MSNBC host points out GOP resistance

Network host Joy Reid said on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" that Sens. Susan Collins , Lisa Murkowski and Shelly Moore Capito have stalled the repeal of Obamacare because they are "leading kind of the resistance" to President Trump. On Wednesday, Reid said, "When it comes to politics I think it's such a man's world for so long - it's so much of politics driven by men telling women what's best for them.

Federal agency approves more oil exploration on Alaska’s North Slope

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Wednesday granted conditional approval for Italian oil company Eni to explore for oil in Alaska's North Slope region. Eni's proposal, which is still subject to local and additional federal approvals, is to drill three oil wells roughly three miles off the Alaskan coast.

Senate health care bill still up in the air as lawmakers go home for holiday

Sen. Susan Collins will celebrate the Fourth of July within view of the Canadian border, at a remote northeastern Maine town's annual parade. Sen. Lisa Murkowski will appear on the other end of the continent in an old timber town on an isolated Alaskan island.

The EMP threat put in context: It may not be the top threat we face, but it’s still a threat – Part 1

Earlier this year, former CIA Director James Woolsey and Dr. Peter Pry, head of a new congressional panel, were tasked with the job of studying the threat and aftereffects of an electromagnetic pulse event or attack on the power grid and infrastructure it supports throughout the United States. Their assessment was grim: They opined that 90 percent of Americans would perish within one year of an EMP event.

Even Republicans are nervous about Trump’s budget.

Though the official release is planned for Tuesday, leaked versions of the 2018 budget proposal show dramatic funding cuts for environmental programs - even those supported by the president's own party. The budget, which still needs congressional approval, would cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 35 percent .

Coal impacts could push 122 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.

That's according to a report from the global anti-poverty organization Oxfam, which specifically calls for Australia to stop propping up the coal industry - especially the $300 million in subsidies it's offered up for a proposed mine in Queensland. "Against the backdrop of an imperiled Great Barrier Reef and extreme weather disasters, Australia's carbon pollution is continuing to climb - the tragic consequence of more than a decade of climate policy paralysis and short-term political opportunism," Helen Szoke , CEO of Oxfam Australia, says.

Trump Proposes Selling Off Half the U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve

The White House plan to trim the national debt includes selling off half of the nation's emergency oil stockpile, part of a broad series of changes proposed by President Donald Trump to the federal government's role in energy markets. Trump's first complete budget proposal, released in part on Monday, would raise $500 million in fiscal year 2018 by draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and as much $16.6 billion in oil sales over the next decade.

The Latest: Alaska lawmaker predicts strong mine opposition

The speaker of the Alaska House said he believes there will be a rising up of opposition if a mine proposed near the headwaters of a world-class Alaska salmon fishery advances. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Pebble Limited Partnership disclosed a settlement Friday clearing a way for the company to seek permits.

The Latest: Tillerson arrives in Alaska for Arctic meeting

The secretary of state is in Fairbanks for a meeting with the world's eight Arctic nations amid concerns about the future of the sensitive region after President Donald Trump called for more oil drilling and development. Rex Tillerson landed on Wednesday afternoon and immediately held a meeting with a congressional delegation as well as Arctic representatives from Alaska's indigenous people.

Bartlett CEO: A decade under House GOP health care bill could cost hospital $69 million

Juneau's public hospital could still stand to lose tens of millions of dollars under the bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives to replace the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. That's according to numbers from the American Hospital Association.

How House Republicans won those final health care votes

How did House GOP leaders win the final votes to pass their health care legislation? Will President Trump make a big decision on climate change before he meets with the Pope? These questions and more are answered in this week's "Inside Politics" forecast, where you get tomorrow's headlines today.

How House GOP won final health care votes

How did House GOP leaders win the final votes to pass their health care legislation? Will President Trump make a big decision on climate change before he meets with the Pope? These questions and more are answered in this week's "Inside Politics" forecast, where you get tomorrow's headlines today. Promises of what political consultants call "air cover" helped House GOP leaders get to the finish line in last week's Obamacare repeal-and-replace vote.