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- At congressman’s insistence, live feed of Gulf oil spill now available online
- Environmental Protection Agency tells BP to try other chemicals to disperse oil in Gulf spill
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- Walmart recalling GE coffee makers after complaints of injuries, overheating, smoke, fires
- White House calls ship sinking ‘act of aggression’ by North Korea that challenges peace
- Fears of war, NKorea meltdown cloud options for response to South Korean ship sinking
- Actor Sean Penn tells Congress about Haiti relief efforts, need for supplies in hospitals
- Fed’s new economic forecast paints brighter picture of growth and employment for rest of year
- Tar balls in Florida Keys not from Gulf spill, but that does little to ease oil concerns
- Senate Democrats call for more inspections of deepwater oil rigs; say taxpayers should not pay
- Interior secretary admits regulatory lapse in oil oversight office; scientists watch spill
- AP source: South Korea to lay out proof Pyongyang fired torpedo to sink South Korean navy ship
- Burning odor reported less than 24 before United cockpit fire the forced emergency landing
- Clinton meets with US envoys to NKorea ahead of announcement on sunken SKorean navy ship
- Future airline pilots may be less experienced, less ethical, in short supply, NTSB told
- Coast Guard admiral says scattershot nature of spill poses severe challenges to containment
- Interior secretary admits regulatory lapses and “a few bad apples” in oil oversight office
- Lawmakers give Salazar grilling over oil drilling; he promises tougher regulation in future
- Chairman of Senate panel vows to uncover ‘cascade of failures’ that led to giant oil spill
- Salazar: Gov’t failed to hold oil industry accountable, promises more resources for agency
- Man offers daughter for beer
- Salazar, other Obama administration officials face questioning in Gulf Coast oil spill
- Safety forum seeks ways to inspire more professionalism among pilots, air traffic controllers
- Official in charge of offshore drilling retires in fallout from Gulf spill; Obama orders probe
- Source: White House to establish commission to investigate BP oil spill, offshore drilling
- APNewsBreak: Senate Democrats want Justice Department to investigate Gulf Coast oil spill
- Salazar announces more drilling reforms; Homeland Security, BP to testify on oil spill
- Chief of MMS offshore drilling programs to abruptly retire amid fallout from Gulf oil spill.
- Coast Guard says Gulf Coast oil spill more than anyone ever anticipated
- Long-standing safety concerns probed in cockpit fire that prompted B757 emergency landing
- Homeland Security officials, BP executive to testify about oil spill at Senate hearing
- Dawood third most wanted after Osama, Mexican drug lord
- Farmers temporarily flooding fields to help migratory shorebirds, improve land for crops
- Dawood Ibrahim third on Forbes’ Most Wanted Fugitives list
- Future debated for Mount St. Helens 30 years later after volcanic eruption
- BP working on new approach as Obama loses patience
- Federal prosecutors conducting criminal probe into W.Va. mine explosion that killed 29
- Obama mocks Republican opposition; Fiorina gives $1.1 million to Senate primary
- Justice Dept. confirms criminal probe into W.Va. mine explosion that killed 29 workers
- Obama pledges to end ‘cozy’ ties between oil companies, regulators, denounces fingerpointing
- Obama decries fingerpointing, pledges end to ‘cozy’ links between oil producers, regulators
- White House, Interior pledge to review Minerals Management Service procedures
- Obama: Gulf oil spill could be “catastrophic,” but federal response is full-bore
- Obama sternly takes oil companies to task for ‘ridiculous’ finger-pointing over Gulf spill
- Obama promises end to ‘cozy’ relationship between oil producers and US regulators
- Obama: Government will impose tougher safety regulations on offshore drilling
- Massey CEO Blankenship to testify on W.Va. mine accident at Senate hearing next week
- Biden slams govt oversight of offshore drilling, calling it ‘bad’
- Obama, top advisers meet Friday to discuss federal efforts on Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- White House requests $10 million from Congress for possible litigation from oil spill
- Senator announces $44 million in federal money for repairs at Green River dam south of Seattle
- Senate panel takes up Iraq, Afghan war funding measure as Democrats courts GOP support
- On battlefield where the enemy wears no uniform, how far should US go in protecting civilians?
- BP to thread smaller tube into oil gusher to suck spewing crude to the surface, stem disaster
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- AP poll: Public more or less approves Obama oil spill response, still wants offshore drilling
- Emerging details of oil rig equipment failures reveal troubling lack of regulation
- House oversight chairman wants to ask gov’t agency how oil spill companies got permits
- Obama to promote small-business agenda, economic reforms in visit Thursday to Buffalo, NY
- Two students have oral sex in packed US classroom
- Failed fail-safe devices, worrisome tests at BP’s oil rig, congressional investigators find
- Kerry says stakes are ’sky high’ as Senate climate bill unveiled
- Investigators: Leak caused key device to fail; confusion about methane in pipes before blast
- Rep. Waxman: conflicting accounts from BP on test on well before explosion
- WH proposes hiking BP’s liability for oil spill, raising industry fees for clean-up fund
- Rep. Waxman says congressional investigation shows Gulf oil well’s blowout preventer had leak
- Man shoots neighbour after dog urinates on lawn
- Senate panel readies war funding bill, flood aid for difficult legislative journey
- Interior secretary to call for splitting up agency overseeing offshore drilling
- A scientific panel of the National Academy of Engineering to investigate Gulf oil spill.
- Congress calls drilling execs to account for ‘cascade of failures’ behind Gulf oil spill
- Transocean CEO: cement work, casing at root of oil rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico
- US tornadoes kill five, injure dozens
- Companies pointing fingers at each other as Senate begins hearings on the Gulf oil spill
- BP, other companies blame each other in wake of Gulf oil rig explosion
- BP executive: Company investigating oil rig explosion, will share results
- BP lobbyist: Federal oil spill liability limits not a factor in company’s oil spill spending
- Halliburton: Company safely finished cementing oil well 20 hours before explosion, cites test
- Golf balls, tires may halt US oil spill
- White House adviser says authorities believe Pakistan Taliban behind Times Square bomb attempt
- AP review finds Obama’s response to oil spill response evolved as crisis, details emerged
- APNewsBreak: Fed oil rig regulators to examine blowout preventers to assure they’re safe
- Kerry, Lieberman vow to press forward on climate bill, while Graham calls bill ‘impossible’
- Senator says ‘impossible’ to pass climate bill now; cites anti-drilling mood after oil spill
- Robot designed for safe rescue operations post-disasters
- Oil spill response haunted by lessons not learned in earlier mock exercises
- Weakening El Nino conditions could complicate forecasting hurricane season
- Feds won’t hold full public hearing in probe of deadly explosion at W.Va. coal mine
- Obama administration offers loans to Gulf Coast small businesses affected by oil spill
- While oil spill hurts offshore drilling bids, a wider impact on energy policy is unclear
- Administration decides again certain Central Americans allowed to stay in US another 18 months
- US weighs offers of oil spill assistance from 13 countries and United Nations
- House transportation, natural resources, Senate environmental panels join list of oil hearings
- House transportation, Senate environmental committees join growing list of oil spill hearings
