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President Obama has put a face on the epic election-year Supreme Court battle: Merrick Garland. Obama today named the moderate 63-year-old chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as his pick to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, meaning the fight over a nomination that could tip the court's ideological balance is now personal.

European Union lawmakers and member states came to an agreement this week on a long-term plan to stop the overfishing of cod, sprat and herring stocks in the Baltic Sea.

Mexico's president has urged state and federal officials to implement measures to address air pollution after the government issued an environmental emergency this week over severe air contamination.

A fellow indigenous activist was killed in Honduras less than two weeks after renowned campaigner Berta Cáceres was slain at her home in La Esperanza.

A female polar bear at the Cincinnati Zoo escaped its containment area yesterday, although officials say it was never loose in the zoo and caused no harm to any of the other animals.

Kentucky's attorney general is investigating the illegal dumping of radioactive hydraulic fracturing waste from out of state in two counties.

Heavy rain in Northern California has caused part of a state highway to collapse, isolating some towns, officials said.

London is employing an innovative approach to measure and fight air pollution: pigeons.

High lead levels have been found in thousands of water systems in the United States, including at schools and child care centers.

Alarmingly high levels of lead were found in water in Mississippi's capital last summer, but government officials did not issue a warning or statement until this January.

If you are one of the many Washington, D.C., commuters who downloaded Uber for the first time to deal with the Metrorail shutdown yesterday, you may be in for some lifestyle changes.

The Bureau of Reclamation yesterday named a new director for its complex effort to manage a pivotal part of California's drought-stricken water resources.

Last year, about 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day went unaccounted for by the International Energy Agency, a mystery that could be having a real effect on plummeting oil prices.

The largest U.S. coal companies are the "beneficiaries of a major corporate welfare program," with cheap federal coal representing nearly a third of total U.S. production, according to Greenpeace.

Scientists are looking to an unlikely source to power low-cost electricity: "damaged" tomatoes.

Former Royal Canadian Mounted policeman Gregory Logan, accused of smuggling $2 million worth of narwhal tusks into the United States, has been detained.

The former chief executive of a firm involved in a New Jersey Superfund cleanup faces prison time after a jury yesterday convicted him of fraud charges.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is a peaceful man who should be released from custody so he can tend to chores on his Bunkerville ranch, his attorney will argue this afternoon to a federal judge in Las Vegas.

Evidence has emerged that suggests an agent with the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team may have opened fire on Robert "LaVoy" Finicum when his truck crashed near a police roadblock earlier this year.

Wildlife groups in Washington, D.C., are closely watching a bald eagles nest in the U.S. National Arboretum.

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