Sailboats are moored on the Chesapeake Bay at Annapolis Sailing School at sunrise.

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EPA moves to save the Chesapeake

Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and it is under siege from the byproducts of modern life -- from chemical pollutants resulting from agriculture, sew...

A trader works with a telephone receiver in the crude oil and natural gas options pit on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange

Game Changer Still Alive

Global equity markets, commodities and currencies continue to move lower on the heels of concerns about Greece.

Larijani, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Human Rights of Iran

Bin Laden Deserved Fair Trial, Not Execution: Iran

The Secretary General of Iran’s Supreme Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, said the Al-Qaeda chieftain deserved to have a fair trial rather than face a “unilateral execution” by American commandos.

Oil and gas industry executives testify on Capitol Hill in Washington

Ending U.S. oil breaks won't raise fuel cost: Democrats

Repealing billions of dollars in tax breaks for Big Oil won't raise U.S. fuel prices, Senator Max Baucus said in an opening shot directed at top petroleum ...

McCain says Torture did Not Lead to Osama bin Laden

Sen. John McCain, R-AZ on Wednesday called water boarding torture and said the information that lead to Osama bin Laden did not come from detainees subjected to the interrogation technique.