WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2013 – President Barack Obama today called on Congress to avoid deep, across-the-board spending cuts looming March 1 under a “sequestration†mechanism in budget law and to take a balanced approach to America’s debt problems.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban the sale of 12 D-Con mouse and rat poison products produced by Reckitt Benckiser Inc. because these products fail to comply with current EPA safety standards.
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich today joined Republican colleagues to introduce legislation to expedite liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to NATO members and Japan, Alaska’s key trading partner.
PORTLAND, OR—After a 14-day trial, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 21, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Oregon, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in the District of Oregon of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual […]