Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska
Time.com
By WESLEY LOY / Anchorage – Sat Jul 18, 3:30 pm ET
A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaska village of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called “the blob.” It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles […]
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CNN Political Ticker
December 22, 2008
Poll: One in five think Cheney is worst VP in U.S. history
Posted: 04:04 PM ET
From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that one of out of five Americans think that Dick Cheney is the worst vice president in American history.
Twenty-three percent of those questioned […]
Guerra Reveals Evidence
Wednesday , November 26, 2008 Posted: 07:14 PM
Guerra unveils why his investigation led him to the Vice President
WILLACY COUNTY - District Attorney Juan Guerra says his investigation took him all the way to the top, to the Vice President of the United States. He showed NEWSCHANNEL 5 records that he says could be […]
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ABCNews
Grim’ Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US
“No Plans to Declassify” New National Intelligence Estimate for White House
By BRIAN ROSS
September 23, 2008
US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as “grim”, but there are “no plans to declassify” any of […]
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Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page A01
This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout.
A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence. No […]
Sarah Palin: Tough on polar bears
Boston.com Staff
August 29, 2008 04:22 PM
In May, Palin said she would sue the federal government after it declared polar bears an endangered species. Here’s what the Anchorage Daily News reported:
She and other Alaska elected officials fear a listing will cripple oil and gas development in prime polar bear habitat off […]
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Does Ted Stevens (R-AK) use a gesture to show contempt for the charges?
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The Veep’s Pipeline Push
By Michael Isikoff and Tony Hopfinger | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 23, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 1, 2008
A two-year-old letter by Vice President Dick Cheney that pushed a controversial Alaska natural-gas pipeline bill is getting renewed scrutiny because of recently […]
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This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right, is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width […]