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Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth
The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed the flare Sunday at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker says the biggest concern is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday.
An ex-CIA officer who helped track down and capture a top al-Qaida figure was charged Monday with disclosing classified secrets, including the role of one of his associates on that covert mission, in the latest of a series of prosecutions by the Obama administration against suspected leakers.
Jewel gave birth in a den near Ely to the first cub at 7:22 a.m. Sunday, and a second at 8:40. He says a third cub might have been born at 9:08 a.m., but the den camera's view was blocked.
North Dakota Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp wants President Barack Obama to reconsider his decision to block construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The world last year wasn't quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said Thursday, but it continues a general trend of rising temperatures.
Obama's Keystone XL decision
President Obama has rejected, at least for now, the Keystone XL oil pipeline that would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Darren Samuelsohn, senior energy and environment reporter at Politico, joins us from Washington to discuss the decision.