New York Times (blog) | Clinton wedding frenzy begins in NY town USA Today By Timothy A. Clary, AFP/Getty Images By Sarah Bradshaw, Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal RHINEBECK, NY â€"Chelsea Clinton's guest list will swell Saturday, as uninvited onlookers try to catch a glimpse of her celebrity attendees and take part in the ... Sm » |
Globe and Mail | Arizona immigration protesters hit the streets Los Angeles Times More than a dozen are arrested as demonstrators march in Phoenix, some engaging in acts of civil disobedience. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans 'sweep' of immigrant neighborhoods. SB 1070 protesters raise their fists after unfurling an enormous ... Arizona appeals ruling on state's immigration law SB 1070 stripped of its harshest parts and Mexican immigrants breathe a sigh ... AZ appeals order blocking parts of immigration law |
Telegraph.co.uk | Hayward says he was 'demonised and vilified' Financial Times Looking back , Tony Hayward insists his decision to lead BP's response to the Gulf of Mexico spill had been fundament » |
CBC.ca | Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert New York Times Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help ... Afghanistan Taliban says 1 American captured, 1 killed Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan Afghanistan war logs: Iran's covert operations in Afghanistan |
Reuters UK | BP oil spill: safety breaches revealed The Guardian The testimony of Michael Williams, an electronics technician, that emergency alarms on board the Deepwater Horizon were disabled weeks before it exploded, killing 11 workers and spewing more than 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, ... Deepwater Horizon safety alarm 'shut off' before fire Alarms, detectors disabled so top rig officials could sleep Electrician on BP-Leased Oil Rig Says Fire-Alarm System Was Parti » |
Moneycontrol.com | Senate Gives Final Approval to Jobless Benefits New York Times WASHINGTON â€" The Senate gave final approval Wednesday evening to legislation providing added unemployment benefits through November to millions of Americans who have been out of work for six months or more, ending a politic » |
The Hindu | Gulf oil well cap appears successful USA Today By Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images By Alan Levin, USA TODAY Engineers battling the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are confident that the cap over the rogue well is strong enough that they may be able to plug it by pumping mud inside, bringing the three-month ... US lets BP keep well sealed for now What It Will Take to Keep the Well Capped BP Considers New Plan to Permanently Seal Well |
The Guardian | Government still wary of BP's well cap Los Angeles Times A substance seeping nearby prompts a stern warning to the company from the US point man on the gulf oil spill. By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times Worried about a substance seeping near BP's sealed oil well, the federal government demanded late ... US Demands More Test Data From BP After Seep Found in Seabed Engineers detect seepage near BP oil well US demands BP do more tests after seep detected |
CBC.ca | A Spill Into the Psyche, and a Respite New York Times Out on the Gulf of Mexico, where the surface has come to resemble a floating intensive-care unit â€" » |
CBC.ca | Oil Spill Capped for a Second Day, Offering Some Hope New York Times NEW ORLEANS â€" The hemorrhaging well that has spilled millions of g » |
CBC.ca | Leak Hampers BP Effort to Shut Off Well and Halt Spill New York Times Dave Martin/AP BP began a test of a new cap on its leaking well, cutting off the flow of oil to collection ships. By HENRY FOUNTAIN ABOARD THE RESOLUTE, 50 miles off Louisiana â€" BP stopped collecting oil from its runaway well on Wednesday afternoon, ... BP runs crucial test on Gulf oil leak BP Fixing New Cap Leak as It Prepares to Start Gulf Well Test BP Gets Approval, Begins Procedure To Test Gulf Well |
The Guardian | Pressure mounts for BP Houston Chronicle Dave Martin AP Vessels monitor a oil burn Tuesday near the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf of Mexico. Other ships were moved away in preparation for testing of a new cap on the spewing well. BP inched closer toward an endgame ... Day 84: The Latest on the Oil Spill BP Delays Test of Leaking Gulf Well Until US Gives Go Ahead Key BP Oil Well Test Delayed - US Official |
CBC.ca | BP to test oil spill cap; US pushes drilling curbs Reuters NEW ORLEANS/HOUSTON, July 13 (Reuters) - BP Plc prepared on Tuesday to try sealing off its runaway well with a new cap that it says could for the first time in 12 weeks fin » |
Globe and Mail | 'Dreams' for Spain, 'Trauma' for Dutch ESPN By Soccernet staff There were predictably contrasting headlines coming from the Spanish and Dutch media after the World Cup final: a "dream come true" for one nation, another World Cup "trauma" for the other. Spain's daily newspaper El Mundo exlaimed ... Spain finds beauty in 1-0 championship victory over the Netherlands Spainâ€"and South Africaâ€"Are Victorious at the World Cup Spain wins in South Africa's final moment in World Cup spotlight |
Globe and Mail | BP Makes Progress Changing Oil Capture System in Gulf of Mexico BusinessWeek July 10 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc is making progress on removing a device capturing oil from its leaking Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, as it makes way for a more efficient collection system. BP expects to have a new seal on ... Dispute on Oil Spill Panel Flares Before First Meeting |
Washington Post | Intrigue and Ambiguity in Cases of 4 Russians Sent to West in Spy Swap New York Times WASHINGTON â€" When Aleksandr Zaporozhsky, one of four Russians delivered to the West in this week's spy swap, landed at Dulles International Airport on Friday to join his family in the United States, it was only the latest ... Who the US got in the spy swap US seized opportunity in arrests of Russian spies US, Russia Swap Agents to End Crisis |
Sydney Morning Herald | Miami in Pinstripes: the New Evil Empire New York Times In the moment LeBron James uttered the words “South Beach†on Thursday night in front of a national television audience, the country witnessed the birth of an Evil Empire â€" the Yankees of professional basketb » |
Telegraph.co.uk | Russian Inmate Torn by Possible Deal, Backers Say New York Times MOSCOW â€" Until this week, Igor V. Sutyagin was being held in a prison camp not far from the Arctic Circle, near the site of what were some of Stalin's most infamous gulags. His supporters say the location was apt, ... NY lawyer: Russian spy case could be resolved soon US-Russia spy swap expected A Russian bargaining chip in spy swap negotiations |
Washington Post | Justice Department sues, seeks injunction on Arizona immigration law San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON â€" The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Arizona, charging that the state's new immigration law is unconstitutional and requesting a preliminary injunction to stop the legislation from ... Arizona Law Causes Split for Governors Sharing Border US vs. Arizona on immigration Arizona immigration law sponsor blasts feds over 'political' lawsuit |
National Geographic | Determining oil spill's environmental damage is difficult Washington Post As BP works to control the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, local wildlife struggle for survival. By David A. Fahrenthold It is perhaps the most important question of the BP oil spill -- but scientists don't appear close to answering it despite a ... Large-scale skimmer continues testing in Gulf BP tests Taiwanese oil-skimming ship Some oil spill events from Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
Telegraph.co.uk | For now, government and BP working together to assess oil spill damage Washington Post BP, the government and an army of volunteers are fighting to contain and clean the millions of g » |
Globe and Mail | FBI spent nearly decade pursuing spy suspects in bid to gain counterintelligence Washington Post » |
Telegraph.co.uk | Oil spill in the gulf: Latest developments Washington Post Cleanup and containment efforts continue at the Gulf of Mexico site of the oil spill following the Deepwater Horizon explosion. -- The House of Representatives passed the first major US bill related to the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion, ... Oil invades more wetlands as surf pounds Gulf coast BP incident may be top peacetime oil spill BP spill hits a somber record as Gulf's biggest |
