strikes from commercial jetliners, addressing a possible terrorist scenario that has haunted some people since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Oil companies and many lawmakers are pressing to open up more U.S. areas for drilling. But the industry is drilling on just a fraction of areas it already has access to.
Oil speculation has been getting a lot of attention from Congress lately. On Thursday lawmakers took up another possible solution: getting more miles per gallon out of cars Americans drive.
Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday.
Experts projected that demand for energy will continue to grow and called for the use of biofuels and other measures to respond to the nation's energy crisis, at a committee meeting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
The top military and civilian leaders of the U.S. Air Force were forced out Thursday over the handling of nuclear weapons, the Defense Department secretary said.
Defense Secretary Gates says top Air Force officials will be fired after a report into the transport of nuclear weapons.
Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it's not their fault
Senior executives of the five largest US oil companies were to appear before a Congress where they were likely to find frustrated lawmakers in no mood for small talk
Motorists may fume when forking over $3 a gallon at the local service station, but as it turns out, your local filling spot makes chump change from a gallon of gas.
The government plans to delay its decision to put the polar bear on the endangered list until after it leases 30 million acres near Alaska for oil and gas drilling. What gives?
A House committee chairman on Thursday denounced the Bush administration's planned sale of oil drilling rights in a prime polar bear habitat in Alaska, saying its impact on the bear population is unknown.
In a dramatic reversal Saturday, the United States rejected and then accepted a compromise to set the stage for intense negotiations in the next two years aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.
Strong emotions and some surprises at the U.N. climate change conference in Bali. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Congress is finalizing a deal that would raise the fuel economy standards for most U.S. cars and trucks for the first time in more than 30 years.
Debate on a broad range of energy proposals is set to begin in the House of Representatives this week, a month after the Senate passed a big increase in vehicle efficiency standards.
Heads of the world's largest auto companies said Wednesday they are ready to work with lawmakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions but stopped well short of endorsing calls to raise fuel economy standards drastically.
When embattled HP chairman Mark Hurd steps before a US House panel on Thursday, he will be walking into a bipartisan buzz-saw of lawmakers worried about privacy and stunned that a company they once considered a prominent advocate of federal privacy protection for consumers would snoop on reporters and its own employees.
A congressional committee narrowly approved legislation on Wednesday to give the Bush administration the authority it wants to raise fuel economy standards for passenger cars.
We need to keep up with the daily drip, that endless succession of special favors for special interests performed by Congress, or we'll never figure out how we got so far behind the eight ball. While the top Bushies lunge about test-driving new wars (great idea -- the one we're having is a bummer, so let's start another!), Congress just keeps right on cranking out those corporate goodies.
Teenagers are more concerned about damaging their hearing with portable music players than adults, but more than half say they're not going to cut down on listening time and a third say they're not going to turn down the volume.
With hope of closing a loophole in airline security nearly four years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, lawmakers Tuesday introduced two amendments to the 2006 Department of Homeland Security authorization bill.
Two men accused of being associates of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden have been charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes and are set to appear before the first U.S. military tribunals convened in the war on terrorism.
The Senate Intelligence Committee's review of U.S. intelligence has found no evidence that political pressure shaped reports on Iraq before last year's invasion, the committee's Republican chairman reported Thursday.
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