A gas tank is filled at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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A gas tank is filled at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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Once again, speculators behind sharply rising oil and gasoline prices

By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

U.S. demand for oil and refined products - including gasoline - is down sharply from last year, so much that United States has actually become a net exporter of gasoline, unable to consume all that it makes. Yet oil and gasoline prices are surging. » read more

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Yemen

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Yemeni voters show their printed fingers at a polling station in Sanaa, capital of Yemen.

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After year of protests, Yemen election is cause for celebration

By Adam Baron | McClatchy Newspapers

For much of the past year, Yemen's capital has felt like a city on the verge of exploding: dueling Friday protests between supporters and opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, defections by military units and then pitched battles last year between loyalists and those defectors that swept across this ancient city. » read more

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Special report: Honor Tarnished

McClatchy found errors and embellishments in the Marine Corps' Medal of Honor nomination for Dakota Meyer, whose deeds have been retold in a book and numerous news reports.

Special report: Chimp research

Chimpanzees at a federal primate facility are at the center of an impassioned debate between the National Institutes of Health and the animal-rights community.

Special report: Military Injustice

An ongoing McClatchy probe reveals troubling flaws in the nation's military justice system, from an error-ridden crime lab to botched death penalty cases and ethical conflicts.

Special report: Afghan contracts

The U.S. program to spend billions of dollars on Afghanistan's facilities is failing. Corruption, nepotism and mismanagement hobble the reconstruction.

Afghanistan and Pakistan

Read McClatchy coverage of Afghanistan and South Asia from correspondents in Kabul and Islamabad, as well as our national security team in Washington.

More on Camp Lejeune water

Scientists studying water contamination at Camp Lejeune have learned of another source of leaking fuel near a drinking well that served thousands of Marines and their families.

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