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EPA Wants To Know Chemicals Used In Gas Drilling()  

The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine natural gas companies to voluntarily disclose the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. The agency said the information is important to its study of the controversial drilling practice, also known as "fracking."

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National Security

Homegrown Terrorists Pose Biggest Threat, Report Says()  

Faisal Shahzad

The report by the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group also says al-Qaida doesn't have the ability to launch an extraordinary operation on the scale of Sept. 11 anymore. Instead, it must content itself with attacks that kill dozens or hundreds at a time.

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2 Shot Dead At Kraft Cookie Plant In Philadelphia()  

Employees talk outside the scene of a workplace shooting at a Kraft plant in Philadelphia.

A woman who had just been suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods Inc. facility returned with a handgun and opened fire Thursday, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody about an hour later, police said.

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Law

Zapping Inmates To Control Them: Harmless Or Torture?()  

An Assault Intervention Device stands at the Pitchess Detention Center's North County Correction Facility.

Los Angeles authorities have unveiled a new high-tech device designed to get rowdy inmates in line: a mechanism that blasts millimeter beams that simulate intense heat. But the ACLU sent a letter to the L.A. sheriff asking him to reconsider what it says could be a torture device.

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Cleaning Up Sept. 11 Ashes Was 'Like A Communion'()  

Jack Murray, a Sept. 11 recovery worker.

Jack Murray watched the Sept. 11 attacks unfold from the roof of his Manhattan apartment building. For two weeks, he cut steel beams for the search and rescue efforts at ground zero. John Romanowich worked for the city agency in charge of the cleanup and spent four months helping at the site.

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Police: 2 Shot Dead At Kraft Plant In Pa., 1 Hurt()  

September 9, 2010 A woman who had just been suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods Inc. facility in the city's northeast section on Thursday returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third, police said.

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