NPR 2010-05-31

New plans to try to contain BP's massive oil spill are in place. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports the company's managing director visited the Sunday news talk shows today to explain its latest containment strategy. It's clear that no long-term solution is ye

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This is the first step forward for America where we can actually say that the amount of oil leaking at the Gulf of Mexico could be slowing down. What BP tells us is that last night they successfully inserted that tube that they were going to use to s

NPR 2010-06-16

Another setback for BP today: a small fire broke out on a ship that's been drawing up crude from the source of the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The fire's out; no one was injured. But NPR's Richard Harris says it did stop containment effo

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CNN 2010-06-05

Oil spill, Day 42 of this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Still there is no end in sight for this crisis. Right now take a look with me. Work under water and under way to place a custom built dome over that ruptured well. Remember that effort top ki

NPR 2010-05-11

President Obama's latest nominee to the US Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, says she's grateful for what she called the honor of a lifetime. Mr. Obama says he chose Kagan in part because she understands that law is not an intellectual exercise, a thought

NPR 2010-07-11

Engineers using undersea robots have removed the containment cap on BP's gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The next step is to replace the cap with one that fits better. That will allow all of the oil to be funneled to tankers on the surface. B

NPR 2010-07-06

Much of the East Coast has steeped in a prolonged heatwave that could reach historic levels in some areas. Forecasters are predicting triple-digit temperatures that, they say, could cause a dangerous situation. In New York, Emergency Management Commi

NPR 2010-05-03

New York City police are searching for a white man in his 40s who may have been behind a failed car bombing in Times Square last night. They're poring over hundreds of hours of video surveillance from the area. The device was found in a Nissan Pathfi

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Criticism of so called Abenomics has continued since its introduction last November. That's when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised bold fiscal and monetary expansionary policies， to revive the worlds third-largest economy. It is hoped that the int

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IMF Unhappy with Zimbabwe Policies

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It is being reported China is going to further tighten the curbing policies for second-time homebuyers. Down payment ratio is likely to be raised to 70 percent and lending rate could also be set at 1.3 times the benchmark rate - currently that rate s

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IMF chief Christine Lagarde characterized the near term future of the world economy as bright, but she warned that long term challenges await. She said high debt levels, financial instability, and lack of trust on existing multinational trade framewo

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We care about environment protection 我们关注环保 Reporter:When you started focusing on the environment at Wal-Mart, 记者：当您致力于整顿沃尔玛的环境问题时， you were under an organized attack from union-backgroups that were