Brewing tropical rainstorm halts work to plug well
Tropical rainstorms moving toward the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday threatened to shut down undersea efforts to seal BP`s ruptured well, interrupting work just as engineers get close to plugging the leak with mud and cement.A weather system brewing details...
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Arizona Immigration Law Court Battle Begins
A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday from lawyers for the governor, the U.S. government and civil rights groups over whether Arizona`s new law requiring police to run checks on immigration status should take effect in a week. U.S. District details...
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Insurers kept surplus while hiking premiums
Non-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans stockpiled billions of dollars during the past decade, yet continued to hit consumers with double-digit premium increases, Consumers Union found in an analysis of 10 of the plans` finances. Insure details...
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Jolie, Liev Schreiber bond over parenting
They play gun totting secret agents in their latest film Salt but Angelina Jolie and Live Schreiber were discussing babies in between takes. The actors who are both parents to young children, spent their time exchanging notes on their offspring, r details...
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The Poisoning
On July 15th, just as this article was going to press, BP lowered a 75-ton cap over the damaged wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico and closed — at least temporarily — the gushing hellmouth of oil. How long that cap will hold is not clear. details...
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Big Oil plans rapid response to future spills
ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp., Conoco Phillips and Shell Oil said Wednesday they`ve agreed to pool $1 billion to form a new company that would respond to offshore oil spills at up to 10,000 feet underwater. The system would deploy equipment that could details...
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Politicking clouds economic decision-making, with economists more optimistic than public
Midterm politics are distorting economic decision-making as leaders of both parties spin rival views of the road ahead, offering visions based on questionable economics.The resulting political angst is leaving a mark on major legislation. A far-re details...
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