US Senator Max Baucus said Tuesday he will not seek re-election in 2014, making him the latest senior Democrat to avoid a tough bid to hold his seat in a conservative-leaning state. The retirement of the six-term senator from Montana, who heads the powerful Finance Committee, will provide one of…
WASHINGTON — The State Department on Monday denied claims of “complicity” with a firm building a $7 billion US-Canada oil pipeline, made by an environmentalist group that released emails it said showed bias. The State Department insisted it had behaved “transparently and evenhandedly” toward the Keystone XL project to bring…