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President Trump on Wednesday ordered the Defense Department to favor coal-fired electricity in its long-term power contracts, extending his administration's efforts to support the coal industry by tapping one of the federal government's largest energy...

Gallup is putting away one of its oldest political yardsticks. The polling firm says that as part of "an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership," it will no longer track job-approval and favorability numbers for presidents...

The Trump administration pulled federalized National Guard troops from American cities, without saying much about it. US Northern Command says all Guard units sent under federal authority to Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland are now home, wrapping up...

Nearly six decades after it made history for the first soft landing on a celestial body other than Earth, a tiny Soviet robot may have finally have been traced—to two different spots on the moon. Two research teams say they've independently zeroed in...