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BP report on well disaster faults mechanical, human failures
The oil company accepts a share of the responsibility for the deadly explosion and oil spill but also takes aim at contractors Transocean and Halliburton, setting off additional finger-pointing.
An internal investigation released Wednesday by BP concluded that a series of mechanical and human failures by its own crews and its contractors led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 men and set in motion one of the world's worst oil spills.
Obama takes aim at Republican policies
In an Ohio speech, the president draws forceful partisan distinctions while appealing to traditional values of fairness and opportunity.
President Obama laid out a sweeping argument for retaining Democrats and punishing Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, calling on voters Wednesday to reject economic policies advanced by the GOP that he said favor millionaires at the expense of struggling families.
Florida imam hopeful church will call off Koran-burning event
Imam Muhammad Musri of Orlando meets with the Rev. Terry Jones and says they found common ground in the denunciation of terrorism. Jones, however, still plans to burn the Muslim holy book.
Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida in Orlando, emerged from a meeting with the Rev. Terry Jones on Wednesday hopeful that the fervently anti-Islam church leader would call off plans to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday's anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce launches ad attack on Boxer
The powerful business group spends millions on advertisements against the Democratic U.S. senator from California, saying she is 'hostile to the business community.'
The nation's largest business organization launched a multimillion-dollar advertising attack in California on Wednesday night on U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, part of a nationwide effort targeting vulnerable Democrats.
Destructive Colorado fire leaves chaos in its wake
The 7,000-acre blaze near Boulder has destroyed at least 63 structures, including a number of homes. There are no reports of injuries. Winds have calmed, but a high-pressure system is now frustrating firefighting efforts.
Firefighters intensified their battle Tuesday against a 7,000-acre blaze that destroyed at least 63 structures, driving residents out of a network of densely populated canyons in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains just outside this outdoors-crazed town.
Alan Gross usually celebrates Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year that started at sundown Wednesday, by playing mandolin in the klezmer band that accompanies his guitar-strumming rabbi in the High Holiday service.
Circle of supporters band behind a 'monster'
Wayne Treacy, 15, is being charged as an adult in the attempted murder of a teenage girl in Florida. Though many paint him as a vicious criminal, others see a frightened, troubled boy.
Her story had been lost amid dusty records that were long ago stashed in deep storage and forgotten.
Final seal on BP oil well delayed for additional work
A new blowout preventer is in place, giving experts time to analyze the gulf well, retrieve a broken pipe and perhaps apply another cement seal for added insurance, Thad Allen says.
The ultimate sealing of BP's gulf oil well may not get underway until late this month or early October because experts want more time to analyze the well, fish out a broken pipe and possibly apply another cement seal on the top for "more insurance" against unlikely troubles, a top federal official said.
Reaction to proposed Koran burning doesn't faze Florida church
A plea from Gen. David H. Petraeus, who fears that burning the Muslim holy book could provoke violence, is rebuffed. But Pastor Terry Jones hints that he may reconsider the Saturday event.
The pastor of a tiny, fringe evangelical church in Florida on Tuesday rebuffed a plea for restraint from Gen. David H. Petraeus, who warned that a plan to burn the Muslim holy book could provoke violence against American troops and citizens overseas.
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