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Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Halt Is A Selective Moratorium
The economic toll from the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico is beginning to mount. On July 28, Baker Hughes, an international oilfield services company based in Houston, announced that it was moving 300 of its employees and 25 percent of its assets out of Houston.
BP Oil Spill: Witt, "Scale Back Efforts" Rig Worker Fund
Should BP “scaleback” its effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Is it time to bring...
Will Louisiana's Anti-BP, Feds And Moratorium "Bomb"?
The “Rally for Economic Survival,” organized and orchestrated by the oil industry drew thousands to ...
Obama, Feds Becoming The Enemy After BP Spill, Moratorium, Arizona Immigartion Law
For most people, political election season comes and goes, but in the Obama White House, it is perma...
Engineers to seal oil well
NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) - ENGINEERS on Saturday prepared to permanently seal a ruptured Gulf of Mexi...
GULF OIL SPILL: Debris in relief well sets back wo...
NEW ORLEANS Tropical Storm Bonnie left crews working to plug the Gulf oil gusher a little memento t...
Landrieu: Wants New Orleans To Use Emergency Text Messages
New Orleans, LA – As Tropical Storm Alex gained strength moving towards Mexico, Mayor Mitch Landrieu...
Obama blames GOP on small business lending bill ...
AP - President Barack Obama is going after Senate Republicans who have stymied his proposal to creat...
Pacific military drills coming to a close (AP...
AP - International military exercises in the Pacific Ocean are concluding after more than a month of...
California Rep. Waters may face fall ethics trial ...
AP - A second House Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, could face an ethics trial this fall...
Jobs data, earnings latest test for stocks (R...
Reuters - U.S. stocks are unlikely to break above a key technical level next week unless monthly job...
Regulators close banks in Fla., Ga., Ore., Wash. ...
AP - Regulators on Friday shut banks in Florida, Georgia, Oregon and Washington, lifting to 108 the ...
Italy seeks private sponsors to restore Colosseum ...
AP - Italian officials are seeking to raise some euro25 million (about $32 million) in private money...
Veteran Italian screenwriter Cecchi D'Amico dies ...
AP - Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who contributed to such classics as the neo-realistic...
As Emmys host, Jimmy Fallon aims not to offend ...
Reuters - Conan O'Brien and David Letterman have provided a valuable lesson for Jimmy Fallon, the co...
Rush iPhone app sure to drum up interest (App...
Appolicious - The $2.99 Rush iPhone app is one I can get behind because I like Rush. As any self-res...
Obese kids' feet found to be flatter and fatter ...
Reuters - It's known that obese children tend to have "flatter" feet than their normal-weight peers,...
Bangladesh sex workers plump up on cow steroids ...
AFP - Whenever Bangladeshi brothel owner Rokeya, 50, signs up a new sex worker she gives them a cour...
Clinical Trials Update: July 27, 2010 (Health...
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection...
Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology for $35 Tablet ...
PC World - The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the ...
Google not sure if China behind service disruption...
AFP - Google does not know if the Chinese authorities were behind a disruption in the company's serv...
BlackBerry's new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-...
Ben Patterson - What's the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to a BlackBerry? For me, it'...
Germany mourns Love Parade victims (AFP)
AFP - Thousands of mourners paid their respects Saturday in Duisburg to the 21 people who died at a ...
Fidel Castro says U.S. mistreating convicted spies...
Reuters - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday stepped up criticism of the United States over ...
Israeli air strike kills Hamas commander in Gaza ...
Reuters - An Israeli air strike has killed a Hamas military commander and rocket maker in the Gaza S...
Peralta's 2 homers in debut lift Tigers (AP)
Jhonny Peralta's debut with Detroit was powerful enough to withstand a late grand slam by David Orti...
Chiefs sign No. 5 pick S Berry (AP)
Eric Berry's tweet was true. The Kansas City Chiefs confirmed Friday they signed the star safety fro...
Cavaliers sign former Nugget Graham (AP)
The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed former Denver Nuggets swingman Joey Graham. Terms of the deal we...
