Houston Ship Channel reopens, restoring access to one of nation’s biggest ports

Houston Ship Channel reopens, ships moving through

Houston Ship Channel reopens, restoring access to one of the nation’s biggest ports

Houston Ship Channel reopens

HOUSTON — The Houston Ship Channel has reopened, three days after it was closed by a barge accident.

Houston Ship Channel partially reopens; work continues to remove damaged electric tower

Houston Ship Channel partially reopens

HOUSTON — The Houston Ship Channel reopened Wednesday after an electric tower that had teetered over the waterway since a weekend barge accident was lowered to the ground, the Coast Guard said.

Nearly 70 ships jammed up awaiting delayed reopening of crucial Houston Ship Channel

Ships back up as Houston canal reopening delayed

USCG: 3 days to clear 48-ship jam at Houston Ship Channel after crucial waterway reopens

4-dozen ships wait for Houston channel to reopen

48 ships wait for toppled electric tower to be removed so Houston waterway can reopen

48 ships wait for Houston Ship Channel to reopen

Nigerian media mogul arrested in connection with dual bombings on anniversary, officials say

Nigerian media mogul arrested after bombings

Houston Ship Channel barge accident causes $1B loss as vessels wait to cross, Coast Guard says

USCG: Houston Ship Channel crash causes $1B loss

Osama bin Laden surfaces with humanitarian appeal for Pakistani floods in 2nd tape in 24-hours

Osama bin Laden softens tone, but to what end?

Oregon tribe grieves 3 adults, child killed in car fleeing police after robbery

Tribe grieves deaths after Oregon police chase

NATO says it captures more Afghan insurgent leaders; 438 militants detained in September

NATO claims insurgent captures; 2 Romanians killed

NATO says it captures more insurgent leaders; 438 militants detained in September

NATO says it captures Afghan insurgent leaders

1st Guantanamo detainee civilian trial begins with jury selection blocks from ground zero

Bin Laden evidence readied at detainee trial in NY

Claims by Shiite militia brings worries about Iran’s hand in Iraq

Iraqi Shiite militia hints of Iran’s hand in south

Cuban state TV airs purported confession by Salvadoran charged in 1990s Havana bomb attacks

Cuba TV airs hotel bombing suspect confessing

Baghdad bomb injures news anchor in latest attack on Iraqi TV staff

Baghdad bomb injures Iraqi state TV news anchor

Pakistani minister resigns after accusing country’s powerful army in killing of politicians

Pakistani minister resigns after criticizing army

Chavez woos Venezuelan voters by pitching credit cards, cheap refrigerators ahead of elections

Chavez fights to keep control in legislative vote

Afghan suicide bombing kills child, injures 28

Afghan suicide bomber kills child, injures 28

Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul, day after anchor for state TV gunned down in Baghdad

President Barack Obama speaks briefly on Afghanistan

Mexican police detain 3 drug-gang suspects in kidnappings of 3 television journalists

Mexico nabs 3 suspects in journalist kidnappings

2 Japanese TV journalists die while trying to cover fatal mountain chopper crash

Japanese journalists die on mountain assignment

Japanese TV journalists covering chopper crash found unresponsive in pool of water on mountain

Missing Japanese journalists found unresponsive

Al-Qaida-linked group claims responsibility for bombing of Al-Arabiya TV in Baghdad

Al-Qaida-linked group claims TV bombing in Baghdad

At least 25 bodies recovered from plane crash in Pakistani capital, says official

Pakistan: 25 bodies recovered from plane crash

Police say domestic passenger plane carrying 152 people crashes in Pakistani capital

Plane carrying 152 crashes in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — A passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan’s capital amid rain and caught fire Wednesday, officials said. At least 25 people were killed and five survived with injuries, but many more were feared dead in the smoking wreck.

Twin parked car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims kill 25 in Iraqi holy city of Karbala

Twin car bombs kill 25 in Iraqi city of Karbala

Twin car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims kill 22 in Iraqi city of Karbala

Twin car bombs kill 22 in Iraqi city of Karbala

Bus bomb kills 6 at Baghdad office of Arabic news channel, say police

Bomb kills 6 at Iraq office of Arabic news channel

Bus bomb kills 6 at Baghdad office of Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, say police

Bomb kills 6 at Baghdad office of Arab channel

Police: Car bomb strikes at Baghdad office of Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, 4 killed

Bomb kills 4 at Baghdad office of Arab channel

Networks prepare to shift oil spill coverage into new phase

Oil spill coverage shifting into new phase

NY medical examiner: Ted Koppel’s son died from overdose of heroin, coke, Valium, alcohol

Koppel’s son died from overdose of drugs, alcohol

NY medical examiner: Ted Koppel’s son died from lethal dose of heroin, coke, Valium, alcohol

Ted Koppel’s son died from combo of drugs, alcohol

White House: Obama poised to take claims processing away from BP unless it changes system

U.S. President Barack Obama joins Martha Coakley
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BP won’t collect and sell all the oil it pumps to the surface from leak _ some of it will burn

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BP says end point for stopping Gulf oil leak is relief well due in August

BP exec says end point for leak is relief well

After another failure, BP scrambles a new plan to keep oil from flowing into Gulf of Mexico