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Many run-of-the-mill flyers may be raising red flags without knowing, according to the Transportation Security Administration's controversial Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program. (AP Photo)

National Security

TSA failures prompt new effort to ban plastic guns

Pete Kasperowicz · June 10, 2015 1:21 pm

USA Bid Committee present Sepp Blatter, FIFA president with their Bid Book during the 2018/2022 World Cup Bid Book Handover ceremony at FIFA Headquarters on May 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)

FIFA to delay 2026 World Cup bidding process

Kelly Cohen · June 10, 2015 12:26 pm

The USA Freedom Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama on June 2, 2015. (AP Photo)

National Security

Americans: Anti-terrorism efforts shouldn’t trump civil liberties

Kelly Cohen · June 10, 2015 11:48 am

A city office employee works into the night as darkness closes in on October 10, 2005 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Businesses prepare for Obama’s new overtime rule

Sean Higgins · June 10, 2015 9:00 am

Mt. McKinley as seen on Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Denali National Park, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Energy and Environment

Alaskan senator wants to rename America’s tallest mountain

Zack Colman · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

"We can't wait until this fall," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "This matter has to be resolved now." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Dems demand budget summit with GOP

Susan Ferrechio · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

Sens. Flake and Kaine argue that the original Authorization of Military Force Against Terrorists is outdated.Â (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

More authority for Obama against ISIS seems DOA in Senate

Susan Crabtree · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

An electricity pylon stands in front of the exhaust pluming from the main chimneys of the black coal-fired power plant Heizkraftwerk Reuter West March 23, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Industry vows to continue fight after federal court defeat on climate rules

John Siciliano · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

The Duggars supported Huckabee for president in 2008 and are back in HuckabeeÃ¢â¬â¢s court for the 2016 primaries. (AP)

Why Huckabee defends the Duggars

Ariel Cohen · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a rally at the Desert Vista Community Center on April 11, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nev.Â Paul's campaign believes the caucus positions the Kentuckian to win Nevada.Â (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Why GOP wanted primary in Nevada

David M. Drucker · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

New House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry used the first major speech of his tenure to strengthen his committee's role in determining the "shape, size and soul" of the military. (AP Photo)

GOP: Dems holding defense spending ‘hostage’

Charles Hoskinson · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

Rep. Kevin Brady hopes that significant reform of the 100-year-old Federal Reserve may be within reach.

Key Texas lawmaker seeks to overhaul Fed

Joseph Lawler · June 10, 2015 4:01 am