EXPLAINER: Why did a train explode in North Dakota?
Freight trains carrying grain and crude collided on parallel tracks
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Newsmakers of 2013: Edward Snowden
He has been called a patriot and a traitor. To Obama, he’s a diplomatic ticking time bomb.
Three questions for the soon-to-be U.S. ambassador
Senate grills Bruce Heyman on KXL, IP and Santa
What Jeh Johnson means for Canada
Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security will focus primarily on defence, not important economic issues
‘A major global depression’
America’s debt problem is still huge and intractable. Worst-case scenario? Default and economic collapse
John Boehner: Voice of the Beltway
Can Speaker John Boehner’s back-room pragmatism see him through the Republican party’s sea change?
U.S. finally gets universal health care, but at what cost?
Debt ceiling crisis could be far worse than a shutdown
LIVE: Obama speaks on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington
Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s ’I have a dream’ speech
U.S. Supreme Court gives two victories for same-sex marriage
In a tensely-awaited decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down a federal law known as the Defense of Marriage Act that...
Where to draw the line on government surveillance
Big Brother is watching. But, of course, you already knew that