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Technician Joseph Klippel works on the engines on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's P-3 turboprop aircraft "Miss Piggy" Friday, May 15, 2015, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

Businesses ready to help feds improve weather forecasting

Nathan Rubbelke · August 2, 2015 4:01 am

"My highest priority is to ensure solutions to the recent covert testing failures," TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger said. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

TSA chief pledges to ‘have trained the failure out’ in 60 days

Nathan Rubbelke · July 29, 2015 8:44 pm

The bill tackles the opioid crisis through different angles. It aims to increase access for first responders to the overdose antidote Naloxone. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

DEA official: ‘I’ve never seen’ heroin use this bad

Nathan Rubbelke · July 28, 2015 10:57 pm

By pricing roads correctly, we may actually find that we don't need to spend more on highways. (Examiner file photo)

Charge tolls to fix highways

Nathan Rubbelke · July 27, 2015 4:01 am

Internet Party CEO Vikram Kumar shows the sign up app on his smartphone after the Internet Party was launched by Kim Dotcom at the Dotcom Mansion on March 27, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. The Internet Party today launched its membership drive with members paying $1.29 to join up. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

‘Let’s not screw it up,’ app industry tells Congress

Nathan Rubbelke · July 23, 2015 11:02 pm

Acela trains, which run between Washington and Boston, serve as Amtrak's express service in the Northeast corridor.Â (Getty)

Amtrak wants Acela trains to go faster

Nathan Rubbelke · July 22, 2015 9:45 pm

Unable to give clear examples of when air marshals have stopped terrorist attacks, deputy assistant administrator Roderick Allison told lawmakers that the service has played a role in minimizing threats. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Are air marshals keeping America safe?

Nathan Rubbelke · July 20, 2015 4:01 am

Former government employees and other U.S. citizens may have had their personal information stolen in a cyberattack on the OPM.

U.S. needs a new cybersecurity strategy

Nathan Rubbelke · July 20, 2015 4:01 am

A tornado touches down northwest of Hutchinson, Kan., Monday, July 13, 2014. (Travis Morisse/The Hutchinson News via AP)

Energy and Environment

Congress wants better weather forecasts

Nathan Rubbelke · July 14, 2015 10:32 pm

Uber drivers and their supporters protest in front of the offices of the Taxi and Limousine Commission in New York, Thursday, May 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Uber not part of the ‘sharing economy’

Nathan Rubbelke · July 13, 2015 4:01 am

Daniel J. Feil, executive architect of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, right, talks with Susan Banes Harris, who chairs the Commission's architecture committee, as they look over architect Frank Gehry's model of the Eisenhower Memorial before a meeting of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Controversial design for Eisenhower memorial approved

Nathan Rubbelke · July 9, 2015 8:47 pm

(Image courtesy screenshot)

NYT: Hillary looked ‘very defensive’ in CNN interview

Nathan Rubbelke · July 8, 2015 4:38 pm