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Ted Cruz endorses Republican Darryl Glenn in Colorado Senate primary

Darryl Glenn, one of five candidates vying for the Colorado Republican Senate nomination, received a huge boost Friday with an endorsement from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

June 17, 2016

GOP AGs warn Dems that if climate skeptics can be prosecuted for ‘fraud,’ so can alarmists

If Democratic attorneys general can pursue climate-change skeptics for fraud, then also at risk of prosecution are climate alarmists whose predictions of global doom have failed to materialize.

June 16, 2016

Another high school drops ‘Redskins’ nickname despite poll showing most Indians don’t care

A Delaware school district has voted to drop the nickname "Redskins" from a local high school after 81 years despite a recent national poll showing that only 8 percent of Native Americans were bothered by the name.

June 16, 2016

Ballot design pro helps prevent election snafus

Campaigns routinely spend millions of dollars on get-out-the-vote drives, but it's money down the drain if voters can't figure out the ballot.

June 15, 2016

Exxon fights Massachusetts AG’s ‘political’ probe into climate-change dissent

Exxon Mobil Corp. moved this week to quash Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's subpoena calling for 40 years of climate change communications with universities and free market groups, slamming the probe as a politically motivated fishing expedition.

June 15, 2016

Google, Facebook, Reddit are run by a bunch of ‘left-wing guys’

Less than a month after the Facebook summit between founder Mark Zuckerberg and leading conservatives, the tense relationship between Silicon Valley and conservatives has taken a turn for the worse.

June 13, 2016

Police: Orlando gunman pledged allegiance to ISIS, cited Boston Marathon bombers

The gunman who killed 50 people at a popular Orlando gay nightclub called 911 before the early Sunday attack and pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State, according to a police statement.

June 12, 2016

Marco Rubio, Florida senator: Orlando nightclub massacre represents ‘new face of war on terror’

Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday called the horrific attack on an Orlando gay nightclub that left 50 dead the "new face of the war on terror."

June 12, 2016

Omar Mateen’s father says gunman son was angry after seeing men kiss: report

The father of the suspected Orlando gunman on Sunday said that his son grew angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami several months before the horrific attack on a gay nightclub that left 50 dead.

June 12, 2016

Muslim leader says Orlando gunman acted alone even as FBI probes possibility of network

The FBI is investigating whether the gunman who killed 50 at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday was part of a network that still poses a threat, even as a senior Muslim leader insisted he acted alone.

June 12, 2016

Orlando mayor says 50 killed, 53 hurt in massacre at gay nightclub

A gunman who had sworn allegiance to Islamic State opened fire early Sunday at a crowded Orlando nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding 53 in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.

June 12, 2016

Authorities say Orlando gunman is believed to have ties to Islamic terrorism

The gunman who killed 50 people and wounded 53 others after opening fire at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is believed to have ties to Islamic terrorism.

June 12, 2016

Google denies burying bad Hillary Clinton stories

Google denied on Friday allegations that it manipulated its algorithm to bury stories unflattering to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

June 10, 2016

Google accused of burying negative Hillary Clinton stories

An explosive report released Thursday suggests that Google manipulated its search engine to boost Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton by burying unflattering stories about her.

June 9, 2016

Climate models overstating case for man-made global warming, study suggests

Whenever climate models overestimate temperatures linked to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, scientists have pointed to a convenient fall guy: aerosols, which cool the planet and act as a counterweight to global warming.

June 9, 2016

EPA’s glyphosate report favorable to herbicide disappears

The Environmental Protection Agency findings posted last month were welcome news for the herbicide industry: Glyphosate, a key ingredient in popular weed killers such as Roundup, was unlikely to cause cancer.

June 8, 2016

GOP shut out of California Senate election as Democrats take both ballot slots

Predicting election results can be tough, but here's an easy one: A Democrat will win the November contest to succeed Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat.

June 8, 2016

Oregon school board slammed for banning books on climate-change ‘doubt’

An Oregon school board that banned books expressing climate-change "doubt" has come under fire from free-speech advocates who accuse the district of attempting to indoctrinate students by stifling debate.

June 7, 2016

Wyoming Democrats file challenge after Sanders wins vote but Clinton amasses more delegates

The latest delegate count shows Hillary Clinton just clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, but Wyoming supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders aren't giving up yet.

June 7, 2016

D.C. pension board ignites debate after pulling ‘direct’ investments from fossil fuels

The District of Columbia Retirement Board has divested its $6.4 billion pension fund from direct investments in 200 fossil-fuel companies, drawing kudos from climate-change groups even as critics dismissed the move as an "empty gesture."

June 7, 2016