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BIGGS, CA - MAY 08: Water flows in an irrigation canal on May 8, 2015 in Biggs, California. As California enters its fourth year of severe drought, farmers are struggling to keep crops watered as wells run dry and government water allocations have been reduced or terminated. Many have opted to leave acres of their fields fallow. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

EPA issues new rule expanding reach over waters

Zack Colman · May 27, 2015 2:44 pm

Smoke rises behind archaeological ruins in Palmyra, Syria. The video released by a media arm of the Islamic State group purportedly showed the archaeological ruins of Palmyra apparently undamaged. (Militant video via AP)

National Security

ISIS hasn’t destroyed Palmyra yet, artifacts chief says

David Brown · May 27, 2015 2:09 pm

Walter De Gregorio, FIFA Director of Communications and Public Affairs, addresses the media during a press conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Swiss federal prosecutors opened criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, throwing FIFA deeper into crisis only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested and 14 indicted Wednesday in a separate U.S. corruption probe. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)

U.S. hits top FIFA officials with corruption charges

Kelly Cohen · May 27, 2015 12:16 pm

"The law expires at midnight Sunday next week and I doubt if there are many of us who are comfortable with that," said Sen. McConnell. (AP)

Presidential politics hinders McConnell on NSA

David M. Drucker · May 27, 2015 9:00 am

Commission Chairman Timothy Massad on Tuesday addressed the new regulations that his agency has been charged by Congress to craft in response to the 2008 Wall Street financial collapse. (Bloomberg File Photo)

Energy and Environment

Wall Street regs could drive up energy costs

John Siciliano · May 27, 2015 9:00 am

Obama has seized on TPA and possible trade deals down the road as a legacy item for his presidency, which is why last week's close Senate vote on TPA has TPA supporters nervous. (AP)

Obama’s do-or-die legacy vote on trade

Nicole Duran · May 27, 2015 9:00 am

NancyÂ Pelosi and other Democrats believe Obama's move to allow 5 million illegal immigrants to obtain work permits and federal benefits is well within his authority. (AP Photo)Â

Pelosi, Boehner issue dueling responses to immigration ruling

Susan Ferrechio · May 26, 2015 10:28 pm

Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bernie Sanders: ‘Today, we begin a political revolution’

Ryan Lovelace · May 26, 2015 10:19 pm

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has told Congress his agency's ability to respond to taxpayers seeking assistance with their returns has been reduced by budget cuts. (AP Photo)

IRS: Taxpayer info hacked

Susan Ferrechio · May 26, 2015 9:28 pm

The IRS said it determined last week that "unusual activity" took place on an area of its site called the "Get Transcript" application. (AP Photo)Â

Paul Ryan on the IRS hack: ‘We need answers’

Pete Kasperowicz · May 26, 2015 9:21 pm

Iraqi anti-terrorism soldiers guard a graduation ceremony of Sunni tribal volunteers joining Iraqi security forces in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

National Security

U.S. aids Iraqi counterstrike against Islamic State

Tara Copp · May 26, 2015 8:33 pm

Activists who support recent challenges to President Obama's 'Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents' (DAPA) program protest against a seperate group of activists who support DAPA, outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal building, where naturalization ceremonies take place, on May 19, 2015 in New York City. Â (Getty Image)

Court hands Obama big loss in immigration fight

Susan Ferrechio · May 26, 2015 8:17 pm