Saturday, June 5, 2010

Cap Slows Gulf Oil Leak as Engineers Move Cautiously - New York Times


Telegraph.co.uk


Cap Slows Gulf Oil Leak as Engineers Move Cautiously

New York Times


Dave Martin/AP Oil cleanup workers used high-pressure hoses to decontaminate oil retention booms in Theodore, Ala., on Saturday. By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and MICHAEL COOPER HOUSTON â€" Oil continued to gush from a runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on ...


Coast Guard Says More Oil Being Contained from Leaking Well

Voice of America


Coast Guard: BP collected 6000 barrels of oil

USA Today


Obama told how bad Gulf oil spill would be days after BP's rig exploded: report

New York Daily News


The Associated Press -Christian Science Monitor -BBC News


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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Israel Deports Activists Seized on Gaza Aid Flotilla - Voice of America


Telegraph.co.uk


Israel Deports Activists Seized on Gaza Aid Flotilla

Voice of America


Photo: AP Israel says it is speeding up the deportation of nearly 700 foreign activists it detained during a deadly commando operation to stop a convoy of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip. Buses carrying more than 120 of the deported activists ...


'Israel commits nat'l terrorism'

Jerusalem Post


Irish aid ship expects Israelis to board vessel

BBC News


Israel Begins Deporting Gaza Activists

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Latest oil spill developments - CNN


Reuters


Latest oil spill developments

CNN


By the CNN Wire Staff Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana, said Saturday night that BP should immediately invest $1 billion to protect marshes, wetlands and estuaries. An independent contractor supplying workers to clean up an oil spill on ...


Gulf residents eye slow fix for historic oil spill

Reuters


As oil spill damages Gulf, will US change energy use?

MiamiHerald.com


'Top Kill' Fails to Stop Leak

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Americans wait to learn if top kill will stop oil - The Associated Press


Reuters


Americans wait to learn if top kill will stop oil

The Associated Press


ROBERT, La. â€" Two days after BP began a risky effort to stop a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, company officials said the operation was going as planned but offered few details, leaving the nation in suspense about whether its worst oil spill ...


A Daunting Season for 5 Gulf Governors

New York Times


President hits the beach, vows to solve oil spill crisis

Philadelphia Inquirer


Gulf oil spill hits Day 40 with no end in sight

Reuters


San Jose Mercury News -BBC News -CBS News


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Friday, May 28, 2010

Sunday, May 23, 2010

US Was Not Ready For Major Oil Spill - Wall Street Journal


Globe and Mail


US Was Not Ready For Major Oil Spill

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Sens. Specter, Lincoln face angry voters in key primaries - USA Today


Reuters


Sens. Specter, Lincoln face angry voters in key primaries

USA Today


Polls are starting to close in Kentucky, one of four states holding key primary elections for Congress that may show the depth of voter anger toward Washington. Our colleagues at the Louisville Courier-Journal were reporting that there could be lighter ...


Blogging the Primaries

New York Times


Pa. House: Special election re »


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