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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The three oil companies primarily involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill blamed each other Tuesday for the accident last month that left 11 workers dead and oil still spewing into the Gulf. At a hearing before the Senate Energy and natural Resources Committee, BP (BP), the well's owner and lead ...
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(CNN) -- Forecasters warned that another round of severe weather may hit Oklahoma on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after a storm system spawned multiple tornadoes and left five people dead. People in northern, western and southern Oklahoma should prepare for severe storms Tuesday afternoon and early evening, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, rescuers combed through ...
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New York Times: PARIS — President Obama had just flown into Hampton, Va., Sunday morning to deliver a commencement address. But before he donned his silky academic robes, he was on the phone with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, offering urgent advice — and some not so subtle prodding — that Europe needed to try something ...
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Danny Glover, Andy Stern The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will turn its attention from healthcare to immigration reform ahead of the 2010 midterm elections. “We are stepping up our immigration reform efforts as a union-wide national campaign the same way we did for healthcare,†Javier Morillo, the union immigration campaign director, told The Ballot Box. “We ...
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Telegraph: BP will try again to contain oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, this time with a far smaller funnel than it tried before, as the massive slick threatened Louisiana shores. The company was braced for a grilling in the US Senate on Tuesday over its failure to contain the massive spill. President Barack Obama huddled with ...
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(Reuters) - Iran's military warned off a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft trying to approach Iranian naval maneuvers, Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday. The incident involving the two old foes happened on Monday, the semi-official news agency quoted the armed forces chief as saying. Iran's navy last week launched eight days of exercises in the Gulf and the ...
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The Hill: President Barack Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court gives Republicans little ammunition in an election year. While providing a tempting opportunity to rally conservative voters and raise money ahead of the midterm elections, seven Republicans, including Senate GOP Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), voted to confirm Kagan as solicitor ...
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Washington Times: The Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a federal lawsuit for keeping secret the names of dozens of its supervisors, employees and contractors who spent their workdays looking at pornography on their government computers. The lawsuit, filed Friday by a Denver- and Washington-based law firm, accuses the SEC of violating federal open-records law by shielding ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The two proposed referendum drives challenging Arizona's new sweeping law targeting illegal immigration are being abandoned, organizers said Monday. Andrew Chavez, a professional petition circulator involved in one of the efforts, said its backers pulled the plug after concluding they might not be able to time their petition filings in such a way ...
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Politico: The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has signaled that the GOP will put up a tougher fight against Solicitor General Elena Kagan than it did against the White House’s other Supreme Court choice, Sonia Sotomayor. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions told POLITICO that Kagan’s “activist†background could be a significant impediment for GOP support. Sessions ...
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NY Times: WASHINGTON — The selection of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the nation’s 112th justice extends a quarter-century pattern in which Republican presidents generally install strong conservatives on the Supreme Court while Democratic presidents pick candidates who often disappoint their liberal base. Ms. Kagan is certainly too liberal for conservatives, who quickly criticized her nomination ...
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Agencie France Presse: US regulators are racing to enact new rules to prevent a repeat of last week's stock market free-fall as they face calls for change when Congress discusses the issue on Tuesday. Days after markets were badly shaken by a near 1000-point drop on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Securities and Exchange Commission said ...
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Fox News: The Michigan school district investigating whether an elementary school field trip that excluded white students was illegal has disbanded the black-students-only academic support group that participated in the outing two weeks ago. “We have essentially put it on hold while we wait for the final determination on the investigation into possible violation of the State's ...
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Mediaite: Classic sketches like “Debbie Downer†and “Bronx Beat†ended up as web-only extras — along with a funny sketch lampooning the Times Square bomber. All funny — except the Times Square bomber sketch had been leaked to Politico’s Patrick Gavin earlier that day. That’s unusual. Tweets from dress rehearsal, fine — but a script ...
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