The Obama administration's decision Wednesday to reject a pipeline that would have carried crude from Canada’s tar sands deposits to Texas oil refineries isn’t likely to end investment in the carbon-rich fuel, industry analysts say.In killing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama blamed congressional Republicans, who he said “forced this decision” by requiring an expedited 60-day review of the pipeline as a provision of the recent payroll tax extension.Obama
Keystone XL pipeline rejection a setback for Canadian tar sands development
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New York City issues huge fine for breaking toy gun ban
A shop owner in New York City has learned the hard way that the city’s ban on real-looking toy guns is not a game.
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FACT CHECK: Ideal tax?
Newt Gingrich joked that he ought to rename his proposed 15 percent flat tax the “Mitt Romney Flat Tax,” so “all Americans would pay the rate Mitt Romney paid.” Actually, not all Americans. Under Gingrich’s tax plan, Romney would likely pay closer to zero percent.Although he has not released his tax records, Romney this week revealed an approximation of his effective tax rate:Romney, Jan. 17: "What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying?
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Feds investigating possible fraud at GE’s former subprime unit
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, right, waits for the start of the company's annual shareholders meeting.
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FACT CHECK: Did Gingrich ‘slash’ federal spending?
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
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Obama rainmakers enjoy White House invites, appointments and contracts
President Obama at a fundraiser in Seattle.
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Anniversary of 'Citizens United' decision draws protesters
Two years after a controversial Supreme Court ruling lifted many restrictions on political spending, America’s campaign finance laws have officially become a joke.Stephen Colbert, a comedian who says he wants to be the “president of the United States of South Carolina,” has used the "Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC" to highlight the weak separation between candidates and the outside spending groups that support them.But the new power corporations, unions, and wealthy i
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Unlike president, GOP candidates won't release names of top fundraisers
Mitt Romney greets voters
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West Africa oil boom overlooks tattered environmental safety net
Fishmongers shown in Sekondi, now Sekondi-Takoradi, is Ghana's "Oil City." Fishermen here are among those whose operations have been impacted by the oil development. Like all the fishermen in the "frontline communities," they are extremely worried about oil spills.
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FACT CHECK: Final four GOP candidates face off in South Carolina
Republican presidential candidates, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, take the stage before the start of the Republican presidential candidate debate in Charleston, S.C.
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Could SOPA and PIPA interfere with State Dept.’s global Internet freedom agenda?
Update, Jan. 20, 12:19pm: Implicitly acknowledging concerns about its Internet anti-piracy bill raised by online protesters and the State Department, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided Friday morning to delay a vote on the Protect Intellectual Property Act. But the Nevada Democrat still supports the increasingly controversial legislation. “There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved,” he added in a statement.
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S.C. governor got $62,500 from Romney-affiliated PACs
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley reacts at right after Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, gets the crowd to sing "Happy Birthday" for her during a rally at his campaign headquarters in Charleston, S.C.
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Presidential super PAC spending hits $30 million
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich participate in the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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Haley Barbour's money mission
Former Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour
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Four reasons GOP lawmakers aren't backing Gingrich
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012.
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Adelsons double down on Gingrich, kick in another $5 million to super PAC
Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp, center, with his wife Miriam Adelson look the the construction model of a new hotel on the Cotai Strip in Macau.
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ANALYSIS: Park City vantage point puts tragedy of American health care in vivid relief
Sarah Burke competes in the women's halfpipe finals at the freestyle skiing world championships in Park City, Utah.
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Lords of the fish
The Santa María II belongs to Lota Protein, owned by the Koppernaes Group in Norway, which has waged a 21-month legal war with eight powerful groups that own rights to 87 percent of jack mackerel in Chilean waters.
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About this project
Looting the Seas is an award-winning project by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists looking at forces that are rapidly emptying oceans of fish.
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Methodology: Behind the numbers
Peru is second only to China as a fishing nation, and its main catch is anchoveta. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, with the Lima-based investigative center IDL-Reporteros, decided to analyze how the anchoveta fishery — the world’s largest — was regulated and controlled.
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