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Samuel Lam briefs colleagues on self-sustained solar power array for a pair of gunnery range microwave relay towers.
(photo: US Navy / Greg Vojtko)
Briefing.com: Hourly In Play (R) - 18:00 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Aug 31, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Hourly In Play (R) | Updated: 31-Aug-10 18:00 ET | 17:33 | XRIT X-Rite receives U.S. patent for non-contact color measurement technology (3.29 -0.12) | Co received a U.S. patent that protects important proprietary technology in non-contact color measuremen...
President Barack Obama listens during a briefing with Senior Director for Asian Affairs Jeffrey Bader, left,  and National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, during the Nuclear Security Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.,  April 12, 2010.
(photo: US Government / Pete Souza)
Briefing.com: Hourly In Play (R) - 17:00 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Aug 31, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Hourly In Play (R) | Updated: 31-Aug-10 17:00 ET | 16:56 | CWBS Commonwealth Bankshares announces sale of non-performing loans and purchase of performing residential mortgage loans (2.25 +0.15) | Co announced that on August 25, 2010, Bank of the Commonweal...
BP spill costs hit $8 billion as crews unearth clues
The Times Of India
WASHINGTON: British oil giant BP has spent eight billion dollars to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers ra...
A Crash. A Call for Help. Then, a Bill.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| ABOUT a year ago Cary Feldman was surprised to find himself sprawled on the pavement in an intersection in Chicago Heights, Ill., having been knocked off his motor scooter by the car behind him. Five months later he got another surprise: a bill fro...
Calls for answers in platform fire draws scrutiny
Houston Chronicle
| A day after a Mariner Energy oil platform burst into flames and forced 13 workers into the Gulf of Mexico, the Houston oil and gas company that owns it focused on possible causes, while regulators and lawmakers began demanding answers. | The nation...
Court tells Skilling he can't get out on bail
Houston Chronicle
| Ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling was denied a request to be released from prison on bail while he appeals his 2006 fraud convictions. | The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans Friday denied Skilling's request in a one-sentence ruling that didn't provide...
In this photo taken Wednesday, May 19, 2010, South Korean Navy's Rear Adm. Park Jung-soo talks in front of the wreckage of the naval vessel Cheonan, which was sunken on March 26 near the maritime border with North Korea, during a media briefing at the Second Fleet Command of Navy in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul
AP / Lee Jae-won, Pool
Obama widens U.S. sanctions on North Korea
The Star
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama broadened financial sanctions on North Korea on Monday and froze the U.S. assets of four North Korean citizens and eight firms in pa...
President Barack Obama speaks to employees of V&M Star, about jobs and the economy, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Youngstown, Ohio.
AP / Tony Dejak
EXCLUSIVE - Obama to widen sanctions on North Korea
The Star
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday plans to impose fresh financial sanctions on North Korea by blocking the assets of three North Korean state-owned ent...
Royal Dutch Shell - Gasoline Station
WN / Sweet Radoc
Risk-Taking Rises as Oil Rigs in Gulf Drill Deeper
The New York Times
| In a remote reach of the Gulf of Mexico, nearly 200 miles from shore, a floating oil platform thrusts its tentacles deep into the ocean like a giant steel octopus. Mike Duhon/Roy...
Feds investigating Mariner platform fire
Business Journal
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What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate
Houston Chronicle
| WASHINGTON - What now for the Gulf? | News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwa...
Anxiety in the Gulf: Latest fire leaves oil industry wondering when it can get back ...
Star Tribune
| WASHINGTON - What now for the Gulf? | News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwa...
Politics
A fly lands on President Barack Obama's face as he delivers remarks on the Affordable Care Act and the New Patients Bill of Rights, Tuesday, June 22, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
(photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster)
Obama and His Family Tied to CIA for Years
Scoop
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:59 am | Opinion: Sherwood Ross | Obama and His Family Tied to CIA for Years | By Sherwood Ross | President Obama---as well as his mother, father, step-father and grandmother---all were connected to the Central Intelligence Agency---possibly explaining why the President praises the “Agency” and declines to ...



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