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James Franco and Seth Rogen pose during the premiere of the film "The Interview" in Los Angeles on December 11, 2014.

Despite threats, ‘The Interview’ will actually hit (select) theaters on Christmas Day

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Grab your popcorn: “The Interview” will be showing in select theaters on Christmas Day after Sony decided to reverse its decision to show the movie in the wake of threats and a hacking scandal. But even brief success may give countries like North Korea a blueprint for future attacks.

Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine may be the next flashpoint in the Russia-Ukraine standoff

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the Aquatic Products Refrigerating Facilities.

Is there hope for resistance in North Korea?

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Kim Jong-un

Undercover reporters reveal what life is really like inside secretive North Korea

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Obama’s national security advisor

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Bipartisan Backing to Combat Global Warming

Senators from both sides of the aisle are backing an effort to reward U.S. companies who take measures to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases. Environmentalists complain that the bill, the “Credit for Early Action Act,” contains too many loopholes and doesn’t do enough to stop global warming at its source in industrialized countries. Support […]

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Alien Invaders Beware

The Clinton Administration wants to combat exotic species of plants and animals that are crowding out native species. They’ve proposed spending $29 million next year to get the job done. But that figure pales in comparison to the $123 billion that exotics are estimated to cost the U.S. economy each year. As reporter James Jones […]

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Southern Chip Mill Boom

Efforts to protect the spotted owl and preserve old growth forests have sharply reduced timber cutting on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. But the world-wide demand for paper, particle board and other products made from wood chips is still soaring. So, to help meet this demand, the wood chipping business has shifted to the […]

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CLEAN AIR MOVES TO CONGRESS

President Clinton ended months of speculation by backing the Environmental Protection Agency’s new stringent air pollution reduction rules. Now Congress gets a chance to review the regulations, and many in industry have vowed to fight the clean air rules. James Jones reports from Washington.

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Paper Oaths

In 1993, the Clinton Administration ambitiously declared it would make the federal government a major purchaser of environmentally-friendly products, including recycled paper. Considering that the federal government is the nation’s largest user of paper, the move was expected to boost the recycled products market. But as James Jones reports, although President Clinton signed an executive […]