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The U.S. Sentencing Commission promulgates the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, which serve as the starting point for every federal criminal sentence imposed across the country. The Commission is required ...

Forests are a significant part of the global carbon cycle, because they contain the largest store of terrestrial (land-based) carbon and continuously transfer carbon between the terrestrial biosphere ...

The Indo-Pacific occupies a central role in U.S. national strategy and hosts a large number of U.S. military forces. To enable the operation of these forces and accomplish its strategic objectives, th...

Under federal law, state and local governments receive payments through various programs due to the presence of federally owned land within their jurisdictions. Some of these payment programs are base...