The Minerals Management Service has been ridiculed as a pawn of the oil industry it was meant to oversee, and the Gulf Coast office has drawn particular scorn.
In their bid to recapture the House, Republicans hope to mine Democratic seats from districts that picked John McCain over Barack Obama in the last presidential race.
AP - U.S. military officers were flying in Sunday to serve as jurors in war-crimes proceedings as the Guantanamo tribunal system geared up for one of its busiest weeks under President Barack Obama.
AP - Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country, pre-shrimp season tradition known as the "Blessing of the Boats."
AP - Rescuers searched Monday for an estimated 1,300 people left missing after rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China, just one of a series of flood disasters across Asia that have plunged millions into misery.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro warned today of imminent nuclear war and said the world's fate was in President Barack Obama's hands, as he addressed the Cuban National Assembly for the first time since falling ill four years ago.
Bibi, the young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off by her husband, is traveling to the United States in an attempt to have her face reconstructed.
Authorities say they believe two Arizona prison escapees and their alleged accomplice may be in the Yellowstone National Park area of Montana and Wyoming.
Authorities will resume their search Monday morning for the bodies of four men who drowned in southeastern Idaho after one of them fell overboard and three others died trying to rescue him, the Powers County Sheriff's Department said.
A Dutch woman confessed to giving birth to four babies, then placing them in suitcases and storing them on the top floor of her parents' home, a Dutch prosecutor said.
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