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- FAA proposes rules aimed at preventing small airliners from crashing in freezing rain
- Senators willing to scale back energy bill to find compromise as Obama pushes for legislation
- BP meeting deadline for payments to government for oil spill response
- Spy thriller: US picks up 10 Russian agents
- Man kills girl for crying during World Cup
- PROMISES, PROMISES: Despite complaints, FAA has yet to order airlines to act on cockpit fires
- Private foundation contemplates multimillion dollar prize in competition to fix BP oil spill
- Oil giant may turn to Bill Clinton’s disaster chief to improve its response and public image
- Economic damage caused by oil spill may not go beyond the Gulf region
- Obama’s point man on the Gulf oil spill recovery will visit the region next week
- Obama’s point man on the Gulf oil spill cleanup will visit the region next week
- Justice Department urges appeals court to delay judge’s ruling overturning drilling moratorium
- Federal judge who struck down drilling ban sells numerous energy investments
- Insult to injury: IRS wants taxes from BP payments to oil spill victims for lost wages
- Biden traveling to Gulf Coast on Tuesday to review efforts to halt oil spill
- AP source: Biden traveling to Gulf Coast on Tuesday to review efforts to halt oil spill
- BP enlists former FEMA chief James Lee Witt to help in Gulf oil spill
- Violent storm that dumped up to 6 inches of hail in Columbia Basin damaged wheat crops
- Salazar endorses two-year revolving door ban on former regulators working for industry
- Senate Judiciary Committee advances bill to toughen anti-pollution law
- Obama administration says it’s complying with ruling overturning drilling moratorium in Gulf
- Justice Department seeks delay in ruling that overturned drilling moratorium in Gulf
- Coast Guard: 2 Gulf cleanup workers die; no apparent direct connection to oil spill
- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says new drilling moratorium could have flexibility
- Interior Secretary Salazar says new drilling moratorium could have flexibility
- House votes to giving subpoena power to panel investigating BP oil spill
- House Judiciary Committee approves subpoena for BP documents on claims payments
- Dems look for best way to exploit Barton’s apology to BP for their own political gain
- Hoyer urges White House summit with East Coast governors, local officials on oil spill
- Barton keeps job as top Republican on committee after apologizing to GOP members
- APNewsBreak: New offshore drilling director will create internal investigations team
- World Bank loan to help India battle natural disasters
- Interior Secretary Salazar to issue new order seeking to reimpose drilling moratorium
- Lawmakers react to federal judge’s ruling blocking White House offshore drilling moratorium
- White House to appeal judge’s ruling against deepwater drilling moratorium after Gulf spill
- House to vote this week on bill giving subpoena power to panel investigating BP oil spill
- A $51.4M tab: Gov’t sends BP and others a third bill for expenses from oil spill response
- In TV ad, Dems say GOP would rather apologize to BP than hold company accountable for spill
- US, Indonesia combine for high-tech adventure to one of earth’s last frontiers: The deep sea
- Interior secretary swears in leader of new agency to oversee offshore drilling
- Gulf paymaster says victims of Gulf oil spill are in ‘desperate financial straits,’ Need help
- Oil spill in context: Miss. River pours as much water in 38 seconds as total BP well leak
- Andhra techie’s murderers held in US
- Chief of Gulf oil spill claims office urges people to come forward and file claims for damages
- Obama’s chief of staff says Republicans defending BP would be in control if GOP wins in Nov.
- Shooter kills two others, self in California restaurant
- Bear shot dead after it mauls 70-year-old man
- White House chief of staff says BP executive Hayward commits another gaffe by going yachting
- Outside expert questions credentials of Gulf spill panel: ‘What do they know about petroleum?’
- BP said it’s paid more claims than what is reflected in data from US House committee
- Oil industry: Gulf spill doesn’t indicate need to change environmental reviews of drilling
- Nations offer Gulf oil cleanup aid, with strings _ they want to get paid for their generosity
- House Judiciary Committee says BP has paid less than 12% of claims from oil spill
- Two big jobs: Spill recovery chief to split time as Navy boss, puzzling some environmentalists
- Gushing Gulf oil leak video footage could become symbol of problems facing Obama
- Allegations of deal with Anderson outrageous: Congress
- BP chief says he wasn’t in loop on oil rig decisions, drawing verbal onslaught from Congress
- Official says Coast Guard will need more resources to inspect foreign oil-drilling operations
- BP CEO Hayward says up to 2 billion gallons of crude left in Gulf oil field
- He said what? Bipartisan outrage erupts after GOP lawmaker apologizes to British oil executive
- ‘Shame on you’: BP chief pilloried by Congress; lawmakers seek oil spill answers, finding few
- Authorities say dozens of pets killed in Washington house fire but 39 others were rescued
- After calling White House agreement with BP a ’slush fund,’ Barton says he was misunderstood
- Haiti brings children’s art to DC as Smithsonian leads cultural recovery in Port-au-Prince
- BP exec accused of ’stonewalling,’ repeatedly criticized at congressional hearing on spill
- Biden: GOP criticism of BP compensation fund ‘insensitive,’ ‘out of touch’ and ‘outrageous’
- Actor Kevin Costner urges oil industry to keep his cleanup devices on hand for future spills
- BP exec accused of ‘kicking the can down the road;’ Denies ’stonewalling’ Congress on spill
- Rep. Waxman accuses BP’s CEO Hayward of ’stonewalling’ inquiry into Gulf oil spill
- BP CEO Hayward tells angry lawmakers he’s ‘deeply sorry’ during Gulf oil disaster hearing
- Oil and gas industry political contributions to members of House Energy and Commerce Committee
- Woman disrupts hearing as BP executive prepares to address House hearing
- Lawmakers conffront BP CEO Tony Hayward during hearing on Gulf oil spill disaster
- BP’s Hayward lectured sternly on Capitol Hill; Angry lawmakers interrogate CEO on spill
- Rep. Waxman: BP’s executives didn’t pay ‘the slightest attention to oil rig safety in Gulf
- House panel opens hearing with BP CEO Tony Hayward answering questions on Gulf oil spill
- Rep. Barton accuses Obama White House of engaging in $20B ’shakedown’ of oil giant BP
- Hostile reception from lawmakers expected for BP CEO who says he’s ‘devastated’ by oil spill
- Chilly reception from lawmakers expected for BP CEO who says he’s devastated by Gulf oil spill
- BP CEO Tony Hayward says he’s ‘devastated’ by Gulf oil spill, understands Americans’ anger
- Obama sets meeting with Navy secretary picked to develop Gulf Coast Restoration Plan
- WH requests Congress spend $15 million on commission to investigate oil spill disaster
- Army alleges 3 Afghan civilians slain when soldiers threw hand grenades and shot them
- In intense White House talks, BP guarantees $20 billion for Gulf compensation _ and apologizes
- APNewsBreak: BP CEO Hayward says he is devastated by oil spill, understands anger
- BP agrees $20 bn claims fund
- In White House deal, BP guarantees $20 billion to pay oil victims’ claims, chairman apologizes
- BP CEO Hayward to get ’sliced and diced’ at congressional hearing
- Obama says that 3-person panel will decide appeals of rejected spill claims
- BP Chairman apologizes to Americans for oil spill
- BP’s chairman apologizes for oil spill; Vows company will win back Americans’ trust
