NPR 2010-04-27

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NPR 2010-06-09

The government is confirming that BP's giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been producing plumes of oil deep below the water surface. We have more from NPR's Debbie Elliott. NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco says the agency has evaluated water

NPR 2010-06-07

BP says the containment cap that are rigged on its shattered oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is working, but US officials say the effort to contain the spill has only just begun. NPR's Brian Mann reports. In its first day of operation Friday, the cap

NPR 2010-06-03

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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 2010-08-04

Workers are grieving the deaths of eight colleagues killed in a mass shooting at a beer distribution company in Manchester, Connecticut this morning. Police say the gunman, also an employee of Hartford Distributors, opened fire before he killed himse

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 2010-06-15

President Obamas back on the frontlines of the oil spill; this time it's Alabama. He's in Theodore, one of the Gulf Coast's largest staging areas to stockpile and ship out supplies. We are minimizing the short-term impacts, and we're making sure that

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AP 2010-07-10

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