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Lawmakers are hearing about little else besides high gasoline prices, and that's what tops the Capitol Hill agenda this week. House Republican leader John Boehner is leading an "energy tour" that includes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Democrats are introducing plans to release oil from petroleum reserves.

John Rizzo is the nominee for the top legal job at the CIA. He was deeply involved in establishing the agency's interrogation and detention policies – perhaps too involved, for the Senate intelligence committee's tastes. The CIA, meanwhile, is going on four years without a permanent general counsel.

The House of Representatives will be under new management in 2007, but leadership posts within each party are undecided. Maryland's Steny Hoyer wants to be Majority Leader, but Nancy Pelosi backing Rep. John Murtha. Republican Speaker, Dennis Hastert, says he won't run for a leadership post, creating room at the top for the new minority party.

Some top researchers now say that climate change has led to stronger hurricanes. Now, there's a push to expand the wind scale to include a Category 6 for winds as powerful as those seen last year.

Three Decades after the original "Top Gun", Tom Cruise returns to lead a fresh squadron of Navy fighter pilots in "Top Gun: Maverick."

Check out the most popular stories, videos and photos in WVIA's 2025 Year In Review.

Among the nation's 49 busiest airports, flights landing and taking off at airports in Sacramento, Calif., had the nation's highest rate of wildlife strikes from 2000 to 2008. Two popular vacation destination airports in Florida, Fort Myers and Orlando, had high rates of wildlife strikes that damaged aircraft.

Their favorite 2023 tracks include music from Rawayana, Maria José Llergo and beyond.

A crack team rebuilds a glider that POWs hoped to catapult off the top of Colditz Castle.

Discover how cats first crossed from Asia into North America and became the top predators.