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...
Many questions remain about the cause of a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as federal investigators completed day six of hearings today outside of New Orleans. NPR's Pam Fessler reports the joint inquiry by the Coast Guard and the Minerals Manag...
President Obama walks Louisiana's Fourchon Beach where evidence of the country's worst oil spill washed up onshore. You can see these little, these little balls. These are the tar balls that they're talking about. The president confronted with growin...
The Obama administration is making some changes after finding out that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is far bigger than initially thought. Up to 19,000 barrels of crude have spilled each day in the last month, surpassing the Exxon Valdez disast...
BP has begun pumping heavy mud and concrete into its runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The so-called top kill procedure has never been attempted for a well in such deep water. President Obama, speaking earlier today, said there are backup plans...
Energy company BP is moving ahead with plans to try to clog up the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow with mud. NPR's Richard Harris reports. BP officials say they now have gear in place to measure the huge buildup of pressure inside t...
The Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen, says the idea having BP step aside in handling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not going to happen. To push BP out of the way would raise a question: replace them with what? Allen says BP...
Scathing criticism is building against BP, the latest coming from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. He just wrapped up his fourth trip to BP's offices in Houston to get a progress report on the oil spill cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico. Salazar was not h...
The mothers of three young Americans in prison in Iran are back in the US, but they arrived this afternoon at New York's JFK Airport without their children who've been charged with espionage. Nora Shourd, the mother of one of the Americans recounts t...
Louisiana's starting to see more oil spill damage. People predict it would happen since last month's rig explosion. Authorities shut down public beaches on a resort island community south of New Orleans today as thick oil moves in. Governor Bobby Jin...
We're seeing another steep slide in US stocks and in other major market over fears Europe's debt troubles could undermine global economic recovery. At last check, the Dow was down more than 330 points at 10,109. NASDAQ was down 84 at 2,213. SP 500 do...
Senators are voting this afternoon on whether to wrap up debate on a financial regulatory overhaul bill. There's NPR's Audie Cornish. If senators vote to limit debate, then only amendments that are key to the issue of the financial industry bill will...
Federal prosecutors say the man accused of trying to bomb Times Square in New York City will appear in court today. Faisal Shahzad has been detained since he was arrested May 3rd and charged with five counts related to the bombing attempt. It will be...
The Supreme Court says young people under the age of 18 may not be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole unless they're guilty of homicide. Five of the nine justices agreed such sentences violate the constitutional ban on cruel an...
Some of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico is starting to be diverted from a blown-out well a mile underwater and onto a tanker on the surface, just how much remains to be seen. From New Orleans, Eileen Fleming of member station WWNO says BP engin...
