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• Colorado Seeks ?Roadless Rule? for National Forests
  6 Feb 2012 at 2:10pm
  Colorado officials say a long-disputed national rule is a poor fit for the state?s wilderness, so they have proposed an alternative, angering conservationists.
  
  
  
• Sidebar: ?We the People? Loses Appeal With People Around the World
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:03pm
  The United States Constitution was once a model for charters around the world, but its influence is waning, according to a new study.
  
  
  
• The Long Run: For Ron Paul, a Distinctive Worldview of Long Standing
  6 Feb 2012 at 3:47pm
  Ron Paul?s political views are unusual, and, as a closer look at his life reveals, unusually constant, shaping not only his career in Congress but also how he has lived his life.
  
  
  
• Religious Caucus Causes Protest in Las Vegas
  6 Feb 2012 at 2:58pm
  A special Saturday night caucus intended to accommodate Orthodox Jews became the scene of controversy and confrontation after caucusgoers were told they had to sign a legal declaration.
  
  
  
• Josh Powell, Whose Wife Disappeared, Dies With Sons in Blast
  6 Feb 2012 at 2:50pm
  Josh Powell was under investigation in the disappearance of his wife two years ago in Utah, and authorities said the fatal explosion on Sunday appeared to be intentional.
  
  
  
• Political Memo: Obama Campaign on Lookout for Romney Flubs
  6 Feb 2012 at 2:48pm
  Obama campaign aides are spending their time, they say, looking for Mitt Romney missteps, and they have been rewarded.
  
  
  
• Gingrich, After Nevada Loss, Says He Will Keep Fighting
  6 Feb 2012 at 2:50pm
  Mitt Romney is keeping his focus on President Obama, but his aides say they are keeping a close watch on his Republican rivals and Newt Gingrich.
  
  
  
• Mortgage Relief Plan Is Closer to Winning Support of California
  6 Feb 2012 at 12:43pm
  Potential support from California and New York would come in exchange for tightening provisions in order to preserve the right to investigate past misdeeds by the banks, and stepping up oversight.
  
  
  
• Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
  6 Feb 2012 at 12:33pm
  After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast lots with empty buildings.
  
  
  
• Congress Appears to Be Trying to Get Around Earmark Ban
  6 Feb 2012 at 2:56pm
  Critics say the allocation of $507 million in special funds in the budget for the Army Corps of Engineers could be a way to direct money to pet projects.
  
  
  
• To Survive a Quake, New Bay Bridge Span Will Offer Least Resistance
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:51pm
  The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco is designed to go with the flow if a major earthquake strikes, to ensure minimal damage and disruption.
  
  
  
• White House Moves to Tighten Sanctions on Iran
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:06pm
  The actions include freezing all property of the Central Bank of Iran, other Iranian financial institutions and the Iranian government in this country.
  
  
  
• Egypt Will Try 19 Americans on Criminal Charges
  6 Feb 2012 at 12:50pm
  The move is part of a politically charged investigation into the foreign financing of nonprofit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt.
  
  
  
• Some Churches Hope Albany Will Act to Allow Renting School Space to Pray
  6 Feb 2012 at 1:10pm
  Unless state legislation is quickly enacted, dozens of New York City religious groups will have to find new places for worship services.
  
  
  
• Charles Murray?s ?Coming Apart: The State of White America?
  6 Feb 2012 at 1:45pm
  The political scientist Charles Murray has a new book, ?Coming Apart,? which depicts members of white elites as hypocrites living in a bubble and the white working class as succumbing to moral decay.
  
  
  

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