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The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with the Brooks Range as a backdrop.

Murkowski bill opens Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, calls for at least two major lease sales

November 8, 2017 at 11:16 p.m.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowksi, R-Alaska, released legislation Wednesday that would open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling for the first time...

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Affordable Care Act sign-ups spike at open enrollment’s start

November 7, 2017 at 4:01 p.m.

In the first few days of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, the numbers of participants has surged compared with the past, according to federal officials who spoke on...

Administration report finds “no convincing alternative explanation” for climate change

November 3, 2017 at 10:06 p.m.

The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a...

Fifth year’s ACA enrollment season opening with daunting obstacles

October 30, 2017 at 8:22 a.m.

Unlike in each of the past four years, federal health officials have issued no forecast of the number of people who will be insured through the law during 2018.

Trump says he will shrink Bears Ears National Monument, sacred tribal site in Utah

December 25, 2017 at 12:11 p.m.

President Donald Trump informed Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Friday that he will shrink Bears Ears National Monument, a 1.35-million-acre protected area in southeast Utah that is prized by many tribal...

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talk to reporters in the Rose Garden following a lunch meeting at the White House on Monday.

Another last-ditch effort to tackle Obamacare stalls within hours of its release

October 17, 2017 at 8:21 p.m.

A pair of leading Republican and Democratic senators reached an agreement Tuesday to fund key federal health-care subsidies that President Donald Trump ended last week - and the president expressed...

Interior looks at behind-the-scenes land swap to allow road through wilderness refuge

October 16, 2017 at 6:31 a.m.

The Interior Department is preparing to set asidea decades-old ban on development in federally protected wilderness areas by pursuing a controversial proposal to build a nearly 12-mile road through a...

Prescription contraceptives for women sit on the counter of a drug store on August 1, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, women’s access to free birth control

October 6, 2017 at 6:36 p.m.

The Trump administration issued a rule Friday that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access...

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Price apologizes for private-charter flights, pledges to pay nearly $52,000 to cover his share of the trips

September 28, 2017 at 4:28 p.m.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Thursday that he would reimburse the government for the costs of his flights on charter planes in recent months, after coming under...

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes ...

EPA’s Pruitt took charter, military flights that cost taxpayers more than $58,000

September 27, 2017 at 8:16 p.m.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has taken at least four noncommercial and military flights since mid-February, costing taxpayers more than $58,000 to fly him to various parts of the...

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