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A study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay has demonstrated that satellite data can be used to “reliably” measure the levels of carbon dioxide and methane in Indian metros.

Maryland Democrat says federal workers in his district "absolutely" want shutdown to end Democratic Rep. Johnny Olszewski — whose Maryland district is home to over 20,000 federal workers — said ...

In the summer of 2008 I was happily working as a professor at Syracuse University when I received an unexpected phone call. For the previous year the American Enterprise Institute—one of the oldest ...

Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics because of the continuing government shutdown, recently lost access to a separate measure of employment data from a ...

Another vote on stopgap funding to end the partial federal government shutdown failed Wednesday, with Illinois senators voting along party lines. Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin voted ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Oregon cities have railed for the better part of a year against a law that limits when they can sweep homeless camps. Now the state’s largest business group will ask voters ...

Mayor Kevin McCarty will be asking Sacramento voters in the coming year to assist first-time homebuyers, renters on the verge of homelessness and fund his tiny home initiative. McCarty announced his ...