Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you feel the effects of the prices at the pump, and our reliance on gasoline has only increased. So why is energy taking a backseat role in this election? In the Presidential debate, the topic of energy was barely discussed!

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal officials on Friday approved a plan that sets aside 445 square miles of public land for the development of large-scale solar power plants, cementing a new government approach to renewable energy development in the West after years of delays and false starts.

To burst the oil bubble, use a drill! If Congress stands up to special interests and develops domestic energy sources, oil prices will tumble.

NEW DELHI - President Bush got a victory Thursday on his first visit to India, securing a landmark nuclear energy agreement that he says could help ease energy prices in the United States.

MINGO JUNCTION, Ohio - Cables sway, thick as telephone poles, as a gargantuan machine lowers three electrodes into a vessel 28 feet around. White sparks fly, and then, as the probes begin to glow a fiery orange, the quivering air turns faintly acrid.

NEW DELHI - On his first trip to India, President Bush and his Indian counterpart agreed Thursday on a landmark nuclear energy agreement that deepens ties between the world's oldest and largest democracies.

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May 26, 2004

Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, fellow citizens: Every year, by law and by custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.

THE WHITE HOUSE

THE WHITE HOUSE

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OIL SPILL: Washington lacks business knowledge

Even folks in the Gilbert Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Associated Press writers spoke with members of the Gilbert chapter who gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.

WASHINGTON - Democrats completed an improbable double-barreled election sweep of Congress on Wednesday, taking control of the Senate with a victory in Virginia as they padded their day-old majority in the House.

July 29, 2004

In schools and backyards, for their birthdays and out with their dads, kids are gaga for archery weeks into the box office run of “The Hunger Games” and just a few months before the London Olympics.

In schools and backyards, for their birthdays and out with their dads, kids are gaga for archery weeks into the box office run of “The Hunger Games” and just a few months before the London Olympics.

February 2, 2005

Recently, I made the mistake of joking on Twitter about the possibility of a Team Peeta vs. Team Gale dynamic, referring to the two young men who hold special places in the heart of Katniss Everdeen, the 16-year-old heroine of “The Hunger Games.”

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TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House Thursday night with a rousing, remarkably personal speech to the Republican National convention and a prime-time TV audience, proclaiming that America needs "jobs, lots of jobs" and promising to create 12 million of them in perilous economic times.

They’re called the T Generation — the “children of now” — and some say these kids, otherwise known by terms like “indigo,” “crystal” and “star,” are going to transform the world.

Transcript of President Barack Obama's address Thursday at the American University School of International Service in Washington, D.C.: